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ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

submitted 2 days ago • 219 comments

The real Best Picture winner in our hearts...

submitted 2 days ago • 66 comments

However much you hate the New York Times, it isn't enough

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The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

submitted 6 days ago • 1187 comments

I would take this more seriously if we didn't elect the most extreme president in modern history a few months ago over a Dem that almost exclusively campaigned to centrists.

submitted 7 days ago • 73 comments

New — HHS just got another email with guidance stating that they aren’t required to respond to the 5 bullets email, but if they do they should follow specific guidelines including: “Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.”

submitted 8 days ago • 303 comments

A lot of people who’ve posted that “I don’t know how to explain that you should care about other people” quote need to know that they should care about other people. I want my tax dollars to go to paying for insulin for the most vile MAGA asshole you ever heard of; that’s part of “everyone”.

submitted 10 days ago • 74 comments

On a Monday, I am waiting Tuesday I am fading And by Wednesday, I can't sleep

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Following Elon Musk, the world's richest man, two speakers at CPAC, Steve Bannon, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, and Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui, have now given Nazi salutes. This is a major scandal + should push us all to mobilize, protest, and call out #CPAC for what it is: a Nazi rally.

submitted 11 days ago • 130 comments

Something refreshing to hear: in a new poll Americans oppose Trump’s pardoning of violent January 6th insurrectionists by 83-14. Credit: Aaron Blake from WaPo

submitted 13 days ago • 60 comments

Someone pointed out to me that DEI, the thing Democrats keep saying they need to run away from, is far more popular than they are lmao.

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

Trump: I AM A KING! NYT: Trump displays a "fondness for regal themes"

submitted 13 days ago • 391 comments

This is your regular reminder to do something every day that prevents you from scrolling. I'm going to a weightlifting class tonight! Can't scroll while I'm doing chest presses! Can't think about planes falling out of the sky while I'm trying to do 90 squats!

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People who are not subject matter experts might be impressed at how Large Language Models respond to prompts, because they can't see what AI is getting wrong. AI responses often range from unimpressive to flat out incorrect, but you have to know the answer already to evaluate the AI response.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

This is the Democrat ranking member on the aviation subcommittee who spent the night liveskeeting SNL while FAA workers who keep airline travel safe were getting mass fired and replaced by SpaceX safety systems…

submitted 16 days ago • 26 comments

Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?

submitted 17 days ago • 286 comments

Reuters: U.S. JUDGE EXTENDS TEMPORARY BLOCK ON ELON MUSK'S DOGE FROM ACCESSING TREASURY DEPARTMENT PAYMENT SYSTEMS - COURT HEARING

submitted 18 days ago • 52 comments

Our two papers on abortion bans and fertility/infant mortality are now out. In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%. Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages. Links below.

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

NY State AG Letitia James ought to issue a warrant for Elon Musk and his incel clown posse for wire fraud and grand larceny. They took $80 million of federally allocated funds from a bank account that wasn't theirs. Indict them, issue warrants, and arrest them now. End this madness.

submitted 20 days ago • 20 comments

Okay what is going on here. Are the accounts at a private banking entity? Does the federal government have direct debit permission set up? So many questions as to how Treasury instructed this payment. (Via NY Post’s Craig McCarthy)

submitted 21 days ago • 368 comments

Scoop: DOGE's Edward "Big Balls" Coristine launched a privacy-focused image-sharing site in 2021 that allowed users to create custom URLs. The URLs that redirected to Coristine's site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape www.muskwatch.com/p/doge-teen-...

submitted 22 days ago • 476 comments

This is why we need to teach humanities.

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Tryna Venmo someone and it’s probably A minorrrrrrr

submitted 23 days ago • 42 comments

Fabulous 🇺🇸💥

submitted 23 days ago • 202 comments

I turned on on the TV for the Kendrick concert and there was a commercial for Ontario as a trade partner?? Jesus.

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The leverage you have, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, is this: Quorum in the House is 218, the exact number of GOP representatives, so if you literally all do not show up for votes, they will be unable to act if they cannot marshal 100% of their conference. If that’s too gutsy for you, resign.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Keep going “The Senate minority leader had initially said he would not lean on his colleagues to reflexively oppose every nominee, but changed his stance after the president’s actions generated heavy pressure from the left.”

submitted 27 days ago • 25 comments

Maybe if we tell them there’s a student encampment inside the White House democrats will spring to action.

submitted 28 days ago • 39 comments

Interesting combination with the demand for all federal employees to go back to the office

submitted 28 days ago • 11 comments

These look like fake headlines in a dystopian themed oppo ad.

submitted 31 days ago • 15 comments

Is there a word for when a bunch of private citizens following orders from an unelected billionaire occupy government buildings and cut off communications

submitted 32 days ago • 201 comments

Cannot get over the fact that the most incompetent rich white assholes alive, who have gotten everything in their lives through rich white asshole privilege, blame "DEI" for their incompetence.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Some advice for getting through this that I haven't seen elsewhere: Do something daily that prevents you from looking at news. I try to work out or cook, but it could be pottery, meditation, rec sports, whatever. Just as long as you physically can't look at your phone for an extended period of time.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Got me tearing up first thing in the morning.

submitted 35 days ago • 65 comments

Oh my gosh, Chuck Grassley was born in 1933. Our government is being run by ancestors. OMGGGGG. And the wrong ancestors at that. Harriet Tubman died in 1913.

submitted 35 days ago • 13 comments

Everyone needs to be bringing this energy to this moment

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if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

submitted 36 days ago • 938 comments

"What happened last night is the most direct assault on the authority of Congress, I believe, in the history of the United States. It is blatantly unconstitutional," Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) says of Trump's OMB halting all federal grants. "If this stands, then Congress may as well adjourn."

submitted 36 days ago • 198 comments

BREAKING: Illinois is currently shut out of Medicaid. Gov. JB Pritzker’s office reports that the Trump funding freeze has shut the state out of the federal health care program. Medicaid covers nearly 4 million people in Illinois. chicago.suntimes.com/politics/don...

submitted 36 days ago • 64 comments

As this "pause" hits you and your project, institution, workplace, etc: TELL SOMEONE ABOUT IT. Contact your MoC, esp if they're a Dem. Contact a relevant advocacy group. Contact the press, local, regional, movement, trade - and not just for an LtE, for a story. Tell real life stories of harm.

submitted 36 days ago • 50 comments

by freezing all federal grants, trump is fundamentally transforming the relationship between the executive and congress. he is asserting dictatorial authority over federal spending, transforming congress's lawmaking powers into advisory authority. it is a constitutional crisis

submitted 36 days ago • 222 comments

Uhm...

submitted 39 days ago • 17 comments

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.

submitted 41 days ago • 146 comments

Democrats: How can we go viral? (a pastor goes mega-viral for calling Trump a bigot to his face) Democrats: What if Tim Kaine made a BLT on Instagram Live

submitted 40 days ago • 217 comments

We spent the last four years writing about the high price of eggs under Biden. Now that they’ve reached an all-time high under Trump we’ve moved on to other topics.

submitted 40 days ago • 89 comments