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This is horrible for the future of American science and innovation and economic wellbeing and all the things Pitt is not a small institution It has nearly 10K grad students It is where Salk discovered the polio vaccine

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The top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 10 hours ago • 215 comments

This is a superb owl

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

Paying for tax breaks for billionaires by killing poor people. Literally.

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Trump administration plans mass firing at office that funds homelessness programs www.npr.org/2025/02/22/g...

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Trump and DOGE accused federal civil servants of fraud (with no evidence). Meanwhile, they're halting enforcement of a foreign anti-bribery law, dropping criminal charges against Eric Adams, and pardoning a former governor who tried to sell Obama's Senate seat. Hello?

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the federal government is explicitly acting as if jim crow is the law!

submitted 8 days ago • 77 comments

the thing about the Trump administration ordering federal contractors to stop DEI programs and Google capitulating so that they can sell drone optics to the Border Patrol is that the federal government has no fucking authority to order that

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

Tapping the sign wearily

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If you are a federal worker who was let go today, I'd love to hear from you. I'm interested in both your work for the federal government and the impact of this decision on your life. Contact me on signal at juddlegum.47 or use the QR code below. I can keep you anonymous if you prefer.

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 11 days ago • 424 comments

Philadelphia Enjoys Quiet Week Of Super Bowl Victory Reflection

submitted 11 days ago • 33 comments

not a new observation but Elon Musk genuinely isn't very bright, genuinely has no idea how most things work, and his entire supergenius engineer persona is a tech press-enabled mythology (they've never been held accountable for)

submitted 12 days ago • 460 comments

thursday 6p PT / 9p ET youtu.be/t0Bslw2hLzI

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Reposting for alt text and account In case you’re unaware the American Medical Associations has a YouTube page, they are doing daily updates on bird flu and other out breaks since the CDC can not youtube.com/@americanmed...

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 13 days ago • 122 comments

Remembering today that Chaplin self-funded The Great Dictator because the studios were too afraid of taking sides when there were so many Nazi sympathizers in the States that they didn’t want to alienate

submitted 18 days ago • 17 comments

Okay, people are asking “where do I show up?” The answer is anywhere and everywhere you can. One question the fascists have on their minds right now is how many bodies will show up in opposition. The bigger the number, the safer we are.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Egg prices are through the roof due to unmitigated H5N1 Tuberculosis outbreaks in Kansas and North Carolina. COVID still killing & disabling people every week. Public health agencies barred from communicating with the public. Wear a respirator. For yourself and your community

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

is it woke to want to end cancer?

submitted 15 days ago • 791 comments

Now more than ever.

submitted 16 days ago • 449 comments

The real scam: making you fear the “the other” while the rich rob you blind. I wish every American understood this.

submitted 17 days ago • 624 comments

Calling my senators - Fetterman and McCormick - usually feels like talking to a wall. But if you can find time to call about this one today, you should. For my kid and everyone's kids.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

A lot of things suck in this lifetime, but I remember when the thought of this was incomprehensible. This is beautiful.

submitted 74 days ago • 103 comments

Ugh this is so sad. Maybe not her most powerful, but to me, her most moving poem is this one

submitted 75 days ago • 42 comments

Season 2 of Tiny Dinos begins today, with special guests Mary Holland & Corin Wells! Wherever you get your podcasts!

submitted 82 days ago • 3 comments