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I'm neither team red nor team blue. I'm team worker. Sick of the powerful making everyone sick.
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It's weird how everyone in the world knows a Nazi salute when we see it, with the notable exception of journalists and their editors.

submitted 21 hours ago • 101 comments

Trump campaigning: "I alone can fix it" "I will have it solved in 24 hours" Trump in office: fires the people tracking bird flu but never mind, "the big things we can blame other people for"

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments

""If you can pass the one big, beautiful bill that makes the tax cuts permanent... then we’ll all cheer over here," Graham said" Translation: If we give more money to our donors they'll give a bunch to us, we'll stay in power, get richer too, and strip power from anyone who could stop us.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 428 comments

From scammer to blackmailer. "Lawyers at Twitter are threatening advertisers to spend more money on X 'or else' X owner Elon Musk will leverage his close relationship with Trump to torpedo mergers. This goes beyond a conflict of interest. It's straight-up extortion." www.rawstory.com/x-advertising/

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

With everything else going on, the fact that Lina Khan's merger guidelines have been retained by the Trump administration is a small miracle. I asked Lina about it: "I think it goes underappreciated...the degree to which there actually has been bipartisan consensus on some of these core issues."

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

#ACIP, the expert panel that advises #CDC on vaccine policy, will not meet next week. #HHS, which never gave final approval for the meeting, per sources, suggests it will be rescheduled, but gives no date. www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/a...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

We're now in a country that officially ignores COVID. “the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall terminate the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Long COVID” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I'm an Article I member of Congress, do you think I have the power to just direct federal spending or something?

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Ultimately you're going to do a lot better with compliance with court orders if there's a consequence

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

They’re not just shutting down access to government, they’re shutting down access to nature.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Reminds me of that old cartoon where the burglar cuts one slice of cake, but then picks up the whole cake and walks away minus the slice.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Wired is working nights and weekends to report and we are able to do that because we have flexibility. But Conde wants us back in the office, without enough space to work. We won’t be able to do this kind of work in an environment that values punching in over the product

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said today it's working to reverse the firing of agency personnel tasked with the federal response to bird flu.

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

Contaminated food is causing a growing number of illnesses in the United States, and severe cases that lead to hospitalization or death are becoming more common.

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

🚨SCOOP: Trump just took the first step to roll back the landmark 55-year-old law that allows local communities to fight back against polluters. The regulatory filing about the National Environmental Policy Act was quietly posted over the weekend.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Enjoy your bacon! While the companies regulate themselves. 🤦‍♀️

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Arrest Musk www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is a really big deal. Trump's FTC and DOJ are keeping the Lina Khan/Jonathan Kanter framework for merger review in place. Wall Street was wrong in assuming it would be thrown out.

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

Groups advocating for unionized workers, taxpayers and small businesses sued the federal government Monday in an effort to stop the U.S. DOGE Service from accessing sensitive information maintained by the Internal Revenue Service.

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments