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A Black man with a history of heroin addiction wouldn’t be allowed near a health agency much less put in charge of it.

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

My insurance claim for the spine stim surgery that's still "under review" is making me nervous af.😬

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

submitted 14 days ago • 158 comments

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

submitted 14 days ago • 1489 comments

This is not a U.S. Marshal, Federal Protective Service, or any other federal law enforcement officer. This is a private security guard from Triple Canopy. He has no authority to block members of Congress who have oversight of the EPA from entering the building.

submitted 16 days ago • 764 comments

Both USAID and the Dept of Education together account for less than 2% of the federal budget. Starting to think this has nothing to do with saving money. If it was you'd look at the corruption and waste in the Defense Dept budget but it’s probably too much to expect someone to defund themselves.

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

It bothers me that basically everyone forgets that DEI is really DEIA. I guess that tracks with how accessibility gets ignored in general.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

It’s been really gross to see how quickly institutions are folding over DEI programs. Like they’re relieved to stop pretending to care

submitted 16 days ago • 84 comments

Are you upset about the price of eggs? You should be wearing a mask. You should be demanding transparency from government about the threat H5N1 poses to animals and humans. No amount of executive orders will lower the cost of meat & dairy if we keep ignoring bird flu.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Hi, I’ve been a software developer for 30 years, including in very large IT projects. Everything about “DOGE” and a bunch of Hitlerjugend walking into a data center and optimizing a code base and data grown over 70 years in a few days is complete bullshit on its nose. Sincerely, Thomas

submitted 17 days ago • 235 comments

This is going to be stuck in my head for days.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing? DON'T DO IT. If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT. Document, document, document. Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document

submitted 16 days ago • 164 comments

Lots of takes like “wait until grandma can’t get her kidney meds!” And it’s like, this situation is already very real to millions of (young!) disabled people. The “grandma” trope shows how much not-currently-disabled people think they’re immune to chance. Disability can happen to anyone at any time.

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

A Nazi billionaire is drilling directly into Fort Knox in broad daylight and we’re just watching it happen.

submitted 18 days ago • 80 comments

The inability of the national media to understand this basic point ABOUT AMERICAN CIVICS is simply wild

submitted 18 days ago • 120 comments

Maybe someone with the means to do so should take out a full-page ad in as many newspapers as they can that just says “ELON MUSK HAS YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER”

submitted 18 days ago • 133 comments

If we lose NOAA we lose much of our ability to track and predict severe weather phenomena in enough time to organize evacuations and make plans to shelter in place. Entire communities will be left vulnerable to increasingly devastating storms and people WILL die.

submitted 17 days ago • 16 comments

When masks are illegal in public, disabled people are illegal in public.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

If you oppose DEI you should have to use the full phrase, “I oppose diversity, equity and inclusion.” Bonus points if you add your points, “I oppose disabled veterans equal access to employment.” “I oppose mothers having jobs.” Making it an acronym turns it into a thought-terminating cliche.

submitted 17 days ago • 49 comments

Can we stop saying “he can’t do that, it’s illegal!” The man was convicted of 34 felonies and then rewarded with a second Presidential term He’s pardoned people who were involved in a violent insurrection He doesn’t care about the rule of law. You put a criminal in charge, they commit more crimes

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments

I love that a white guy was flying the plane, a white guy was flying the helicopter, and a white guy gutted the FAA last week but somehow the blame is too much diversity.

submitted 23 days ago • 672 comments

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

submitted 23 days ago • 897 comments

He also very directly and specifically blamed disabled people. And I am absolutely begging y’all to call it out and not leave us out of your activism. He literally named us. Why aren’t we on your list of at-risk groups?

submitted 22 days ago • 67 comments

if a major politician held an emergency rally about the current ongoing coup by the richest man in the world, I think people would go to it. Shit is well and truly fucked. I can think of a couple of people who should do that right now.

submitted 22 days ago • 659 comments

Disabled people are consistently asked to do things to "prove" that we "deserve" support. And the things we are asked to do are always the very things that we need support with. Like, if I could do those things, I wouldn't need support in the first place.

submitted 22 days ago • 14 comments

Just a reminder that if you tell a disabled person to move out of the US if they’re scared of living here, other countries don’t want us either. Countries will turn you away because you’re disabled. We’re seen as a burden and that’s so normalized that it’s okay to turn us away.

submitted 22 days ago • 57 comments

I live in New York City in the year 2025. The president is a convicted felon. The mayor of NYC is an indicted felon. The secretary of defense is a Fox News host. The secretary of transportation is a Fox News host. The very worst people in America are in charge of America.

submitted 23 days ago • 1032 comments

SCOTT GOTTLIEB, on RFK Jr: "He doesn’t have a really deep understanding of the programs .. He confused Medicare and Medicaid. He also confused Medicare part A, part B, part C, and part D. .. fundamental questions about .. the programs that he's going to be charged with administering .." @cnbc.com

submitted 22 days ago • 66 comments

NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.

submitted 22 days ago • 2580 comments

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 24 days ago • 3794 comments

1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them. It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests. I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights. Find the EO here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 24 days ago • 234 comments

Great timing!!!

submitted 26 days ago • 60 comments

1. Iowa governor Kim Reynolds is pushing a new bill that would remove transgender people from the state civil rights act. Another bill would classify trans people as disabled. Attacks escalate in state legislatures. Mira Lazine writes the latest. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 26 days ago • 105 comments

and yet, at the moment he’s golfing

submitted 26 days ago • 1156 comments