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This is going to sound mean & elitist & the meritocracy is bullshit but whatever: so many of the people they want to traumatize busted their asses & sacrificed & succeeded against big odds to carve out careers in government that don't pay well but help keep this place up & running...

submitted 13 hours ago • 14 comments

"The reclassification exposes these employees to termination without due process, said U.S. Representative Don Beyer... NSF unilaterally stripped permanent status from both union and non-union workers, including executives, without notification." More on this here: beyer.house.gov/news/documen...

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

Great job everyone! Rep Emmer refuses town hall meetings & IS NOT representing interests of his constituents. Complicit w/ Musk takeover & betrayed oath of office. He can make this insanity stop, but relinquished his responsibility/authority. ONLY CONGRESS HAS AUTHORITY TO CREATE & FUND AGENCIES.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Hey, DOGE, we found the WASTE - it's right here. Oh yeah, the ABUSE too... Guess they aren't really interested, they would rather terminate children's cancer research and starve kids & seniors to use OUR taxpayer dollars to run ads 'heaping praise on our self-proclaimed new king'.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

“The implications for the health of the public are grave. It is unfathomable that anybody thinks these cuts have value and are doing anything other than being performative.”

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

618 days until the midterms

submitted 22 hours ago • 24 comments

He nails it.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1480 comments

Yeah when????🙄😡

submitted 22 hours ago • 36 comments

Musk/Trump are attacking public health; every day taking draconian steps to undermine work that saves lives. NO justification for these cuts; only serving to give billionaires tax cuts to satisfy their insatiable need for more money and more power. Women will die; infants will die - THEY DON"T CARE.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

I made sure that President Trump, DOGE, and Secretary Kennedy heard us loud and clear: Do not mess with our first responders and the healthcare of 9/11 survivors. Now they’re backing off their brutal cuts to the 9/11 survivor health program and rehiring the workers.

submitted 1 day ago • 113 comments

Another scoop from @peard33.bsky.social: DOGE installed Tom Krause at the Treasury Department. He's keeping his job as the CEO of a software company that has millions of dollars in federal contracts, including with the Treasury Department www.wired.com/story/krause...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s... 1/n

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

JUST IN: A judge has enjoined President Trump's effort to block federal funds from going toward grant recipients who engage in DEI practices. The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

MORE NEWS: A federal judge has granted an even more extensive block of DOGE's access to Treasury systems, saying there is a "realistic danger" that the "rushed" process to access sensitive payment systems has compromised data. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 1 day ago • 980 comments

The US Postal Service belongs to the people; not to the dictator sitting in the White House. It is OURS!

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One odd thing I saw while reporting this measles outbreak: A CDC template advising principals to keep unvaccinated kids home for 21 days if they're exposed appears to be missing. Details in my latest story @kffhealthnews.org / @sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 1 day ago • 2412 comments

THIS is the impact on every day Americans. Trump is already making life more expensive and DOES NOT CARE. Rx drugs are drowning people which is why the Biden admin was targeting costs and capping drugs like insulin that are survival drugs. Call your Congressional members!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social: It’s 4am—still debating the Republicans’ billionaire tax giveaway. We offered an amendment to say no tax cut for those making over $10m. Every Republican voted no. So we tried $100m. Every Repub voted no. So we tried $500m! Every Republican a no. See what’s going on?

submitted 1 day ago • 182 comments

Highly probable your relatives died fighting Nazi's. Allowing this to happen in our nation is a betrayal of their sacrifices. Graveyards are full of brave Americans who gave their lives fighting for democracy & against the atrocities of the Nazis. This is not a game.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is an excellent, fact-filled article with video segments to answer questions about Trump & Putin’s “illegitimate president” propaganda war against Zelensky.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

They are literally killing pregnant women who are refused the care they need while in medical crisis. They DO NOT care about women's lives; it is that simple. Cold, inexcusable, but TRUTH.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Public health is not a partisan game. It is essential that we have data to address issues. The US has shamefully high levels of infant morbidity & mortality. Hiding the data will not make it go away.

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Also note these findings: 66% say Trump shouldn’t freeze funding w/o Congress 57% say he’s exceeded authority 52% say he’s overstepped powers, including 57% of independents @juliaazari.bsky.social and I discuss whether the anti-authoritarian majority is awakening: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

Musk & DOGE Hackers jeopardize our SAFETY every day! Arbitrary FAA cuts put us at risk! "job to create “highways in the sky,” preplanned routes that pilots & controllers use to guide airplanes. Air traffic controllers cannot do work without us, without our team pilots quite literally flying blind,”

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Instead of giving $2 trillion in tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, we should work together to lower food prices for regular Americans. That's why I introduced an amendment to block tax cuts for billionaires as long as food prices are rising.

submitted 2 days ago • 100 comments

Exactly

submitted 2 days ago • 147 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

submitted 2 days ago • 1973 comments

Trump’s VA is closing 20 life-saving beds in the Hudson Valley – fundamentally breaking the sacred trust with our veterans. This is shameful; we all need to raise our voices. I’m asking every patriotic American to share. We cannot & will not be silent. hudsonvalley.news12.com/veterans-ral...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Every single day Musk and the DOGE hackers are making arbitrary cuts that endanger public safety. EVERY SINGLE DAY THEY ARE ALLOWED TO RAMPAGE OUR AGENCIES WITHOUT LIMITS WE ARE LESS SAFE.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

WASTE - Hey DOGE dudes; we found the WASTE - it's right here. Noem & Trump & Homan are SO desperate to impart cruelty & splash deportation #s on social media that they will make ridiculous expenditures to mis-use military assets (taking away from their mission) & spend $$$$$s on a made for TV show.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is not what anyone voted for: "I doubt many voted for Trump (none for Musk) because they wanted to increase aircraft accidents & food poisonings while holding back medical science—let alone because they wanted to increase unemployment & shrink economy. But that is what they are getting."

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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

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Robert Reich Every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it collects $13. Every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it collects $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees isn't about efficiency, the rich will evade taxes. This is a constitutional crisis they have confirmed RFK Jr the badman.

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Trump issued an executive order to drastically shrink the Presidio Trust, the federal agency overseeing San Francisco’s Presidio, a national park site at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge.

submitted 2 days ago • 175 comments

Scream this from the rooftops. Powerful men being certain that "if you're smart at one thing you must be smart at all of the things."

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

submitted 3 days ago • 1378 comments