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submitted 1 day ago • 613 comments

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

submitted 1 day ago • 3470 comments

The Department of Health and Human Services has pressed the NIH to ignore court orders, dismissing NIH lawyers' advice to resume business as usual, @katherinejwu.com reports. As of this week, some institutes and centers are still not issuing any new grants: theatln.tc/MVl9uWmj

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

BREAKING: Judge orders Trump admin. to rescind memo directing mass firing of federal workers. The judge's direction to the Office of Personnel Management does not reinstate any dismissed employees.

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

As Senator Blumenthal put it, this is “government by whiplash.” While the VA has suspended some of the cuts, we cannot allow this administration to undermine our ability to deliver care to veterans. I joined my colleagues outside the VA to take a stand and defend our veterans.

submitted 4 days ago • 75 comments

Trump freed 1,500 criminals on his first day in office. Now he just helped Andrew Tate, who is charged with rape and human trafficking. What happened to “law and order”?

submitted 4 days ago • 823 comments

RFK Jr. and his movement do not simply ignore the need for vaccination, Benjamin Mazer writes. They also trivialize and dismiss preventable child death. theatln.tc/dbdtuQVB

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

"Frank traveled this month to DC to speak with Alaska’s congressional delegation... she said she was well received by Begich. “He assured that he 100% backed us on fighting to not have any cuts to Medicaid,” said Frank. Now, she said she feels betrayed by his vote..." www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

submitted 3 days ago • 432 comments

Four government IT employees tell Ian Bogost and Charlie Warzel that Elon Musk's incursion into the U.S. government may be worse than anyone realizes: “This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history."

submitted 24 days ago • 48 comments

BREAKING: The White House is preparing an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education, per two sources to NBC News.

submitted 27 days ago • 129 comments

A case of tuberculosis has been confirmed at a Michigan school. Just as the Senate considers an avowed anti-vaxxer to lead our nation’s health agencies.

submitted 29 days ago • 651 comments

Such a fabulous traf and so timely! www.goodreads.com/book/show/52...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

I loved this book and can’t wait to do a book dispu with cat books to highlight it! I will be getting on Cricut looking for a cat tree this weekend. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

youtube.com/watch?v=h9h0... This is so good!

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submitted 32 days ago • 262 comments

“The deadly crash over the Potomac River is the culmination of an alarming pattern,” writes Juliette Kayyem. “Our aviation system has been ignoring warning signs and normalizing deviance. Good luck can last only so long, and it ran out last night”:

submitted 32 days ago • 17 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

submitted 32 days ago • 1411 comments

The fact that NIH grant-making has been switched off so haphazardly, for reasons that remain unclear, and despite the scope of troubles it creates, suggests that higher ed will be profoundly vulnerable during the second Trump era, writes @ibogost.bsky.social: theatln.tc/e1Ng2ddw

submitted 34 days ago • 17 comments

thekidsguide.com/trumpelectio... This just keeps getting scarier!

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment