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We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

submitted 4 days ago • 802 comments

Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come.

submitted 14 days ago • 43 comments

“They apparently just sort of walked past security and said: ‘Get out of my way,’ and they’re looking for access for the IT systems, as they have in other agencies,” said a former Noaa official. “They will have access to the entire computer system, a lot of which is confidential information.”

submitted 18 days ago • 217 comments

Reminder: Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these. Avoid directly leaking images; instead, request that the information be rewritten and the image recreated

submitted 20 days ago • 78 comments

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

submitted 19 days ago • 927 comments

USAID annual report says in 2023 it brough sustainable water services to 3.8 million people and nutrition services to 26.5 million children under the age of 5. Trump and Musk have shut this down.

submitted 20 days ago • 58 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

Khloe Kardashian is smack talking LA Mayor Karen Bass over the wildfires. In 2022, Khloe used roughly 101,000 gallons of water over the allotted limit during a drought. Her sister Kim Kardashian used 232,000 gallons over the limit. IN ONE MONTH. Bish needs to sit TF down.

submitted 43 days ago • 1523 comments

I’ve never been more impressed by local reporters in my life. The work they’ve done over the past 48 hours to keep SoCal safe is incredible. When Trump insults journalists by declaring them “the enemy” or “fake news” he fails to recognize that they come from our community & report on our community.

submitted 45 days ago • 70 comments

With his resources, Bezos doesn’t have to do this. Bezos is choosing to do it. He’s choosing to dismantle one of the journalistic institutions that would be in a position to hold the incoming administration accountable just two weeks in advance of the inauguration.

submitted 48 days ago • 29 comments

One failed attempt at a shoe bomb 23 years ago and we all still take our shoes off at the airport. One failed attempt at violently overthrowing our country 4 years ago and we allow the guy who orchestrated it to be certified as President so he can do it again. Disgraceful.

submitted 48 days ago • 49 comments

hello I decided to be more annoying than usual www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24...

submitted 80 days ago • 73 comments

If you’re a terrified CEO, might I suggest channeling that into building libraries, parks, great public works like your slightly less fucking worthless forebears.

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

It’s important to remember how uncooperative staff alone can make it very hard for an unpopular leader to continue. This is not just symbolic, also practical.

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

Research supported by NIH has led more than 100 Nobel Prizes and has supported more than 99% of drugs approved by federal regulators from 2010 to 2019. But come January, NIH may face a wrecking ball nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...

submitted 84 days ago • 29 comments

Trump pardoned Jared Kushner's dad while Jared worked in the White House, then yesterday appointed Jared's dad as an ambassador, but Polis didn't have the same energy for that. Pathetic stuff that I for one won't soon forget.

submitted 83 days ago • 1141 comments

You know, maybe I don't say this enough but you don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to point out that we all just lived through a year of open election interference that was so profound that if we had witnessed it happen elsewhere the USA would have called for an intervention

submitted 92 days ago • 129 comments

Joe Rogan should have me on because I've had a fuckton of vaccines and I haven't died even one single time

submitted 92 days ago • 31 comments

Not seen in NYT's "what to know" about Pam Bondi: the only thing you need to know, that she fired prosecutors in her office who were investigating companies engaged in foreclosure fraud, after receiving thousands of dollars in donations from those companies.

submitted 93 days ago • 48 comments

“American farming depends on undocumented workers…”

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Democrats have the majority for less than two more months. I'll be using every second to push for passage of my PRESS Act to protect journalists from government spying and surveillance.

submitted 101 days ago • 167 comments

Here's just a nice read about shellfishing, friendship, and community.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

there’s something deeply disturbing about seeing talented journalists beg readers to resubscribe to a publication because the billionaire owner just blew a $10m hole in the budget and the likeliest place their bosses will go looking to fill it is their paychecks instead of the billionaire’s pockets

submitted 117 days ago • 12 comments

Every word here. We have journalistic organizations which will tell the truth in this moment, and we should amplify them. www.theverge.com/24282022/kam...

submitted 117 days ago • 6 comments

It's been so much fun to learn which billionaires think that women are people who deserve rights and which billionaires do not hold this view.

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment

DO NOT COMPLY IN ADVANCE.

submitted 121 days ago • 5 comments

If the Washington Post situation doesn't make it clear enough: journalists, you have a week to start covering Trump with the urgency he demands, or you're going to be forbidden to ever do it again. You know fascist threats of violence don't belong on A12. A1, 60-point font, go down fighting.

submitted 121 days ago • 6 comments

Did a potential relationship b/w Elon Musk and the owner of the Los Angeles Times have anything to do with the owner of LAT engaging in the newspaper endorsement process for the presidential race resulting in a non-endorsement. A reporter for the Guardian is asking some questions. 👀

submitted 122 days ago • 5 comments

I’ll never stop being awed by the bravery of the women who have shared their stories about abortion and reproductive care—stories that often involve terrible suffering and degradation—in the hope of ensuring that no one else has to experience what they did

submitted 123 days ago • 4 comments

I can't stop thinking about the fact that legacy media thinks Trump's McDonald's stunt is bigger news than Milley's comment about fascism.

submitted 125 days ago • 53 comments

Update: Former president Trump thanked Mike Davis and said he will appoint him "in a very high capacity" if elected at an event in Aurora, CO last week.

submitted 130 days ago • 18 comments

I realize why they do it, but it really sucks that beating fascism in this country requires candidates to say, "don't be mean to the fascists" and "let's reach out to the fascists" and "I will put fascists on my cabinet" over and over again.

submitted 132 days ago • 42 comments

wild to be running for president, and you're dropping in on various parts of the country you want to lead and announcing “this part sucks shit”

submitted 131 days ago • 59 comments

Of course, theres only one kind of music that is fittingly surreal for this footage

submitted 131 days ago • 38 comments

Buy books by the people you know and like. Buy their art. Buy their music. Go to their live shows and buy their merch. If we want these things to exist in the world, we need to give money to creators.

submitted 137 days ago • 4 comments

Five months ago

submitted 140 days ago • 51 comments