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Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

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have been wondering about this. as long as you're a temporary govt worker, there's some logic. you don't have to upend your professional life to help on some govt task for a month or two. But now he's a top admin appointee and also CEO of major federal contractor. how is that ok?

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

A federal judge on Friday blocked a sweeping executive order from President Donald Trump that sought to end government support for programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.

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What a shame. Teamsters deserve better than this.

submitted 6 days ago • 1956 comments

I actually think it’s pretty clear.

submitted 11 days ago • 246 comments

Israel threatened to end the ceasefire, with its defence chief warning of a "different intensity" and supporting Trump’s vision to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: https://aje.io/z90y2n

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

The Ballard Partners appointed Trump AG Pamela Bondi has filed false charges against the State of New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul, AG Letitia James, and DMV Commissioner Mark Schroeder. Prior to becoming Trump's AG, Bondi refused to charge Trump after a $25k bribe. #SpookyConnections

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🚨NEWS: On the same day Elon Musk was bragging about canceling federal education contracts, he was getting a new multimillion-dollar "supplemental" contract from the government, adding even more taxpayer costs to his company's $3.9 billion NASA deal.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have developed a nasal COVID-19 vaccine that BLOCKS transmission of the virus. This suggests vaccines delivered directly to the nose or mouth could play a CRITICAL role in containing the spread of respiratory infections. Phase I clinical trials HAVE BEEN APPROVED! 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 15 days ago • 201 comments

sendoff

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NEW: A group known as the 'puppygirl hacker polycule' has leaked thousands of police training & policy manuals from departments across the country www.dailydot.com/debug/lexipo...

submitted 15 days ago • 259 comments

This is an absolutely astonishing report. DOGE did a complete takeover of CFPB’s systems at the root. This is identical to worst case scenarios for the most devastating cyberattacks by foreign actors, only this is an internal threat

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Acting Deputy AG Emil Bove said the order was not based on the strength of evidence in the case, but because it had been brought too close to Eric Adams' reelection campaign and was distracting from the mayor’s efforts to aid in the Trump administration’s priorities. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

submitted 15 days ago • 45 comments

Let’s be clear about something that maybe the wider public will get. Not only will this destroy research but it will also lead to huge tuition increases. Your kids’ college is about to get a lot more expensive.

submitted 18 days ago • 87 comments

::taps mic:: beyond being an absolutely miserable illness, measles can cause immune amnesia. It wipes out your immune systems memory of how to fight every infection, every vaccine you've ever had.

submitted 18 days ago • 41 comments

HEADLINE: CDC posts, then deletes, data on bird flu spread between cats and people. The data which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. It is evident the CDC is being muzzled SO let’s talk about what YOU can do to PROTECT yourself AND your pets. 🧪🧵 ⬇️

submitted 19 days ago • 175 comments

This happened to me in Trump 1.0 when I called in and the dude said, “wow lots of calls about this issue today!” and I asked how many is a lot and he said “Seventeen!” Motivates me to pick up the phone every time.

submitted 20 days ago • 20 comments

By illegally neutering the National Labor Relations Board, Trump has enabled Jeff Bezos to ignore the union victory at Whole Foods in Philadelphia. Trump has given the green light to corporations to violate labor law with impunity. Unacceptable. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 19 days ago • 177 comments

FBI hearing has hit a snag. DOJ is unable to say whether anyone in the department has already disseminated to outsiders the info about FBI agents who worked on Jan. 6 case. DOJ lawyer says he doesn't "have reason to believe" that has happened but can't assure it.

submitted 19 days ago • 83 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...

submitted 20 days ago • 352 comments

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

submitted 21 days ago • 940 comments

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

submitted 21 days ago • 1278 comments

The elite pundits & politicos who made bank off promoting the neoliberalism that created conditions for Trump's rise are now going to make even more money depicting themselves as experts on stopping Trump. Time is a flat circle. This inane cycle is going to be our whole lives. It's exhausting.

submitted 21 days ago • 14 comments

A few notes: • Signal cannot protect you from an betraying chat partner • Signal cannot protect you from device management spyware • Signal cannot protect you from your own device • Signal cannot protect you from your chat partner's device • Signal offers PRIVACY not ANONYMITY

submitted 22 days ago • 52 comments

The disease: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpP...

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Sol #Art #Oc

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was one of the officials raising safety concerns about the airline-backed bill that Congress passed in the months before the disaster at Washington National Airport.

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 26 days ago • 2306 comments

Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy just sent out a memo directing staff to "give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average"

submitted 26 days ago • 260 comments

Customs and Border Protection union directs officers to use the term "illegal alien" from now on, per memo I obtained

submitted 31 days ago • 60 comments

🚨BOYCOTT ALERT 🚨 STARTING FEBRUARY 1st, MY ORGANIZATION WE ARE SOMEBODY IS CALLING ON A MASS BOYCOTT OF ALL TARGET STORES. Yesterday, Target announced that they are rolling back diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

submitted 31 days ago • 94 comments

The comics publisher is the newest company to cut ties with Neil Gaiman in the wake of his sexual misconduct allegations.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Not a coincidence that as awareness of systemic discrimination surged in the wake of BLM, Republicans saw White people as aggrieved. Gift link: wapo.st/40uzT8E

submitted 32 days ago • 33 comments

"We have grown tired of this military fervour, just as we have grown tired of this endless war. We have even grown tired of ourselves. And that is not a bad thing. People cannot live in a constant state of upheaval." — #AJOpinion by Artem Chekh ⤵️

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have discovered a vulnerability in drug-resistant bacteria: zinc- OR a lack thereof. Depriving bacteria of certain nutrients can cause important physiological changes, rendering them VULNERABLE to antibiotics, INCLUDING those they once resisted! Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 32 days ago • 80 comments

✨🌈 The more you know 🌈✨

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Every day it breaks my heart to know that this level of misery is being inflicted on people, and that it's being done with American tax dollars that could be providing care for sick instead of slaughtering them.

submitted 60 days ago • 37 comments

Thousands of documents obtained from the Yale Police Department show how the campus police closely surveilled pro-Palestine protestors, in collaboration with the FBI and counterterrorism forces. What other campuses followed this playbook?

submitted 67 days ago • 11 comments

You shoot one CEO & get buried under both state & federal charges but if you aid & abet a treasonous insurrection involving plans to literally hang multiple elected officials in your capacity as a police intel chief, it's only four counts, of being a silly lil rascal www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

submitted 64 days ago • 15 comments

OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji blew the whistle on his company’s mass theft of copyrighted work. In late November he was found dead in his home mollycrabapple.substack.com/p/death-of-a...

submitted 73 days ago • 4 comments

i recall a time when using a private email server was the single greatest scandal in american history. i guess today’s it’s just tuesday www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

submitted 69 days ago • 632 comments

Uhhh, hi! It's me, Bookshop.org, a place to buy books online where every purchase financially supports indie bookstores instead of some billionaire.

submitted 98 days ago • 153 comments