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Something witty should live here, but it was evicted from the part of my brain that once housed it. Anxiety now takes up residence and is renovating.
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I remember when Attorney General Pam Bondi said she'd protect federal whistleblowers in her confirmation hearing. Now they're being threatened with illegal "discipline, including dismissal."

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Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

submitted 8 days ago • 1090 comments

Allegory alert!

submitted 8 days ago • 224 comments

after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans: www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...

submitted 8 days ago • 1313 comments

A historic graphic of corruption. The 11 federal agencies so far targeted for firings or dismantling by Elon Musk have more than 30 ongoing investigations into his companies. (📸 Malika Khurana for NYT)

submitted 10 days ago • 60 comments

As always: Follow the money. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

submitted 10 days ago • 129 comments

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

submitted 10 days ago • 740 comments

This is just insane and you all know that, right? Unelected, unfettered, untouchable, unsupported by facts and completely without transparency: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 10 days ago • 909 comments

We need 3.5% or more of the population engaged in sustained participation in preparation for a broad based general strike. Volunteer to prepare your community to strike back! Infrastructure is needed to ensure the needs of the people are met before and after the strike. #Generalstrikeus

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SCOOP: Inside DOGE's takeover of CFPB What went down over the past five days based on emails and other documents and interviews W/ @reporterev.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

submitted 12 days ago • 56 comments

I've been waiting for someone to make this point as clearly as @pbump.com did last week: The entire Federal law enforcement apparatus is a part of the Executive Branch. All of it. So if they don't want to enforce a judge's rulings, or, for that matter, the law... then who? wapo.st/3CKnHsI

submitted 12 days ago • 531 comments

Carl Sagan published this 30 years ago, 1995. Bullseye.

submitted 12 days ago • 79 comments

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

submitted 12 days ago • 487 comments

When social media exposes traditional media’s deceit, it’s time for independent journalists to investigate why the press is backing a president who undermines free press—and is it coordinated?

submitted 12 days ago • 1713 comments

Hey Active Military, Vets and their families, Hegseth is asking for an emergency of $50k in funds to paint his military housing And $87k for repairs Are y’all cool with this? Remember your housing.🪖 #SheShed

submitted 13 days ago • 159 comments

Rep. Nancy Mace just posted a grand bombshell announcement in which she misspells the word "tonight"

submitted 12 days ago • 354 comments

What do they think happens to civil rights lawyers & activists? It just amazes me.

submitted 13 days ago • 135 comments

On the days I am about to give up, this Gwendolyn Brooks poem gives me an anchor.

submitted 12 days ago • 225 comments

Eagle eyed commenters note "bias" itself is an even better example, a common term in statistics. If they actually censor this word in an intelligence org, we are just totally f'd.

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Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem

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Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

submitted 13 days ago • 3222 comments

Ooo this is a good one ☺️

submitted 14 days ago • 1198 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 13 days ago • 1489 comments

Taking myself on a date to see #HeartEyes

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DOGE's next target is the CFPB, which has returned $20B to the victims of financial fraud and abuse since 2011. Trump just fired its pro-consumer director and had his Treasury Secretary, a hedge fund manager, halt the CFPB's work. This is a coup against the American people.

submitted 15 days ago • 165 comments

Disturbing ties between Kash Patel and SHEIN — a PRC company implicated in forced labor in Xinjiang. He has millions in shares and won’t divest. Especially concerning amid reports that DOJ/FBI is going to reduce focus on PRC influence efforts in the US. Full detail below from Roger Sollenberger:

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Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

submitted 16 days ago • 2294 comments

Hey, does anyone else lose all sense of optimism and hope for the future and have a physical pulsation in their chest that causes them to want to die a little bit more each day? Hahahahahahelphahahahahelphahahahahahelphahahahelphahahahahahahelphahahaha Just girly things, I guess.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

All that talk about transparency was bullshit.

submitted 16 days ago • 204 comments

me, reading all of you on bluesky: the american experiment is over. we know not what hell we enter over the coming years me, writing an email: Hi! I hope this finds you well.

submitted 17 days ago • 21 comments

I know pointing out hypocrisy doesn’t matter anymore, but if there’s one person I wouldn’t want to be the judge of who goes into locker rooms, it would be the man who openly boasted about walking into dressing rooms of underage girls

submitted 16 days ago • 623 comments

Thank you @indiewire.com.web.brid.gy 🥵 www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

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