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Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1187 comments

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

submitted 21 hours ago • 665 comments

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

submitted 1 day ago • 119 comments

Trump - with his devotion to Putin, abandonment of Ukraine, and lies about history- is the antithesis of everything Ronald Reagan stood for. He is aligning America with the enemies of the very freedom that generations have fought and died to defend.

submitted 2 days ago • 295 comments

People have gone to jail for less.

submitted 1 day ago • 202 comments

@jenpsaki.msnbc.com: "Inspectors general are a headache for everyone. You know why? Because they're investigating every agency and they find stuff! Including waste and fraud and abuse! They wouldn't be firing them if they cared about waste, fraud, and abuse."

submitted 1 day ago • 326 comments

Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 1522 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 1 day ago • 848 comments

Meanwhile, the US cuts all of its democracy promotion and support for independent media

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

A deportation flight leaving the U.S. Thursday carrying 135 mostly Asian undocumented migrants is expected to land in Costa Rica in the afternoon. Almost half of the migrants will be children.

submitted 2 days ago • 115 comments

"[Musk] is trying to gut everything good in America for his own private profit. This is the culmination of what oligarchy is all about...the fusion and the capture of the billionaire class of our democracy." - @aoc.bsky.social with @fedworkersunited.bsky.social today #SaveOurServices

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

A 10% universal tariff on $3.25 trillion of annual US merchandise imports would potentially raise ~$300 billion. Last year, US personal income tax brought in nearly 30x that.

submitted 2 days ago • 124 comments

We have reached out to the company who was awarded this contract and they have confirmed the ceiling was $8 million—NOT billion. Here is their statement. The federal government is cooking the books.

submitted 3 days ago • 466 comments

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

submitted 3 days ago • 1259 comments

In 1938, Nazi Germany held "peace talks" about Czechoslovakia with England, France, and Italy. The Czechs were not there. In 2025, Putin's Russia is holding "peace talks" about Ukraine with the US and Saudi Arabia. The Ukrainians are not there.

submitted 2 days ago • 85 comments

"One casualty of the mass firings across federal health agencies are regulators who ensure drugs for pets and livestock are safe and effective." Not even our pets are safe anymore from this Trump Administration. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 2 days ago • 88 comments

Not even a month in and Trump and Musk have trashed our alliances, threatened our nuclear arsenal, pillaged our treasury, destroyed our standing in the scientific and medical communities, erased the history and civil rights of millions, and now they are going after individual tax records and NGOs.

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

submitted 5 days ago • 406 comments

is this bad?

submitted 3 days ago • 273 comments

Blaming Ukraine for being brutally invaded by Russia. Putin is really getting his money’s worth.

submitted 3 days ago • 175 comments

"This is in violation of a presidential executive order. It needs to stop" -- Elon Musk, on Hannity's show, makes clear he has no idea how the American government works by asserting that Trump can use executive orders to unilaterally impound funds appropriated by Congress

submitted 3 days ago • 457 comments

Shocker of all shockers: Pete Hegseth is in way over his head and embarrassed himself in his first trip overseas as the secretary of defense. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 4 days ago • 633 comments

Started / Going

submitted 4 days ago • 523 comments

1. Meta removed a Facebook ads criticizing Elon Musk's efforts to seize Americans' private information through DOGE. A notice from Meta said the ads violated its rules on "Unacceptable Business Practices."

submitted 4 days ago • 228 comments

Trump may have won Polk County by +20% but 0% of people voted for Elon #nokingsday

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First day after a major storm disaster with fatalities & destruction across multiple states and Trump goes to a car race in Florida. Second day after a major disaster and Trump plays golf in FL. Dozens of posts about himself during that time. Not one word about the disaster.

submitted 5 days ago • 459 comments

Musk seems to think he uncovered massive fraud. In fact this is a well-known issue having to do with COBOL programing and the cost of inputting death data for people who died decades ago before records were digitized. oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploa...

submitted 5 days ago • 73 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 5 days ago • 2403 comments

Trump posted 14 times about his Daytona 500 trip—but not once about the deadly flooding in multiple states.

submitted 5 days ago • 978 comments

NEW: Trump’s FEMA administrator just sent out an email ordering all employees to stop sending things to the media without prior authorization. It was immediately sent to me by a FEMA employee without prior authorization to share with you.

submitted 5 days ago • 385 comments

My office is hearing reports that the Trump administration’s purges include firing veterans who have served our country for years. Our veterans deserve better. If you've been impacted, call congress: (202) 224-3121 And share your story: www.veterans.senate.gov/contact-rank...

submitted 6 days ago • 283 comments

ZELENSKYY: The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 percent WELKER: If the US pulls out of NATO, Russia will occupy Europe? ZELENSKYY: Yes

submitted 6 days ago • 812 comments

If you thought it wasn’t possible—well, here we are. Musk pulled $80 million in funding authorized by Congress straight from NYC’s bank account. The federal government took the funds and called it a “clawback” of taxpayer money. A lot of others would simply call it stealing.

submitted 6 days ago • 244 comments

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

submitted 6 days ago • 2244 comments

From an FDA probationary employee: the firings are coming from outside the agency without cause and with zero input from supervisors (as promised.) More firings expected between now and Tuesday. Do not open the termination email before you download your documents and performance evals.

submitted 6 days ago • 291 comments

In case you too needed a laugh. 🐶

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Just despicable and disgraceful. The US government is now indistinguishable from the mafia.

submitted 7 days ago • 1779 comments

NEW: The CDC is currently removing all the influenza resources from their website during the worst flu season in decades.

submitted 7 days ago • 853 comments

“Why are so few young people having kids?” I don’t know. Maybe because they want to be able to see their kids grow up and thrive which isn’t fucking possible anymore.

submitted 7 days ago • 52 comments

can someone smarter than I am explain in small words how dumping hundreds of thousands of newly unemployed federal workers into the job market all at once won’t absolutely wreck the economy

submitted 8 days ago • 171 comments

NIH funding at @UMich supports important medical research, such as extending the life of organs waiting for transplant, advancing treatments for cerebral palsy, and sustaining experimental genetic trials for children with brain cancer.

submitted 7 days ago • 221 comments

I knew “death panels” was some bullshit when the term was coined, but I’m staggered today to see it really is the longest con of “every accusation is a confession.”

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment