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PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

submitted 13 hours ago • 65 comments

Between this and Vanderbilt it sure looks like the crusade against higher education is going to hobble research for decades to come. American higher education is a global achievement, one of our greatest engines of innovation and prosperity. And it’s being ripped down by vandals.

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 17 hours ago • 188 comments

The unconstitutional freeze of over $2B in federal funds for Pennsylvania’s clean energy projects doesn’t just undermine state-led climate initiatives—it halts essential programs that protect clean air and support low-income communities. State leaders can and must fight back.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 19 hours ago • 108 comments

NEW PIECE: On the shorter side for my recent writings, I take a chance to step back and return to the big picture. Why should we care if the Trump administration, and Musk's DOGE, are acting unconstitutionally? The answer is not as simple as it might seem. www.crisesnotes.com/why-should-w...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

submitted 1 day ago • 265 comments

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 19 hours ago • 238 comments

SCOOP: New Social Security chief was being investigated for leaking data to DOGE when Musk team tapped him. Sr officials placed him on paid leave while probing whether he may have violated privacy & tax laws, WaPo's Lisa Rein reports. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 20 hours ago • 271 comments

Double-plus-ungood. It’s not just the particular terms or even the self-censorship by federal employees that’s scary. It’s the cultivation of an atmosphere in which language itself is a threat, your own tongue may be your enemy.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 1 day ago • 979 comments

It’s a death cult. They worship the loss of life, and take joy in forcing more death on anyone they can.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

WIRED health & biotech writer here. If you're a USDA employee working on the government's response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak and would like to speak securely about what's happening at the agency, please reach out to me on Signal at emullin.06. I can honor requests for anonymity.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

This is the organization that has been sending in lists of anti-genocide protesting students and faculty for deportation.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 1 day ago • 1857 comments

This article relies entirely on data from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The ADL is biased. Their data cannot be trusted. For example, the ADL's 2023 report does not include the fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian boy Wadea Al-Fayoume, an attack motivated by anti-Palestinian hatred.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

recent national political discourse pretty conclusively shows how U.S. crime and punishment politics are really a question of which people with which racial positions are allowed to do as they like. liberal pundits should have learned this when the "felon" label failed to do any work for them

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Donald Trump is ending the national database of police misconduct

submitted 1 day ago • 247 comments

When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come. — @timothysnyder.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I am over every single conservative attorney who remains anything but ardently and openly Never Trump.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

submitted 2 days ago • 229 comments

This is exactly how Hitler talked. It's not even a comparison or analogy, as people claim. It's a direct connection in ideology as well as a similar approach to governance and relationship to democracy. This needs to be how we talk about it. They are the ideological descendants of Hitler.

submitted 2 days ago • 138 comments

Lawyers at Twitter are reportedly threatening advertisers to spend more money on the platform “or else” Elon Musk will use his connections with Trump to hurt their companies.

submitted 2 days ago • 827 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 2 days ago • 3430 comments

The order “affects tens of thousands of children who entered the country without parents or legal guardians, many of them victims of human trafficking or gang-related violence.”

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

📢 Chicago showed up! Federal workers & allies rallied to defend public services—and the turnout was huge. Social Security, Medicare, and veterans’ care belong to the people, not corporations. The fight continues. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com #SaveOurServices

submitted 3 days ago • 52 comments

📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

submitted 3 days ago • 571 comments

HUNDREDS of fed workers and community supporters turn out in Boston for #SaveOurServices day of action to fight Musk’s looting of vital public services! ✊🏼

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

CW: unimaginable horror related to suicide and deportation Truly unbearable: an 11 year old took her life after being bullied by classmates threatening to call ICE on her family. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

How serious is the Trump administration about attempting to combine federal banking regulators? The OCC now has email lists for transferees from the CFPB and the FDIC. New from me: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

It's not that they think the jobs are unnecessary It's that THEY WANT TO PRIVATIZE LITERALLY EVERYTHING www.npr.org/2025/02/17/n...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Today these people are deported on military planes to Panama, meanwhile any Afrikaner is automatically accepted as a refugee

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

"One intelligence officer said he had seen targeting mistakes that relied on incorrect machine translations from Arabic to Hebrew." apnews.com/article/isra...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

A Jewish man pulled up to another car, got out, and unloaded 17 bullets to try to kill two strangers because he thought they were Palestinian. The victims then blamed Arabs. Where's the prime time coverage? The congressional hearings? The ADL?

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

protest the theft of public money + public goods! TOMORROW all over! protests, rallies + press conferences coordinated by AFCSME, AAUP, AFT, UAW, HELU+ others, for researchers+ public servants + their supporters. find your local action! www.labor4highered.org chicago join us at 10am!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

They failed to raise the unemployment rate by raising interest rates. They’re doing it by other means.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 4 days ago • 237 comments

The work done by Tsuburaya’s crew was globally considered pioneering and masterful effects craft in its day, and the reputation of “cheap rubber suits and cardboard buildings” was active (and racist) revisionist history spun by American critics and historians in the 80s onwards. It drives me insane.

submitted 74 days ago • 3 comments

The more Godzilla movies I watch, the angrier I get at people who derisively describe them as “guys in rubber suits stomping around miniature sets” as if creating those insanely detailed miniature sets, suits, and puppets is artistically Beneath them

submitted 74 days ago • 55 comments

Still looking for anyone in the Trump WH who isn't a billionaire grifter, sexual predator and/or sycophantic coward. Seriously. Name one of these people who you'd trust with your wallet (or a babysitting gig). www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

FRIGHTENING

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Anti-wind activists have joined with well-connected figures in conservative legal & energy circles to privately lobby the Trump Interior Dept to undo permits granted to 11 offshore wind farm projects, including 4 already under construction, @jael.bsky.social reports for @heatmap.news. #Downshift 🔌💡

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

The FDIC fired its probationary employees tonight. It's unclear just how many people are affected, but according to the DOGE website there were 513 agency employees with less than a year of experience. news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments