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The fuck. Trump Team Weighs Pulling Funds for Moderna Bird Flu Vaccine www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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The U.S. economy is starting to show signs of strain as President Trump’s abrupt moves to shrink federal spending, lay off government workers and impose tariffs on America’s largest trading partners rattle businesses and reverberate across states and cities. Here's what to know.

submitted 10 days ago • 63 comments

The second moon lander of Intuitive Machines, named Athena, launched on Wednesday evening on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It is now on an arcing path to the moon. nyti.ms/4ihFYwt

submitted 10 days ago • 42 comments

💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes. Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out

submitted 11 days ago • 1358 comments

One child has died and more than 130 people have fallen ill in measles outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico. Here’s what to know about measles symptoms and transmission.

submitted 10 days ago • 84 comments

We actually leave trillions of dollars on the table every year in unpaid taxes. Not extra taxes, taxes that are not paid by the super rich who owe them because the IRS doesn’t have enough money and resources to go after them.

submitted 12 days ago • 19 comments

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov today declined to comment on US President Donald Trump’s claim that Russia would accept peacekeeping troops in Ukraine, but referred to an earlier statement by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

Do this. Say this. 👇🏻

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submitted 29 days ago • 137 comments

Congress was denied entry to both the U.S. Department of Education and the Treasury, where Musk staffers blocked the doors. Along with its appropriations responsibilities, Congress holds oversight authority over federal agencies. Blocking congressional access to these agencies is illegal.

submitted 28 days ago • 579 comments

“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”

submitted 28 days ago • 25 comments

In a Friday night move that drew howls of protest from the U.S. biomedical research community, Trump announced he is immediately reducing by at least half the so-called indirect cost payments that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) makes to universities, hospitals, and research institutes....

submitted 28 days ago • 21 comments

I which Prof. Heather Cox Richardson explains that the new barbarian policy is going to destroy research universities...

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

📌"So what if these cities provide the taxes that pay THEIR bills. So what if the subsidies they pocket come from OUR tax money. They hate what DEI is doing to our country, yet use it as a tool to keep their farms rich. These are the racists who have the audacity to hate our government."

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 32 days ago • 2831 comments

There have to be at least a handful of Republicans who know that what they’re doing isn’t worth it… youtube.com/shorts/uwpLi...

submitted 31 days ago • 82 comments

We’re focused on feeding our kids. Investing in our schools. Making sure child care is affordable. Regardless of the chaos unfolding in Washington, we’re making Minnesota the best state for kids to grow up.

submitted 31 days ago • 1754 comments

The Color Revolution playbook we used to force former Soviet republics into the West is now being turned against Trump domestically is, you might say, a Russian nesting doll of conspiracy theory insanity. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-once...

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments

Senate Democrats are holding the Senate floor all night to oppose Project 2025 author Vought’s OMB nomination. Thank you Senators Schumer, Merkley, Patty Murray, Gary Peters and Brian Schatz #Voices4Victory m.youtube.com/watch?v=ITh0...

submitted 31 days ago • 62 comments

The policy lead for CDC's H5N1 response has abruptly resigned. Sources tell me CDC's response to the bird flu pandemic has been severely hobbled by the chaos of the past two weeks.

submitted 31 days ago • 311 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 33 days ago • 924 comments

Trump just announced a guy for chief Pentagon spokesman whose wife testified that he abused and choked her. He lost custody of his kids. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

submitted 33 days ago • 104 comments

Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework. Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...

submitted 34 days ago • 424 comments

Breaking News: A 10% tariff on Chinese products has taken effect, in what President Trump calls an “opening salvo” for negotiating.

submitted 33 days ago • 50 comments

“The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.” @nytimes on Elon Musk www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

submitted 33 days ago • 24 comments

“White House operations have so far been defined not by the spotlight they’ve commanded but by the secrecy they’ve imposed. People inside and outside of government are confused about who is staffing—or even leading—agencies.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-gove...

submitted 36 days ago • 23 comments

Only Donald Trump could think it makes sense to punish Mexico and Canada more than China. Although keep in mind, the real punishment is for Americans. This is a direct Trump tax on us, consumers, that we will pay.

submitted 36 days ago • 346 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

submitted 36 days ago • 102 comments

It doesn’t matter who he blames, do you feel safe getting on a plane right now? youtu.be/fvmctbycWDk

submitted 37 days ago • 214 comments

Multiple senior FBI officials have been ordered to leave the bureau within days or be fired, according to three people familiar with the matter, a sign that President Donald Trump’s administration is purging leadership at an agency that has been a frequent target of his ire.

submitted 37 days ago • 72 comments

Russia attacked an apartment building in Ukraine, leaving at least nine dead. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the bombing a "terrible tragedy, a terrible Russian crime."

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

This is ludicrous. Insanity.

submitted 37 days ago • 36 comments

NEW: At least 6 senior FBI officials have been ordered to resign or be fired by Monday. They include those that oversee cyber, national security and criminal investigations. www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/p...

submitted 37 days ago • 2169 comments

This is the way forward, all around the globe. A resounding, vociferous resistance to hate, bigotry, and depravity, in the ongoing fight of good vs. evil, democracy vs. autocracy. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️

submitted 39 days ago • 42 comments

Wait, what happened? I thought he was supposed to lower the prices.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment