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From the man who backed out of a fight with Mark Zuckerberg and an appearance on the Daily Show: "I literally challenged Putin to one on one physical combat". This is "my dad works for Nintendo" level stuff.

submitted 6 hours ago • 863 comments

The hypocrisy is off the charts.

submitted 22 hours ago • 884 comments

BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to determine who might be leaking info about immigration operataions.

submitted 20 hours ago • 76 comments

Wow, Wall Street has had it with Trump! “Trump’s policies have given a boost to markets outside the U.S., causing some on Wall Street to quip that MAGA has been replaced by MEGA—Make Europe Great Again.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 89 comments

Three days ago, Donald Trump openly threatened to kill all of ‘the people of Gaza’ and it wasn’t even a story. No consequences. The media, the world, just moved on.

submitted 21 hours ago • 414 comments

Trump wants to FIRE 80,000 VA employees so he can give millionaires and billionaires about $70,000 off their taxes. To be clear, he is firing the nurses and caseworkers who care for our veterans and gifting their salaries to the wealthiest people in the country.

submitted 20 hours ago • 23 comments

Woah.. “Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk” H/T Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

America is getting pretty bored. Lowest viewership of any of his addresses to congress

submitted 3 days ago • 1370 comments

"No reason for the cancellation was given, and the [FDA vaccine advisory] committee members were warned against forwarding the email. It suggested that members decline to answer questions from media. "So much for Kennedy's pledge... of 'radical transparency.'" [@ronaldbailey.bsky.social]

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

Elon updated DOGE, claiming to have fixed the mistakes we all pointed out. But instead of correcting them, he just added more false claims. He even inflated his so-called “savings” total from $55 billion to $65 billion, when in reality, the actual increase is only from $2 billion to $2.3 billion.

submitted 8 days ago • 177 comments

There’s a fake transcript of the Oval Office meeting today going around. Here’s a real one. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/28/t...

submitted 8 days ago • 234 comments

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submitted 8 days ago • 41 comments

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

submitted 8 days ago • 2266 comments

The Atlantic asked every GOP member of Congress two straightforward questions: Did Russia invade Ukraine? And is Putin a dictator? A few said yes; one responded with an interaction with a chatbot; most didn’t respond at all. theatln.tc/C9Sz9dk4

submitted 8 days ago • 90 comments

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

submitted 8 days ago • 1333 comments

If your employer self insured, share this with your management. Your CEO doesn't realize they are getting ripped off on their pharmacy benefits. Here is how www.nasdaq.com/articles/elo...

submitted 9 days ago • 411 comments

RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore

submitted 9 days ago • 484 comments

The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control and is awarding the work to Musk’s Starlink. Follow the money and see where it goes.

submitted 10 days ago • 633 comments

NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot. by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 257 comments

Just heard from a friend who is a true hero veteran. His company was destroyed in 30 days by the VA when they canceled 5 contracts without notice. 23 Americans mostly veterans out of work and a veteran owned small business destroyed. For nothing. They're dismantling the VA not "reforming" it.

submitted 11 days ago • 1257 comments

An FDA vaccine advisory committee meeting scheduled for March to select the strains to be included in next season's flu shot has been canceled, a panel member says.

submitted 10 days ago • 87 comments

A child in West Texas has died of measles, state health officials said — the first reported US death from the highly contagious disease in a decade — as a Texas outbreak has grown from a handful of cases to more than 130 across two states reut.rs/3ESCr9o

submitted 10 days ago • 38 comments

The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion... The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.

submitted 11 days ago • 409 comments

Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)? A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)

submitted 11 days ago • 132 comments

The budget resolution that Republicans jammed through tonight—without a single Democratic vote—does 2 things: 1. It cuts Medicaid for half a million Arizonans 2. It adds trillions to the deficit

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

Jon whips out his trusty calculator to identify where America’s waste, fraud, and abuse really is

submitted 11 days ago • 47 comments

Covid vaccines and the reduced the risk of Long Covid in kids and teens jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 13 days ago • 25 comments

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 14 days ago • 2637 comments

Worth reposting!

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

To be fair, zero is also their IQ, and so they think it’s a high number.

submitted 16 days ago • 61 comments

US Rep Michael McCaul of Texas, one of Biden’s critics on Afghanistan, said in a recent interview with CBS News that the U.S. needed to “live up to our word” to protect Afghan allies. “Otherwise, down the road, in another conflict, no one’s going to trust us.” www.texastribune.org/2025/02/19/t...

submitted 17 days ago • 34 comments

He acknowledged that there were now "ethical challenges of a type no public servant should ever be forced to confront."

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

theintercept.com/2025/02/17/e...

submitted 19 days ago • 2070 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 19 days ago • 8236 comments

www.reuters.com/world/us/fda...

submitted 19 days ago • 20 comments

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 19 days ago • 843 comments

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

submitted 19 days ago • 5962 comments

“U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce”

submitted 19 days ago • 85 comments

Area free speech absolutist says journalists he doesnt like should face a “long prison sentence”

submitted 20 days ago • 261 comments

New: Last night, hundreds of CDC post-doc fellows were fired, including all in the group who call themselves the "disease detectors," and are the future of public health lab leaders. One senior official told me, "It is going to cripple public health for decades." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 20 days ago • 77 comments

“Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily-guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country, according to two people familiar with the activities, sparking alarm within the tax agency.”

submitted 20 days ago • 80 comments

Jeez. Definitely want to learn more about the reasoning here.

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

“DOGE apparently didn’t understand the workers’ role”—in other words, that the “National Nuclear Security Agency” was an agency having something to do with national nuclear security

submitted 20 days ago • 431 comments

Meet "the swamp." Researchers working on cancer treatment, opioid addiction, prosthetics and burn pit exposure. Special education specialists and student aid officials. Experts helping farmers manage their land to prevent soil erosion and water pollution. www.yahoo.com/news/anger-c...

submitted 21 days ago • 34 comments

Meanwhile in Russia: Sergey Mikheyev says that in light of the Trump administration's express intent to abandon NATO allies in case they intervene in Ukraine, Russia should strike Brussels, London and Paris. Vladimir Solovyov wholeheartedly agrees. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkX5...

submitted 21 days ago • 127 comments

Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

submitted 22 days ago • 301 comments

When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted. Yet somehow Musk isn't.

submitted 23 days ago • 561 comments