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In the first two years of Biden’s presidency, Democrats controlled the House and Senate, yet couldn’t pass voting rights, raise the minimum wage, or the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act. “But Manchin & Sinema!” They did the bidding of their donors.

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This gets my vote for tweet/post of the year. This is a RED ALERT post. This is exactly why he’s doing it.

submitted 3 hours ago • 229 comments

Script for calling reps about this: why did the administration cut funding for early detection of one of the most fatal kinds of cancer?

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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 7 hours ago • 87 comments

The reply email inbox for this “what did you do last week” email is [email protected], so, you know, definitely don’t send them any unrelated messages that would interfere with their ability to carry out Elon’s dumbass bullshit

submitted 1 hour ago • 106 comments

An actual dose of sanity in my email this morning: my town council rep emailed all his constituents reminding us to wear masks in public places and stay home if sick. AND there was a bit about a yellow-bellied sea snake washing up near Hilo, sea snakes are INCREDIBLY rare here. :)

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1078 comments

The reason behind canceling our “Wild to Mild” influenza vaccine campaign is revealed. “Informed consent”. Vaccines ALREADY require informed consent. And we do not consent to the spread of vaccine disinformation that could costs the lives of millions of people. #RFKJrlies #vaccinessavelives

submitted 4 hours ago • 10 comments

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

submitted 4 hours ago • 91 comments

It’s probably a good day to explain to your non-scientist socials that graduate students are not merely the next generation of academic science, they are an important component of the current scientific labor force. Feel free to mention that this is cut rate labor as well.

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

From a purely economics standpoint, if we funded 99 useless studies on catheter infections and 1 good study that improved prevention / treatment, it'd still be totally worth it. ... but instead everything's frozen, and they won't even say why. They hate science and they resent scientists.

submitted 4 hours ago • 17 comments

Help if you can. Repost if you can't.

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(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

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A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 8 hours ago • 71 comments

Sure would be nice if the U.S. continued funding stuff like “vaccines for pancreatic cancer.”

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Anyone a former piccolo player looking to sell their instrument?

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

He nails it.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1165 comments

Listen to @radiofreetom.bsky.social! "Now that Trump has captured the intelligence services, the Justice Department, and the FBI, the military is the last piece he needs to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government."

submitted 6 hours ago • 263 comments

People with doctorates are the most liberal and progressive. The entire mission of destroying academia is to eliminate entire voting demographics. They explicitly spell this out. Shutting down PhD programs isn't an accident, it's the goal.

submitted 7 hours ago • 38 comments

Great piece by @adamserwer.bsky.social. Reminder that this isn’t the first time the federal workforce has been resegregated: Woodrow Wilson’s 1913 order to impose Jim Crow rolled back almost half a century of progress that saw Black people working at every level of the federal government.

submitted 6 hours ago • 10 comments

This is good simple messaging.

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

In case you need reminding.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732. Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.

submitted 10 hours ago • 450 comments

Hey fed neighbors:

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

. The craziest part? A 2% tax on millionaires & billionaires would wipe out US homelessness and hunger & it wouldn’t even make a dent in their lifestyle. LITERALLY Just asking them to pay their fair share. But they’d rather keep paying nothing while we struggle to survive. #TaxTheRich .

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Small biz is not your enemy. Please don't take out your anger on us. We're barely surviving, & phasing out major platforms is hard. X- gone. Facebook-gone. Amazon-gone. Instagram-gone. Threads-gone. Paypal is on our list, but we can't do it all at once or we collapse. We're doin our very best.

submitted 8 hours ago • 18 comments

Tomorrow: #Writers Podcast Preview: we'll chat abt distributing our books through Draft2Digital. We use the five "traditional" outlets: AMZ, B&N, APL, Google, and Kobo. Using D2D gave us thirteen more outlets. Exciting! 😊 Podcast on Sunday TIA LYL! www.carsonhume.com

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

It is deeply disturbing that some Americans are expressing joy over their fellow Americans losing their jobs. These are our neighbors. Federal workers don’t deserve the pain of layoffs and they certainly don’t deserve being vilified by a political party on a power trip.

submitted 8 hours ago • 27 comments

Most unsettling thing about the Chair of the Joint Chiefs nominee—besides a political purge opening the spot—is not that he lacks the legal requirements. He’s not far off. It’s that Trump reportedly picked him because he said beating ISIS would be quick and easy. Feeds Trump’s delusions about force.

submitted 8 hours ago • 25 comments

I’m going to ask people older than I am if they have ever seen corruption in this scale. Have you?

submitted 8 hours ago • 70 comments

I wish more people were talking about egg prices as less of a “muh egg prices!” thing and more about the fact that there is an organized egg cartel that is illegally price gouging and almost certainly illegally price fixing and reaping massive, gigantic profits.

submitted 8 hours ago • 54 comments

Hello friends. I know times are dark but it is incredibly important not to lose hope. And, this week there are signs of hope and it paramount we recognize that hope, not let up and build. A thread on this if I may. You may appreciate this on a Friday. Come along with me. 🧵 (1/10)

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Breaking — The Social Security Administration is dissolving its Office of Analytics Review and Oversight effective 2pm today, an agency source tells me. In a meeting leadership claimed it was part of government-wide mission to “align missions better” & said it was the first of many changes to come.

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THERE WILL BE NO BAILOUTS. The administration WANTS you to lose your house, your farm, your retirement, your savings. They’re actively counting on it so the billionaire robber barons can scoop it all up for pennies on the dollar. Your loss IS the plan.

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