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So far, Trump has... -Fired federal workers who investigate firefighter deaths -Rolled back a rule that would have protected miners from contracting black lung -Planned to shut down 11 of OSHA’s regional offices Don’t believe his pro-worker posturing for a second.

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Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

submitted 5 days ago • 1434 comments

An absolute must-read from @stevevladeck.bsky.social this morning: “Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.”

submitted 8 days ago • 690 comments

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

submitted 7 days ago • 989 comments

Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.

submitted 8 days ago • 647 comments

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

submitted 10 days ago • 666 comments

"Christians who sought asylum from persecution by the Taliban are being told they must leave immediately or be deported. "The news came in an email to a group living legally in north Raleigh... Apostles Church in Raleigh had welcomed them after the Taliban took over... www.wral.com/story/they-f...

submitted 10 days ago • 742 comments

JUST IN: Judge finds 'probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations

submitted 10 days ago • 1296 comments

If you don't think we're headed here, you aren't paying attention.

submitted 11 days ago • 322 comments

When he says “home-growns”, he’s talking about US citizens. He wants Bukeke to build more torture prisons in El Salvador for Americans. Not me saying it, Trump saying it. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 12 days ago • 296 comments

And weekends And overtime

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"the worst and dumbest people in the world gloating about how they solved the ‘grift’ of sending lifesaving medications to dying babies...” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

submitted 12 days ago • 194 comments

DOGE abruptly cut a program called Charting My Path for Future Success—a research-based effort that helped teens with disabilities transition from high school into college, work, and independent living. Now it’s gone without explanation.

submitted 12 days ago • 178 comments

This is our Gestapo.

submitted 12 days ago • 112 comments

You are not worried enough about this

submitted 12 days ago • 207 comments

This is a couple of months old, but I just saw it for the first time a moment ago. These MFs don't want any diversity whatsoever. I have a question: Don Jr. has dark hair and brown eyes. Is that even allowed in their vision for America?

submitted 14 days ago • 67 comments

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

submitted 15 days ago • 872 comments

NEW from Abrego Garcia's attorneys: "The Government continues to delay, obfuscate, and flout court orders, while a man’s life and safety is at risk. Its request for an extension ... is another stunning display of arrogance and cruelty." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 15 days ago • 109 comments

NYT page one: @nytimes.com

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OUTRAGEOUS: Trump’s Social Security Administration will be shifting its public communication exclusively to Twitter (gosh — I wonder whose idea that was?). This comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.

submitted 15 days ago • 251 comments

Absolutely brutal

submitted 15 days ago • 1351 comments

The Social Security Administration added the names and Social Security numbers of over 6,000 mostly Latino immigrants into a database it uses to track dead people, effectively erasing their ability to receive benefits or work in the U.S.

submitted 15 days ago • 34 comments

Justice for Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

submitted 16 days ago • 528 comments

Commissioner. Chief Financial Officer. Chief Legal Officer. Chief Risk Officer. Chief Privacy Officer. Chief of Staff. All out. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

submitted 17 days ago • 347 comments

Not going into this decision. It’ scary given what precipitated the decision. To truly understand, read Sotomayor and Ketanji-Brown’s dissents. To compare something to Korematsu is extreme. But Sotomayor is reasoned, intelligent, nuanced. Her comparison is apt & that much more frightening.

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Soon ICE won’t even have to send you to El Salvador for the full gulag experience. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

submitted 19 days ago • 83 comments

Sotomayor warns in her dissent that the Trump regime is arguing they can grab anyone they want including 🇺🇸 citizens and send them to foreign Prisons

submitted 19 days ago • 74 comments

YES!!

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Every word of this piece from @cmgreer.bsky.social is on point. READ and share it. We’re sick of it. Wake up! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

submitted 19 days ago • 38 comments

Dementia word salad.

submitted 20 days ago • 86 comments

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

submitted 21 days ago • 1071 comments

I haven't been missing America, I've been missing an America I wanted to be, an America I imagined to be—an America that never was. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/my-privile...

submitted 22 days ago • 77 comments

We are very far over the cliff here, folks

submitted 22 days ago • 1204 comments

"I understand many of you aren’t familiar with dignified transfers and why what Trump has done here is so disgusting and unbecoming and insulting to the memories of these soldiers... so, I'll explain." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/trump-pick...

submitted 23 days ago • 98 comments

“So unbelievably stupid, incompetent and insane.”

submitted 23 days ago • 506 comments

As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?

submitted 27 days ago • 186 comments

Once these embryos are no longer embryos—these supposed life-lovers often don't treat them like they're at all human. Prior to departing the birth canal, they’re sacred. After that, they’re screwed. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/its-too-ba...

submitted 28 days ago • 46 comments

JUST IN: The FDA’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, has been pushed out. In his resignation letter, he slams RFK Jr. for rejecting “truth and transparency” and pushing “misinformation and lies.” Marks warns of an “unprecedented assault on scientific truth.”

submitted 29 days ago • 379 comments

Gabbard: "My answer yesterday was based on my recollection or the lack thereof of the details that were posted there. What was shared today reflects the fact that I was not directly involved with that part of the Signal chat." (Note that Jim Himes isn't buying it.)

submitted 31 days ago • 511 comments

Gift link for the non-Atlantic subscribers in which the Atlantic publishes the war plans Hegseth insisted they definitely did not send over this unsecured channel - and confirms this wasn't the first time they did this

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments

Just in case anyone was wondering, every bit of this was classified. Lot of perjury in those hearings yesterday.

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In Nov 2023, the WAPO ran a chilling piece on Trump's plans for a 2nd term. It was one of the early mentions of Project 2025. I wrote about it at the time. Looking back, it's remarkable how much has come true, except for Trump invoking the insurrection act. joycevance.substack.com/p/frogs-boil...

submitted 36 days ago • 251 comments

America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...

submitted 36 days ago • 1676 comments

well, we finally have a case of that malicious compliance people have been warning us about for weeks... and it's coming from Team DOGE, not Team Deep State. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

NEW: In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term. It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.

submitted 38 days ago • 126 comments

In the past six weeks, the National Nuclear Security Administration has lost a huge cadre of scientists, engineers, safety experts, project officers, accountants and lawyers — all in the midst of its most ambitious endeavors in a generation — thanks to Trump and Elon Musk.

submitted 39 days ago • 20 comments

The Trump administration plans to eliminate the EPA’s scientific research arm and lay off more than 1,000 chemists, biologists, and other scientists.

submitted 40 days ago • 194 comments

The Trump regime is reportedly planning to gut a unit within the DOJ that prosecutes corruption by elected officials. This comes after Trump's DOJ dropped bribery charges against Eric Adams and suspended enforcement of a foreign anti-bribery law. "Drain the swamp."

submitted 42 days ago • 209 comments