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Hey, I'm going to do this, and I hope you will too. Not because I think a one day pause will be a devastating blow, but because coordinated action takes practice, and if you don't do the small stuff, you will have a harder time gearing up for the big stuff.

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After publishing this story, which features a picture of the protest at Children's National in DC, I have been informed that moments ago, Childrens National in DC has resumed transgender care. The hospital protests worked! Keep doing them!

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

submitted 15 hours ago • 257 comments

Shutting down already-installed infrastructure in the name of government "efficiency" while also harming business competitors of a government official who just happens to have his own network of EV chargers.

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“The fanatics will never leave, and they're going to do a huge amount of damage but out of this damage will come some kind of shift of mind.” - @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social to Waj and Francesca's YouTube show for Zeteo: 'America Unhinged'. Watch/share/subscribe:

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Tom Krause is in charge of both a sensitive government payment system and a company that has millions of dollars’ worth of active contracts with various federal agencies through distribution partners, a WIRED review finds. Conflicts posed by this are unprecedented in the modern era, experts say.

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For all you who continually whine “I’m not racist, I just think we need to have standards,” this is absorb this.No Black man could become head of the Joint Chiefs without meeting the standard. What they want is to harden a system of affirmative action for white guys.They what their grandfathers had.

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

For those of you who have noted that Substack is basically a Nazi Bar and you’re looking for a place to move your writing to, the info in this thread may be an option worth looking into.

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

In other words: if you participated in the insurrection, you now get a pass on your other crimes that were discovered while you were being investigated for insurrection. For immigrants, the law. For my supporters, everything. apple.news/ATiXJFDLmQlm...

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Before it's taken offline, I want you to know about the NASA website where you can learn about the stratospheric ozone hole and check on how it's doing. It has cool movies like this one, showing the growth of the ozone hole during the Austral spring last year. ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/SH.html

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❤️🇺🇸

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DOGE cuts 9/11-related cancer research funding, which FDNY commissioner calls "a tragedy for all Americans." www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

Thank you for getting it right this evening and for pushing back on the bizarre and dangerous ideas Michael Knowles shared about trans people, @amnanawaz.bsky.social and @pbsnews.bsky.social. My @pbs.org contribution lives to see another day.

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Dark skies reflect my sadness at the firings of all the humans that help keep the #GreatLakes as healthy as possible. Tonight I mourn the loss of the 14 @usfws.bsky.social employees that kept the invasive sea lamprey at bay. My fishery will be hurt. 😢😢🌊🌊

submitted 2 days ago • 176 comments

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

submitted 2 days ago • 229 comments

Ironic that Trump built his political rise on birtherism, only to install a non-natural-born citizen as President.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 997 comments

UPDATE: Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

submitted 3 days ago • 59 comments

If I hear @amnanawaz.bsky.social or any other presenter on @pbsnews.bsky.social, @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social, or any other @pbs.org show falsely claim that Dump won a majority ever again, I will cancel my monthly contribution. Facts matter. You have a responsibility to do better. 49.8% ≠ majority

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@amnanawaz.bsky.social @pbsnews.bsky.social Please STOP SAYING A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS VOTED FOR THE DUMP AGENDA. He won a PLURALITY, not a majority. I know you know better, which makes this especially galling. Stop contributing to the lies already circulating in our discourse.

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Poacher's paradise

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Unfortunately, this is the last 70+ years of conservative politics if we count white flight from public schools after the Brown v. Board of Education decision. It was the essence of Reaganism in the 1980s as well

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

NOAA funds much of SC's climate research. What's at stake if the agency is gutted? ->Post and Courier | #Climate | More info from EcoSearch

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

🎯 ‘It’s a relay, find your team’

submitted 6 days ago • 54 comments

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

submitted 6 days ago • 497 comments

Everything old is new again!

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Well, so now we know what he’s going to do with all our info.

submitted 9 days ago • 152 comments

This week, approximately 200,000 federal workers have been let go.

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No solidarity from the other media outlets?

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 8 days ago • 1909 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

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AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

submitted 8 days ago • 853 comments

I’m a veteran and a cancer survivor and I’ve reached a point where I actually do wish cancer on these assholes. And I’m not sorry about it, either.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Trump administration eyes canceling leases for space used by US judiciary reut.rs/3WXDfjK @nateraymond.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

(1/X) One thing that I find very alarming these days is how many people whose politics I agree with are saying this like "I feel scared" or "why should we fight when we're going to lose?" Timothy Snyder has gone a great job of explaining the problem of obeying in advance...

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

Got some time on your hands? Make this tipline useless. I used to work for CFPB. Do me a solid and make sure to give this man hell

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

None of this is about "efficiency." Mass firings occurred at the CFPB this week — one of the most efficient federal agencies. The goal here is to gut the government entirely and remove any obstacles to the continued consolidation of wealth and power by the oligarchs.

submitted 8 days ago • 67 comments