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In case you missed it... WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.

submitted 54 days ago • 40 comments

This administration is an abomination.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

submitted 61 days ago • 565 comments

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

submitted 65 days ago • 1923 comments

Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism" "That theory has been debunked" "One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"

submitted 70 days ago • 477 comments

Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc. Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight? scienceimpacts.org H/T to Prathima !

submitted 84 days ago • 925 comments

They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.

submitted 86 days ago • 1921 comments

Plain clothes, unmarked cars, pulling people off the street. Gestapo shit.

submitted 86 days ago • 128 comments

submitted 91 days ago • 46 comments

This story is fucking bonkers

submitted 93 days ago • 293 comments

A 2024 GAO report found the IRS netted a savings of $13,000 for every additional hour spent auditing wealthy individuals’ tax returns. Watch reporter @andykroll.bsky.social break down how DOGE cuts to the IRS could cost more than DOGE will ever save ⤵️ 📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social

submitted 94 days ago • 62 comments

You think Hegseth can't be any more awful and then we discover his racist hunt for "DEI" labeled the highest ranking black Medal of Honor recipients award a 'DEI medal' on Arlington's website. MG Charles Rogers was ten times the man Pete will ever be. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 96 days ago • 261 comments

St. Luke’s, Idaho’s largest health system, was outspoken in defending its staff during a backlash against masks and vaccines. It also sued right-wing figure Ammon Bundy — and won. Now it’s backing its doctors on the abortion front. By @audreydutton.bsky.social and @kelciemmorris.bsky.social

submitted 98 days ago • 36 comments

🚨 Trump & Musk’s budget plan: Slash education, food aid & healthcare—while handing the rich a $4.5T tax cut. Kids, the poor, even military families will pay the price. 🙃 adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-grinch...

submitted 115 days ago • 297 comments

Experts say the conflicts posed by Tom Krause’s dual roles are unprecedented in the modern era.

submitted 119 days ago • 25 comments

Researchers found 14 of the 20 amino acids essential for life on Earth in samples from the ancient asteroid Bennu. Dr. Danny Glavin and Dr. Dante Lauretta join us to discuss the samples and what they mean for the search for life beyond Earth.

submitted 141 days ago • 35 comments

NEW: I was asked to start compiling a list of companies bending the knee to the Trump regime by ditching their DEI programs. Here you go! www.muellershewrote.com/p/companies-...

submitted 138 days ago • 299 comments

The U.S. Department of Defense has ordered NPR, NBC News, The New York Times, and Politico to leave their office spaces in the Pentagon within 2 weeks. The Huffington Post, New York Post, One American News, and Breitbart will be occupying the offices.

submitted 139 days ago • 4 comments

This is advice every dem politician should take to heart. Don’t sell against the competition. Sell what you are doing to reduce people’s stress and make their life better It’s not about what’s wrong with the competition. It’s about what is right with you