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JOHNSON CITY: “$28 million to settle with women who alleged police failed to investigate, shielded a serial rapist… kickbacks to protect local businessman Sean Williams in scores of sex crimes against women & children…” Again: should be a bigger story. www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/fe...

submitted 23 hours ago • 83 comments

Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

submitted 22 hours ago • 84 comments

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

submitted 2 days ago • 557 comments

The MAGA regime has opened a criminal investigation into Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia for criticizing Nazi Musk and Pam Bondi has deleted a DOJ database that tracks police misconduct, a database created after the murder of George Floyd. This is what a fascist state looks like.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Murphy: "Let me say that again. The man that my Republican colleagues are about to vote to lead the FBI believes there is irrefutable proof that the agency he is about to lead secretly organized the violent assault on the Capitol. That is bananas. My Republican colleagues know that."

submitted 4 days ago • 132 comments

Be clear. $8 billion was an error. They misread $8 million! And it’s not saving. It’s cutting services, necessary research, assistance to millions here and overseas, and enforcement of laws that protect consumers and workers.

submitted 4 days ago • 143 comments

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when i say that there are people who care less about workers and their rights than they do the primacy of a masculinist blue collar identity politics, i am taking about people like sean o’brien

submitted 4 days ago • 586 comments

What we're witnessing is an ideologically motivated, but fairly indiscriminate and impetuous purge of virtually every facet of the US government. There is no remotely close precedent in the nation's history...and it's all being carried out under the banner of "conservatism."

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Well this seems pretty fucking problematic

submitted 4 days ago • 112 comments

Trump blaming Ukraine for the war and calling Zelenskyy a “dictator” isn’t a serious take—it’s just his usual projection. Russia invaded Ukraine. • If Russia stopped fighting, the war would end. • If Ukraine stopped fighting back, Ukraine would end.

submitted 4 days ago • 223 comments

PSA: Words matter They aren’t “layoffs” It’s not about “efficiency”

submitted 6 days ago • 102 comments

Again, Trump fired SBA Inspector General Mike Ware after he found $200 billion in fraud in Trump's COVID programs and returned $40B to the US Treasury. Instead, Trump brought in a bunch of fascist boys who know nothing about accounting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments

60 MINUTES: “Utter nonsense. The most accountable aid agency in the world is USAID… DOGE fired their top 58 officials within an hour of arriving…” This was never about efficiency. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGLXa9r...

submitted 6 days ago • 340 comments

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This is what our Transportation Secretary was doing yesterday as planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. I cannot remember a more dangerous time to fly and yet this reality TV actor-turned-Cabinet Secretary is busy watching cars drive laps at the Daytona 500.

submitted 6 days ago • 1510 comments

Hey DOGE bros - found some of that wasteful spending you were looking for. How many gov employees could have kept working and feeding their families with the estimated $2.5M this stunt cost?

submitted 7 days ago • 577 comments

This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.

submitted 7 days ago • 675 comments

How was this contract awarded??!

submitted 6 days ago • 760 comments

If Elon Musk truly cares about being "maximally transparent," he should release the forms showing his financial interests. Americans deserve to know how Elon Musk will profit from his role in the Trump Administration. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 9 days ago • 245 comments

BREAKING Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson just issued an order preventing the Trump administration from: 1. Deleting CFPB data 2. Firing CFPB employees 3. Transferring money from CFPB's reserve fund Right after the order was issued, nearly all CFPB employees were placed on administrative leave

submitted 9 days ago • 182 comments

A judge just blocked Elon Musk and co-president Donald Trump from firing the financial cops at the CFPB who protect consumers from Wall Street scams. There's power in fighting back.

submitted 9 days ago • 229 comments

www.youtube.com/@americanmed... AMA @amermedicalassn.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 152 comments

Public libraries are amazing! Did you know you can borrow a book from any library in the country and return it to any other library? Did you know they have subscriptions to huge amounts of national and international media that you can access?

submitted 9 days ago • 201 comments

In the last three weeks, 48 cases of measles have been identified, sending 13 patients to the hospital, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. The number of cases has doubled in the last 3 days.

submitted 9 days ago • 675 comments

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

submitted 9 days ago • 600 comments

Remember how they said they were going after criminals? That was funny.

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These dummies could have had a compliant corporate Dem with literal Uber lobbyists on her staff and instead they did school shootings and measles

submitted 8 days ago • 59 comments

Elon Musk is serving as Trump’s hatchetman, slashing government spending on everything from dying babies in warzones to Americans displaced by natural disasters. Meanwhile, Musk himself is a “walking conflict of interest,” whose companies are raking in more federal dollars.

submitted 8 days ago • 98 comments

. Zaila Avant-Garde made history in 2021 as the first African American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee! Talk about brains and brilliance—defying expectations and setting new records. A true #BlackHistoryMonth legend! 🔥 #BlackExcellence #NextLevel #BHM #BlackGirlMagic

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Those who have been looking for Michael Fanone on social media, he has a Substack. Check out his latest. substack.com/@michaelfano...

submitted 9 days ago • 183 comments

NEW: The CDC is currently removing all the influenza resources from their website during the worst flu season in decades.

submitted 9 days ago • 854 comments

ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...

submitted 9 days ago • 452 comments

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Welcome to Moose Monday Another fine day in the resistance For all the latest protests in your area check out www.mobilize.us/indivisible/ Like it Repost it Get involved And follow us here for more in Resistance Today

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

If you have heard about the new strain of #H5N1 #Birdflu spilling into cattle and do not understand what it means, I suggest reading this excellent report from the US department of agriculture. I have summarized key point below TLDR: "Houston we have a problem" www.aphis.usda.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 13 days ago • 173 comments

President Trump campaigned on lowering costs. But he’s letting billionaire Elon Musk and Project 2025 Architect Russ Vought kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. If they succeed, CEOs on Wall Street will once again be free to cheat you out of your savings.

submitted 13 days ago • 279 comments

Noice!

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⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid. On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.

submitted 15 days ago • 462 comments

As companies shell out big bucks for Super Bowl commercials, remember that many said they were forced to raise prices due to inflation. Also remember that average profit margins in nearly every sector in the S&P 500 are running near or above 10-year highs. Hello???

submitted 14 days ago • 556 comments

In spite of all the political chaos we're not giving up. It's coming down to the wire but we're hopeful we can afford another season of field work in the park. Follow the link to learn more Yes we're a 501c3 And if you can, please donate today gofund.me/babd9034

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

submitted 18 days ago • 1215 comments

🔥 @reptedlieu.bsky.social : “Are you a firefighter? —Shame on anyone who is exploiting the pain and suffering of disaster victims to jam through partisan ideological policies.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DFv69Ip...

submitted 17 days ago • 134 comments

NEW: Shortly after Pam Bondi was sworn in Wednesday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asked her to drop the Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging the state’s 2021 voter suppression law, S.B. 202. I warned you, Raffensperger is no hero. He is a GOP vote suppressor.

submitted 17 days ago • 1251 comments

Nor should they

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

My post got a million views on twitter but can't share it in one piece here because of the space limitation. PLEASE READ AND SHARE

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

Al Gore pitched a sovereign wealth fund once, but he called it a “lockbox.” And it existed bc they’d taxed the wealthy a tiny bit, balanced the budget and had a surplus. And he only wanted the fund to protect Social Security for Americans who weren’t millionaires. So the GOP mocked it.

submitted 20 days ago • 201 comments