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submitted 10 hours ago • 699 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 1 day ago • 1825 comments

trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 432 comments

Farmers overwhelmingly backed Trump—now they’re feeling the pain and speaking up. Here’s the thing: If you got grants and contracts under Biden, why vote for Trump—who did nothing for you? It’s easier to be angry than well-informed. Harris voters chose their self-interest.

submitted 2 days ago • 578 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

submitted 1 day ago • 1968 comments

To the @GOP senators and Congressmen who claim to support Ukraine, you do have some power… if you’re unwilling to exercise it then don’t pretend to care about your country more than your political career:

submitted 2 days ago • 529 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 86 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 • 991 comments

"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about ‘credible death threats’ when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary."

submitted 2 days ago • 622 comments

Get out of Dodge, DOGE! Trump has already spent $10.7 million of taxpayer money playing golf. How has that flown under the radar of waste, fraud and abuse experts at DOGE. 🗣️Tell someone who doesn't follow the news. ca.news.yahoo.com/donald-trump...

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

The boycott is working on both sides of the border. Keep it up. Do not bend to the oligarchs.

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

"A war criminal and a convicted felon are deciding the future of Ukraine. If we are silent in allowing Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to carve up Ukraine it is a repeat of Munich 1938. We cannot allow this to happen.” - Charlie Angus, NATO meetings Brussels www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_hq...

submitted 3 days ago • 101 comments

Russia's sovereign wealth fund expects a number of US companies to return to Russia as early as the second quarter of 2025, its chief said after the highest-level US-Russian meeting since the Ukraine war began reut.rs/413DCu3

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

submitted 5 days ago • 840 comments

@washingtonpost.com Money and Greed Over Truth and Freedom of the Press

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

Under no circumstances should Democrats work with Republicans for the next two years. This might be a hot take and a Valentine's Dinner solo with bourbon take. But F them. They don't give a damn about democracy or the constitution. So figure this shit out alone. DO NOT HELP THEM. PERIOD

submitted 7 days ago • 281 comments

Glad @snopes did this but maybe we should stop making memes about what a 4 year old said in the Oval Office & focus on how he should not be on display like a “cute prop” (that is what Musk apparently joked he was). Sorry to go all mom on you but it’s terrible parenting www.snopes.com/articles/469...

submitted 8 days ago • 349 comments

NEW: Per this article, Ms. Sassoon chose to resign instead of being complicit in dropping the case against Eric Adams. Bravo to Ms. Sassoon for not bending the knee. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 133 comments

I'm not sure how a cadre of twetntysomething hackers/coders found things in a matter of days that it would take forensic accountants MONTHS to discover/confirm I have a feeling they are preying on built in public biases in order to undertake something much more nefarious

submitted 10 days ago • 89 comments

'Back to plastic': Trump signs order for plastic straws as he declares paper ones 'don’t work' He does suck.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

submitted 13 days ago • 143 comments