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On a Saturday too? Wow — well, here’s a summary of what Republicans voted to do this week: - Defund Medicaid - Defund Medicare - Not to protect IVF funding - Not to protect food assistance

submitted 20 hours ago • 51 comments

NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand

submitted 5 hours ago • 100 comments

OPMs email servers trying to hold back all the external troll emails they’re getting in response to DOGE.

submitted 15 hours ago • 336 comments

I’m running the RBC Brooklyn Half with Team for Kids in May. Help me reach my fundraising goal and support increased opportunities for children to participate in recreational sports! donations.nyrr.org/donations/ne...

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 1 day ago • 982 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 • 1866 comments

Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk.

submitted 2 days ago • 1529 comments

How on earth do you leave him all alone out front in this game? Horrible defensive breakdown at the worst possible time.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Tage would like a word.

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 859 comments

504 plans are how kids can carry EpiPens or make sure their classroom is peanut free. It’s how kids with diabetes can use insulin. It’s how kids with mobility issues can have more passing time or use an elevator. An attack on 504 is an attack on everyone. Listen to @lollardfish.bsky.social.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

They’re 100% going after childhood vaccines… www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

submitted 2 days ago • 179 comments

Trump’s administration intends to shut down the website offering free Covid tests by midnight tonight. Please order your tests and share this post so everyone has a chance to order theirs. Thank you in advance. 💗 covidtests.gov

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

That's it, I'm rooting for Canada now.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 4 days ago • 1925 comments

Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often the avoidance of loss. So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses not averted?

submitted 7 days ago • 68 comments

Elon musk is the richest man in the world, he could be funding hospitals, medical research and universities. He could be solving the climate crisis. He could be feeding, hungry children. Instead, he’s trying to make sure that your grandmother doesn’t get an extra dollar of Social Security.

submitted 6 days ago • 542 comments

"hey siri, what is the quickest path i could take to destroy the confidence that keeps commercial passenger flight viable?"

submitted 6 days ago • 294 comments

Abruptly firing people who work in air traffic control is like murdering your own soldiers in the middle of a war. Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.

submitted 6 days ago • 118 comments

Elon Musk's DOGE team of misfits have fired everybody at the Federal Aviation Administration ✈️ who is a probationary employee Thinking they have got rid of all the new hires It turns out many of these were experienced technicians, recently promoted and were on probation for their new senior role

submitted 6 days ago • 90 comments

Trump got elected president because the mainstream press turned Hillary Clinton having two Blackberries into a Watergate-level scandal

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Sharing this now before it’s taken down. We’re in the midst of the worst flu season in at least 15 years. If you haven’t been vaccinated, there’s no better time than now!

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

And yet the people tweet on like the site they are using isn’t just a big fascist propaganda tool

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 7 days ago • 382 comments

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The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

submitted 8 days ago • 834 comments

Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out. Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation. Say equity, which a just society should pursue. Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.

submitted 14 days ago • 912 comments

The White House team is finding out about some of DOGE's activities through Twitter posts, rather than through Elon Musk or direct reports, according to @reuters.com.

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

It’s unlike Trump to just concede power to people. What he’s allowing Musk to do has me more and more convinced that Musk rigged the election.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

submitted 9 days ago • 3235 comments