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FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

submitted 9 hours ago • 67 comments

Untitled, by Joan Mitchell, 1992, 📸 via @dimfilipovic.bsky.social

submitted 6 hours ago • 33 comments

The concentration of wealth in the hands of an elite few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, the American people don't have a voice. The result is demagoguery and corruption.

submitted 7 hours ago • 224 comments

“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 6 hours ago • 324 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1752 comments

This looks like a good idea. It turns out it wasn't initiated by HCR, so I've deleted her name from the image. I guess whoever thought it up is shy. I plan to do this, even though I can't spend any money anyway until I feel that my Social Security is safe.

submitted 5 hours ago • 29 comments

Information was shared illegally. A career employee at the Social Security Administration provided unauthorized access to data to Elon Musk’s staffers. This employee, Leland Dudek, a data analyst, was recently promoted to acting commissioner by Trump.

submitted 12 hours ago • 163 comments

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2421 comments

Anyway, here's Sugar the cat contemplating the impermanence of life and the very nature of existence, as one does

submitted 17 hours ago • 287 comments

200 million dollars of waste.

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submitted 15 hours ago • 288 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 15 hours ago • 1177 comments

I think it would make a big difference in our health if we banned Pharma ads from America like the rest of the world does.

submitted 1 day ago • 1032 comments

New: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 16 hours ago • 26 comments

Former KGB Spy Claims Russia Groomed Trump to Be an Asset for 40 Years, Felt He Was 'Vulnerable Intellectually, and Psychologically' mediaite.com/a/xchfs via @mediaite

submitted 16 hours ago • 10 comments

BBC News, "Trump has carried our a purge of officials at the Pentagon" "Including the highest ranking military officer, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Charles Q. Brown" "Also out is Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead the US Navy" A black general and woman admiral

submitted 19 hours ago • 27 comments

there's only one thing Donald Trump considered about General Brown before firing him - the color of his skin

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Hegseth on CQ Brown: "Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt — which on its face seems unfair to CQ. But since he has made the race card one of his biggest calling cards, it doesn’t really much matter."

submitted 19 hours ago • 28 comments

This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.

submitted 1 day ago • 262 comments

Seizing control of the Pentagon is how a dictator prepares to use the army against their own people. Trump dismissed Air Force General C.Q. Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, along with five other senior military officials, in an unprecedented overhaul of U.S. military leadership. 👇

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

GEN CQ Brown, ADM Lisa Franchetti, and GEN Slife have a combined total of well over a century of service to the nation as warriors, leaders, and strategists. In the stroke of a pen, they go from "Thank You For Your Service" to "You're Fired."

submitted 17 hours ago • 14 comments

Trump’s Pentagon purge has included the top military lawyers. Nobody should be surprised. Dictators politicize the military. Trump wants those with the biggest guns loyal to him, not the Constitution He says he’s demilitarizing it. I call BS. Orwellian to the core. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 17 hours ago • 132 comments

This is picture of Gen CQ Brown, career F-16 fighter pilot with over 3,000 flight hrs and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump has fired him. Wonder why? His picture lends a clue.

submitted 16 hours ago • 9 comments

To be clear, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General CQ Brown was fired for being black because the orange felon is a lifelong racist and Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Linda Fagan was fired for being a woman because the orange felon hates/abuses women.

submitted 16 hours ago • 73 comments

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

submitted 1 day ago • 265 comments

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 235 comments

How many of my academic friends saw this? Pitt Pauses All PhD Admissions. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

submitted 17 hours ago • 78 comments

Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

submitted 1 day ago • 651 comments

its amazing the way conservative arguments fall completely apart in court when there are actually penalties for lying

submitted 19 hours ago • 41 comments

In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night. 800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream. There is a movement to be harnessed here. @sanders.senate.gov (📸 Anna Bahr)

submitted 22 hours ago • 680 comments

NEW: They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them. @anniewaldman.bsky.social @deldeib.bsky.social

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

And--pro tip, spoiler alert, whatever--you'll lose your job anyway.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

truly incredible

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

I'm paying attention! And I'm worried!

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Why is our right to a healthy quality of life being EXPLOITED? In America, private healthcare systems & insurance companies have raised rates & costs on us… while providing less quality time during patient-provider appointments + less approvals of coverage for life-saving medications & procedures.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Trump ends deportation protection for 500,000 Haitians in the US. This comes despite deteriorating conditions in the Caribbean country, with gangs controlling about 85% of the capital and sexual violence against children increasing by 1,000% last year. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

the “computer expert” who owns X — where hundreds of millions of posts are sent a day — thinks computers can only do a few things at a time

submitted 1 day ago • 129 comments

It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

This is the way… “The elected officials in Washington have to stop protesting in Washington. They have to go back to their districts…show the consequences…show the school that isn’t operating…they have to make it real.” With social media, word will spread to neighboring districts—even red ones.

submitted 6 days ago • 716 comments

"farmers are apoplectic. In Ohio, they’re stressed about USAID contracts and USDA cost-sharing investments. They held up their end. The government made promises. Now their family farms and livelihoods are on the line. Billions of dollars are at stake. It’s all being held hostage by Musk and Trump."

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

Jackson County TN Christian nationalist pastor Andrew Isker had several interactions with this account - defending slavery as not being sinful and celebrating the notion that Kamala Harris might lose her citizenship under a right-wing government.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 1 day ago • 2406 comments

The Texas measles outbreak continues to grow. "The number of measles cases linked to an outbreak in western Texas has grown to 90 Almost all of the cases are in unvaccinated individuals or individuals whose vaccination status is unknown & 16 people have been hospitalized so far."

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments