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I don’t understand how there’s any debate about whether to characterize them as Nazis when they’re out here sieg heiling. It’s an absolute failure of messaging not to name and condemn this behavior, and build a narrative around it.

submitted 23 hours ago • 51 comments

As DOGE began infiltrating government agencies and targeting federal staff for termination, I started interviewing tech workers on the front lines. With the mass layoffs unfolding today, and with their permission, I'm sharing their stories. This is what it's been like to endure Musk's campaign.

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

Ableism & saneism can be weaponized against anyone who’s undesirable for any reason. Not being disabled is no protection bc not only can anyone become disabled at any time, authorities can declare anyone disabled at any time. And bc the public is so down with ableism, they usually get away with it

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 23 hours ago • 546 comments

They love disabled people in “inspirational” stories, until we ask for healthcare, jobs, and rights.

submitted 21 hours ago • 20 comments

Leave a public comment on the passport changes and tell the government you don't support spending tax dollars to harass minoritized groups. This was already litigated btw: legacy.lambdalegal.org/in-court/cas... Our usual advocacy hashtag, #DoSomething.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Texas measles outbreak grows to 90 cases, worst level in 30 years

submitted 23 hours ago • 124 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

One does wonder why the airlines are being quiet about this, considering that their asses are on the line here.

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submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

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submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

I need everyone to be crystal clear that this is a continuation of RFK and the wellness community’s obsession with the elimination of the disabled and the chronically ill. They are disgusted by us, they view illness and disability as weakness, and they believe in using eugenics to disappear us.

submitted 20 hours ago • 24 comments

It occurs to me that one helpful talking point that needs repetition until we're sick of it: Mass firing of federal employees will raise unemployment — and mean more qualified people are competing with you for good jobs.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

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Friends! Donations for my March rent have stalled at $568.58 I need $1,016.67 more in donations in the next 8 DAYS or I will be homeless and/or lose access to my surgery ❤️ DONATE: www.paypal.com/paypalme/Sav... Repost and share on all social media platforms even if you can’t donate! 🙏🏼

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 URGENT: Nevra has only gotten $568.58 in rent donations for March rent @nlizaki.bsky.social needs $1,016.67 in 8 DAYS or she will be homeless and/or lose medical care access DONATE: www.paypal.com/paypalme/Sav... Repost and share on all social media platforms even if you can’t donate! 🙏🏼

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

After spending ~18mo as a primary parent and searching for a full-time journalism job, I finally gave up last year and went back to freelancing. I tried to sign up for Outlier, but couldn't make it through the dozens of hours of training they have you do. So I started doordashing instead for ~$20/hr

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

“Microscopic particles emitted from brake pads can be more toxic than those emitted in diesel vehicle exhaust, a study has found.” People generally associate pollution from cars as being from exhaust pipes… but that’s only part of the problem with cars.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

There's a common path in the development of authoritarian or totalitarian regimes, regardless of whether they are overseen by Catholic Inquisitors, Protestant enforcers, monarchists, fascists, Nazis, Stalinists, Maoists .... First they eliminate words. Then they eliminate people.

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

🚨 URGENT: Nevra has only gotten $568.58 in rent donations for March rent @nlizaki.bsky.social needs $1,016.67 in 8 DAYS or she will be homeless and/or lose medical care access DONATE: www.paypal.com/paypalme/Sav... Repost and share on all social media platforms even if you can’t donate! 🙏🏼

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If anyone wants to get me a birthday gift this year, current gift idea is a black linen T-shirt that reads “I had my brain probed 3 times but didn’t get to see even one extra terrestrial” with an extra terrestrial crying a single tear

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Tbh I’m never rawdogging the air on a plane again for the rest of my natural life

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

submitted 3 days ago • 205 comments

BREAKING: The Trump administration has announced that it will kill Medicare coverage of most telehealth services on April 1st.

submitted 2 days ago • 167 comments

With accessibility: And full link: www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

My rent fundraiser is so behind, we only have 9 days to fundraise $1,272.26 for my March rent Please share this, I have nowhere else to go, I will not survive without your help! Family medically abandoned me #DomesticAbuse #MutualAid #EDS #LongCovid #POTS #pwME #MECFS #MillionsMissing #Pakistan

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 1218 comments

Today is the #DayOfRemembrance commemorating Executive Order 9066 and the government's mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. Eight years ago, I wrote about visiting Manzanar, what life was like in the camp, and how the National Park Service plays a role in teaching civil rights.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Incredible news! More hospitals have returned to offering gender affirming care after Trump's executive order was blocked. Moments after publishing our story on hospitals returning, Childrens National DC announced a return to care. And JUST now, Colorado Children's is back to giving care! AMAZING

submitted 3 days ago • 72 comments

This is the now third deportation “detention” site outside the U.S. that the administration has disclosed. These are more than concentration camps; they’re what’s called “zones of lawlessness.” People being held in isolated facilities. Some if not all are de facto stateless.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

the exact sentiment behind the aptly named Public Health Is Dead podcast www.publichealthisdead.com 😷💕

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The court ordered that NIH grant funding be unfrozen, so The Regime found a way around it. For NIH grants to be funded, a review panel must rank them. In order for a review panel to meet, they must post it on the Federal Register. Submissions to the Federal Register are now on hold “indefinitely”.

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

Incredible stuff in here: They ID'ed him, in part, by going to court hearings and watching him post

submitted 3 days ago • 129 comments

I cannot stress how an overwhelming number of Americans would be outraged by this if they knew it was happening. So tell them. You low information voter friends. Your Trump-ish relatives. Tell them. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/b...

submitted 6 days ago • 53 comments

www.reuters.com/world/us/fda...

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments