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All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.

submitted 17 hours ago • 537 comments

Scariest thing in this letter sent to Harvard was the line demanding that everyone turn into informants demanding loyalty to the Trump regime's demands. That's literally how a police state functions.

submitted 7 hours ago • 10 comments

If you honestly think autistic & otherwise neurodivergent people aren't going on dates, I'mma need you to do just a basic google search for the words "autistic" "neurodivergent" & "polyamory," because there's uh… There are some uh… Interesting lessons you can learn about autistic people & dating 😅😬

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments

Seems problematic that the official CDC and HHS accounts no longer know the difference between prevalence and incidence.

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

this is extremely bad. From your mom and pop ice cream shops to the networks that keep our hospitals and energy grid running, all of them rely on the CVE database.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

These supposedly genius DOGE IT guys don't even understand IT. Getting rid of the CVE program? They have no idea what wrecking ball they are swinging. Or if they do know, Dante has a circle in Inferno for them.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Hmm. @katrafiy.bsky.social and @autumnrain.cc , on a scale of "we're fucked" to "we're proper fucked," where do you think shutting down the CVE program and database fall? I lean towards "oh god, oh god, we're all gonna die" personally

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

There is absolutely 0 chance that Makary restrains RFK Jr. They agree on a ton of stuff. Honestly the things Makary has said that somehow have not destroyed his reputation are ridiculous.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

yes! this dude will back down to anyone who tells him to fuck himself! this is the only response worth having!

submitted 19 hours ago • 512 comments

the thing about wurman's claim that there was "an entire literature" is that it was, at best, a gross misstatement and, quite likely, a lie. and just because he is willing to fight on that lie doesn't mean anyone should entertain his project as anything more than what it is

submitted 18 hours ago • 16 comments

I had a cousin, the daughter of my godmother and great-aunt, who never paid taxes, never held a job, never played baseball, never wrote a poem, never went out on a date, and never used a toilet unassisted. Not because she was autistic, but because she was an Rh baby before RhoGAM was available....

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump admin must facilitate the return of SMART Union Local 100 apprentice Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They need to quit wasting time and bring our union brother home NOW!

submitted 18 hours ago • 89 comments

Harvard sets up showdown with Trump as more universities rally in support

submitted 8 hours ago • 15 comments

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

The plan for NIH is in, source with full 64 page proposal for all of HHS is linked. Reported in WaPo. This is catastrophic. Reduction to 8 centers. 40% cut in budget. 15% IDC cap. This will decimate science across America open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

submitted 12 hours ago • 46 comments

The grasping at straws to defame and slander the character of an innocent man kidnapped, black-bagged, and sent to rot in a foreign prison colony is one of the most despicable things I’ve witnessed in modern American political life, and that’s saying something. Legitimately, literally nauseating.

submitted 11 hours ago • 64 comments

As a disabled, chronically ill person, who is also autistic, I just want to venture that if you choose to have a kid, then maybe protecting them and loving them no matter what they might or might not eventually achieve is baseline.

submitted 9 hours ago • 13 comments

This cop was convicted of real crime and got probation. Wouldn’t be surprised if he was back in law enforcement. Abrego Garcia wasn’t accused of any crime. He was accused by a dirty cop of being in a gang. For that, DOJ unilaterally imposed a life sentence in a horrific prison with no due process.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Reup: If Kilmar Abrego Garcia was as dangerous as Stephen Miller alleged yesterday, then why the fuck did Donald Trump free him in 2019? (And other questions elicited by yesterday's fascist spectacle.) www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/15/w...

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

if you lived through the lead up to the iraq war then you know that this is the most delusional thing anyone has ever said

submitted 1 day ago • 580 comments

@kyledcheney.bsky.social posted this yesterday but seeing people who're unaware of it. CIA revealed yesterday that John Ratcliffe had deleted his Signal messages. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

He is a union apprentice and raising three special needs kids, two of them from his wife's previous relationships so yes he is certainly in the running.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

What Judge Xinis is banking on is that the government does not want to spend two weeks in discovery. Two big things can happen: (1) They just make the call and get him back (2) They spend two weeks creating a public record of their own fuck ups and then get sanctioned

submitted 1 day ago • 389 comments

Dems want a CODEL to El Salvador /www.axios.com/2025/04/15/h...

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Didn’t get a chance to post this earlier, but there was a huge turnout in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the federal courthouse. From my seat in the jury room, I heard the supporters outside chanting throughout the hearing.

submitted 1 day ago • 182 comments

Okay, cards on the table: I refuse to be concerned. Because I believe, in the pit of my soul, that being concerned creates a permission structure not to express one’s views to protect oneself. I don’t think we’re there, but even if I did, I wouldn’t act like it.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Hong Kong suspends postal service for good bound for US This is absolutely devastating

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

The DOJ lawyer who made the mistake of answering the court's questions about Abrego-Garcia candidly (eg yes he was mistakenly deported, a fact the Administration already has acknowledged), which got him put on administrative leave, has now been fired, ending his 15-year DOJ career..

submitted 1 day ago • 1179 comments

NEW: The Associated Press denounces the Trump White House’s decision to end the dedicated seat for wire services in the reporting pool, calling it a “grave disservice to the American people.” More in tonight’s @status.news www.status.news/p/cnn-execut...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

The Trump administration's immigration tactics are obstructing public health measures to avert a #birdflu pandemic. abcnews.go.com/Health/trump...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

In case you're wondering, the Trump admin's official position at this point is HOW DARE YOU CALL HIM "MARYLAND MAN" and Fox News panels are out here mocking the idea that people are calling him a father. They want their base to stop thinking of him as a human being.

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 1 day ago • 95 comments

It's joke level stuff. You can lie all you want from the podium. In court they said his removal was an administrative error. They're lying.

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

Working through these documents sent to grantees who had NEH grants terminated. So bizarre. They're like the Nigerian Prince version of grant terminations. They're not even sent from a government email but rather a onmicrosoft dot com address. So the Microsoft equivalent of a gmail account.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

For context, Lee County is the Southern most county in Iowa, basically the part that looks like a goatee on Iowa's East Coast. It's over an hour's drive from Iowa City. Trump carried 62% of the vote. Grassley is notorious for promoting events in a way that Dems don't find out.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Hearing the same from a direct source. People in Americorps being told they're done. It's over. No notice.

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments