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“When they finished with the search there was a male officer standing outside who looked confused. He asked me why I was here to which I told him what had happened,” she said. “He told me, ‘Wow. You should not be here right now, you have Trump to thank for that though.’”

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Get in, skeeters. We're going to save democracy. Seriiously. Join the extraordinary resistance researcher Erica Chenoweth, former Kamala Harris policy advisor Ami Fields-Meyer, and me. June 11 at noon. Registration is free. We're going to let you know what's happening and what you can do.

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PET imaging reveals long-term heart and lung damage from COVID-19. healthimaging.com/topics/medic...

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“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” Read, share, respond. Call your representatives. The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake. www.science.org/content/arti...

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MAJOR BREAKING: Senator Elizabeth Warren just told Call to Activism exclusively that she’s calling for a formal investigation into “insider trading” among Trump’s friends: "Did Trump or those with inside knowledge help wealthy investors cash in on his tariff flip-flopping?"

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Plumpy'Nut, a lifesaving food for malnourished kids, is caught up in U.S. cuts : Goats and Soda : NPR www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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If Washington state doesn’t protect me and all other women from this fascist regime, we will save ourselves. And you won’t like how we do it. #waleg

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SCOOP: three days after Kilmar Abrego García’s family sued the govt for his wrongful deportation, US officials began working on plan to fix the mistake and ensure his safety in El Salvador until they could bring him back. Then the Trump administration dug in www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 66 days ago • 58 comments

“He is losing in the courts at literally a historic rate,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social. So now the Trump admin is "escalating their war against the judiciary by physically arresting a judge and going on air to tell everyone watching, 'We are coming for you next.'"

submitted 66 days ago • 25 comments

NEW — I wrote about Beker Rengifo, a Montana resident from Venezuela who was taken by ICE on Thursday after a routine traffic stop, and how local law enforcement is working with the feds to ensnare people with legal status.

submitted 66 days ago • 31 comments

Well, this is horrifying.

submitted 66 days ago • 71 comments

A reminder that NSF is explicitly breaking the law if/when they attempt to cancel grants that focus on promoting participation in science by underrepresented groups on that basis, incl women in science programs like NSF ADVANCE. Congress expressly directs the NSF to grant funds for this purpose. 🧪

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2024 ‘Clinical evidence suggests that SARS-CoV-2 may lead to hypocalcemia, altered bone turnover markers, and a high prevalence of vertebral fractures.’ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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My latest about how Republicans are trying to steal an election in North Carolina and how it could usher in a new era of unprecedented election subversion. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/repu...

submitted 76 days ago • 38 comments

This is so fucked up. ICE agents in Massachusetts smashed the window of a car to grab a Guatemalan guy who was with his wife. They were waiting for their lawyer to arrive because he has a pending asylum case. Story via @wcvb5.bsky.social: www.wcvb.com/article/ice-...

submitted 76 days ago • 34 comments

This guy's a creepy weirdo and more people should say it out loud.

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The CDC's cruise ship inspectors have been laid off, as well as agency's head epidemiologist for investigating cruise ship outbreaks That baffled health officials since this program is paid for by cruise ship fees, not taxpayer dollars www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

submitted 81 days ago • 482 comments

When the head of ICE starts talking about how great it would be to have Amazon Prime for shipping human beings to a concentration camp in El Salvador that no one ever leaves, you’ve gone way past “it could never happen here.”

submitted 82 days ago • 260 comments

I guess if you don't view immigrants as people, it might make sense to store them in shipping containers. Like freight. www.semafor.com/article/02/0...

submitted 144 days ago • 89 comments

Upon learning that your own mistake sent an innocent father to a brutal prison where he’s likely to be tortured, anyone with a shred of decency would be overcome with shame and fight like hell to get him back. They think it’s funny. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 86 days ago • 419 comments

US MAGA Republicans are quoting Hitler's chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels. #3E

submitted 89 days ago • 263 comments

"The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said Thursday that it will end a mortgage-rescue program designed to help veterans who have fallen behind on their mortgages keep their homes."

submitted 87 days ago • 153 comments

I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.

submitted 87 days ago • 34 comments

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

submitted 100 days ago • 1153 comments

Donald Trump’s billionaire Commerce Secretary has financial advice for Americans: 1. Please buy Tesla stock to help poor Elon Musk. 2. Shut up and don’t complain when you don’t get your Social Security check.

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🔥 SOUTH CAROLINA Rep. Jermaine Johnson: “You don’t like being called racist in here, but every time we give you a chance to show us something different you show us who you are.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DHRKJy_...

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New Study Links COVID-19 to Increased Chronic Disease Risk 📊 🚨 Key Findings from the Specchio-COVID19 Study (2021-2023): 1️⃣ SARS-CoV-2 Infections Double the Risk of Chronic Conditions Individuals with prior COVID-19 had 2.15x higher odds of developing a new chronic condition. #HealthcareInequities

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When AOC and Adam Kinzinger are both furious at Chuck Schumer, for the exact same reason, maybe you need to give up the idea this is just a backlash coming from far left activists.

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We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

submitted 109 days ago • 7 comments

Kentucky’s @GovAndyBeshear compares Trump & Musk to Thelma & Louise — says they’re driving the 🇺🇸 economy off a cliff

submitted 109 days ago • 55 comments

I’m also hearing from feds that they’d prefer a shutdown. “No one is standing up for us. We won’t forget.”

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Understand this: Donald Trump and co-president Elon Musk are shutting down the federal government, piece by piece, including: 1. Shutting down the agency that stops banks and payday lenders from cheating working people. 2. Shutting down children’s cancer research. 🧵

submitted 109 days ago • 33 comments

In response to what Schumer is saying on TV: A: The government is ALREADY SHUT DOWN. They’ve been shutting it down since Jan 20, for black people. Perhaps Chuck could acknowledge that?? B: They already have the reins of power. Chuck wants it open so he can continue playing pretend!

submitted 109 days ago • 232 comments

"Mr. Schumer's stated approach of waiting for Trump to 'screw up' and continue this inexplicable embrace of the slippery slope is wholly inadequate and an astonishing failure of leadership." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/its-time-f...

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“We’ve mistaken King’s nonviolence for passivity. We’ve forgotten that his approach was more aggressive than anything the country had seen—that he used peaceful protest as a lever to force those in power to give up many of the privileges they’d hoarded.” ~ Jonathan Eig, author of "King: A Life"

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Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades. Envy of the world. Poof! www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

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NEW: In a move that could jeopardize U.S. election security at the state level, the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency put employees tasked with securing elections from foreign threats on administrative leave.

submitted 139 days ago • 139 comments

A useful tool and a great thing to do... 5calls.org/issue/nih-ns...

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Marbury v Madison is a seminal case from 1803 that holds that the federal courts must determine the constitutionality of the actions of the other two branches of government. Hope that helps, Stephen.

submitted 141 days ago • 1310 comments

E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles!!! #PhiladelphiaEagles #FlyEaglesFly @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social

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Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

submitted 141 days ago • 376 comments

Good time to subscribe to Mother Jones www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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