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submitted 12 hours ago • 4 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 • 1746 comments

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submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

Sure would be nice if the U.S. continued funding stuff like “vaccines for pancreatic cancer.”

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 1 day ago • 860 comments

Today's extract from Serving the Reich. What makes it worse is that I don't even need to add any explanatory comment, do I?

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

You have died of procedural norms.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

submitted 1 day ago • 157 comments

Judge Advocates General. He’s fired the top military lawyers in each service.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 1 day ago • 1993 comments

Please help get the word out to our friends who were working in the Federal Government: Some friends & I created this site to track the impacts of the Trump Admin's attack on the federal service, and we're trying to gather as many stories as possible. trumpcostsamerica.com

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

A massive, self-inflicted wound on American higher education.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Because…?

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

After the Brown v. Board decision, white people across the South opened hundreds of private schools. 70 years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white. In this town, one school keeps kids divided. (Published May 2024)

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

it’s so funny to be like “we don’t need diverse spies”

submitted 1 day ago • 96 comments

#teslatakedown I made some protest art.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

The cybersecurity lead for VA.gov was fired last week. He tells WIRED that the Veterans Affairs digital hub will be more vulnerable without someone in his role.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

This is of course an utterly false statement made by someone who does not know what he is talking about. There's a lot of that these days.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Here's the text of a letter sent out this morning by the acting NIH Director to all staff:

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

another thing every other president in history would be impeached for just happened

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

I've noticed that they 'get' uniform electric fields much easier when they've seen this... #iteachphysics

submitted 1 day ago • 0 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

Looks like @nytimes.com has stealth-edited this to add Evans' affiliation with Young Republicans. No correction or update note. I don't think I've ever worked with a single editor who would let me get away with that but it seems to happen regularly over there.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

happy friday! just leaving this here...

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

It's blatantly obvious that the NYT finds Republicans to interview by calling up their Republican Party contacts and asking for someone "normal" to get quotes from, and their failure to disclose that they always interview party apparatchiks is a conscious choice

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Ready fire aim

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Please read and share. But especially share with folks that might not realize how critical Section 504 is to so many people. I tried to write a simple clear explanation at the break. I hope it reaches some people who aren't already on our side. Gift link: www.startribune.com/why-are-repu...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

NSF put our names back up on the PAEMST website, but not our bios which are now under review. I am certain that the boxed part of bio is going to be erased. The government is literally erasing our stories.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Did the @nytimes.com really quote the mf-ing communications director of the Houston YOUNG REPUBLICANS as if he were just some random young Black person who likes Trump? Cause it sure looks like it.

submitted 2 days ago • 197 comments

Oh great. On the week when I assign a problem set for my class to figure out what we would have to do to prevent the asteroid 2024 YR4 from impacting the Earth in 2032 new observations drop the probability of impact to 0.28%. Thanks, astronomers.

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

Here's a great example of a major company scrubbing any reference to diversity. In 2023, Coca-Cola said that 42% of its employees were women and 49% were people of color. In the 2024 10-K filed today, any reference to those numbers were gone.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Wow

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Guys...

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Sure glad nothing in the economy depends on the postal service

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Apparently liked my suggestion

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Students right after lunch trying to convince the teacher they didn’t hotbox someone’s car.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

He's the Repo Man

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

They have the votes to impeach and convict him So they are not helpless They are complicit

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

Also I don't know who needs to hear this, but GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS ARE SUPPOSED TO OPERATE AT A LOSS. THAT'S WHY THEY'RE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS. WE ALL PAY IN. GOVERNMENT DOES THINGS THAT AREN'T PROFITABLE BUT THAT WE NEED. LIKE MAIL. AND ROADS. AND MAKING SURE AIRPLANES DONT LAND UPSIDE DOWN YOU MORONS

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

lmao, this is such an L on their terms

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Approximately 500 NIST staffers, including at least three lab directors, are expected to lose their jobs at the safety-standards agency as part of the ongoing DOGE purge, sources tell WIRED.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

I’ve seen several stories like this. They didn’t limit “probation” period firings to new hires.

submitted 2 days ago • 120 comments

An observation: I’m reasonably sure the FBI’s only ever had Republican directors. @vermontgmg.bsky.social please correct me if I’m wrong

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

submitted 2 days ago • 343 comments

I regret* to inform you that @propublica.org has updated our DOGE tracker again with a bunch more names: projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do... *delight

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments