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I have so many q’s: How exactly does cutting 3500 workers from FDA help improve food & drug safety? Will the “Administration for a Healthy America” enforce workplace safety? Why are we cutting chronic disease, injury, & mental health from CDC if those are priorities? www.hhs.gov/about/news/h...

submitted 17 hours ago • 13 comments

Reminder: the First Amendment protects everyone who resides in our country. It doesn't matter if you have a green card or a visa or if you're undocumented. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that any person residing in the United States, regardless of status, is entitled to 1A protections.

submitted 21 hours ago • 414 comments

Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States: Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Netherlands New Zealand United Kingdom

submitted 16 hours ago • 1556 comments

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

submitted 23 hours ago • 580 comments

How a Landlord and a Florida PR Firm Helped Trump Kick Off the Tren de Aragua Gang Panic theintercept.com/2025/03/27/t...

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Wired has found four new Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in the infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an 🍆 emoji.

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

submitted 23 hours ago • 753 comments

And no, for the 150th time—150-year-olds are not getting Social Security benefits. www.wired.com/story/elon-m... #ElonMusk #FoxNews

submitted 14 hours ago • 41 comments

"The Trump administration's ICE goons are acting like kidnappers because that's what they are." www.commondreams.org/news/trump-o...

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"This isn't fiscal responsibility. It's a political decision to let preventable diseases spread—to ignore science, lend legitimacy to anti-vaccine extremism, and dismantle the infrastructure that protects us all." www.commondreams.org/news/trump-v...

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Exclusive: The best-known member of Elon Musk's US DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters reut.rs/4l2R9eL 1/5 @raphae.li

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NEW: Mike Waltz and Susie Wiles had their Venmo friends lists public until they went private shortly after we asked the White House about it this afternoon; experts say it's a counterintelligence nightmare. From @dmehro.bsky.social and me

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NEW: We spoke with friends, family members, and lawyers of ten men sent to an infamous Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. All reject that their loved ones are gang members. Instead, they say: The US is disappearing people, without due process, to a mega-prison because of their tattoos.

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Why Social Security is in the worst crisis since its 1935 founding, and what you can do about it open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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🚨ALERT 🚨ICE activity has been reported in Adams Morgan: this morning (3/26) HSI agents showed up at H.D. Cooke Elementary School and tried to detain a school employee as they got out of the car. The agents did not show a warrant and other employees managed to intervene and prevent the arrest. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

The CIA Director testified today that he is not sure a reporter was on the unclassified national security group chat that recklessly disclosed military plans in Yemen. The whole world is aware of who was part of Signalgate. These people cannot be trusted with America’s national security.

submitted 2 days ago • 1740 comments

Here we go. Today, The Intercept sued DOGE for flouting FOIA theintercept.com/2025/03/24/i...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: After a federal judge issued an injunction ending the refugee resettlement funding freeze, Rubio just started terminating all of the contracts. Judge Jamal Whitehead issues a follow-on injunction tonight ordering the terminated agreements reinstated unless Rubio actually follows the law.

submitted 3 days ago • 85 comments

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

submitted 3 days ago • 1521 comments

Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.

submitted 3 days ago • 590 comments

Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.

submitted 2 days ago • 5446 comments

NEW: The Social Security Administration is rushing cuts to phone services at the White House's request, the agency's acting commissioner told Social Security advocates in a meeting on Monday, two sources who attended tell Axios.

submitted 3 days ago • 62 comments

WOW: @miamiherald.com reveals that a person imprisoned in El Salvador had LEGAL REFUGEE STATUS. He entered the USA legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had previously passed a full background check. Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador on March 15.

submitted 2 days ago • 208 comments

Excuse the profanity, but this is absolutely fucking insane and such a clear overreach that I can't believe a magistrate judge authorized a warrant here. There is no plausible argument for a 1324 violation here. None at all. It's facially not relevant. This seems a huge abuse of process.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Thanks to Fight for A Union for the graphic.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

That was the plan all along. Why the hell are the rest of us paying taxes, then?

submitted 5 days ago • 84 comments

Today, I stood with @lettercarriers.bsky.social Branch 283 and other postal unions to fight against USPS privatization. The USPS is vital to our communities—delivering medications, mail, and more, no matter where you live. We must protect it! #FightLikeHell #HellNo

submitted 4 days ago • 280 comments

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

submitted 6 days ago • 339 comments

A man slated for deportation has captured conditions inside the Krome Detention Center in Florida. He says some people have been confined like this for up to 30 days. At least three men have died at Krome in the past five months. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8248mFR/

submitted 5 days ago • 694 comments

Have also heard that the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, which has specific oversight authority over ICE detention, has also been completely gutted and largely destroyed by a Reduction in Force.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

It shouldn't be this easy for one of the world's largest law enforcement agencies, DHS, to obliterate its internal oversight. We've published criticisms of DHS Civil Rights/Civil Liberties for slowness and toothlessness. But as bad encounters with DHS personnel grow more likely, we'll all miss it.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

On April 5, we’re mobilizing to show the strength of our movement — because the fight against President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump is just starting. Join us: handsoff2025.com/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible

submitted 5 days ago • 60 comments

What do you call humans being kidnapped and sent to another country to be imprisoned in shackles and forced to perform intense physical labor while living in horrid conditions under the threat of daily physical violence and rape? Open a history book. You can do it. I believe in you.

submitted 5 days ago • 85 comments

A behind-the-scenes effort to force Congress to call a convention to amend the Constitution could end up helping Trump in his push to expand presidential power. @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social explains:

submitted 5 days ago • 45 comments

“It’s telling of the lengths that pesticide manufacturers will go to make sure that nothing interferes with their profit margins.”

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

Oil and gas industry wants to be able to dump highly toxic fracking wastewater—full of benzene and heavy metals, often radioactive—with more abandon, including in rivers and streams, and White House is open to that. insideclimatenews.org/news/2003202...

submitted 6 days ago • 535 comments

Medicare for All isn't radical. What's radical is that we are the only major country not to guarantee health care as a human right. Every other major country figured out years ago how to provide health care to all at a much lower cost. Please don't tell me we can't do the same.

submitted 5 days ago • 773 comments

Article from New Mexican independent journalist Heath Haussamen: Trump plans to militarize border, starting in NM haussamen.com/2025/03/20/t...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Join Congressman Al Green for a “Know Your Rights” Town Hall on Saturday, March 29, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. CST. Don’t miss this important opportunity to gain insights and essential tools about your immigration and citizenship rights.

submitted 5 days ago • 145 comments

BREAKING: Acting Social Security commissioner Leland Dudek says he is consulting with the Justice Department about shutting down the agency. Dudek told the Washington Post: “Unless I get clarification, I’ll just start to shut it down. I don’t have much of a choice here.”

submitted 6 days ago • 477 comments

How is it not theft and fraud to compel Americans to pay into a system for decades with the understanding that they will be covered after retirement, and then just decide from one day to the next “never mind.”

submitted 6 days ago • 63 comments

Apparently Gweneth Paltrow is back to touting raw milk. Here are some common infectious diseases you can get from raw milk: Salmonella, Campylobacter, E. coli, Listeria, tuberculosis, brucellosis, and avian flu. Among others.

submitted 7 days ago • 78 comments

Now that I am finished screaming into the void about schooling for kids with disabilities being assigned to RFK: understand what this means. He’s lumping accommodations into HHS, meaning those needs are now considered medicalized. Different from everyday education. This is eugenics.

submitted 6 days ago • 283 comments

The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right. The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy. We must end that international embarrassment. Yes. We need Medicare for All.

submitted 6 days ago • 1313 comments

It’s unclear exactly how many U.S. citizens have faced the Trump administration’s immigration dragnet so far. The government does not release such figures. Neither Border Patrol nor ICE would tell ProPublica how many Americans have been mistakenly detained. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments

CDC has never had authority to give or enforce mandates. CDC is essentially an advisor. States implement that advice to varying degrees. When republicans say they want to reform CDC's authority they mean remove the ability to make recommendations. This is exactly what Project 2025 calls for.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments