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Freezing out the NIH's funding means freezing out American innovation. Research into curing cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's all delayed. And ultimately it won't just cost us advancements in life-saving research, it will cost us lives.

submitted 8 hours ago • 57 comments

quiet part out loud.

submitted 10 hours ago • 90 comments

Elon Musk's DOGE purge included Jonathan Kamens, the security lead for the Department of Veterans Affairs website. #forkoff @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social 🥄🥄

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The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

submitted 3 days ago • 581 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 3 days ago • 1932 comments

These are the kinds of stories about the human costs of the Trump-Musk coup that desperately need telling right now. Local news outlets and independent journalists can do a lot of important work here, for their own communities but also for the national effort to push back against this insanity.

submitted 5 days ago • 53 comments

Powerful 🧵 by the former foreign minister of Lithuania

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Thousands of investors in Trump’s crypto scheme lost $2 billion in just weeks while the Trump Organization racked up $100 million in trading fees. Just so happens that the CFPB, which Trump is trying to kill, recently announced new regulations for the crypto industry. Hello?

submitted 11 days ago • 263 comments

This morning, President Trump and his crony Elon Musk illegally seized $80M in congressionally-appropriated FEMA funding from NYC bank accounts. Trump and Elon stole tens of millions of dollars straight from our bank accounts--this is highway robbery, and NY cannot take this lying down.

submitted 11 days ago • 108 comments

Congress will soon vote on a MAGA bill that could prevent millions of eligible American citizens from voting It includes a marriage penalty that prevents married women who changed their names from using their birth certificate or driver’s license as documents to register blavity.com/what-is-the-...

submitted 11 days ago • 59 comments

From @hcrichardson.bsky.social's latest "The idea of a small government that serves the needs of a few wealthy people, Lincoln warned in his era, is “the same old serpent that says you work and I eat, you toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it. Turn in whatever way you will—...

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

It’s no secret that Chair Powell and I disagree on a lot, but today we agreed: without the CFPB, there is no federal regulator making sure giants banks don't cheat you.

submitted 12 days ago • 426 comments

Just imagine this was a woman with her child on her shoulders and she was wearing a T-shirt and ball cap um the oval office.

submitted 11 days ago • 356 comments

U.S. Senators: If Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. takes over the Department of Health and Human Services, people will die who could have lived. If you vote today to confirm him, their deaths will be on your hands. slate.com/technology/2...

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

This is really well-done in-depth explainer about why shuttering the CFPB hurts ordinary Americans (and is illegal) www.freep.com/story/money/...

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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USAID's inspector general—apparently from a remote location—reports that $489 million of U.S. food aid (Food For Peace) is now stuck in ports, ships, and warehouses all over the world and is at risk of rotting and/or falling into the wrong hands. Public health fiasco. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Scoop: DOGE's Edward "Big Balls" Coristine launched a privacy-focused image-sharing site in 2021 that allowed users to create custom URLs. The URLs that redirected to Coristine's site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape www.muskwatch.com/p/doge-teen-...

submitted 12 days ago • 478 comments

Donald Trump literally legalizing bribes

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

It's time to stop pretending DOGE is about efficiency and trimming expenses. The difference between a haircut and a visit to the guillotine matters, and this is all going to be very expensive for all of us (if not for them). Notably gutting CFPB. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

submitted 12 days ago • 34 comments

So far "defending women from gender ideology" (as Trump puts it) looks a lot like shutting down programs that prevent rape and domestic violence

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

I'd rather continue to fund the banking police (who have returned billions to consumers) rather than giving everyone a check for $2.15

submitted 13 days ago • 83 comments

Corrupt billionaires are shutting down the corruption watchdog agency

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

CFPB made Wall Street give back over $21 billion to cheated consumers; this is Wall Street’s revenge via billionaire stooge Vought. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

submitted 13 days ago • 63 comments

The erasure of the Jan. 6 records comes while the administration is also seeking to whitewash the teaching of U.S. history, threatening to withhold funds from schools that teach about America’s troubled history of racial and gender discrimination. By @alecmac.bsky.social

submitted 14 days ago • 87 comments

9th day of Black History Month quote from Mr Baldwin short and sweet. I think it is how we ended up in this situation initially in 2016. Indifference combined with the belief that choosing not to participate as it didn’t matter. We need to find our passions. It’s OK if it seems mundane to some.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

It's always been the oil barons vs. democracy.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

“Why do I need NOAA? I’ve got a weather app.” Is equivalent to asking “Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.” www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...

submitted 14 days ago • 50 comments

Print this one out and put it on your refrigerator

submitted 19 days ago • 57 comments

Making sure everyone understands: Afrikaners—Elon Musk’s people—built, enforced, and thrived under the apartheid system they created. Not just “white-ruled segregation”—it was systemic racial oppression to keep the white minority in power. They don’t deserve refugee status—they were the oppressors!

submitted 15 days ago • 483 comments

Before folks start comparing this to European autocracies, pause and ask why so many folks - Black and white - didn’t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Or the Wilmington Coup. Or the Colfax Massacre. Or the Elaine, Arkansas massacre. Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.

submitted 17 days ago • 187 comments

“A republic, if you can keep it.” Benjamin Franklin’s admonition continues to ring true today. My letter to constituents on the road ahead below. neguse.house.gov/media/newsle...

submitted 19 days ago • 27 comments

This morning, we won a court order blocking Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, from accessing Americans’ private data. Musk and his DOGE employees must destroy all records they've obtained. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: no one is above the law.

submitted 15 days ago • 476 comments

NEW: President Trump's hiring freeze has stopped the onboarding of seasonal federal firefighters, including those who work for agencies called on to help battle the devastating L.A. fires, creating a potential shortfall ahead of the next fire season. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 17 days ago • 103 comments

Guess what - our Science Moms climate ad made this top ten best (upcoming) Super Bowl ads list! The only nonprofit ad on the list! Warning: do not watch without a tissue www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/a...

submitted 16 days ago • 36 comments

📌BREAKING: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been wiped off the Web. 📌MISSION: To protect consumers from unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices and take action against companies that break the law. We arm people with the information. 📌The working class of the U.S. are under attack.

submitted 15 days ago • 107 comments

The lawsuit notes that not only do Treasury department data include your Social Security number, birth date, and address. For most of us, it also includes your bank account information. That's what Musk and his Doge counterparts have access to now.

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

Why are Virginians subsidizing the world’s wealthiest companies? Tax incentives for data centers cost the state $500 million in net losses while ratepayers foot the bill for Amazon, Google, and Meta’s infrastructure needs. ow.ly/MXRn50URa11

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

mind you, this "doge official" IS A FRESHMAN AT NORTHEASTERN

submitted 20 days ago • 459 comments

So lets recap: - Trump announces tariffs. - Allies turn against the U.S., launch boycotts on U.S. products and boo us at events. - Markets nosedive. - Trump caves. The "deals": - Mexico agrees to do the same things they always do at the border to help the U.S. (including under Biden) 1/

submitted 20 days ago • 459 comments

JFK on why he founded USAID. “The economic collapse of those free but less-developed nations which now stand poised between sustained growth and economic chaos would be disastrous to our national security, harmful to our comparative prosperity and offensive to our conscience”.

submitted 20 days ago • 232 comments

Note: background checks normally take more time than this. Also, there are rules about who can access people's private records, and for what purposes. Every single record accessed in violation of these rules is a violation of law.

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

"We're going to dynamite the US economy because Canada should have given NATO a few more dollars" is so simple-minded. And, BTW, JD Vance famously wrote about his mother's problems with drugs. She didn't get them from Canada. She stole them from her American patients at the hospital she worked at.

submitted 21 days ago • 547 comments

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

submitted 21 days ago • 1977 comments

Feb 2, 2025. The second day of Black History Month and the 2nd quote from Mr. James Baldwin. For those unfamiliar with Mr Baldwin, I will again suggest watching a documentary about his life “I Am Not Your Negro”. He can still teach us so very many things if we just will listen.

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments