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There was an abrupt $11B cut to local/state public health (PH) infrastructure yesterday. I don't think people realize what this means: -Want an updated system to check your immunizations instead of digging through docs? PH no longer able to carry out upgrades to immunization information systems

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

These are scientists, physicians, and science educators using their voices in their times when truth and reason are under assault. I urge you to follow all. I just did a major update. I will continue to do so. go.bsky.app/14W5Rdk

submitted 3 days ago • 66 comments

Thousands of the best experts at FDA, NIH, and all across HHS are being terminated right now. These are the people who make sure the medications you and your children take are safe. These are the people who perform and oversee research on cancer, infant health, and so so so much more.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

The U.S. has actively dismantled the global disease-detection programs we all—including Americans—rely on to stay safe Today this administration’s short-sighted global health agenda got even even worse It’s ending its support for vaccine programs around the world Why?? 🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 137 comments

Hiring your brother is the original affirmative action for white people.

submitted 3 days ago • 759 comments

Diversity initiatives were meant to overcome the old patterns of nepotism, so I guess it makes sense that the enemies of diversity are big fans of nepotism.

submitted 4 days ago • 208 comments

crowd chanting: we don't want your Nazi cars take a one way trip to Mars #teslatakedown #Boston

submitted 4 days ago • 87 comments

Targeting Tesla has led to a Musk meltdown — on Fox. “My companies are suffering,” Musk muttered, on the verge of tears. Musk appeared minus his chainsaw, whining that his involvement in the government has been “disadvantageous” — claiming his companies are “suffering”…

submitted 4 days ago • 1327 comments

People were mean to him on Twitter, so he bought Twitter. People were still mean to him, so he bought the US government. And he is going to use it to hunt down those bad people!

submitted 3 days ago • 4928 comments

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

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Pretty sure what we have seen today is Trump and Putin acting as allies to betray Ukraine and isolate Europe. What seems to have happened is this. 1) The US got Ukraine to agree a Black Sea ceasefire on the idea that if Rus broke it, the US would put more sanctions on Rus.

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

WOW! AOC and Bernie Sanders just held the Biggest political event in Denver since Obama 2008.

submitted 11 days ago • 1057 comments

“Elias Law Group will not be deterred from fighting for democracy in court. There will be no negotiation with this White House about the clients we represent or the lawsuits we bring on their behalf."

submitted 11 days ago • 1378 comments

THREAD: Law firm statements issued in response to Trump’s executive orders targeting lawyers. (This thread will be updated as additional statements are released. Want to flag something that I missed? DM me, email me at [email protected], or send me a message on Signal at annabower.24) 🧵⬇️

submitted 10 days ago • 111 comments

too much shit has been happening lately so here’s a small cleanse. it won’t fix anything in the world, but hopefully it makes you smile today 🌌

submitted 10 days ago • 44 comments

Judy Schmidt (@geckzilla.bsky.social) on Flickr (Mar 8, 2018) Explore the gas and dust of the Lagoon Nebula, where starlight and gravity create a stunning cosmic canvas. flic.kr/p/23BWP8V

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The sky: ethereal masterpiece. Me: breathing loud in a parka while trying to capture it with trembling hands and 4% battery.

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

The US military just purged their website of mentions of the Holocaust, 9/11 remembrance, cancer awareness, sexual assault, and suicide prevention to align with their new “anti-DEI” policies.

submitted 13 days ago • 771 comments

“No politician would act like this if he wanted to be reelected.” Yeah. I think they’re hoping they won’t need to worry about reelection…

submitted 13 days ago • 516 comments

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

submitted 13 days ago • 1461 comments

A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.

submitted 13 days ago • 165 comments

I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.

submitted 13 days ago • 2312 comments

Trump plans to kill the U.S. Department of Education, but here’s the problem—it’s unconstitutional. Congress created the department by law in 1979, and only Congress can dismantle it. A president can’t just erase it with an executive order—but Trump can make it impossible for it to function.

submitted 13 days ago • 222 comments

Evangelicals have been indoctrinated since the beginning to accept, even crave, authoritarianism.

submitted 13 days ago • 273 comments

Walz on Musk getting briefed on China war plans: "I don't understand -- where are the Republicans? Where are the Lindsey Grahams?"

submitted 12 days ago • 530 comments

Fact: They didn’t fear what breaking the Dept of Education would do to their kids. Their kids are in fancy private schools. They are dismantling the Dept of Ed so our kids have no choice but to be undereducated and work for their kids.

submitted 12 days ago • 970 comments

Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."

submitted 12 days ago • 309 comments

After a conversation with Putin, President Trump wrote that they have agreed on “immediate ceasefire on all energy facilities.” Right after that, russia bombed the energy infrastructure of Sloviansk, leaving part of the city without power.

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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I am here today to urge Canadians to avoid travel to the United States if at all possible and to call on our government to stand up for our citizens who are being denied their rights through arbitrary detention in the United States.

submitted 12 days ago • 1049 comments

Maybe it’s just confirmation bias, but really feels like there is one of these every day.

submitted 12 days ago • 888 comments

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Canada is a country of the rule of law. Canada is a country of democracy. Canada will never kiss that gangster’s ring.

submitted 12 days ago • 462 comments

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

submitted 12 days ago • 625 comments

Schoolchildren are routinely slaughtered by AR-15s. Hundreds die. [crickets "Thoughts and prayers" crickets] A couple unoccupied cars are set on fire. No one is hurt. ["THIS HORROR WILL NOT STAND!!! We MUST act to STOP it from ever happening AGAIN!!!!" We will pass new LAWS BANNING IT!!!]

submitted 12 days ago • 1107 comments

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

submitted 12 days ago • 170 comments

AOC: Alina Habba said, “What intellectual thought.. you were in a bar AOC. Not to have a drink but to serve one.” I don’t care what this woman says about me but I want you to understand that she isn’t just talking about me, she’s talking about all of us.

submitted 12 days ago • 855 comments

this stuff is happening across the country and even more intensively downstream of the veterans admin but it's happening in so many places at once and without any public notification that it's still only barely emerging in the news

submitted 12 days ago • 413 comments

Jessica: When I hear Republicans out there talking about their plan for education in America, I don't hear them talking about making sure disabled kids have access to a public education. Greg: Because we're against it.

submitted 12 days ago • 450 comments

AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.

submitted 12 days ago • 730 comments

AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense. I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...

submitted 12 days ago • 1131 comments

DOGE plans to fire 430 workers at the IRS Taxpayer Advocate Service — which helps low-income and small business filers. Meanwhile, its wider agency layoffs will make it even easier for the rich to get away with skirting what they owe. See what DOGE is really about?

submitted 12 days ago • 235 comments

Rep. Lawler has been cheering on DOGE's wilding spree and now his constituents are paying the price.

submitted 12 days ago • 745 comments

The decision by who, Mike?

submitted 12 days ago • 810 comments