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JUST IN: The White House has been clear that it intends to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, and that it will be McMahon's job to oversee that effort.

submitted 11 hours ago • 250 comments

If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then its tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.

submitted 2 days ago • 173 comments

This is my current TBR for March. I’ve already started the top two, but I’m excited to finish all of these next month! 💙📚

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

“This is someone who made his money by ripping off American taxpayers and who shouldn’t come anywhere near a position of authority over tax dollars,” said Sen. Ron Wyden about Schuler’s appointment. “He’ll fit right in with the Trump administration.” By @peterelkind.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

Staffing at the HUD office that pays for housing and support services across the country is slated to be cut by 84%. Advocates warn such heavy cuts could make record-high homelessness even worse.

submitted 9 days ago • 147 comments

President Trump's executive order that the federal government recognizes only two sexes, male and female, is disrupting the lives of some trans, nonbinary and intersex people applying for passports.

submitted 10 days ago • 64 comments

Ratner predicts the appointment of Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, will impact vaccine availability and hesitancy: "It is much easier to scare people than to un-scare them," he says.

submitted 13 days ago • 145 comments

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 14 days ago • 853 comments

Israel has issued a tender for the construction of nearly 1,000 additional housing units in an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank, reports Israeli NGO. Read more: aje.io/p68su8

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

submitted 15 days ago • 118 comments

If the Trump administration continues targeting DEI in science and seeking to slash funding, American science will look fundamentally different.

submitted 24 days ago • 86 comments

BREAKING NEWS: The federal lawsuit accuses those jurisdictions of "making it more difficult for, and deliberately impeding, federal immigration officers' ability to carry out their responsibilities."

submitted 25 days ago • 72 comments

A reminder that fiction — books, film, games, what have you — is always political. The willful absence of “politics” in any work is itself a political choice and a political act. Who gets to tell (and sell) stories is political. It might be an undercurrent — covert, not overt. But it’s there.

submitted 28 days ago • 116 comments

Gov. Greg Abbott this week directed state agencies to work with federal immigration authorities to crack down on illegal immigration.

submitted 30 days ago • 79 comments

Just finished Parable of Talents; my last Octavia Butler book. Short review: Not as good as Parable of the Sower, but still eerie in how prescient it is. The whole series is defintely worth a read, especially in these times. 💙📚

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

One of my favorite vampire movies! Def an underrated gem.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

I picked a hell of a night to start watching Unrivaled. Lunar Owls vs Laces? What a game!!! 🔥

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment