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submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Five things to remember about war:

submitted 8 days ago • 155 comments

Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3 apnews.com/article/nih-...

submitted 20 days ago • 36 comments

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

submitted 76 days ago • 712 comments

Judicial races often fly under the radar. For those of you not paying close attention to WI, read this excellent overview that touches on the myriad reasons this race is so important.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

On behalf of the 144,000 federal workers who live in Virginia, we will support @abigailspanberger.com in this campaign. cc: @vademocrats.bsky.social

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Join us at the US Capitol on Monday afternoon. We will have clever signs and loud voices! Register here: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

Really great thread describing the development of a new pain medication. It's clear that basic research in obscure animals was essential to this, along with a whole lot of additional work from BOTH the private and public sector. The public sector is a MAJOR driver of private sector science. See how:

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

The shock and awe Musk, Vought, Bannon and Trump — are bringing will backfire if we’re smart about it. Make clear that DOGE is the Dept of Govt Extermination, not Efficiency. Let people see that their taxes are no longer paying for vital public services but to fatten the richest people on earth.

submitted 145 days ago • 277 comments

Our people across #MD08 are rightly demanding answers about President Trump's systematic destruction of federal programs and the civil service. Federal workers—I'm convening a webinar on the latest developments and resources to fight back. Sign up to gain access upon its release:

submitted 146 days ago • 280 comments

For Black History Month, who else but a synthetic chemist / pharmacologist? www.sciencehistory.org/education/sc...

submitted 147 days ago • 0 comments

if a major politician held an emergency rally about the current ongoing coup by the richest man in the world, I think people would go to it. Shit is well and truly fucked. I can think of a couple of people who should do that right now.

submitted 149 days ago • 642 comments

Black History is American History The legendary Huey Newton

submitted 149 days ago • 3 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 150 days ago • 3537 comments

It's important for federal employees to know when they are being given an illegal order. In many of those cases, the thing to do is to express in writing that they are refusing to follow that illegal order. Example below.

submitted 150 days ago • 1 comment

Trump's proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer. snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...

submitted 164 days ago • 72 comments

Hegseth lacks the normal qualifications for secretary of defense. His books reveal two ideas about what armed forces are for: a site to express Christian Reconstructionism and gender ideology; and a means to defeat other Americans inside America. snyder.substack.com/p/the-crusad...

submitted 165 days ago • 61 comments

I have and will continue to. But you know why I say it here ? Because @bsky.app is 30m strong and growing quickly. The collective wisdom and influence of users here is far greater than any individual democrat. I can't say it enough. Bluesky can be the influence that can counter RW media.

submitted 158 days ago • 2501 comments

Incredible. Please watch and share.

submitted 160 days ago • 23 comments

Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.

submitted 160 days ago • 745 comments

Friends, due to Trump's reckless, incoherent agenda, prices are already rising here, around the world. Things are costing more. He's spooking global markets. He has *already* betrayed his central campaign promise to lower costs. Need to be far louder about all this. bsky.app/profile/simo...

submitted 167 days ago • 18 comments

Robert Kennedy is without question one of the dangerous people in America, and we simply have to do everything we can to prevent him from serving in the Trump Administration.

submitted 168 days ago • 7 comments

Hegseth is an extraordinary extremist and Dems need to leave it all on the playing field here in these hearings.

submitted 167 days ago • 7 comments

submitted 170 days ago • 2261 comments

From Hopium: - Honoring President Jimmy Carter, our 39th President - Trump 2.0 is an unstable, fractious mess, and already stumbling badly out of the box - A restorative visit to the National Gallery’s Impressionists exhibit More 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/honoring-p...

submitted 182 days ago • 5 comments