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Local NWS Anchorage meteorologist just made it past his 1-year probationary period. Still fired.

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

"The new reporting shows that, after the state banned abortion, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women died in Texas hospitals..." www.propublica.org/article/texa...

BREAKING: The Trump administration has announced that it will kill Medicare coverage of most telehealth services on April 1st.

JD Vance owns AcreTrader, an app that lets wealthy—often foreign—investors buy up U.S. farmland. Guess who’s deliberately tanking farm economies so JD and his billionaire tech buddies can scoop it up for pennies. civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...

RFK Jr.’s cuts to the CDC hurt a program for 9/11 first responders. The program provides screenings, medication, and more to over 100,000 survivors with conditions related to their work at Ground Zero. And RFK fired 20% of the program’s staff. thehill.com/policy/healt...

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle. One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to programs that millions of people rely on. 4) Repeat. Don't let them get away with it.

The Acting Solicitor General has notified Congress of DOJ's intent to ask #SCOTUS to overrule Humphrey's Executor—a major 1935 ruling upholding the independence of agencies like the FCC, FTC, NLRB, etc. fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc... Because *less* independence is what we need...

The United States State Department is now planning to spend $400 million in taxpayer money to buy Tesla Cybertrucks.

"USAID workers and their families abroad had no agency help in fleeing after looters overran their homes in Kinshasa..." apnews.com/article/trum...

A lifetime of rewatching 80s underdog movies lead me to expect more comeuppance for rich people

NEW: A military fighter jet has crashed into San Diego Bay. This is the 6th plane collision (and 2nd military collision) since Trump took office.

Garcia: "I find it ironic that our chairman, Rep. Greene, is in charge of running this committee. In the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a dick pic in our Oversight hearing, so I thought I'd bring one as well. This, of course, is President Elon Musk ... "

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-...

Rep. LaMonica McIver: "We are at war!"

The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim— Oh wait.

Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration are trying to repeal the Biden administration’s rules that require all of the country’s lead pipes to be replaced and aim to reduce the amount of lead in water. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

@adamschiff.com: Kash Patel "rose with lightning speed through the first 4 years of Trump because he was the guy who would say 'yes' to Trump when everyone else said 'no.' ... That's the ticket to progress in Trumpworld, which is the bigger the sycophancy, the faster you rise."

We passed a bill in committee yesterday that felonizes elected officials if they vote against Trump’s immigration policy. Let that sink in. Duly elected officials will go to jail- will have a criminal record- if they do not vote for and support Trump’s policies.

1. Watch this closely: Lawmakers in Congress have long been pushing for more flights into DC's National Airport, even as air-safety advocates argued the airport was stressed to capacity. Kansas GOP Sen. Jerry Moran was a leading advocate for the non-stop Wichita-to-DC flight added in January 2024

The FAA is facing its first major aviation disaster in 16 years without a leader because Elon Musk helped push him out. The former FAA administrator stepped down on Jan. 20th after Musk called on him to resign. Musk was angry after the FAA fined SpaceX for failing to get approval for launch changes.

Because they are evil, we must stand up to them. But because they are also stupid, we needn’t be afraid to.