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In addition to the article, what the actual fuck is going on here 🧐

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They are going to throw millions of people off of health care just so that they can pass along a benefit to a small handful of very rich Americans. #StopTheBillionaireBailout

"We control events better when we control opinion." - General Reinhard Heydrich, SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei (Senior Group Leader and Chief of Police), Chief, German Third Reich Main Security Office), Wannsee Conference, January 1942 (The importance of a free media service).

So now Trump and the Republicans are looking to kneecap nascent green energy companies and anything associated with Biden's IRA, crippling any competition against China who leads in green energy development. Case in point: CATL's IPO. www.marketwatch.com/story/the-bi...

This is so cool! hiddencityphila.org/2025/05/phil...

As many Federal employees are retiring or leaving and are not being replaced while DOGE wipes out inspectors. So, Musk wipes out the people that Trump needs to make tariffs work. Our government (in)action. www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n...

Seriously. The trouble with AI art isn’t just lack of originality. It’s something far bigger | Eric Reinhart | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This animation shows how temperatures have changed over the last 100 years for each February-April period. On each map, red shading indicates warmer than average conditions, and blue shading shows the opposite. Note the trend. Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).

The man with the nuclear codes walked into a wall. 😬

This kind of development is to be expected when the Secretary of Health and Human Services enjoys swimming in raw sewage with his grandchildren while wearing blue jeans. Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...

From Fox Weather no less: even they see the shit coming down on us all: Climate Scientists Are Tracking a New U.S. Weather Pattern weather-fox.com/climate-scie...

Kid Rock and his illegal immigrant workers: Do as I say - but not as I do. Kid Rock’s restaurant workers asked to go home to avoid rumored Ice raids www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Funny how this topic is rarely heard right after the 2024 election. But for the last time, 5G is not killing you! Does 5G Actually Damage Human Cells? Science Has an Answer. www.vice.com/en/article/d...

To those who wanted Trump in office: thanks a lot - you're screwing over a whole lot of people. ā€˜I’ll never get out of this hole’: Older Americans brace as DOE begins Social Security garnishments www.fastcompany.com/91335174/ill...

As much as I wish we were gong into space, sometimes it does beg the question: make sure your home is in order before you start moving on. Why tech billionaires’ plans for space colonies and AI gods are delusional www.fastcompany.com/91333743/tec...

Some folks been around far longer than we realize. Mungo Man and Mungo Lady: Australia’s 40,000-Year-Old Mystery Couple discoverwildscience.com/mungo-man-an...

Local natives can know a thing or two: sometimes it helps to listen. The Shipwrecks From John Franklin’s Doomed Arctic Expedition Were Exactly Where the Inuit Said They Would Be www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

"To be woke is not a threat: it is a calling." -Pope Leo XIV

So now Trump is no longer funding the National Fire Academy. On average, 10,000 fire personnel go through annually to receive training in the latest technologies and trends. It was suggested by the Trump administration that fire training could be done ā€œremotelyā€. www.npr.org/2025/05/05/n...

To be a member of the Cabinet, you have to be a criminal: no different than in any other criminal organization. Trump’s Shady Crypto Business Partner Exposed in Shocking New Report newrepublic.com/post/194552/...

Intelligence and education in MAGA land is not permitted. Trump administration’s ā€˜Stalinesque’ letter to Cleveland Clinic-tied journal sparks outrage www.cleveland.com/news/2025/04...

From this point on, the nation that landed on the moon, developed new and advanced medicines and modern machines now is a background country filled with fools and idiots. I Just Got Into Harvard. My MAGA Grandparents’ 6-Word Reaction To My Acceptance Devastated Me. www.buzzfeed.com/bellapaz/har...

Can't have certain people conducting their religious practices, now can we,...? Activist pastor who has criticized Trump arrested while praying inside Capitol ca.news.yahoo.com/activist-pas...

And current administration wants to abolish FEMA? Seriously. Reporter’s Notebook: What I found in the NC mountains after Helene wrecked Appalachia www.heraldsun.com/news/state/n...

A younger generation needlessly lost, following the notions of some folks from the current administration. Sad. Little mention in US domestic news services: meduza.io/en/feature/2...

We are going so much backwards; it's all a bad dream but it's very, very real. Scientists Find Measles Likely to Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years www.wired.com/story/scient...

Why was she carrying around $3,000 in cash?

Wall Street Communists is a new one for me. šŸ™„

A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it. Life under the Trump FDA. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

At the cost of families worldwide, Trump makes his fortune. Trump Has Eyewateringly Corrupt Scheme to Get Rich Off Tariffs newrepublic.com/post/194107/...

The door was opened. You can see this actually happen. Not sure about this entire event being a total hoax, though. Watch: Blue Origin door appears to open prompting conspiracy theories claiming Katy Perry space expedition was a hoax flipboard.com/video/indepe...

Useful advice. How Americans Are Surveilled During Protests www.wired.com/story/uncann...

Trumps likely downfall: himself. 'Odd man out': Top Trump official 'planning to cut and run' as 'civil war' engulfs Cabinet www.alternet.org/trump-cabine...