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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 6 days ago • 2288 comments

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

submitted 8 days ago • 942 comments

On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

submitted 9 days ago • 401 comments

This is not a normal person 👇

submitted 8 days ago • 699 comments

Elisa Rae Shupe, the 1st person in the US to change their gender identification marker to X, has been identified as the Vet who committed suicide at the Syracuse VA garage & was found wrapped in the trans flag Wikipedia refuses to allow anyone to add her suicide or that she's even dead to her page

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 9 days ago • 2697 comments

these 2 back to back notifications are more related than our new admin and cabinet members will ever admit. Are we to now follow CDC China & #WHO for updates and guidance? Yes. Yes, we should.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem

submitted 13 days ago • 467 comments

Musk’s government data grab must be stopped.

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

RFK’s racist blathering harkens back to the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia where Black people—told we were immune—were asked to care for the perishing and neglected sick. 10% of free Black Philadelphians died.

submitted 23 days ago • 35 comments

#USDA confirmed another #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herd in California, bringing the cumulative national total to 951 in 16 states. To date 734, ie nearly 75% of California's herds, have tested positive for birdflu. So far 200 have recovered/cleared quarantine. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

Wait. What if it's not lockdowns from 5 years ago and a lack of infections causing "immunity debt", but actually repeated infection with a virus with known immunological, cardiovascular, neurological, and many other effects?!?

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

submitted 29 days ago • 902 comments

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them. Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is. Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

submitted 28 days ago • 48 comments

Ben & Jerry’s is doubling down & it’s pure 🔥🔥🔥.

submitted 28 days ago • 18 comments

It appears that Trump is fixated on punishing the agencies and individuals (Dr Fauci) he blames for his own failures during the the COVID pandemic -- failures that cost him re-election. Now he's lashing out by essentially canceling all federally backed research. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 29 days ago • 84 comments

Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH. I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 30 days ago • 69 comments

Ventura County strawberry workers are harvesting in heavy smoke from the Hughes Fire. We remind workers their employers have to provide them with respirator masks if the AQI exceeds 150. Stay safe! #WeFeedYou

submitted 32 days ago • 228 comments

the idea that women should be stripped of the right to vote, and that men have the right to brutally rape their wives, are both major tenets of pete hegseth's religion www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 31 days ago • 46 comments

Deleted. 😳

submitted 33 days ago • 890 comments

if we’re going to pull out of #WHO we should probably have more competent folks running CDC, FDA, NIH,CMS + military and we should prob leave flags at half mast for next X yrs ahead of all the deaths fm cutting back on health access, vaccines, Rx med cost & pulling out of humanitarian assistance

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

The richest man on Earth is an unabashed Nazi. Not good, Bob!

submitted 34 days ago • 204 comments

‘awkward gestures’ are what he’s doing all the rest of the time when he’s not proudly making a double nazi salute

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submitted 36 days ago • 840 comments

THIS! 100% this…

submitted 36 days ago • 708 comments

You may not believe in climate change but your insurance company does. When your payment skyrockets because organizations whose entire job is measure risk decide that your community is risky you will get that climate inaction is screwing you, personally. Not birds and butterflies. You.

submitted 41 days ago • 34 comments

These people are ripping you off.

submitted 37 days ago • 28 comments

Delaware and Maryland are working together to quash a bird flu outbreak in chickens. Relationships like these may take on a greater role in the incoming Trump administration, amid uncertainty about the leadership of national agencies. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

submitted 38 days ago • 267 comments

Measles isn't just a rash. It can be followed years later by SSPE. Kids seem to recover completely. They grow older, learn, have fun. Then they start to decline and die. There is no cure. Vaccines prevent it, so most aren't familiar with SSPE. Learn risks. www.voicesforvaccines.org/how-i-lost-m...

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

Social media can be a powerful vector for information. Or disinformation, as we have seen. An ex employee shares on substack a confession that, if true, holds several disturbing implications regarding our '24 election and why Musk bought X. theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks...

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

who else is waiting for that final moment Superman spins and spins earth till everything is set back to where it should be

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Meta’s lawyer - now ex lawyer - on Zuckerberg meltdown.

submitted 39 days ago • 34 comments

CA attorney Mark Lemley dropped Meta Platforms Inc. as a client in a high-profile copyright case because of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness,” adding he “cannot in good conscience serve as their lawyer any longer.” news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/meta-...

submitted 39 days ago • 12 comments

Memo to the MAGA base: There isn’t really going to be a mass deportation or securing the border. Or lower food prices. Or lower gas prices. Or lower deficits. Or better health care. Or higher wages. There’s just gonna be you getting poorer faster.

submitted 57 days ago • 101 comments

Jack Smith’s report on the January 6 case is out now. 👉 www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 40 days ago • 258 comments

This is a photo of Trump and his supporters in Waco with their hands over their hearts while a pro-January 6 insurrection anthem plays. The screen is playing footage of MAGA insurrectionists attacking the Capitol. This is not normal. No matter who is in the White House.

submitted 48 days ago • 607 comments

oh yea he was pushing the inconvenient truth about climate change 2 decades ago… oh wait that was…

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Truly bizarre how the media stopped talking about how shitty and batshit nuts Hegseth, Kash Patel, RFK Jr and Tulsi were since the shitty, batshit nuts Felon 47 started threatening Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal. STAY FOCUSED. 🤨

submitted 43 days ago • 654 comments

Thank you, Mexico

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Watching, and learning…

submitted 44 days ago • 8 comments

So let's talk about the facts. How many have heard of maquiladoras? US companies on the other side of the US Mex border dumping industrial waste into a river that ends up in the US. Is this a US or Mexico problem? Here is the list.

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments