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For the first time, nations have agreed a series of measures to prevent, prepare for and respond to pandemics https://go.nature.com/3RhYvgP

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“Remember, Jerry, if you don’t BELIEVE the market is dropping, then it’s not a drop.”

submitted 14 days ago • 48 comments

Important to realize that Trump’s approach to Canada and Greenland is like his approach to Ukraine. It’s not even simply American imperialism. It is America enabling Russian imperialism. (1/3)

submitted 21 days ago • 112 comments

If the SAVE Act became law, voters nationwide would face similar problems to those seen last week in NH, when some voters struggled to satisfy a new requirement to show documents like a birth certificate or passport to register to vote.

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

What happens when you do surgery with a chainsaw www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

submitted 33 days ago • 9 comments

Raskin: "This is what Viktor Orban has done in Hungary -- to clear out the civil service with real expert professionals and people devoted to the public interest and replace them with a bunch of party hacks and sycophants to the dear leader."

submitted 39 days ago • 749 comments

Hey #Philly! Join Governor Shapiro, Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings, a representative from the ACLU, and myself for a telephone town hall TODAY at 11 AM. You can dial in at 888-480-3686 or go to evans.house.gov/live

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Since writing this article, I have received messages from federal civil servants who tell me it is accurate, and that they are frightened. Please share this with anyone who doesn't understand the scale of the transformation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 42 days ago • 182 comments

🇳🇴 Norway will more than double its aid to Ukraine, reaching nearly $8 billion in 2025. All parties in Norwegian parliament agreed to this.

submitted 42 days ago • 29 comments

One of the appalling things that will stick with me? The Republicans’ laughter, “showcasing their cruelty and hostility toward people who are different than them. They are now in power, free to revel in their bigotry, free to engage in easy humiliation and hate.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

submitted 43 days ago • 102 comments

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

submitted 48 days ago • 1189 comments

The Alien Enemies Act is a wartime law that cannot be used for peacetime immigration enforcement.

submitted 49 days ago • 5 comments

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

submitted 49 days ago • 433 comments

“No amount of diplomatic palaver can paper over Russia’s record of kidnapping Ukrainian children, executing POWs, and targeting civilians.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-neg...

submitted 54 days ago • 64 comments

Call today to let your Congressman know what you think about Elon Musk’s DOGE and its slash-and-burn cuts to the federal workforce and vital government programs. Leave a message if necessary. YOUR CALLS REALLY DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE! ☎️

submitted 54 days ago • 58 comments

President Trump’s purge at the Pentagon is a major step toward creating an officer corps personally and absolutely loyal to him, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/3oq1fmSh

submitted 54 days ago • 65 comments

The Trump administration is now bringing the postwar era to an end. No one should be surprised: this is what they said they would do. America's European and Asian allies need to adjust, quickly. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 56 days ago • 63 comments

A DOGE tip line for reporting on acts that harm and fail to respect veterans. votevets.org/doge-tipline

submitted 58 days ago • 70 comments

Trump is shattering longstanding principles intended to shield Justice Department prosecution decisions from White House influence. Here’s why it matters:

submitted 58 days ago • 7 comments

As DOGE and Trump claim to be rooting out govt waste, remember that the first Trump administration granted "church" status to the Family Research Council, allowing the nonprofit to shield its finances from public scrutiny. It also can't be audited without ok from a high-level Treasury official.

submitted 60 days ago • 29 comments

NEW VIDEO: While the country is riveted by what Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing in Washington, DC, the Republican Party continues to attack voting rights in the states and in the United States Supreme Court. Watch and share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLuW...

submitted 61 days ago • 107 comments

I would like to make an argument that Trump is taking a "great man" approach to the presidency. What does that mean? 😱 I'm afraid that it is not good. First, Hegel: “The great men in history are those whose own particular aims contain the substantial will that is the will of the World Spirit..."

submitted 66 days ago • 7 comments

You wouldn't dismantle the agency that protects consumers for corporate abuse and scams unless you wanted your rich buddies to be able to abuse and scam consumers.

submitted 67 days ago • 692 comments

My depressing thought for the day: it seems increasingly inevitable that quite soon, Trump decides to simply disregard a court finding that some of his actions are illegal or unconstitutional. Impeachment is attempted & fails thanks to loyal Republicans. At which point there are no good options.

submitted 71 days ago • 133 comments

Good. Now ask why the hell Speaker Johnson & Senate Majority Leader Thune are doing nothing while a random civilian runs amok violating Congress' powers & laws.

submitted 73 days ago • 59 comments

NOW would be a great time to have a VERY PUBLIC and VERY LOUD response from Congressional Democrats on Elon Musk's unchecked takeover of our federal government...

submitted 73 days ago • 576 comments

We warned everyone about Project 2025 constantly. Now, it’s closer to becoming a reality with Trump’s pick Russell Vought for Director of the OMB. Take a second right now to say hell no on this one:

submitted 74 days ago • 13 comments

Thank you, Trump voters.

submitted 74 days ago • 87 comments

It’s a heist.

submitted 75 days ago • 28 comments

🧵 THREAD: Trump and Rubio have arrested the international humanitarian aid system and forced lifesaving aid programs to completely halt operations — despite an announcement earlier in the week claiming they had changed course. 1/

submitted 76 days ago • 90 comments

An unelected, erratic, ketamine-addled billionaire with far right/white nationalist views has taken control of the personnel and payment systems of the United States government. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole.

submitted 76 days ago • 132 comments

Trump is causing a constitutional crisis by withholding Congressionally approved spending. A president is not a dictator, the president is merely the execute the law, not decide it.

submitted 79 days ago • 9 comments

America continually finding new frontiers in grinding independent journalism into the earth

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

"A ruling for the plaintiffs could mean employers and insurers reimposing copays and deductibles, or denying birth control coverage entirely, with patients on the hook for the full price." -- @susanrinkunas.com www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

submitted 81 days ago • 142 comments

Question for OPM: about 30% of federal workers at the VA are Veterans. They were given a preference for hiring because they're Veterans. Disabled Veterans got a higher preference. They are DEIA hires. Are you going to fire them all? Are you going to end Veterans preference?

submitted 81 days ago • 443 comments

Democracy Docket is currently tracking 191 voting and election cases in 40 states and 35 redistricting cases in 18 states. Check it out. www.democracydocket.com/cases/case-s...

submitted 81 days ago • 119 comments

Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

submitted 83 days ago • 145 comments

The Insurrection Act lets the president deploy the military on American soil. It's dangerously vague and ripe for abuse — and in urgent need of reform.

submitted 82 days ago • 25 comments

Re-upping my late-night spasm of outrage for the weekend-morning acrostic-appreciating crowd:

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submitted 83 days ago • 29 comments

Don't give up - do something. A great list for civic minded Americans, from @protectdemocracy.org open.substack.com/pub/protectd...

submitted 83 days ago • 61 comments

New: Labor Dept probe of insurers found widespread noncompliance and violations of federal law in how they cover mental health care -- findings that mirror a recent @propublica.org investigation. @deldeib.bsky.social @mayatmiller.bsky.social @anniewaldman.bsky.social @maxblau.bsky.social

submitted 84 days ago • 7 comments

Elon Musk: - Welcomed neo-Nazis to X - Replies to neo-Nazis on X - Reposts neo-Nazis on X - Funds neo-Nazis through X - Engages with racist memes on X - Posts racist, anti-trans and other bigoted rhetoric on X - Performed three Nazi salutes on stage while the world was watching This isn't hard.

submitted 85 days ago • 44 comments

Buried toward the end of the press release was another eye-opening detail. Pete Hegseth allegedly said, “women should not vote or work and that Christians needed to have more children so they could overtake the Muslim population.” UM.

submitted 85 days ago • 321 comments

If only there was some video 🤷🏻‍♀️

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

If you want further proof that American journalism is dead, the Hollywood Reporter showed more moral clarity in their coverage of Elon Musk’s Nazi salute than the Washington Post, NY Times, LA Times, WSJ, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS or NBC. Cowards all. bit.ly/4gdjnQe

submitted 85 days ago • 610 comments