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The right wing attack on transgender people was already evil, but the attack on transgender members of the military is INSANE. It's never been about a random NCAA swimming meet or anyone getting cancelled over a slip of the tongue on pronouns. It's about good old fashioned HATE.

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Jacqueline has the details on the person who Elon has been relying on, who presented herself as an expert in gov't spending (but who appeared to have no idea how donor advised funds work, leading her (and Elon) to falsely think that USAID was funding @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social). Turns out...

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BREAKING: Mexican President Sheinbaum argues that if cartels are deemed terrorist orgs, then the suppliers of weapons—over 74% of which come FROM the U.S.—should ALSO face accountability for enabling terrorism. As a result, Mexico is expanding its lawsuit targeting U.S gun manufacturers. 🇲🇽

submitted 4 days ago • 577 comments

As Pelosi said: “With him, all roads lead to Putin”

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A new #ScienceReview provides a preview of what the Arctic region may look like in a warmer world. https://scim.ag/41rrYuF

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NEW: Judge Dale Ho appoints Paul Clement to present “friend of the court” arguments on the government’s motion to dismiss Eric Adams’s charges.

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

submitted 5 days ago • 2099 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 5 days ago • 69 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 6 days ago • 349 comments

People need to understand this: Trump did not leave office willingly the first time. If his health holds up, he will not leave office willingly this time. He is not joking about serving more than two terms.

submitted 6 days ago • 1039 comments

trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 434 comments

Elon Musk just had the Community Note removed from the clip of his interview with Trump that went viral on X. The note pointed out that Musk lied about having to rescue astronauts because Biden supposedly abandoned them.

submitted 7 days ago • 295 comments

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is trying to reverse the firing of some employees who were involved in responding to the nation’s growing bird flu outbreak, officials said this week.

submitted 6 days ago • 59 comments

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

submitted 8 days ago • 1383 comments

MARCO RUBIO IN 2017: "Foreign Aid is not charity. We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of budget & critical to our national security.” MARCO RUBIO IN 2025: "USAID is a global charity."

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The Underground Railroad, a northbound pathway to freedom for people escaping enslavement, included sanctuaries around the Capital Region nearly 200 years ago. Albany played a special part in its history — the term appears to have originated in a local publication.

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Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 9 days ago • 845 comments

Free speech absolutist

submitted 10 days ago • 37 comments

About half of journalism these days is unreadable because reporters, even at the most prestigious outlets, don’t know the meaning of the word “refute”.

submitted 11 days ago • 32 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 11 days ago • 382 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 12 days ago • 411 comments

Just a coincidence.

submitted 12 days ago • 75 comments

A drone hit the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine early this morning, per the IAEA. The Chernobyl New Safe Confinement unit caught fire and was damaged, but the IAEA reports the inner structure was not breached and radiation levels have not risen outside.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia’s military struck the site of the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, causing “significant” damage to a structure that prevents radiation from leaking from a damaged reactor. Follow live updates.

submitted 13 days ago • 62 comments

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

submitted 14 days ago • 400 comments

Trump: "I would own this [Gaza]." Brett Baeir: "Would the Palestinians have a right to return [to Gaza]?" Trump: "No, they wouldn't." Trump plans on committing multiple, and unprecedented, war crimes.

submitted 17 days ago • 462 comments

I joined my colleagues, union workers & climate advocates outside EPA to demand a meeting with DOGE about the impact Trump & Musk’s cuts will have to public health and the environment. We were denied entry. But we will never be deterred in our fight to defend science and protect our communities.

submitted 21 days ago • 14 comments

A politician won’t actually die on a hill. But someone, somewhere, will, if we abandon an agency JFK started that built on Gen. Marshall’s example. And retreating without a peep, or a march, or obstruction, doesn’t look like leadership to swing voters either. This all feels like pre-Iraq War talk.

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A Ketamine Koup, even

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aaaand now it all makes sense

submitted 23 days ago • 152 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...

submitted 22 days ago • 546 comments

Okay, so here, as I thought, is what Trudeau said. That there ARE and WILL CONTINUE to be 10k "frontline personnel" on the border. That almost certainly means a combination of military personnel and just their border patrol. But he's saying something that already exists. Axios upgraded that ...

submitted 23 days ago • 12 comments

CBS NEWS: “.. the water released from dams at Lake Kaweah and Lake Success is rushing into a dry lakebed in the Central Valley, where experts say it can't flow to Southern California and will likely go to waste.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-c...

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Trump: -tariffs are fun -tariffs should replace income tax -gonna tariff the EU -gonna tariff everyone in the world who doesn't produce in the US -make Canada weak and annex it -we're tariffing Canada for 50 lb of fentanyl Kevin Hassett: why does Canada not understand that this is about drugs?

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

A trade war with Canada that might shut down some auto manufacturers over 19 kilograms?

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Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they done yet but the level of …

submitted 25 days ago • 591 comments

One GOP proposal takes aim squarely at parents raising children on their own by eliminating the “head of household” filing status to reap some $200B more in taxes over a decade from single parents and other adults caring for dependents on their own.

submitted 25 days ago • 297 comments

A former DIRNSA weighs in on the travesty at the National Cryptologic Museum. Trump policies are dishonoring the women and minorities who were among greats of the National Security Agency.

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FDIC has yanked job offers to more than 200 new examiners, the front-line employees who closely monitor banks to ensure they operate safely and adhere to an extensive rule book. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 28 days ago • 75 comments

Project 2025 is here Just like we said it would be

submitted 27 days ago • 843 comments

Reporter: Do you plan to visit the site of the crash? Trump: "I have a plan to visit, not the site because -- what, you tell me? What's the site? Water? You wanna go swimming." Reporter: Will you meet the first responders down there? Trump: "I don't have a plan to do that."

submitted 28 days ago • 66 comments

ICYMI: After OMB Director Nominee Vought's hearing, I submitted some questions for the record which he is required to answer under oath. While he dodged many of our questions in the hearing and in other responses to QFRs, he used this one to show his true colors.

submitted 27 days ago • 235 comments

Sen Tim Kaine (D-VA) speech about Trump Admin. "buyout" idea for federal workers "He's tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept that offer and resign, he'll stiff you just like he stiffed the contractors. He doesn't have any authority to do this. Do not be fooled by this guy"

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