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submitted 23 hours ago • 463 comments

share.newsbreak.com/bme4kx29 How sad. Indiana wants to stop free books for kids. #FUINDIANA

submitted 2 days ago • 675 comments

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on. Now.

submitted 1 day ago • 431 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 2 days ago • 1214 comments

Donald Trump doubles down on his attacks against President Zelensky, calling him a “dictator” and accusing him of starting a war that “couldn’t be won, that never had to start.” Fuc*ing POS traitor.

submitted 3 days ago • 185 comments

DOGE having access to Americans' Social Security data isn't just a major security breach. It's part of a deliberate ploy to cut benefits — using the false pretext of "waste and fraud" — and have Congress use the savings to give billionaires another giant tax cut. Be warned.

submitted 3 days ago • 225 comments

Trump blames Ukraine for starting the war the way a rapist blames his victim for looking too sexy.

submitted 3 days ago • 922 comments

They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

submitted 3 days ago • 619 comments

BREAKING: The Trump administration has halted the firings of hundreds of federal employees who were tasked with working on the nation’s nuclear weapons programs They’re going to get us all killed apnews.com/article/nucl...

submitted 5 days ago • 98 comments

Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone. Don't fall for it.

submitted 5 days ago • 221 comments

Protests are set to take place on Presidents Day. These demonstrations are being organized by the 50501 Movement, which stands for "50 protests. 50 states. 1 movement." The protests are a response to “the anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Dump administration." 🇺🇸 www.npr.org/2025/02/16/n...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

submitted 5 days ago • 827 comments

Money talks

submitted 5 days ago • 2306 comments

House Republicans released a draft budget that aims to cut $2 trillion in spending. The programs impacted could include Medicaid, SNAP, and education programs. Why the cuts? To finance another round of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It's reverse Robin Hood.

submitted 7 days ago • 223 comments

They won’t ever learn will they

submitted 6 days ago • 676 comments

You cannot fire so many people and shutter so many agencies and services and not expect things to start to go very bad very quickly. Our job is to highlight not only the chaos and cruelty of the firings, but also the devastating consequences. The public must turn on this madness and soon.

submitted 6 days ago • 798 comments

Sad, but true.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I accidentally went shopping on an empty stomach… Now I’m the proud owner of isle 6.

submitted 6 days ago • 440 comments

Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.

submitted 6 days ago • 1696 comments

This. Also. @aoc.bsky.social @ericswalwell.bsky.social et al , can you do what ever you guys do in the House to let Musk, Trump and everyone know that the UCFE, which funds unemployment benefits , is in the Dept of Labor. If these funds are cut, the cost will fall on the states.

submitted 6 days ago • 838 comments

Check out this community note👌🔥

submitted 6 days ago • 331 comments

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

submitted 6 days ago • 536 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 6 days ago • 942 comments

The greatest business battle EVER to be fought will come when President Elon starts trying to implement AI for federal processes. The battle will be fought over which company’s AI will be used by the feds. This is a zero sum battle that will create more chaos than this country has ever seen

submitted 6 days ago • 2584 comments

That Super Bowl was a gift for black artists. Kendrick showed us a way forward in this time of facism. Coded language. Storytelling. Aggressive humor and joy. Elevated artistry in the place of mere entertainment. Not obeying in advance. Saying the thing that respectability doesn’t want us say.

submitted 9 days ago • 152 comments

Google claims they removed several events from Google Calendar because maintaining their presence wasn't "sustainable"—but critics are crying foul.

submitted 9 days ago • 880 comments

We’re not a serious country anymore

submitted 9 days ago • 237 comments

⚪️ Evangelicals mad because Kendrick showed how easy it is to call out predators on stage but they won’t do it.

submitted 10 days ago • 281 comments

The orange idiot is punishing an AP reporter because they call the Gulf of Mexico by the name it has been called for ages, not by the ludicrous new name Dump has given it. What a petty little man. 🤦‍♀️ www.aol.com/white-house-...

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Protect this law at all costs ! www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 9 days ago • 1280 comments

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

submitted 14 days ago • 1528 comments

After crippling the FBI, the Trump administration is now going after the CIA. Our intelligence agencies are being gutted and replaced with political hacks and Trump loyalists who will follow his orders without question. Russia and China can’t believe their luck.

submitted 17 days ago • 77 comments

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submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I see more criticism here of Democrats in Congress than I do condemnation of Republicans. And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump. It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other. Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.

submitted 18 days ago • 3221 comments

I just completed "Plutonian Pebbles" - Day 11 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/11 #rustlang #rust

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Wenn wir die Aufmerksamkeit, die die paar tausend Menschen bei Pegida damals von den Medien bekamen, in Relation setzen würden damit, wie viele Hunderttausende gegen Rechts demonstrieren, dürfte die Tagesschau bis 2039 über nichts anderes mehr berichten.

submitted 20 days ago • 41 comments

Somehow ironic for OpenAI to complain that somebody used "their" data to train and refine an LLM. How did OpenAI get their hands on the data in the first place? Exactly 🤷‍♂️ www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Looks like conservatives don't mind cancel culture when it benefits them.

submitted 26 days ago • 704 comments

I just completed "Hoof It" - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/10 #rust

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Food for thought.

submitted 34 days ago • 1574 comments

Sigh. We tried to warn them.

submitted 34 days ago • 5599 comments

So true.

submitted 41 days ago • 1259 comments

I fear there is deep truth here.

submitted 41 days ago • 1488 comments

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Ständig stoße ich hier auf Links zu tollen, sicherlich klug durchdachten Artikeln - hinter einer Paywall. Den unrecherchierten Hass gibt es aber überall barrierefrei und gratis. Das ist halt auch ein großer Teil des Problems.

submitted 46 days ago • 81 comments

I just completed "Disk Fragmenter" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/9 #rust

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

I just completed "Resonant Collinearity" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/8 #rust

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments