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Trump Cut Deal To Let Sinaloa Cartel Members Into US apnews.com/article/el-c...

submitted 6 days ago • 136 comments

In 2024, Biden signed into law a $105 billion measure designed to end a shortfall in air traffic controllers. In 2025, Trump came in and instead began firing hundreds of them. So you can see how clear it is that Biden is to blame for the shortage now.

submitted 7 days ago • 235 comments

While America slept, House Republicans quietly unveiled their Medicaid plan. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says it strips health insurance from 13.7 million Americans.

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...

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Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

submitted 33 days ago • 1860 comments

Academic freedom is not for sale. It’s a sacred value that transcends political cycles and economic pressures. Universities that defend it are not just protecting their own integrity; they’re safeguarding the future of knowledge itself. Let’s rise to support them.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Holy moly this is awesome. For any journalists looking to add interesting local anecdotes to your articles - check this out:

submitted 42 days ago • 45 comments

Imagine the hubris that goes into saying that you are going to reset global trade and just pull the plug on the entire economy. These fools are making shit up and have no idea what they are doing or even why. But don't worry. They went long ages ago.

submitted 42 days ago • 79 comments

The same damage being done to the stock market is being done to our health, securities & environment, there just isn't a stock ticker to show how bad it is for the others.

submitted 42 days ago • 193 comments

When Harris said it would be $4,000, the “fact-checkers” tut-tutted and claimed what she said was only “half true” because there were some lower estimates. The “fact-checkers” lied; Harris was telling the truth.

submitted 47 days ago • 26 comments

Amid the ongoing bird flu outbreak, the "top FDA veterinarian working to help the Trump administration fight bird flu has been let go."

submitted 48 days ago • 14 comments

John Keker of Keker, Van Nest & Peters’ message to big firms wavering or scared: Stand up. Don’t just be scared for yourself—be scared for the entire situation, for the rule of law, and for the role of lawyers in this democracy.

submitted 52 days ago • 205 comments

These men behind bars are not in prison after being charged with crimes. They are "enemy combatants" being detained in a concentration camp. As such, Kristi Noem's crass photo-op using them as props violates the Geneva Convention's prohibition of ‘exposure to public curiosity’ of those captured.

submitted 52 days ago • 2994 comments

Leavitt confirms that Elon Musk's team is investigating SignalGate 🙃

submitted 54 days ago • 457 comments

🚨 CBS News has received an internal NSA bulletin from Feb 2025 warning staff NOT to use Signal app for sensitive info, citing vulnerabilities to Russian hackers. These docs were sent pre-Houthi chat scandal with Jeffrey Goldberg.

submitted 55 days ago • 1085 comments

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

submitted 55 days ago • 1506 comments

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

submitted 56 days ago • 924 comments

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

submitted 61 days ago • 3323 comments

🚨 NEW: VoteVets is launching a six-figure ad blitz across TV, streaming, digital, and billboards—exposing GOP Veterans dodging constituents while Musk’s DOGE fires thousands of Veterans. They promised to fight for Veterans—now they’re silent. Stop Elon’s war on Veterans. Demand Congress act!

submitted 62 days ago • 290 comments

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submitted 64 days ago • 248 comments

This is outrageous. Judge Boasberg’s order went against government agencies which were in the US, and which were in direct contact with the plane. He must hold them in contempt of court.

submitted 64 days ago • 648 comments

Just saying if you’re a guided meditation teacher/publisher, there is a huge untapped opportunity to record material for high school seniors handling college decisions, hopes, feelings, and anticipation.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

submitted 70 days ago • 31 comments

"Normally, we treat each bullet point as a separate story. But they are all connected. We are witnessing an extraordinarily broad chilling effect in American society." Look at the length of these lists - this effort to intimidate and silence opposition is a key part of Trump II's authoritarianism.

submitted 71 days ago • 31 comments

A couple of golf outings could pay for over 300 federal jobs for an entire year.

submitted 72 days ago • 725 comments

@newsjennifer.bsky.social on the NWS: "Their work makes it safe to fly...informs farmers when to plant and harvest... determines when to sound tornado alarms and when to evacuate from the path of a hurricane." The "ideologues in charge" don't care. But they should. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

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submitted 76 days ago • 1424 comments

Dear universities, scientists, lawyers, farmers, workers, artists, doctors... Being silent won't protect you.

submitted 77 days ago • 278 comments

A brilliant Banksy.

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Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

submitted 81 days ago • 1162 comments

Republicans are lying when they say they won't cut Medicaid. They greenlighted a plan to gut Medicaid by $880 billion, and millions of Americans are going to suffer because of it.

submitted 82 days ago • 35 comments

It's not just one instance of a billion being only a million: "DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes," a team of New York Times reporters found. The figures are "full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 86 days ago • 41 comments

How Hitler seized power: 1. Create a crisis. 2. Demonize opponents. 3. Declare a state of emergency. 4. Undermine elections. 5. Make the rule of law irrelevant. 6. Rule by decree. If America falls it will be because of the people who didn’t pay attention.

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People will die because Elon Musk wants to use his crappy AI company, xAI, to take over the government. He plans to become “Technoking” over America just as he says he is (it’s actually his official job title) the Technoking of Tesla. I repeat: people will die because of this boundlessly evil man.

submitted 92 days ago • 107 comments

L'État, c'est moi

submitted 93 days ago • 45 comments

Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany on Saturday accused Vice President JD Vance of unacceptably interfering in his country’s coming elections on behalf of a party that has played down the atrocities committed by the Nazis. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

submitted 93 days ago • 253 comments

NEW: The CDC is currently removing all the influenza resources from their website during the worst flu season in decades.

submitted 94 days ago • 842 comments