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I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

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As a Missouri resident, I could see everything that’s happening coming a mile away because they already did it to my state. Defunded schools, kicked kids off Medicaid, refused the will of voters, attacked marginalized communities, and sold off farmland to foreign companies. We knew.

submitted 2 days ago • 703 comments

Yep

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Pilot to Hegseth: "You’re going to kill somebody.” For the safety of our troops, Hegseth has got to go.

submitted 3 days ago • 701 comments

Keep the Congressional switchboard number handy these days: (202) 224-3121

submitted 3 days ago • 444 comments

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

submitted 3 days ago • 3082 comments

Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now Thanks for your service to our country

submitted 4 days ago • 1702 comments

Trump’s order is the culmination of years of attacks on absentee ballots and vote by mail. In the months before the 2020 election, Trump repeatedly spread disinformation and conspiracy theories about the legitimacy of mail-in ballots as he campaigned for reelection.

submitted 4 days ago • 118 comments

Really. Just about everything seems to be a lie👇👇

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1/ He wasn’t kidding when he told people 2024 was the last election they’d ever have to vote in if he won www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 5 days ago • 469 comments

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

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This isn't how gov't is supposed to work: The acting commissioner of Social Security admitted “I was ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president,” so I ended a program in Maine. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/25/s...

submitted 5 days ago • 1233 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge has issued a restraining order against Kari Lake and the Trump administration barring the cancelation of funding for Radio Free Europe. The decision to terminate, the judge says, appears to violate the law/congressional intent. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 5 days ago • 49 comments

Congress has been notified that President Trump’s nomination of Leo Brent Bozell III to be the CEO of the US Agency for Global Media has been withdrawn. www.congress.gov/nomination/1...

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Also let’s be clear about why they’re talking over Signal — they are attempting to skirt their obligations under the federal record preservation laws and ensure no records exists for public review. It’s incredibly illegal, but what do they do that isn’t?

submitted 6 days ago • 114 comments

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

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"We call on the judiciary, bar associations, law firms, and individual lawyers to speak out against this dangerous assault on the legal profession and the rule of law."

submitted 7 days ago • 102 comments

Re-sharing this here because: a) I want to pin it to my profile again b) it's my favorite piece of original published writing and c) it's 70° and I'm playing pickup later. “Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School.” — Robert Fulghum

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

AOC: In every single stop that Bernie and I have had in the past couple of days… every single stop has completely blown out all attendance projections.

submitted 8 days ago • 878 comments

I’ve published several threads on disordered discourse, how it captures democratic systems, and how we might counter it. For those who want to know more, the following playlist takes you through the philosophical ideas that have shaped much of my thinking. open.spotify.com/playlist/3NJ...

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

submitted 9 days ago • 759 comments

An example how not to “obey”…. We need all to be in this place.

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Lawson: Social Security works… And you know why? Because Wall Street doesn't get a piece of it. Because we don't let the billionaires reach their greedy little into it and that's why they hate it

submitted 8 days ago • 56 comments

We 💙 links! Starting this week, we've made it even easier for newsrooms and more to track how much traffic Bluesky is sending to their sites. For those setting up analytics, Bluesky's referrer is go.bsky.app.

submitted 10 days ago • 397 comments

“Russia is a terrorist state. Putin is a war criminal.”

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Last night,Russia launched a very deliberate&demonstrative massive strike on Odesa: that's the ceasefire you get. This is very usual for prison culture:to beat up& kill demonstratively. I will repeat the facts once more: Russia is a terrorist state. Putin is a war criminal

submitted 10 days ago • 583 comments

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person. I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

submitted 10 days ago • 1256 comments

This is insane

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🚨BREAKING: It seems very clear that the Administration decided not to abide by the court's order. The question now is what will the judge do. Does he proceed with contempt or something short of that to defuse. Upping the stakes is the fact that the AG and her senior staff signed this notice.

submitted 14 days ago • 1591 comments

This 👇👇from someone who knows and experienced it.

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It’s almost funny but actually shocking how MAGA spent all week trying to justify the detention of Mahmoud Khalil with BS ‘he’s Hamas’ accusations but then goes & deports Dr Rasha Alawieh, a Brown uni professor & doctor specializing in kidney transplant patients without any reasons given whatsoever!

submitted 14 days ago • 69 comments

The dollar sinks while Washington pretends it’s strategy, not incompetence. Devaluing our currency to pay for failed policies—call it what it is: a tax on everyone except the rich.

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Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

submitted 14 days ago • 2323 comments

Narrator: Bongino is of course a far right podcaster.

submitted 32 days ago • 783 comments

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

submitted 34 days ago • 2776 comments

Breaking news! The court just issued us a TRO in our lawsuit against Elon Musk's DOGE, so that they stop taking the private data of American citizens from the Department of Ed and OPM. More to come.

submitted 34 days ago • 69 comments

This is the House Republican budget plan that Donald Trump endorsed. Trickle up economics.

submitted 36 days ago • 232 comments

DID YOU KNOW: We had fewer federal workers in 2024 than we had in 1970?

submitted 35 days ago • 247 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 37 days ago • 1566 comments

Trump's attacks on the USPS aren't new. For decades, the GOP has been trying to privatize the Post Office and other crucial public services — all to pad the profits of their wealthy corporate donors.

submitted 36 days ago • 114 comments