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Hate is on the rise—and it’s showing up in ways that should alarm every single one of us. We’re seeing violent attacks targeting people for who they are, what they believe, or how they choose to live. That’s unacceptable. (1/2)

submitted 3 hours ago • 217 comments

The US Administration is in the midst of drastically and lastingly harming American innovation, productivity, and competitiveness. Every Conservative and Liberal American will be affected.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

The US Administration's authoritarian attack on Harvard now includes perverting their entrusted powers for collecting tax revenue, school accreditation, approving student visas, managing our public research funds mandated by Congress, and selective criminal investigation. Shameful, anti-American.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 80 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

submitted 1 day ago • 1186 comments

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

submitted 1 day ago • 1282 comments

Stephen Miller said recently that American scientific achievement in the mid-20th century owed little to immigrants, given immigration quotas at the time. Someone should tell him that from 1945- 1974, 16 of the 30 U.S. winners of the Nobel in physics were immigrants www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

submitted 2 days ago • 133 comments

This is the kind of sweeping, truth-telling journalism we need more of. Good job, AP.

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

ICE is illegally raiding Congressional offices

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

“American science is ruined”

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

BREAKING: The president's budget request just hit Congress, which could usher in a dark age for NASA space science. Congress has the final say, but you can help shape the outcome by adding your name to our global petition. This is just the start of our fight. Sign the petition: planet.ly/petition

submitted 4 days ago • 106 comments

Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

submitted 3 days ago • 244 comments

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

submitted 3 days ago • 598 comments

Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2 Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1 Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7

submitted 5 days ago • 322 comments

I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...

submitted 5 days ago • 1121 comments

Whitmer kidnap plotters were represented by counsel, given due process, and convicted by a jury unanimously beyond a reasonable doubt. A pardon would reward political violence. www.freep.com/story/news/p...

submitted 6 days ago • 159 comments

When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody." But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies. Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.

submitted 7 days ago • 890 comments

the plan to make america great again is to make us an impoverished garrison state dominated by trump and his oligarch buddies

submitted 7 days ago • 140 comments

the assault on higher ed continues, underscoring how this isn’t about harvard or columbia but the entire sector, academic freedom, free speech, the viability of universities in the us.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

To do this now, at the exact time of year when students are applying for visas, even if temporary (which I presume is the case) is intended to exert maximum destruction.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Pete Hegseth’s Defense Department tried to bar a CNN journalist from serving as a pool reporter for an upcoming foreign trip. Other reporters threatened to boycott the trip. Guess what happened next. The Pentagon caved. Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/pete-hegse...

submitted 7 days ago • 76 comments

A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts the FDA's own publication from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine

submitted 7 days ago • 237 comments

Trump v. US is increasingly looking like a historically catastrophic Supreme Court ruling Dred Scott, Plessy, Lochner, Korematsu-level bad except on this one there may be no lever to with which to pull back

submitted 65 days ago • 38 comments

I cannot stress enough how much of a Def Con 1 moment this is. Federal judges fear that the President of the United States will stand down security for judges in retaliation for adverse decisions. This is such a huge story.

submitted 9 days ago • 125 comments

EVERY DEMOCRAT SHOULD BE SPEAKING THIS WAY IN EVERY PUBLIC COMMENT THEY MAKE

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

If we stop calling these “grants” and start calling them “contracts,” it’s clearer to people why this is such an abuse of power. This wasn’t a bunch of gifts. This was a bunch of binding contracts between researchers and the US govt for specific agreed upon projects.

submitted 14 days ago • 20 comments

Unprecedented corruption & illegal monetization of the presidency, happening right in front of us. Richard Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks in comparison. Incredibly unserious oath violation by every single member of Congress. A total failure of Article I of the Constitution.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

submitted 27 days ago • 53 comments

It’s like Jesus himself returned to Earth to take away people’s health care and lie to them about why

submitted 9 days ago • 92 comments

Democrats in Congress: Investigate and expose why ICE is allowed to operate in masks and conceal their identities. There is no acceptable scenario where this should be permitted. @HouseDemocrats @SenateDems

submitted 11 days ago • 529 comments