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The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

submitted 3 days ago • 1649 comments

EXACTLY.

submitted 7 days ago • 252 comments

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 8 days ago • 8507 comments

This is how they slowly erode NRCS

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

submitted 9 days ago • 666 comments

If it can happen in northwest Missouri, it can happen anywhere…

submitted 11 days ago • 65 comments

In fairness, China's pronouncers of state propaganda have a much better game then America's.

submitted 12 days ago • 874 comments

A reminder that Donold feeds off of fear. He wants everyone to be afraid at all times. He wants you to stop discussing Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He wants you to stop discussing SignalGate. So he sows fear and panic.

submitted 11 days ago • 321 comments

Trump’s defiance of court rulings has many asking: Do the courts still hold real power against an autocratic president? Legal expert Professor Tobias Barrington Wolff tackles this question and more in this must-read Q&A with The Big Picture. Catch up on the conversation here.

submitted 22 days ago • 67 comments

Started // going

submitted 24 days ago • 214 comments

Strom Thurmond, racist Senator from SC, has held the Senate record since 1957 for his 24 hr & 18 minute objection to the 1957 Civil Rights Act. It is beyond fitting that @booker.senate.gov may break that record today in opposition to yet more racism & illegal gov activities.

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

Mark is not on our side.

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The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.

submitted 28 days ago • 985 comments

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

submitted 27 days ago • 216 comments

BREAKING — Nearly all employees at the US Institute of Peace (USIP) received an email tonight informing them they were fired effective immediately, multiple staffers confirmed with me. Just a few HR and IT staffers are being kept on to assist DOGE’s illegal dismantling of the independent nonprofit.

submitted 28 days ago • 115 comments

Musk’s AI Grok calculates that Elon's DOGE cuts will kill at least 3.88 million people worldwide and 520,000 USians. #3E

submitted 28 days ago • 215 comments

Make this viral.

submitted 37 days ago • 42 comments

On Friday, in a top-secret briefing from Pete Hegseth, Elon Musk will gain access to closely guarded US military secrets regarding the US military’s plan for any war that might break out with China. This is despite Musk's extensive business interests in China and his ketamine addiction.

submitted 36 days ago • 349 comments

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

submitted 36 days ago • 1664 comments

This is freakishly wrong. Extortion, corruption, submission. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 36 days ago • 46 comments

Thou shalt not let anti-science imbeciles destroy the Department of Education so everyone can be as stupid as they are.

submitted 36 days ago • 222 comments

This, right here..

submitted 38 days ago • 485 comments

When people talk about "American Exceptionalism" they now usually mean that Americans are exceptionally bad a running a country.

submitted 39 days ago • 514 comments

These Senators are on the fence about voting NO on the CR: Elissa Slotkin (MI) Gary Peters (MI) Jacky Rosen (NV) Jeanne Shaheen (NH) Maggie Hassan (NH) Jon Ossoff (GA) John Hickenlooper (CO) Michael Bennett (CO) Mark Kelly (AZ) Peter Welch (VT) Mark Warner (VA) Time Kaine (VA) Call (202) 224-3121

submitted 44 days ago • 991 comments

Here's a great way to show your support for Ukraine. Send a note or postcard to the embassy. Would be great to fill their mailroom with love from America. Ukrainian Embassy 3350 M Street NW Washington DC 20007

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Don’t let Donold’s AI Gaza video distract you from the fact they’re going to destroy Medicaid and kill millions in exchange for tax cuts for themselves.

submitted 58 days ago • 191 comments

Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

submitted 58 days ago • 435 comments

Put all the “DEI” folks who got let go onto a new network and I’d watch the shit out of it.

submitted 58 days ago • 1790 comments

PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

submitted 61 days ago • 5142 comments

I've been wondering where the good hackers are!

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 63 days ago • 1847 comments

Happy Tax Season! This is your daily reminder that Elon Musk’s Tesla paid $0 in federal income taxes despite raking in $2.3 billion.

submitted 63 days ago • 5 comments

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

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Trump proving beyond a doubt he is working for Russia, is now openly attacking Zelenskyy and Ukraine after failing to blackmail them for trillions of dollars. Everyday Trump is president is a 100 years of shame and embarrassment for the United States.

submitted 65 days ago • 489 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 65 days ago • 1197 comments

I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

submitted 66 days ago • 595 comments

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

submitted 65 days ago • 67 comments

Meet 11-year-old Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, a young girl from Texas whose life was tragically cut short. She died by suicide after classmates threatened to call ICE on her family. Stop dehumanizing immigrants. That is not America.

submitted 66 days ago • 1121 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 66 days ago • 1917 comments

Hey DOGE bros - found some of that wasteful spending you were looking for. How many gov employees could have kept working and feeding their families with the estimated $2.5M this stunt cost?

submitted 68 days ago • 561 comments

They’re firing NIH scientists and replacing them with people with this level of crappy chart-making? Sounds like the DOGE kids would benefit from going through the NIH postbac program. 🧪

submitted 68 days ago • 29 comments

Because of DOGE, countless Americans are going to die.

submitted 69 days ago • 600 comments

I think attitudes towards government employees are a bit like attitudes towards race and religion and sexuality. Plenty of people are unregenerate bigots in the abstract but have That One Black Friend who They Don’t Think of As Black. There are exceptions in the particular, unreconciled. /1

submitted 71 days ago • 32 comments

If Trump and the GOP extend their 2017 tax cuts, the top 1% will make out like bandits — taking home an extra $165 per day. But the bottom 60% will get shafted — getting only an extra $1.10 per day in exchange for massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. It's reverse Robin Hood.

submitted 69 days ago • 139 comments

Spot on.

submitted 70 days ago • 1539 comments