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"I am very concerned that if these cuts are not rescinded, these will have an effect for decades." Dr. David Kessler, former FDA commissioner, is losing confidence that the damage Donald Trump is doing to the United States is fixable.

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Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...

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California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."

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More of this

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THE FILIBOOKER: Cory Booker has been holding the Senate floor and speaking for more than 14 hours to protest the "grave and urgent" threat posed by the Trump administration. He's showing no signs of stopping.

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BREAKING: I'm placing a hold on President Trump's nominee for U.S. Attorney in DC. For the past few weeks, Ed Martin has been a one-man wrecking ball. Threatening political opponents, firing public servants, and using his office to chill free speech. His nomination must be blocked.

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Sandoval-Moshenberg points out that if the government can remove people in “error” without recourse, then that logic could “apply with equal force to U.S. citizens.” “There’s no limiting principle to that lawlessness,” Sandoval Moshenberg says

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Hey NBC and Seth Meyers, y’all need to book the largest possible venue in D.C. on April 26th and do a competing fundraiser and comedy show that actually celebrates the First Amendment. Televise it. Make Amber Ruffin the central act. Send a message that free speech is non-negotiable.

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I love this idea.

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Breathtaking. A federal prosecutor in LA was fired Friday at the behest of the White House, after lawyers for a fast-food executive he was prosecuting pushed officials in DC to drop all charges against him White House ordered firing of L.A. federal prosecutor on ex-Fatburger CEO case, sources say

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This needs to be said more and loudly.

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'14 yr olds can work overnight - Teens can work overnight on School days'. Hmm, wondering how many of this administration's underage/minor children will be working these hours, let alone holding down a job at all? 🤔 #zero

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You might ask why an entire nation's worth of computer experts opted out of "let's rewrite the code that handles all of Social Security in a couple months" before now and merely asking the question makes you much smarter than any of the script kiddies calling themselves 'DOGE'.

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The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Hi friends, help me boost? Looking to talk to people who work in child vaccines (providers, schools, health depts, clinics, data folks or coalitions, etc.) who might have insight or experiences to share about how their work has been impacted the last couple of months. Don't reply just DM me please!

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

Scenes from Bangkok, Thailand, affected by the massive earthquake in South East Asia today. #earthquake

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BREAKING: DOJ asks SCOTUS to allow it to enforce Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation during appeals. If granted, the Trump administration has said it would resume deportations of people it alleges fall under the AEA order with no notice or process. Filing: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

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The incompetence of this administration is staggering.

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Ben & Jerry’s parent firm threatened then ousted the ice cream brand’s chief executive for defending its “social mission,” a Tuesday court filing alleges.

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Whether it's the Navajo code talkers helping to defeat the Nazis or it's Nazis removing all mention of the Navajo code talkers from the US military's website, the conflict between Nazis and Navajo code talkers has continued for over 80 years.

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Quite a fun moment when the security contractors who had been terminated by the USIP but had switched their allegiances to DOGE entered the property with an unconfiscated key and headed immediately to the gun safe.

submitted 26 days ago • 101 comments

In the last week alone, more than 5000 people have signed up with @runforsomething.net to consider a run for office. We're up to over 32k new people in the pipeline since Election Day. That's more than in all of 2017-2018 combined.

submitted 27 days ago • 41 comments

I definitely wasn’t expecting the JFK files release to inadvertently confirm the 1953 Hungarian Uprising was an attempted color revolution backed by the CIA and western powers just like the tankies alleged the whole goddamn time but it is certainly hilarious regardless

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Two quotations by James Baldwin that seem especially appropriate these days: "Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." “It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” FWIW

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I remember it being unpleasant & a lot less fudge-y.

submitted 27 days ago • 1520 comments

Utterly predictably, Putin rejects the unconditional ceasefire offered by Ukraine, sends Trump off on the errands of making the Russian invasion easier and denying Ukrainian sovereignty, while Trump claims he has accomplished something.

submitted 27 days ago • 171 comments

This is NOT OK.

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@ kendrick lamar do one about schumer

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These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

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i honestly have never seen a political leader so thoroughly destroy their credibility so quickly and, on the other side, it is abundantly clear that if anyone can claim a genuine leadership of large parts of the democratic party, it is AOC.

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NEW: Here are the 10 “democratic” senators that voted to sell out veterans, the American people, and their colleagues in the House. Cortez Masto Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan King Peters Schatz Schumer Shaheen

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Utterly unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...

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Two Republican senators told me tonight this vote shows they can execute the same strategy again — cut Democrats out of the negotiations on a gov’t funding bill, pass it thru the House, and expect Senate Dems to back down and not filibuster it. “We liked it over here,” one said.

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AOC on senate Dems caving and backing the CR: “A wide sense of betrayal.”

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WTF, Chuck?!

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A professor of environmental sciences gives a quick punchy take on the "eye-popping" numbers re. how clean air promotes economic growth. An EPA analysis of 20 years of the Clean Air Act (1970-90) found the economic benefits of the regulations were about 42X greater than the costs. No pay wall.

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New data from the US Treasury reveals that federal spending was $603 billion in February, which is $36 billion HIGHER than February last year under Biden. This suggests that DOGE has done nothing to cut spending.

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BREAKING: Judge Alsup has ordered the reinstatement of ALL probationary employees at Veterans Affairs, DoD, Agriculture, Interior, Labor, and Energy, AND he is demanding under oath testimony from Ezell. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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