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submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

submitted 3 days ago • 778 comments

This is go to prison forever malfeasance. A guy who is currently a SpaceX employee also serves as an FAA official who cancels a big contract to award instead no-bid to his own employer and starts installing hardware without statutorily required tests and assurances

submitted 9 days ago • 71 comments

Swedes launch boycott of US goods in response to recent policy shifts #Sweden #Boycott #USA www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

submitted 9 days ago • 62 comments

The 100 lowest-paying major US corporations spent $522B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2023. Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned just $34k. Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $14.7M. See the problem?

submitted 9 days ago • 136 comments

Trump is deliberately tanking our economy. He's dismantling every government agency—firing thousands of competent career professionals & replacing them with unfit bootlicker loyalists. He has betrayed our allies & stands with our enemies. He's weaponizing the rule of law & oppressing the free press.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

We have to remember that the American public being misinformed and lacking knowledge of what’s happening right now is only their fault to an extent Our entire media ecosystem has been purchased and controlled by billionaires and oligarchs. A misinformed public is MANUFACTURED AND INTENTIONAL.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

The Harper's Letter signatories are NO DOUBT preparing another letter...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

❤️🇩🇰

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

Again, the Secretary of State has no authority to “revoke” green cards.

submitted 9 days ago • 182 comments

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 9 days ago • 254 comments

#EmotionLogic #BrainHealth #Empathy fundamental strength #Hate powerful but creates harmful #Pain

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submitted 13 days ago • 939 comments

On International Women's Day, we honor the incredible achievements and resilience of all the women who’ve strengthened our nation. Democracy demands equal rights– equal pay, access to childcare, and bodily autonomy. I’m proud to support women’s rights.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

The administration is doing a good job trying to keep measles cases from being counted, yet we’ve already had more deaths in 2025 than in any of the last 30 yrs. Measles also has a delay (incubation period) between transmission and symptoms, so people can be contagious without knowing they’re sick.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

Bernie Sanders is holding MASSIVE rallies in packed venues, bigger crowds than Trump was getting, and legacy media is practically silent. Bernie is talking to workers rather than hanging out with socialites with mediocre plastic surgery at Mar-a-Lago, and it's just not interesting to corporate media

submitted 9 days ago • 246 comments

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submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Once again I am suggesting that you break some rules for practice. Get comfortable with breaking rules. When the rules are hurting other people, the right thing to do is break them. We need people who follow their moral code over the rules of their society, university, employer, and government.

submitted 13 days ago • 76 comments

The Iowa GOP advanced a bill making it a misdemeanor for a healthcare provider to administer a Covid vaccine. Even when a person has requested a Covid vaccine.

submitted 14 days ago • 2623 comments

Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

submitted 14 days ago • 1089 comments

In the near future, there will be an exhibition of all the ridiculous garbage spewed by this brainrot of an administration and it's lackeyes like Muskrat - as a demostration of cringe-worth, misinformed, dangerous & psychotic expression of an empire in decline.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Spread the hint

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submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This isn’t about measles or vaccines or public health or even dead kids for the guys in charge. It’s about money & power. For me it’s about integrity & no-dead-kids human decency. I’ll tell you how to avoid measles (MMR) & I’ll also tell people who feel okay sacrificing kids for MAHA to fuck off 🖕🏻

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submitted 18 days ago • 22 comments

"It is no exaggeration to say this will kill people—mainly people who are elderly, disabled and/or poor. Society’s most vulnerable sit in the crosshairs of our nation’s wealthiest people who have absolutely everything, but somehow always want more."

submitted 20 days ago • 102 comments

Word we don't have in English but need to invent, stat: government run by, and for the benefit of, sexual predators. Rapistocracy? "Their flight to US comes after FT reported Trump’s envoy spoke to the Romanian FM about the brothers at Munich Security Conf." www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

submitted 20 days ago • 1185 comments

Since January 24, 14,482 adults and 1,541 infants have died as a consequence of a single frozen USAID program. USAID implements the PEPFAR program.

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 20 days ago • 479 comments

EXACTLY. Freedom to exploit others while becoming even richer

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump has fired more Veterans than any other President in our nation’s history.

submitted 20 days ago • 28 comments

This is very bad. “A panel of scientific experts that advises the Food and Drug Administration on vaccine policy — and has been the target of criticism from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — learned on Wednesday that its upcoming meeting to discuss next year’s flu vaccines has been canceled.”

submitted 20 days ago • 20 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 20 days ago • 442 comments

Why the USA needs to create wars everywhere

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

We are absolutely not prepared for emerging threats—just look at the Texas measles outbreak. Over 120 cases, spread to another state, and yet silence from the CDC, HHS Secretary, and other government agencies while dismantling ACIP and public health in this country.

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

I love leaving voice mails for my senators where I say things like "the USPS is very important to our country" as if I'm helping a small child with a book report or describing our civilization to an alien

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

President of Finland Alexander Stubb speaking in Kyiv today: ▪️ It’s not Russia who decides on EU membership,its the European Union who does that ▪️ It’s not Russia that decides on NATO membership,it’s the alliance itself ▪️ It’s not Russia that decides on what Ukraine has by its border,when,where&how

submitted 22 days ago • 110 comments

Who feels good about America shaking down Ukraine for mineral money? Gross how NYT describes the negotiation as, "A testament to Mr. Trump’s transactional approach to foreign affairs." It's gross and unethical to exploit a desperate nation for our own wealth. #UsPol #GiftArticle #Ukraine.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments