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The next step in trying to dismantle Infectious Diseases research - dismantle @niaidnews.bsky.social - should surprise no one that this a R-led proposal. An unmitigated disaster for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of pathogens that affect everyone in the US www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

Never in my most pessimistic moments did I expect the response to modern biotechnology saving countless lives in a pandemic to be a powerful elite captured by a conspiracy theory and dismantling our defenses against the next one out of some misguided notion of revenge

submitted 9 hours ago • 22 comments

“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 3 hours ago • 274 comments

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 5 hours ago • 122 comments

second rewatch of the return and i’m already in awe once again at how amazing it is

submitted 5 hours ago • 11 comments

No fucking shit. Who did he think keeps the Kennedy Center running? www.thedailybeast.com/kennedy-cent...

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 11 hours ago • 223 comments

I'm no scholar of history, but I paid attention in college and can tell you this man will be fortunate to die in a prison cell

submitted 10 hours ago • 111 comments

Kyle MacLachlan is 66. Seen here with John Waters & David Lynch.

submitted 8 hours ago • 8 comments

Happy birthday to the legend, the myth, the icon that is Kyle MacLachlan 🎂💙

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Here’s the email everyone is getting from OPM. Embarrassing stuff.

submitted 8 hours ago • 343 comments

there are so many things happening right now to federal employees that are illegal under current employment laws

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

The Trump regime's segregationist agenda is clear. I argue that having a Black man as president of white America enraged a portion of this country so much, that they decided to destroy any pipeline to Black advancement in academia, government, & workplaces. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trumps-seg...

submitted 13 hours ago • 250 comments

I completely agree with this, and with the thread. If you don't discuss racism as a giant motivating factor (not the only one, but a huge one), you can't cover this administration, these people, or their party accurately.

submitted 11 hours ago • 16 comments

This brain rotted loser who wasn’t even born in the U.S. is now our unelected president. Absolutely humiliating to be an American right now.

submitted 11 hours ago • 34 comments

Elon is hiring criminals to work for DOGE because it is a criminal conspiracy

submitted 13 hours ago • 26 comments

US officials are reportedly threatening to revoke Starlink access for Ukraine if they don’t give us 50% of their mineral rights. That’s not diplomacy, it’s extortion. We’re also pushing them to kill a UN Resolution that blames Russia for starting the war. Facts matter.

submitted 13 hours ago • 265 comments

Yesterday it was university of Pittsburgh - today it’s Penn. I fear this will soon be a grimly long thread of more gratuitous Trump/Musk inflicted disabling of America for the long term www.thedp.com/article/2025...

submitted 14 hours ago • 26 comments

It is way too on the nose than trump is starting his second term to try to shake down Ukraine… again

submitted 14 hours ago • 14 comments

Gee, why isn't DOGE flagging this as wasteful spending? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 17 hours ago • 37 comments

200 million dollars of waste.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1291 comments

I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled. Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security. This is absolutely an act of sabotage.

submitted 26 days ago • 159 comments

it is really notable the extent to which state Dems have been significantly better than federal Dems at telling Trump to go fuck himself

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

submitted 17 hours ago • 184 comments

Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

submitted 1 day ago • 636 comments

A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

submitted 1 day ago • 730 comments

“The numerous mistakes, according to people familiar with the complex world of government contracting, suggest that Mr. Musk’s team of outsiders, charged by the president with cutting spending, don’t fully understand it.” 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments