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Top Dem on the House Intel Committee Jim Himes says in a statement that he understands that the White House “insisted” on the CIA transmitting the list in an unclassified email

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Left: Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin dismisses Jan. 6 case of Jose Padilla on Jan. 21, 2025 Right: Interim US Attorney Ed Martin seeks withdraw as Padilla’s counsel of record on Feb. 5, 2025 He signed a dismissal for a client he was still recorded as representing.

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The policy lead for CDC's H5N1 response has abruptly resigned. Sources tell me CDC's response to the bird flu pandemic has been severely hobbled by the chaos of the past two weeks.

submitted 18 days ago • 312 comments

3 hours to leave her house. This is how they treat a 4-star Admiral and Commandant of the Coast Guard. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 18 days ago • 335 comments

Was reading George Orwell on the Spanish civil war last night and this part stuck out.

submitted 18 days ago • 80 comments

The Trump’s campaign promise was to finish the job they started on Jan 6 and this is what it looks like.

submitted 20 days ago • 206 comments

Imagine saying this about an agency that has helped millions of people around the world avoid malaria, obtain clean water, and gain access to food & health care. Especially when you’re the world’s richest man & your net worth is something like 20 times this agency’s annual budget. What a foul soul.

submitted 20 days ago • 1505 comments

And it begins. FBI class action lawsuit against the retaliatory purge. First Amendment Violation of Due Process Rights to Privacy www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 19 days ago • 1035 comments

More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a NYT analysis found. The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

submitted 19 days ago • 119 comments

And that wasn’t idle speculation. The ADA came about in large part because of the dramatic protests of disabled activists. This was the “Capitol Crawl” in March 1990. The ADA finally passed in the House soon after.

submitted 23 days ago • 30 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 24 days ago • 2306 comments

U.S.-funded Israeli military assaulting and threatening American journalists.

submitted 27 days ago • 91 comments

do you enjoy knowing that when you deposit money in a US bank, you won't lose that money? nice, right? it's because bank deposits are insured by FDIC. i don't know what FDIC ever did to these people, but apparently it too is now on their blow-it-up list: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 27 days ago • 2012 comments

Hit home today that Elon’s zooming in to a rally of the German hard right to tell them to stop feeling bad about the past and embrace German glory was right before Holocaust Remembrance day.

submitted 27 days ago • 884 comments

Excellent post

submitted 28 days ago • 2082 comments

Americans voted for cheaper groceries. Less than a week on the job and Trump's already managed to get us into a trade war that will drive up the cost of coffee and be a gut-punch to American farmers and manufacturers, all because Colombia hurt his feelings.

submitted 28 days ago • 1026 comments

raise your hand if you think that is, in fact, what the president “wants”: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 29 days ago • 1479 comments

How is this not the biggest scandal in America right now? Isn’t this unprecedented?? Maybe Dems in the Senate should take a break from voting to confirm Trump nominees & condemn the guy who said he wanted Pelosi ‘hanged’ on Jan 6th, & also condemn the guy who just released him from prison! Sheesh.

submitted 29 days ago • 367 comments

A week ago I was being told to apologize for saying Trump would be worse for Gaza because he faked a temporary pause/pretend ceasefire to coincide with his inauguration. Now he’s just openly endorsing/encouraging ethnic cleansing.

submitted 29 days ago • 317 comments

Can’t wait t’git my hands on nem cheap eggs!

submitted 29 days ago • 1830 comments

His only objective is for everyone who works in every federal agency to pledge loyalty to him. Not the country, not the Constitution, loyalty only to him. But wait…we don’t have kings in America, do we? www.mediaite.com/trump/widesp...

submitted 29 days ago • 45 comments

Let me see if I understand what’s happened at CNN over the past eight years. I’m happy to be wrong. I just want get a better understanding. (0/13)

submitted 31 days ago • 703 comments

one reason democrats should cut the “we just want to work together” shit is that you lose the opportunity to do things like, for instance, hold a loud press conference on the fact that trumps ICE thugs arrested a veteran www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...

submitted 31 days ago • 451 comments

I have and will continue to. But you know why I say it here ? Because @bsky.app is 30m strong and growing quickly. The collective wisdom and influence of users here is far greater than any individual democrat. I can't say it enough. Bluesky can be the influence that can counter RW media.

submitted 32 days ago • 2551 comments

On his orders, his henchmen murdered my former colleague and chopped up his body with a bone saw.

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THREAD: Let's walk through some of the serious/potentially unethical/signs of manipulation/conflict of interest that have already been identified by lawyers/crypto experts re $Trump-the memecoin the Trump family cyrpto created on Friday. First, here's our latest story www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/u...

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www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 32 days ago • 524 comments

NEW: Trump orders federal health agencies to STOP communicating health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites, and to stop making social media posts. I said previously I was worried about the lack of reporting. Here it is. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 33 days ago • 925 comments

Jan 6 was investigated and largely prosecuted as domestic terrorism. The pardons should be reported and spoken of accordingly. An endorsement of terrorism. Trump sprung his terrorist network - including, by extension, himself.

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Michael Fanone live on CNN: "This is what I'd say to Stewart Rhodes: Go fuck yourself"

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NEW: During a brazen moment of Christian nationalism at Trump's pre-inauguration rally, the opening prayer from two podcasters called on God to protect Trump from "opposition" and to "condemn" Trump's critics. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 32 days ago • 82 comments

This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance. Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

submitted 33 days ago • 318 comments

BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.

submitted 33 days ago • 367 comments

Gee what should we all call it when a president gets rid of an Executive Order that desegregated federal contracting?

submitted 32 days ago • 253 comments

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

submitted 32 days ago • 835 comments

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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The Supreme Court ruled corporations were allowed to donate unlimited amounts to politicians in 2010. It only took them 6 years to take complete control of the government and 15 years to mark sure their voices are the only ones the masses ever hear again.

submitted 38 days ago • 583 comments

READ THIS. THEN READ IT AGAIN.

submitted 41 days ago • 1712 comments

When did the #Vikings trade Babe Ruth? Is any NFL franchise more cursed in the playoffs?

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This should be standard for all businesses and organizations.

submitted 44 days ago • 113 comments

Imagine if 2 weeks before the inauguration in 2021, a top donor to Biden, who he had appointed to a top position in his administration, had gone on Twitter & said to a member of the public ‘f u retard’. Imagine the media response - and the pressure on Biden. Just imagine.

submitted 48 days ago • 198 comments

So the world’s richest man, who grew up under apartheid in South Africa and now pulls the mentally deteriorating incoming U.S. president’s strings, has written an op-ed urging Germans to elect a neo-Nazi government. Got that?

submitted 56 days ago • 874 comments