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In this last month I have made the mental transition from "air travel is very safe" to "at least it would be a relatively quick way to go"

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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 5 days ago • 861 comments

Nothing but the best people. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Zelenskyy: "I will never accept any decisions between the United States and Russia about Ukraine. Never."

submitted 7 days ago • 888 comments

This. Especially Senate Republicans.

submitted 7 days ago • 147 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 8 days ago • 540 comments

Spot on.

submitted 8 days ago • 1552 comments

I know this is cheesy, but I’m going to say it anyway: Don’t forget to show up for yourself. For awhile I stopped doing my long weekend runs and I’ve been back at it for several weeks and it makes all the difference. Whatever your thing is, don’t stop doing it!

submitted 7 days ago • 438 comments

The community note 🤌😘

submitted 8 days ago • 2977 comments

Correct. It’s going to get rough.

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www.rawstory.com/emil-bove-ju...

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.

submitted 8 days ago • 1695 comments

We are nearing a precipice.

submitted 7 days ago • 2076 comments

I’m having great difficulty right now seeing how our political system doesn’t devolve into violence.

submitted 8 days ago • 6491 comments

This is fascism.

submitted 8 days ago • 3193 comments

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

submitted 9 days ago • 792 comments

NEWS Before she resigned, the Acting US Attorney for SDNY wrote an eight page letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi about the Eric Adams case. In that letter, she said that Eric Adams’ attorneys said the Mayor would help the DOJ with enforcement if his case was dismissed. Must Read Letter!

submitted 10 days ago • 86 comments

It’s pretty wild to watch a governor in a wheelchair trying to take away accommodations for disabilities…

submitted 10 days ago • 1103 comments

Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, resigned on Thursday rather than obey a Justice Department order that she drop a corruption case against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, that she had championed, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

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Registered Republican, anti-crime crusader, Scalia clerk, Federalist Society member, but this conservative resigned as acting US attorney rather than carry out Trump's order to drop bribery case against Adams. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

Sure, there are occasional moments of resistance from senators not facing reelection, but they are fleeting and ultimately meaningless if those same individuals fold when the stakes are high. My latest adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-coward...

submitted 11 days ago • 383 comments

After speaking with Big Balls about foreign policy issues, I am ready to vote to confirm him as Secretary of State. -Susan Collins, 2027

submitted 11 days ago • 78 comments

Protect this law at all costs ! www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 11 days ago • 1277 comments

Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 605 comments

Expect more of this...

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A constant reminder that even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as they did during the pandemic lockdown from now to 2030, we still wouldn't meet our emission target to keep global warming below 1.5°C.

submitted 11 days ago • 28 comments

This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/

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Biggest part of crooked Adams deal which is only barely being noted is that the charges aren't really dropped (not in the ordinary sense of the word). They're put on hold with the letter explicitly saying they'll be considered again after November. So Adams has ten months to perform for his freedom.

submitted 12 days ago • 196 comments

This is — literally — unheard of in federal prosecutions. We can’t prosecute him because he’s a candidate for office? Wow.

submitted 12 days ago • 1916 comments

Trump threatens to blow up Camp David peace deal between Egypt and Israel over his desire to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians and make it over as one of his golf clubs. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

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Fareed Zakaria, clear as a bell www.cnn.com/2025/02/09/p...

submitted 13 days ago • 40 comments

Exactly. Authoritarianism.

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1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

submitted 13 days ago • 1070 comments

Gaines County has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the state and has among the highest rates of children with "conscientious exemptions" to vaccination requirements.

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Chris Murphy: "I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly since Watergate. The president is attempting to seize control of power, and for corrupt purposes ... he's trying to crush his opposition ... this is a red alert moment ... our democracy is at risk"

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Murphy: "I continue to get reports from Connecticut that agencies there, like Head Start programs and community health centers, are actually not receiving the funding they are due. So I think there's a big question as to whether the administration actually is implementing the court order."

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Leaders in Grants Pass, Oregon voted to close one campsite for unhoused residents and pulled funding for a possible shelter. “Ultimately, if they close the camps, there is no known place for these individuals to go,” said one advocate. boltsmag.org/grants-...

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WATCH: While Republican proposals include further tax breaks for the ultrawealthy and corporations, other proposals would eliminate tax breaks for families with children, like the current tax credit for up to $2,100 in child care expenses. 📽️ @josesepulveda.bsky.social

submitted 14 days ago • 99 comments

Indeed, no one could’ve predicted.

submitted 14 days ago • 396 comments

Operation ICE Ride-Along isn’t going as planned. 🔥 Fox News tagged along with ICE, hoping for an exclusive look at “dangerous criminals.” Instead, they got a whole lot of nothing. No threats, no big arrests—just a community that wasn’t having it. The narrative is falling apart.

submitted 16 days ago • 1477 comments

Ketchup On Walls Alert: HIGH

submitted 16 days ago • 2104 comments

a dark day among dark days

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The new cover of Time.

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The top House Judiciary Democrat, Rep. Jamie Raskin, is calling on top Trump admin officials to halt the purge of career prosecutors at the DOJ over their involvement in investigating and working on Jan. 6-related cases and to reinstate them to their positions. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 16 days ago • 28 comments

Marko Elez's reported resignation has interesting implications for Musk/DOGE control over Treasury payment data. Elez was one of only two DOGE affiliates permitted by court order to access the data, and DOJ claimed that the other (Tom Krause) had only supervised Elez's work.

submitted 17 days ago • 119 comments