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DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.

submitted 10 hours ago • 336 comments

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2173 comments

Representative Turner (R-OH10) has rarely shown any backbone and only cares about Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. But here he is stepping out in support of Ukraine and NATO. Things are shifting. www.daytondailynews.com/ideas-voices...

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

At the end of Trump's first month back... • The Dow has stumbled • More Americans disapprove than approve of Trump's handling of the economy and don't believe Trump has done enough to lower prices • And a majority of Americans believe Trump's tariffs ( #TrumpTaxes ) hurt the economy

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Republicans have proposed cutting the healthcare of 72 million Americans by as much as $880 BILLION Why Because they want to give more tax cuts to the ultra wealthy Think of it They’re willing to let people die So they can give their rich friends-like Elon-tax breaks Don’t Cut My Medicaid

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 1 day ago • 968 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 1 day ago • 341 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 1 day ago • 1975 comments

Good morning and Happy Friday to everyone who agrees that if you want people to stop calling your party a bunch of Nazis, then your party leaders should stop doing Nazi things like the Sieg Heil. Did you notsee this coming?

submitted 1 day ago • 684 comments

“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

submitted 1 day ago • 150 comments

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

submitted 1 day ago • 544 comments

A new bat coronavirus that has the capacity to spread to humans, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered by a Chinese researcher. Good thing we are completely prepared this time. www.newsweek.com/new-coronavi...

submitted 1 day ago • 800 comments

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau exists to protect Americans from predatory lenders, junk fees, and fraud. Shutting it down does nothing more than give sketchy companies a free pass to prey on the public. We’re not going to let that happen.

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.

submitted 3 days ago • 531 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

submitted 2 days ago • 1969 comments

"I think there's real risk of a generation or more of data being lost." - Dr. Michael Greicius, neurology professor at Stanford University, on the damage Trump's cuts to NIH research will do to progress on a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, adding as much as 20 years to the timeline.

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

submitted 2 days ago • 584 comments

The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

submitted 2 days ago • 579 comments

above all else the current crop of republicans in congress are the most pathetic cowards to ever serve in washington www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 570 comments

Bill allowing corporal punishment in schools introduced in W.Va. House. The White Taliban at it again. www.wdtv.com/2025/02/18/b...

submitted 3 days ago • 123 comments

This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

submitted 3 days ago • 503 comments

“Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated.” Everything is so stupid www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

submitted 3 days ago • 389 comments

JD Vance owns AcreTrader, an app that lets wealthy—often foreign—investors buy up U.S. farmland. Guess who’s deliberately tanking farm economies so JD and his billionaire tech buddies can scoop it up for pennies. civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...

submitted 4 days ago • 549 comments

I follow French politics a lot, as many of you know. Any effort for mass layoffs of public sector employees there would create such huge strikes and marches, the level of disruption and paralysis would be biblical.

submitted 4 days ago • 641 comments

A friend from the VA just sent this and asked me to share. PMDB is Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior in the workplace. THIS is the real war against women: being forced to say there are only 2 genders but not being allowed to mention 96% of violence is perpetrated by men.

submitted 4 days ago • 1227 comments

NY City Council speaker Adrienne Adams: "With the resignation of deputy mayors, it has become clear that Mayor Adams has now lost the confidence and trust of his own staff, his colleagues in government, and New Yorkers. He now must prioritize New York City and New Yorkers, step aside and resign."

submitted 5 days ago • 106 comments

Over 2,000 webpages containing LGBTQ+ information have been removed from federal government websites.

submitted 5 days ago • 84 comments

“Researchers, companies say NIH funding changes could be lethal to innovations” -in today’s Pittsburgh Trib triblive.com/news/health-...

submitted 6 days ago • 49 comments

Less than three weeks since the midair collision over Washington, DC, that killed 67 people, the Trump administration has fired several hundred FAA employees who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure. The administration is targeting probationary workers (employees who have…

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

FFS! 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 are firing National Park Service EMTs There will be no one to attend to you if you get attacked by wildlife, fall while climbing/hiking, have a skiing incident, are drowning, break a leg/arm/your neck, etc Alex Wilds is one such federal employee. Read what he's saying

submitted 5 days ago • 683 comments

At some point very soon, republicans in Congress will have to choose between pleasing Trump to avoid being primaried, and helping their constituents to avoid being primaried.

submitted 7 days ago • 823 comments

A Reddit thread of terminated federal employees ready to run for office to fight back. www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...

submitted 6 days ago • 75 comments

www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog... Just letting this sit here. They have access to social security info, national security info and now IRS info. Just sit with that for a second. CONGRESS DO SOMETHING!

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

Most people don't realize that many Jews DID leave Germany in the 1930s and were turned away by the countries that later took credit for ending the Holocaust.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

the rage I felt reading this as the parent of a disabled 14yo

submitted 6 days ago • 68 comments

Ooops, sorry, didn’t mean to drop this. 😏

submitted 6 days ago • 117 comments

Pretty clear this is where we were headed. They’re going to weaponize audits and private data to go after political enemies.

submitted 6 days ago • 51 comments

ZELENSKYY: The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 percent WELKER: If the US pulls out of NATO, Russia will occupy Europe? ZELENSKYY: Yes

submitted 6 days ago • 811 comments

I know Stathis. He was a colleague of mine at the University of Chicago. He is a pretty buttoned-down scholar. For him to tweet this out is… something.

submitted 6 days ago • 86 comments

🚨1 If you're attending a protest, make sure to save this post or the graphics in the thread. Knowing your rights, staying safe, & protecting others is essential. Be prepared, look out for each other, and keep fighting for what’s right. Stay safe out there! Credit meganthuy & blmlouisville IG

submitted 6 days ago • 60 comments

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

submitted 6 days ago • 272 comments

worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.

submitted 7 days ago • 479 comments

Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

submitted 6 days ago • 988 comments

At an elementary school at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, home of the 101st Airborne, librarians are scrubbing the shelves. They are removing books that even contain references to slavery or the civil rights movement. This is where "anti DEI" sentiment has brought us. They are whitewashing history.

submitted 6 days ago • 308 comments

lol THESE WHITE STUDENTS? bsky.app/profile/keit...

submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments