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MAGA/MAHA believe that the sick are weak. For them, to be sick, to be chronically ill, to be disabled is to be weak It’s a eugenicist project.

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Your skies under DOGE

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REMINDER: Trump is ignoring a Supreme Court order to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home. The leader of the GOP even admitted that he could do it with one call and still hasn’t. Make sure your Members of Congress hear from you about this attack on our Constitutional rights: act.indivisible.org/...

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In which the Senate-confirmed director of the National Institutes of Health - talks down to the highly experienced @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social - says "it's not me personally" who cancels agency grants - claims @nature.com is spreading rumors, hours before he confirms said rumors

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Also relevant is the bill sets the exp. date of Section 230 for Jan 2027, the start of campaigning for the 2028 Presidential Elections. We saw what happened in 2024 with Elon Musk & Twitter. Trump could use 230's repeal to silence any dissent across all social media. This would be really bad.

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Paul Weiss — the firm to call if you want big loser energy, just the weakest chumps around, people who won't stand up to bullies, they'll beg the bully for a chance to beat up adjunct professors. "Why hire a fighter when you can hire a worm? Call Paul Weiss today." www.semafor.com/article/03/1...

submitted 49 days ago • 32 comments

TBC because the OP is framing this like libgen is evil: META are the bad guys here. Libgen is one of the only tools archiving rapidly disappearing digital libraries of ebooks. Now more than ever with banned books on the rise, we need resources like libgen. Meta has no right to scrape that archive.

submitted 49 days ago • 5 comments

1. Judge Reyes has blocked Trump's transgender military ban, calling it "soaked in animus" "Transgender people risked their lives to ensure for others the very equal protection rights the Military Ban seeks to deny them.” The latest from S Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 50 days ago • 28 comments

This is so excellent I will add alt text so all can read it

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Scooplet from me at @rawstory.com: Leo Terrell, the DOJ lawyer who heads Trump's Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, this week re-posted Patrick Casey, the former Identity Evropa leader, and the Hodgetwins, who regularly fawn over Hitler on their podcast. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

submitted 55 days ago • 29 comments

This story starts connecting the dots between the many ways the Trump admin's moves are already disrupting science + research nationwide, from climate to health to econ depts. A real team effort w/weather, health + higher ed reporters @bloomberg.com (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

submitted 55 days ago • 8 comments

“Disgraceful” is accurate, but I think that may not be strong enough. “Abominable”? “Loathsome”?

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Truly incredible that seven of them did the too cute by half yea on cloture/nay on the CR, and that’s how they plan to defend their vote too, because they think we’re stupid

submitted 54 days ago • 6 comments

If your excuse as an elected official, here in 2025, for not doing something that is in the interest of Dems who elected you is that Republicans might weaponize it, you are not living in 2025. They are going to weaponize anything you do, either way. They have demonstrated this over and over.

submitted 54 days ago • 57 comments

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

submitted 54 days ago • 1348 comments

So Grenell is going to get fired now, right?

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LOL plot twist. 🤡 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 54 days ago • 584 comments

“Every American should be chilled to the core by the overwhelming display of constitutionally protected speech we found on this deviant’s computer and phone,” Kash Patel said theonion.com/feds-un...

submitted 55 days ago • 27 comments

“.. Cemetery officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that the pages were ‘unpublished’ to meet recent orders by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth targeting race and gender-related language and policies in the military.” @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/arlingt...

submitted 55 days ago • 47 comments

If every Senate Democrat said, "we won't let Musk and Trump do what they're doing to famers, to social security, to cancer research and to every American's health without a hell of a fight" and just repeated that, they'd be shocked by how much of America would be on their side.

submitted 55 days ago • 69 comments

Having no strategy is the very worst thing for politicians. Having no strategy in the midst of a coup is unforgivable.

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Show us the way, teenage girl in New Jersey.

submitted 59 days ago • 16 comments

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

submitted 55 days ago • 3111 comments

Chuck Schumer looked Ady Barkan in the eye and said he was going to work really hard to include home care in Build Back Better. He had already signed a deal with Manchin to exclude it. Ma'am, if you decide to run, I'm all in.

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This is the way they are delegitimizing the judiciary. Not outright saying we’re defying court orders. Saying “we’ll comply for now but just know that this is totally illegitimate.” Saying that again and again and hoping that some court will cave. And holding outright defiance in reserve.

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The girl was 12 years old. He's one of Trump's biggest promoters and legitimizers. He's prayed over Trump in the White House. Trump's been to his church. Greg Abbott tapped him on the anti-trans bathroom bills. Now he faces 100+ years in prison. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/megachurch...

submitted 56 days ago • 196 comments

@schumer.senate.gov Now would be a particularly good time to heed your allies! People won’t rally to an opposition if they don’t think it actually opposes. Rise to this moment! Show them—show all of us—that the Democratic leadership can do something more than roll over and make excuses!

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More, from a source at EPA: "I'm so angry that the Dems are caving on the funding bill. This is their only point of leverage and they don't have the guts to use it... If they aren't willing to draw the line in the sand now...they are feckless, weak, and useless."

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Everyone should be calling their Democrat Senators about this, right now. Everyone needs to hound Schumer’s leathery ass to the gates of Hell about this.

submitted 55 days ago • 14 comments

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

submitted 55 days ago • 710 comments

This is completely fucked up. I know everything is fucked up, but THIS is why universities need to stand up and fight, not cave like Columbia did. NOTHING will satisfy them, and all the capitulation just leads to more demands and humiliation.

submitted 55 days ago • 58 comments

can we once and for all dispense with the bizarre cultural fiction that people who work on Wall Street are smart

submitted 55 days ago • 15 comments

For any non-lawyers who follow me: it is impossible to overstate how far beyond the pale this is. This is the legal equivalent of asking for a cease fire, and then immediately after your opponent agrees, fire bombing an orphanage.

submitted 56 days ago • 42 comments

Republicans seem to have completely forgotten about the first amendment

submitted 56 days ago • 1277 comments

We are at post 9-11 levels of hysteria (with no terrorist attack) combined with 2025 surveillance and misinformation. A scholar at Yale suspended when an AI-driven article, co-authored by humans who want to remain anonymous (doxxing is bad!!) labels her a terrorist. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

submitted 56 days ago • 7 comments

Climate United out here pointedly demonstrating that the government is operating in such profound bad faith that it may no longer be reasonable to extend them professional courtesy storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen? We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.

submitted 57 days ago • 151 comments

Musk claims Social Security is a "gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants." In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a year into it, a recent study found, so these undocumented workers are actually subsidizing Americans.

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Really, why does @schumer.senate.gov cooperate with Trump on anything? He’s like the scorpion riding the frog in the fable, except that he’ll sting you even before you help him as well as afterwards. Grind the Senate to a halt.

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SCOOP: Social Security, facing pressure from DOGE, weighs big cuts to phone service. Agency considers ending phone program that helps with claims processing and is used by millions, by @hannah_natanson @FedGirlWaPo @lizzadwoskin @faizsays www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 57 days ago • 29 comments

Another world is possible and some people are living into it already.

submitted 62 days ago • 14 comments

Just fyi, 29 states have filial responsibility laws. So if Elon cuts/kills Social Security or mom's nursing home closes (Medicaid cuts will force many to close EVEN for those who pay full sticker), you're legally required to support them. Surely this will be easy for you! And great for the economy!

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Judge's opinion in ordering reinstatement of Gwynne Wilcox "A President who touts an image of himself as a “king” or a “dictator,” perhaps as his vision of effective leadership, fundamentally misapprehends the role under Article II of the U.S. Constitution" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

The Daily Caller came a-calling, asking who funds us. Our response: @walkerbragman.bsky.social

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