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Mass layoffs of IRS agents who catch tax evaders. Once more, Elon Musk's very sincere crusade to cut "waste and fraud" out of the federal government just so happens to weaken government power over billionaires like him. What an incredible string of coincidences we've had here.

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

Making sure folks realize that Alex Spiro is both Musk’s attorney and Eric Adams’ attorney.

submitted 9 days ago • 53 comments

I’m mostly just very happy for Principal Ava Eva Coleman.

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.

submitted 15 days ago • 105 comments

Wow. Keep in mind the standard rate at the UW, renegotiated every few years, hovers in the mid-50s with a lot of variation. This is very much a direct hit at any and every research institution.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

"Local corporations, including Amazon, Microsoft and T-Mobile, have all spent heavily against [Proposition 1A]" www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists will now host the important medical data the CDC no longer provides, on their website. Link below: 👇🏼 www.acog.org

submitted 16 days ago • 58 comments

Hello! If you think now is the time to punch left, you're doing the work of the right. We need solidarity, not score-settling.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This. The stab in the back, the alleged theft of their birthright. It's an embarrassingly manipulative narrative with a terrifying outcome. Similar to the structure of darvo.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

minor in the scheme of things but wow who could have guessed that a guy who was one of the smarmiest and most sanctimonious people in the senate was also corrupt www.alligator.org/article/2025...

submitted 19 days ago • 309 comments

[something more left-leaning] indeed

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is [email protected]. Reposts appreciated.

submitted 20 days ago • 126 comments

NEW: WIRED has identified six young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24, according to public databases, their online presences, and other records—who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles in Musk’s DOGE project. By @telliotter.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 966 comments

According to the conversations in Israeli media, one thing holding Israel back from a ceasefire was/is the concern that when western reporters and human rights groups are allowed in, the true scale of the crime will shock the global conscience in a way it hasn’t yet

submitted 39 days ago • 25 comments

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem

submitted 77 days ago • 50 comments

This is also how the Nazis did the antisemitism thing which, you know, turned into a final solution So maybe stop dismissing it while we have time to stop total catastrophe from being visited on us

submitted 94 days ago • 11 comments

Hey out there to any other Jewish folks affiliated with the University of Washington! Please check out this response some of us wrote to yesterday's antisemitism task force.

submitted 129 days ago • 1 comment