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All I want to know is: WHY? Why would Trump put himself in a position in which the WSJ has turned on him, GOP voters are furious, the market is tanking & his poll #s are underwater? In his 1st term, he protected those market & poll #s like his life depended on them. What changed?

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From Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny"

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NOAA's work matters! We all need to act like it does. 🌎 🧪🌊 @ucsclimate.bsky.social @ucsusa.bsky.social @altnoaa.bsky.social

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Mike Lawler: "I've been very clear: I will not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid." (Bookmark this one.)

submitted 21 days ago • 1519 comments

Flu vaccine development process and how RFK Jr is damaging it

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The market just started tanking as Trump started talking about tariffs during a televised speech. He just crashed the markets.

submitted 20 days ago • 621 comments

Who is buying this stuff??? www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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"Oregon’s only Republican member of Congress, Rep. Cliff Bentz, stood before a town hall of more than 400 of his constituents in deeply red eastern Oregon and faced a barrage of jeers..." www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

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DOGE has seized access to huge troves of sensitive personal and national security information – and can’t even set up its own website securely. When DOGE fails to protect that data, it puts us all in danger. @repstansbury.bsky.social, @connolly.house.gov and I are pushing back.

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Chris Murphy: "Everyone who signs up to work for Donald Trump is signing up for one single project, and that is the transition of American democracy to a kind of kleptocratic oligarchy in which the billionaires rule and get to steal from regular Americans."

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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/to...

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Given that the Trump people did nothing to induce Russia to end the war, it’s fair to conclude that the whole idea of pursuing peace was just a pretext to renew relations with Russia.

submitted 23 days ago • 281 comments

American statements in the Oval Office indistinguishable from Russian propaganda and celebrated by Russian propagandists.

submitted 23 days ago • 135 comments

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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Farmers depend on climate data. They’re suing the USDA for deleting it. Growing food is a precarious business, and losing access to key information makes it worse. grist.org/food-and-agr... #Farmers #Farms #Food #Agriculture

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Federal workers are the people doing the hard work to process veterans’ benefits, make sure our airplanes can fly safely, and protect families from the bird flu. To all of our federal workers: I see you and I’m fighting for you.

submitted 24 days ago • 419 comments

Even in the face of the Trump administration’s attacks on trans people, institutions can and must protect our rights. We commend the Philly school district and urge others to follow suit.

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

It is profoundly sad to watch doctors plead with idiots to take vaccines so as to prevent the reemergence of diseases all but eradicated decades ago.

submitted 25 days ago • 126 comments

This news truly breaks my heart. We are calling on HHS to take immediate action. Secretary Kennedy needs to bring back weekly measles tracking from the CDC, rehire the health experts, and roll out a serious vaccine campaign. Our kids' safety is on the line! abcnews.go.com/Health/1st-m...

submitted 25 days ago • 1499 comments

Robert F Kennedy Jr could damage #PubMed, our biomedical research resource. He could allow the indexing of anti-#vaccine predatory journal articles and many other things to destroy this valuable database. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...

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www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity...

submitted 24 days ago • 363 comments

Same.

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"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

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Maybe instead of purging the Social Security workers who make sure seniors get their checks on time, we should be expanding benefits to make life a little easier for your parents and grandparents.

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TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

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The DoD has never passed an audit and no doubt its spending should be reviewed. But Sec Hegseth knows little about how DoD works, and less about national security. It would be a good idea to bring in some expertise rather than just throwing the axes. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

submitted 30 days ago • 236 comments

The Trump Administration Is Playing With Fire in Germany www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...

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Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 29 days ago • 79 comments

One way to commemorate the end of the third year of Russia’s senseless, criminal war against Ukraine is to read the work of Ukrainians about it. Vika did not live to see the publication of this book, since she was killed by a Russian missile. But we can see her in her words.

submitted 28 days ago • 47 comments

They say “stay in your lane.” Well, medicine is my lane. Doctors need to start speaking out against the attack on evidence-based medicine. It’s always been hard enough competing with Dr. Google but if we lose the independence of the CDC, NIH and FDA, lives will be lost.

submitted 28 days ago • 26 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

submitted 28 days ago • 64 comments

open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...

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As classroom censorship efforts continue across the nation, we asked students how educational censorship impacts their learning opportunities and lives.

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

The more you know…

submitted 28 days ago • 291 comments

We Tried To Point To The Red Flags

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In Trump’s Alternate Reality, Lies and Distortions Drive Change www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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Horrifying Canadian higher ed news: York University, one of the country’s major R1s, is apparently suspending admission to a number of key programs (including GWS, languages, classics, and enviro biology)—very likely auguring cuts. This appears to be straight out of the West Virginia playbook.

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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

submitted 34 days ago • 155 comments

The SAVE Act will require voters to provide unnecessary documentation to vote. This bill would make voting harder for people of color, women, and low-income people — groups of people who already face more difficulties at the polls.

submitted 34 days ago • 93 comments

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

submitted 34 days ago • 1216 comments

In just a few short weeks, President Trump has already launched one of the most aggressive assaults on human rights of any presidential administration. If he continues on this path, he will cause more chaos and violence both at home and abroad.

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@repmaxinewa.bsky.social and I led nearly 200 of our colleagues in demanding the removal of Elon Musk’s operatives from the CFPB. The CFPB was created to protect people from getting scammed. Now, we need to say no to Elon Musk and fight for the little agency that fights for us.

submitted 39 days ago • 138 comments

BREAKING: House Republicans have released their budget resolution. They are aiming to cut Medicaid by at least $880 billion, and cut SNAP by at least 20%.

submitted 40 days ago • 529 comments

We’re done here. Right?

submitted 40 days ago • 3493 comments

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

submitted 40 days ago • 1384 comments

Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.

submitted 41 days ago • 562 comments

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