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I feel threatened.

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submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 22 hours ago • 418 comments

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1155 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 • 794 comments

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 1 day ago • 963 comments

Seditionist & fascist, Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, was taken away by police for assaulting a woman. She’d been protesting his Proud Boys press conference in front of the Capitol. I hope his prior offenses are considered. He should still be in prison. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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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

Donald Trump is ending the national database of police misconduct

submitted 1 day ago • 243 comments

When I see Steve Bannon doing a Nazi salute to cheers it means only one thing: 420,000 U.S. troops died defending our country from Nazi assholes and 77 million people voted for them to be in power. MAGA betrayed our country voting for this nightmare.

submitted 1 day ago • 669 comments

A former Soviet intelligence officer alleges Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename “Krasnov.” Alnur Mussayev served in the 6th Directorate, responsible for counter-intelligence support in the economy. One key objective was “recruiting businessmen from capitalist countries.”

submitted 1 day ago • 725 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 1 day ago • 584 comments

BREAKING: Steve Bannon just did a Nazi salute at CPAC. THEY ARE TELLING YOU WHO THEY ARE!

submitted 1 day ago • 596 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 1 day ago • 1968 comments

Did you know there is a Project 2025 tracker that shows about 1/3 of the goals have been complete already?? For real. www.project2025.observer

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

It’s not just about flying, it’s also about air space security. Every single day Trump finds a way to makes it more dangerous to live in the U.S.

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A reminder I will be providing at least once a month for all of the remaining years of my life: Months before the 2024 election, the Department of Justice announced that there were at least six hundred Russian assets inside the United States and that some...were SITTING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 1215 comments

Y'all know what to do.

submitted 3 days ago • 168 comments

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

submitted 3 days ago • 537 comments

Scientists discover the 'roadmap' that cancers exploit to spread. New research reveals how cancer cells are altered by their surroundings, enabling them to shape-shift & break out of tumors. Discovery paves the way for treatments that tackle cancer before it spreads medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02...

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

This afternoon, the top FDA food official responsible for overseeing America's food safety and inspections resigned from the federal government.

submitted 4 days ago • 1261 comments

Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded an FBI task force investigating foreign influence operations, including those targeting U.S. elections. Additionally, she restricted enforcement actions against individuals who fail to disclose lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.

submitted 4 days ago • 631 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

I remember the days when most people couldn’t tell you what quid pro quo meant. Good times.

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