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Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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I wrote about how particularly ridiculous it is that Senate Democrats, led by Dick Durbin, think the priority should be repealing Section 230 and undermining the very open internet we need more than ever right now. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 113 comments

The Trump admin is planning to strip healthcare away from millions of Americans by proposing new criteria for who can and can't receive Medicaid. Please CALL YOUR SENATORS/CONGRESSPEOPLE. Tell them they work for US. And we demand they protect our access to healthcare. 5calls.org/issue/protec...

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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I’ve long believed that the American media would be more clear-eyed about the return and actions of wanna-be dictator Donald Trump and the coup by Musk if it was happening overseas in a foreign country. Here's the story the US should be writing this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...

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Better not call it a “vaccine” or it might not get approved. Maybe market it as a recreational drug.

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It is very clear that MAGA is trying to not just exclude trans people from American public life, but to erase trans people from existence No organization I have any control over will acquiesce to, or participate in, this genocidal project

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Trump's DOJ is preparing to put all incarcerated transgender women into men's facilities as early as next week, and according to NPR "the bureau is well aware of concerns about potential risks of assault, sexual violence and suicides"

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firing for "too much DEI" is plainly firing a woman and a Black man on the presumption only white men can be qualified. this is disgusting biogtry.

submitted 2 days ago • 255 comments

There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

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ProPublica is recording the casualties of the DOGE purge, highlighting the scale of what is being lost as public health programs and seasoned experts are caught in the Trump administration’s blunt-force drive to shrink the federal government. Read 👇 by @anniewaldman.bsky.social @deldeib.bsky.social

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"your health care coverage for Elon’s tax cuts. That is the fundamental fulcrum on which the next two years of American history — and quite possibly many years into the future — will turn." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/infle...

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

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"Populism" is when the richest person in the world fires ordinary working Americans.

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Donald Trump’s firing of military leaders — four-star General Brown and four-star Admiral Franchetti — along with top legal officers is a betrayal of legions of first rate service members who dedicate their lives to our nation’s defense. This is a growing national security risk.

submitted 2 days ago • 528 comments

This will especially hurt rural folks

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How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 3 days ago • 60 comments

this man is on fucking drugs, he is on a lot of them, and every member of the white house press corps and every republican member of congress is deliberately overlooking it

submitted 3 days ago • 94 comments

This move will devastate hundreds of children and families right here in West Michigan. These funds were appropriated by the American people through Congress, so I’m working with my colleagues in Congress push back. www.woodtv.com/news/michiga...

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“I'm not the President. I don't pay lip service to the Constitution or my love of country. I live it. It's in the very core of my soul. For these reasons, I resign my position as the Director of the NIH Executive Secretariat effective at midnight, February 28, 2025. Semper Fidelis”

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NEW: The director of data science and engineering for what is now known as the US DOGE Service has resigned. "If DOGE truly was concerned with efficiency, they wouldn’t have fired experts in procurement," she writes, "who prevent waste up front." This is by @makenakelly.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.

submitted 3 days ago • 1017 comments

More than 10,000 federal employees who had yet to complete their probationary periods have been fired by the Trump administration, including those who work to protect American agriculture.

submitted 3 days ago • 102 comments

I'm less struck by the caught off guard vibe than the WTF are you talking about jackass, the "cuts" are literally illegal. You're in Congress?

submitted 3 days ago • 84 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 4 days ago • 1932 comments

Unfortunately firings have continued at the National Nuclear Safety Administration. I’ve been contacted by an NNSA worker who was fired, then told her termination was paused, then told she was fired again. She says there were numerous others at NNSA treated the same way. These people keep us safe.

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Please stop saying it saved money until you understand the value of what was cut. They are downsizing, and if the stuff getting cut had real value, its not a saving.

submitted 4 days ago • 294 comments

Agree. It’s also on us in the media to be amplifying these stories about what and who is being destroyed right now.

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If DOGE is making a simple math error here it is making simple errors elsewhere -- like firing mission critical employees and cutting life-saving programs. There is a reason why government sometimes moves slow, so it doesn't make stupid decisions www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

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This is a concerning milestone. Bringing new investigations and prosecutions is different than just dismissing cases against allies.

submitted 5 days ago • 94 comments

Openly threatening a member of Congress with prosecution

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If Washington’s @cantwell.senate.gov is so “deeply concerned” about Trump’s nominee for deputy DOT Sec Steven Bradbury why isn’t she putting a hold on his nomination and a blanket hold on all transportation related nominees until Musk stops meddling with FAA and our govt in general?

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Sam Nordquist should still be alive today. This horrific, heartbreaking killing comes at a time of heightened nationwide attacks against trans people led by a federal administration hellbent on erasing trans existence. Black trans lives matter. Trans people will not be erased. bit.ly/41i55th

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Does this qualify as an emergency yet or should we check the polling in swing districts first

submitted 7 days ago • 175 comments

Why is the richest man in the world cutting cancer research?

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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

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1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

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We have reached North Korean levels of sycophantry. From NY-24’s Claudia Tenney 👇 tenney.house.gov/media/press-...

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To probationary federal employees who have been terminated: Democracy Forward has filed a first-of-its-kind class-wide complaint with the Office of Special Counsel. If civil servants want to join in the complaint, you can email [email protected]

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

"They are stripping down the United States and selling it for parts and trying to convince ordinary Americans that it was their own idea." — @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, "They Knew", 2022

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TRUMP GUTS CANCER RESEARCH: “We’re working on cures for cancer, we’re working on cures for diabetes, we’re working on cures for Alzheimer's, ALS, all of these things... those people that you see leaving... they’re taking away with them years of experience on these things.”

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

They're stealing from you. Your money and your health. They don't want you to notice the "efficiency" is coming out of your wallet to theirs.

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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

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