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If this happened in a foreign country we’d call it a purge

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"I always hesitate to bring my political beliefs into this space. I don’t think my listeners would expect that from me and some of you will find it disappointing: not what you were looking for... " [1 of 2]

submitted 19 hours ago • 41 comments

Tottenham can never get away from their association with (a) shit or (b) getting battered everywhere they go

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

The Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum says President Trump's dismantling of the U.S. civil service system, and his attacks on judges and his opponents, are part of a playbook on undermining democracy. 🎧 tinyurl.com/3w32xujf

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

FFS

submitted 1 day ago • 67 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 • 582 comments

Oh nothing just RFK Jr.’s organization telling people that measles does a body good. I need not drone on and on about the myriad reasons this is wrong, I assume. It’s been a long day, and I think you all already know this.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

BREAKING: CDC Study Suggests Humans Can Transmit Deadly Bird Flu to Cats.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Breaking news: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil.

submitted 1 day ago • 789 comments

CLASS WAR!

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Late yesterday, Trump issued an executive order that terminates HHS's Long COVID advisory committee. The committee's focus was bringing perspectives from outside government to inform action of the Executive Branch on Long COVID and other infection-associated chronic conditions.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Trump administration is planning to use polygraphs to assess federal employee loyalty. There are ways to manipulate polygraph results, and we will provide guidance to coalition members. Polygraph results are not admissible in court due to their potential for false positives and negatives.

submitted 1 day ago • 409 comments

Kash Patel is confirmed. Meet the unqualified, right-wing sycophant who is now charge of America’s top domestic intelligence and law enforcement agency: zeteo.com/p/icymi-who-...

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Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers wants his state to become the first state to audit insurance companies over denying coverage. More of this, Democrats.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 252 comments

This paragraph from @washingtonpost.com's reporting on Trump potentially ending free COVID tests is factually incorrect. According to CDC wastewater data, COVID levels are currently HIGH. COVID still causes serious illness and death for too many. People still need free tests!

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet. They are vital members of our community. They make our government actually work for people. Remember this.

submitted 3 days ago • 78 comments

Elon Musk fired Twitter employees and Twitter crashed. Elon Musk fired FAA employees and planes crashed. Not a quick learner.

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Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despite receiving an exceptional performance evaluation in the fall.

submitted 4 days ago • 296 comments

The incompetent engineers at SpaceX who create aircraft that explode after takeoff are going to take control of the FAA to make aviation safer. Nothing to see. Everything is fine. GIRL, TAKE GREYHOUND!!!

submitted 5 days ago • 487 comments

Trinity Of Ignorance & Death.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

At the start of the COVID pandemic in early 2020, the Trump administration used a model developed by Hassett showing that COVID deaths would drop to zero by May 15th.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

“Beginning July 1, unions serving Utah teachers, firefighters, police officers, transit workers and other public employees will be banned from negotiating on their behalf for better wages and working conditions” apnews.com/article/utah...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Former Obama/Harris aide David Plouffe has registered as a foreign agent for a foundation funded by an ally of the Indonesian president. Plouffe's firm will be paid $75,000 a month by the ally. (via NYT)

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

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”

submitted 6 days ago • 2244 comments

I want to thank Nancy Pelosi for her devoted work in keeping Henry Cuellar in office. If the Democratic Party did not support him, you might end up with a guy who always votes with Donald Trump, and that would be awful.

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

I fear they’re coming for ALL school vaccine mandates next. Including measles, mumps and rubella.

submitted 7 days ago • 2412 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 6 days ago • 410 comments

A drunk renaming a US military base after a foreign power who fought to kill the US military seems as bit traitorous, no?

submitted 6 days ago • 1012 comments

When it’s illegal to cause distress to believers, call it for what it is: a secular version of blasphemy | Kenan Malik

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

Some federal employees who accepted Trump’s buyout offer are now being notified that their buyout has been denied, and they are being terminated instead.

submitted 6 days ago • 1437 comments

This is probably the most accurate take.

submitted 6 days ago • 2926 comments

I still cannot believe this is real. It’s psychotic. There are many, many (SO MANY) more consequential heinous things they’ve done, but somehow the crassness of this seems like a new low. The White House shitposting like an especially mean and stupid 14-year-old.

submitted 6 days ago • 129 comments

It feels like the early days of 2020 all over again, when COVID-19 first emerged but this time, it’s 2025. The warning signs are unmistakable: rising cases, silent spread, weak surveillance, and a dangerously slow response.

submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

submitted 6 days ago • 345 comments

This is the way.

submitted 6 days ago • 822 comments

The new Coke Zero Orange Cream is so horrible. I miss the original Coke Zero Orange Vanilla from 2019. It was so much better.

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A federal judge ordered the CDC to restore some pages that the Trump admin deleted. The pages were restored today, but they removed terms like transgender and nonbinary, and pinned this discriminatory note to the top of the pages.

submitted 7 days ago • 39 comments

The political right decided that pandemics are bad for business. …because they necessitate government responses that interfere with business.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Releasing critical information about a new human H5N1 case on a Friday night, especially on Valentine’s Day, is a clear attempt to bury the news. They’re counting on people being too distracted to notice. But we do.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments