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So close... and yet...

submitted 15 hours ago • 148 comments

The guy who stole money from kids with cancer, and as president gutted cancer research for children uses a child overcoming cancer as a political prop Only psychopaths can applaud that 😱

submitted 15 hours ago • 14 comments

What Democracy Brings open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Imagine that. 💰

submitted 2 days ago • 1049 comments

I'm taking a mindful break from the current administration's war on USAID to write about something that interests me, and maybe you, too: complexity in evaluations.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is nuts. Stone cold nuts.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Mr FREE SPEECH cancelling cartoonists

submitted 17 days ago • 52 comments

"As of January 1, every Chicago municipal building — including 98 fire stations, two international airports, and two of the largest water treatment plants on the planet — is running on renewable energy" www.canarymedia.com/.../in-chica.... Some good news.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Spot on.

submitted 18 days ago • 1547 comments

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

submitted 20 days ago • 1246 comments

Plus USAID!!!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The Superbowl is a valuable enterprise, in monetary terms. A handful of people are getting rich from it, and loads of people get a day off. kericulver.com/2025/02/11/s...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk is trying to shut down the CFPB, the agency that has forced big banks and corporations to return more than $21 BILLION to families they cheated.

submitted 22 days ago • 177 comments

Biden increased transparency around the risks of chemical disaster — industry lobbyists just asked Trump’s new EPA chief Lee Zeldin to roll that back. www.levernews.com/chemical-com...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Shipped the 29K metric tons of American food on American ships instead of letting it rot in a Texas warehouse. youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Protected 30M football fields of tropical forest in Africa to stop China from exploiting the minerals that fuel our world youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Slowed the flow of migrants to our borders by providing job training to 50K people in Central America youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Bought 29K tons of produce and vegetable oil from American farmers to feed people, reducing mass migration youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year. Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent. truthout.org/articles/tes...

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone who will happily and enthusiastically be reminding trump voters of ALL his broken promises because he's too busy golfing, grifting, tweeting, and being an overall tyrannical shithead. My field of "I Told You So's" is full.

submitted 24 days ago • 328 comments

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 24 days ago • 537 comments

President Trump plans to fire several Board Members at Washington D.C.'s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and indicated that he's naming himself chairman. Here's why it matters.

submitted 24 days ago • 236 comments

American farmers are losing out on crucial markets for their crops: emergency food aid. While the food rots in ports, Musk and Trump are killing victims of famine. t.devex.com/dc/kyXVoDpAY...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

500,000 metric tons of U.S.-grown food are stuck in ports and warehouses. It could feed 36 million people but is at risk of spoilage, thanks to Musk's obliteration of USAID. The "waiver" should apply but no one has approved one. t.devex.com/dc/kyXVoDpAY...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Dude, you can’t even spell Colombia. Do some homework or pick a topic you know something about.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

It’s funny that you have zero knowledge of where that money went, yet feel emboldened to make such a statement. I have worked on USAID projects my entire decades-long career - as an independent evaluator. What makes you think you know that none of that money went where it was supposed to?

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?

submitted 29 days ago • 2653 comments

Today is Rosa Parks's birthday. We remember her courage. We remember her fearless resistance. We remember her leadership in the Civil Rights Movement. We will never stop fighting racial injustice.

submitted 29 days ago • 192 comments

@kaooavopakatapa.bsky.social holy hell

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books. bookshop.org/ebooks

submitted 36 days ago • 148 comments

If Trump doesn't reverse course, millions could lose healthcare, food assistance, childcare, and even emergency services. We've heard reports of Medicaid portals being shut down and childcare funds being frozen. Trump is steering the US into a disaster of his own making.

submitted 36 days ago • 394 comments

This project tracks government attempts to restrict or prohibit scientific research, education, or discussion, or the publication or use of scientific information. Read more about the tracker and related... Or contribute to the database. #science climate.law.columbia.edu/Silencing-Sc...

submitted 36 days ago • 82 comments

Yayyy! Another avenue out of the Amazon world.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

My perso-pro take on the “pause” on foreign aid. kericulver.com/2025/01/28/p...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Independent African journalism. www.thecontinent.org but it is sent via email, WhatsApp, Telegram or Signal. This week: Marburg haemorrhagic fever, and an African perspective on the first days of the orange menace in the U.S. Recommended. You can access it via [email protected] or +27738056068

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

So when all was said and done, the only country that opened it's prisons and sent crazy murderous criminals to prey upon innocent American citizens, was us.

submitted 43 days ago • 230 comments

Some gorgeous shots from Wikimedia's annual photography competition - for a breath of fresh air. wikimediafoundation.org/news/2024/12...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

But Judge Roy Bean beside him would have been well protected.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments