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Join your local protest on April 19th. Spread the word.

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Under His Eye www.yahoo.com/news/state-t...

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The Syrian Arabic word for a hamster is أبو جراب (abu jrab), where jrab refers to a pouch/saddlebag/tote. And abu often means “father of,” but can also function as a general honorific (like “mister”). So it’s not too big a stretch to say the Syrian Arabic word for a hamster means “Mister Saddlebags”

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Today is National Pet Day, so here are some fluffy goobs

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submitted 7 days ago • 64 comments

Correct.

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

Oh hellooo

submitted 6 days ago • 218 comments

The Social Security website continues to experience frequent crashes as Musk pushes for cuts to the agency’s IT staff. Americans face chronic outages and login issues while trying to access their accounts—despite being urged to conduct more of their Social Security business online.

submitted 7 days ago • 71 comments

The CDC team that helped states improve infant hearing screening is gone. Families of deaf and hard-of-hearing babies have lost vital public health support. www.cdc.gov/hearing-loss...

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

The Trump admin is dismantling Freedom of Information Act offices. Then the offices send out emails like, “Hello, the FOIA office has been placed on admin leave and is unable to respond to any emails.” The lengths this admin will go to ensure zero transparency with the American people is astounding.

submitted 8 days ago • 147 comments

Great way to end the day

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I know there are strong feelings around JK Rowling, but every time I dust my bookshelf, I'm still mad that I can not buy the book trunk for the hardbacks as a stand alone. First world problems, I know when US economy is tanking.

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Really regretting the US education system for not making learning a second language mandatory. It is just optional. But won't be an issue soon as all ESL programs are getting shut down and schools get gutted 😞

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It's unfortunate that this needs to be said, but to stay alive, listen to scientific consensus (on health, climate, environment, etc.) and ignore the conspiracy theorists.

submitted 10 days ago • 67 comments

And now these diseases are coming back thanks to the Darwin challenged.

submitted 11 days ago • 37 comments

🐾🤍.

submitted 11 days ago • 69 comments

The incompetence of this Administration never ceases to amaze. Waltz and other NSC members used Gmail to conduct official government business, with Waltz’s staff even sharing information about sensitive military positions and advanced weapon systems tied to an ongoing conflict.

submitted 12 days ago • 297 comments

I try to stay away from politics but this crab eating a grape is very important.

submitted 16 days ago • 278 comments

If Trumpty-Dumpty is working with the Russians to screw up America, he's doing a great job. Eggs, $11 a dozen. Health & Human Services down the dumper, ditto VA. If you call Social Security, they tell you to call back later. Guys 'n gals, this is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.

submitted 16 days ago • 1973 comments

“We’re Americans” 🇺🇸 😕

submitted 16 days ago • 159 comments

Pip got adopted yesterday :)

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Musk is rapidly pushing forward the privatization of space and satellite operations that have long been managed by the NOAA. DOGE has acquired confidential data from NOAA’s competitors—an alarming development that has further cemented SpaceX’s dominance in the space and satellite industry.

submitted 18 days ago • 132 comments

Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.

submitted 18 days ago • 694 comments

Fun fact: @runforsomething.net is still averaging about 500 new people signing up every single day to consider a run for local office.

submitted 19 days ago • 62 comments

The GOP leaders of today do not care about helping families in crisis. Gun violence is a public health crisis destroying our communities. We applaud @justinjpearson1.bsky.social for representing American values and our heart breaks for his loss. 👏👏👏

submitted 19 days ago • 22 comments

The Trump administration halted funding for a national database that tracked domestic terrorism, hate crimes, and school shootings, as part of broad cuts to violence prevention programs. The move eliminated a critical resource designed to enhance public safety amid persistent and pressing threats.

submitted 20 days ago • 111 comments

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

submitted 20 days ago • 1070 comments

We can confirm that CDC (Trump/DOGE) is making massive cuts to states. State and local health departments rely on federal funds to provide services. Immediate termination of grants, effective today, as well as steep cuts to COVID funds. We will update as we learn the full extent.

submitted 20 days ago • 25 comments