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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

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"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 1551 comments

The thing about destroying NIH is NIH’s scale in medical research just dwarfs everyone else. For ex, in 2023 the American Cancer Society gave out $64.5 million worth of grants. Sounds big, right? But NIH’s budget was $49 billion. With a B. Kill NIH and the floor drops out of US science.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

submitted 3 days ago • 568 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Every ten minutes here is like: - Trump doubles student debt - Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs - Three planes just crashed - Trump signs EO making women illegal - Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA - Meteor not arriving fast enough

submitted 4 days ago • 108 comments

Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

submitted 6 days ago • 136 comments

"When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it." - John Lewis. It's not enough to simply recognize something is wrong; we have a moral duty to act.

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

Section 31 and Love Hurts prove that Asians have made it in Hollywood - even we can star in shit movies for a paycheck.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: A federal court temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order aiming to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under age 19 nationwide. This is a major victory for our freedom to access life-saving care.

submitted 10 days ago • 50 comments

Northampton Resists! Our big tent rally last Saturday at the Northampton City Hall drew about 170 people! Brilliant speakers such as from the Parasol Patrol and the Sojourner Truth School enraptured us in 27 degree weather for nearly two hours. Photo credit to EJ Seibert.

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Trump’s Shameful Campaign Against Transgender Americans www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...

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Every single right-wing thinker for the past decade: "Liberal democracy is over, when we get in power we're gonna try to do a dictatorship" Pundits: "I think we can agree Trump is a little unconventional, but perhaps this time he may surprise us"

submitted 16 days ago • 27 comments

pushback works, part infinity: apnews.com/article/immi...

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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

submitted 22 days ago • 230 comments

Some people voted for trump. Some people voted for Kamala. Some people voted 3rd party. But I guarantee you that NOBODY voted for a fucking billionaire to be raiding our Social Security. What the fuck is THIS bullshit?

submitted 21 days ago • 1352 comments

When you’re a kid, there’s so much information to be had for the taking and yet you’re too busy being a kid to want it. When you’re an adult, there’s jack shit out there about aging, and there’s fun surprises like plantar fasciitis.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

2 degrees F from the CT river, fog rising from the frigid water

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