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As my friend @drshepherd2013.bsky.social says, asking why we need a National Weather Service when we have apps and the Weather Channel is like asking why we need potato farmers when we can buy fries at McDonalds.

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How it started/How it's going

submitted 4 days ago • 369 comments

Predicting the path of tornados, the landfall of hurricanes, or whether it's going to rain next Monday might seem like magic. But it's not. It's the hard work of the people at NOAA who make the impossible possible through science. This is dangerous.

submitted 4 days ago • 61 comments

THANK GOD a journalist finally said what needs to be said: "Let’s be clear: DOGE is not about saving money. It’s about weakening public services to justify privatization." Thank you, #MichaelEmbrich at @rollingstone.com! Give them the Pulitzer!

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

submitted 10 days ago • 1311 comments

If Russia ceases combat operations, the war is over. If Ukraine ceases combat operations, Ukraine is over

submitted 8 days ago • 317 comments

U.S. military leadership must speak out firmly against the growing political instability in this country, and Trump’s efforts to build praetorianism within our government. Trump’s ultimate goal is authoritarian rule.

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

So fun.

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Senate Republicans just launched an all-night voting spree to rip apart Medicaid and starve kids—all so they can hand more cash to billionaires like Elon Musk. They’re doing this while most people aren’t watching. Absolutely disgraceful.

submitted 11 days ago • 125 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

submitted 11 days ago • 2005 comments

🎁 ARTICLE U.S. weighs destroying $500M in stockpiled covid tests The govt is reviewing proposals to shut down the program that ships free covid tests to American households & is considering DESTROYING 160M tests. Only a fraction are expired. How is this not WASTEFUL? Where's DOGE? wapo.st/42VLGQh

submitted 13 days ago • 55 comments

By Cartoonist Zez Vaz 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Not even six hours apart.

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I once asked a Dem strategist who he feared the most. He answered without hesitation. “Moms with kids who have IEPs. They’re the most tenacious people I’ve ever met.” The GOP has no idea what they have brought down upon themselves.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Elon Musk paid less for the United States government than he did for Twitter. Remarkable how low the bidding was.

submitted 16 days ago • 85 comments

Wow. The NYT reports that Acting Deputy AG Emil Bove coached Mayor Eric Adams' attorneys on what to argue in order to get the charges dismissed (namely, that the charges were interfering with the mayor's ability to cooperate with Trump's immigration crackdown): www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 18 days ago • 197 comments

The best messaging is to state what everyone knows to be the truth in the simplest and clearest way possible. So it’s hard to imagine more effective messaging than this.

submitted 19 days ago • 587 comments

There is literally HIV being transmitted from mom to baby because of the illegal shutdown of US AID and now Trump’s State Department wants to spend 400 million dollars on Tesla cyber trucks. This is not about efficiency. It’s a smash and grab.

submitted 19 days ago • 245 comments

I won’t stop posting this.

submitted 19 days ago • 67 comments

His performance of The Nutcase will be absolutely exquisite I am sure

submitted 19 days ago • 155 comments

You wouldn't dismantle the agency that protects consumers for corporate abuse and scams unless you wanted your rich buddies to be able to abuse and scam consumers.

submitted 22 days ago • 701 comments

I don't know how you read this as a parent without feeling overcome with sorrow and rage. These evil people have made trans children their political punching bag and it's killing them.

submitted 23 days ago • 20 comments

We know what’s going on here.

submitted 23 days ago • 1014 comments

We stay on that other hellsite so we can translate Marsha for the people

submitted 23 days ago • 201 comments

🇺🇸💵

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submitted 24 days ago • 38 comments

Another terrible Hochul move. Thanks to @ssteingraber1.bsky.social and everyone else who has been working hard on this

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submitted 25 days ago • 18 comments

USAID supports Tennessee Ag Producers – businesses, universities, nonprofits, and farmers. Pass it on. #USAIDRural

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

TODAY: Meet @moveon.org and us at the Treasury building to rally against Elon Musk’s hostile takeover. It’s time to tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. 👇

submitted 27 days ago • 59 comments

Democratic Senators… Given what is happening at this moment, you should not vote for a single nominee. And you should do all you can to stop the building of this lawless and unAmerican government. Every “Yes” vote is cover for present and future actions.

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

Again: Trump just ordered 2 dams open to levels that would’ve flooded areas and farms, without warning, all to back up the lies he told about the fires — and the rivers don’t even flow to LA. Locals panicked and they backed off. sjvwater.org/decision-to-...

submitted 31 days ago • 178 comments

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

submitted 32 days ago • 893 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 31 days ago • 3621 comments

This 100x

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These fake Christians wouldn’t know Jesus if he came down from heaven and died on a cross for them…

submitted 38 days ago • 2802 comments

💰 🇺🇸

submitted 38 days ago • 235 comments

🚨 News broke late yesterday that the Administration has ordered that agencies such as HHS, CDC, and FDA no longer issue health advisories, alerts, studies, website updates or other social media posts, and other guidance... 1/

submitted 40 days ago • 38 comments

No words.

submitted 41 days ago • 395 comments

Vouchers hurt public schools. Call your state representative and tell them to vote NO on Gov. Bill Lee’s voucher SCAM.

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Deleted. 😳

submitted 41 days ago • 890 comments

This is deeply alarming, as is the provision of the EO that mandates the forcible detransition of incarcerated transgender people. An astoundingly cruel policy that will be fiercely litigated. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 42 days ago • 15 comments

Anyone who ever again suggests that the GOP is the party of the police or the party of law and order should be laughed out of the room. There has never been anything like this before in modern US history: the president pardoning people who we all saw on live TV assaulting police.

submitted 42 days ago • 83 comments

Respectfully (and I genuinely mean this), I’ve never heard a single regular person ask for “bipartisanship.” That’s inside nonsense. They want things to work. If the other party refuses to work for people, be the ones who will. Fight for people. Make it plain who isn’t, and who THEY’RE for.

submitted 42 days ago • 284 comments

Trump, reflecting on the election, claims "people coming into our country from prisons and mental institutions" was the top issue (he still doesn't know the difference between political asylum and insane asylums)

submitted 42 days ago • 169 comments

He pardoned EVERY SINGLE PERSON... I won't hold my breath for people to be outraged.

submitted 42 days ago • 4668 comments

According to NYT: ““The pardons will also wipe the slate clean for violent offenders who went after the police on Jan. 6 with baseball bats, two-by-fours and bear spray and are serving prison terms, in some cases of more than a decade.”

submitted 42 days ago • 51 comments