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The Trump administration says it finished a 90 day review of suspended foreign aid 53 days early—magically just hours before a court had ordered the aid restarted. It terminated over 90% of these thousands of aid contracts, devastating lifesaving programs worldwide. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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We are having the worst flu season in 15+ yrs & staring down an avian flu threat that has already spread unchecked in other mammals and taken American life Our government response is to cancel planning for the next flu shot, cancel funding for bird flu vaccines & treatments, & cut Medicaid coverage

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Three random dudes throw down a woman and drag her out of a TOWN HALL in Idaho during a discussion about abortion. Cuz nothing says “reasonable political discourse” like a couple of self-appointed bouncers in cargo shorts assaulting a woman for daring to have an opinion. The update?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

This is some of the craziest shit an American politician has ever said.

submitted 4 days ago • 300 comments

In the USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials. “People came to us because they needed community, needed connection. We were trying to keep each other safe. Now, we’re all just this big target.”

submitted 4 days ago • 56 comments

We know how to improve health 1. Universal healthcare 2. Stable housing 3. Access to food

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

👇🎯

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The world’s strongest voice for Democracy

submitted 5 days ago • 262 comments

I think the most wrong I have ever been as a political scientist was when I said in a public forum in 2020 that there would not be political violence in the US (Jan 6 was 2 mos later). Tonight’s purges are a clear precursor to more future such violence. This is textbook authoritarian abuse stuff.

submitted 6 days ago • 44 comments

Regardless of how much coverage it gets, Trump aiming to install a military command that places loyalty to him above loyalty to the constitution needs to be a much bigger story.

submitted 6 days ago • 75 comments

One of the big questions with coups is who the military sides with. It's a big question now. Does the firing of a whole lot of leadership make the military now more malleable, or does it anger and alienate a lot of people down the chain of command? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments

Trump fires Black joint chiefs chair Hegseth accused of promoting diversity

submitted 6 days ago • 80 comments

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

Europeans seem to recall what Nazi salutes actually mean. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Homan’s effort to use the power of the federal government to intimidate and silence political opponents is both dangerous and par for the course for the Trump administration. But it also demonstrates MAGA’s weakness. And go @aoc.bsky.social! www.publicnotice.co/p/aoc-homan-...

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

50 countries say the next UN leader should be a woman: it's never happened in 80 years 1for8billion.org/news/2025/2/...

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Some thoughts on the release of the hostages’ bodies today. There’s enough sorrow to share. Enough empathy to go around. Let us break open, rather than close up.

submitted 8 days ago • 53 comments

Chris Kluwe, a former NFL player for the Minnesota Vikings, was arrested after speaking out against plans to install a plaque with references to President Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again” at a library in Huntington Beach, California.

submitted 8 days ago • 163 comments

"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

submitted 9 days ago • 80 comments

From NSF EAR program director Raleigh Martin on LinkedIn #climatesky #greensky

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Women in my community are organizing to go in on Costco purchases together (ie, dividing up packs of 12 toothbrushes across three households, etc.) to avoid Target. I don't know if it's sustainable, but progressive suburban moms are mad.

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

submitted 7 days ago • 1493 comments

We could have had nice things

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

It’s not crazy that we beat Americans at hockey. It’s crazy that we got them to care about the game and then beat them.

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In an Idaho mountain town, mass firings provoke a community backlash. U.S. Forest Service workers warn cuts could have unintended impacts. From the Mountain West News Bureau's @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social (w/ @boisestatepublicradio.org) - www.boisestatepublicradio.org/politics-gov...

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Can the president end birthright citizenship? Dean Erwin Chemerinsky breaks it down in “It’s the Law,” episode two.

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Missouri, WHAT IN THE ACTUAL F**K?! The ink’s barely dry on abortion rights being restored, and lawmakers are already doubling down on dystopia with two horrifying bills:

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Five major airlines—American Airlines, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest, and United—have joined an airline trade association lawsuit to overturn a Department of Transportation rule that forces airlines to treat wheelchair users and their mobility devices with dignity.

submitted 9 days ago • 85 comments

I want everyone to just take FIVE MINUTES, and take a look at this extremely well put together project 2025 tracker. www.project2025.observer We're less than a month in.

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

This sentence goes downhill fast: Montana wants to "protect the autonomy" of FAKE CLINICS. A newly-proposed bill wants these religiously-run sham organizations to be able to give medical advice & do transvaginal ultrasounds without ANY oversight cuz it's their "freedom of speech."

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Even when the media attempts to hold Trump to account, they still so often fail by allowing him to frame the narrative. It's such a basic thing and they are falling for it again and again.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

the grownups are back in charge USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 9 days ago • 38 comments

this is absolutely right, it's a gleeful dehumanization that is both demonic and strategic

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MISSOURI, YOU DID IT! ABORTION IS BACK! This weekend, Planned Parenthood in Kansas City performed its first abortion since 2018 after YEARS of dealing with a total ban. In 2024, Missouri voters showed up in droves to pass a ballot amendment enshrining abortion rights. https://buff.ly/42ZaoiE

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

#Swasticar resistance

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

👇🎯 The NYT's normalization of this appalling nonsense is obscene, & if another country did this, there is absolutely no way Peter Baker or anyone else at the NYT would glibly write articles & op-eds like the ones we've seen these last two weeks. Just shameful & embarrassing bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

‘This is a coup’: Trump and Musk’s purge is cutting more than costs, say experts

submitted 10 days ago • 84 comments

Again, since Musk is just a random non-Senate-confirmed WH adviser, federal law enforcement should arrest him & march him out in handcuffs when he enters federal agencies & tries to undo things Congress has authorized. Folks need to start remembering that they swore oaths to the Constitution.

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

Ableist, misogynist, fossil-fuel white supremacists and zionists love to pick on Greta Thunberg because they don't like her message of justice.

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"If American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk." -- JD Vance to the Munich Security Conference

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US deports 119 immigrants of varying nationalities to Panama

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Our love is like the USS Scorpion… The initial construction was reasonable, but regular maintenance was refused until negligence distilled an inescapable nightmare.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

This is what happens when we stop teaching history btw

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

The people who feed America are going hungry. Climate change is escalating a national crisis, leaving farmworkers with empty plates and mounting costs. grist.org/food-and-agr... #Hunger #Agriculture #Farmworkers #Imigration

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