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NPR reports that the RFK Jr.-led CDC has halted the "Wild to Mild" flu vaccination campaign that promotes flu shots by emphasizing their role in reducing symptoms and severe illness The decision to pull the campaign comes as flu hospitalizations hit a 15-year high, with 50,000 admissions in a week

submitted 8 hours ago • 129 comments

Bad messaging: We need to educate our constituents so they know we don't have any power. Good messaging: We will do everything possible to protect our constituents and democracy, we hear their concerns, and we're going to tell them daily how they can help us oppose autocracy.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Omg 😍😍😍😍

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I’m begging the media to call Nazi salutes … “Nazi salutes.” You can write “he gave a Nazi salute.” That’s the proper journalism. Describe things as they are even if people get mad.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

A small museum says all but one sponsor of a Girls in STEM event backed out, fearing retaliation from the Trump administration over "DEI." Evan Kruegel reports for @nexton9news.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg1n...

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

In an ideal world the President of the United States, the world's richest man, and the two worst humans alive would be four different people.

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

If this was really about cost, they would just give them away at this point. Destroying them is horrid and sadly on-brand for these weirdo morons in charge.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Hey, young, ambitious Democratic politicians, who want to be president one day: now is the time to take some political risks. Go rogue.

submitted 7 days ago • 43 comments

Trump is running America like a business. Like the 6 businesses he drove into bankruptcy -- and the 60 more that failed and shut down.

submitted 7 days ago • 108 comments

NOAA is reportedly on the DOGE chopping block. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

submitted 8 days ago • 545 comments

Get in, losers. We’re all getting measles, mumps, and rubella

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.

submitted 12 days ago • 18405 comments

More entertaining than the Ads tonight 🤣 be safe out there everyone

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

For a moment, let’s acknowledge that whatever the opinion is, all of these ads were created during a bloodbath year for the industry and under added amount of stress. #plannerbowl

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

Tweet of the Night 🏆

submitted 13 days ago • 132 comments

Don't let the most important fact of this game pass you by, that Oklahoma has more players in this game than any other school for the second year in a row

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

That Fox News propaganda spot was grosssssssss

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Enjoy the last-ever Super Bowl, folks. Next year it will be the Donald Trump America Bowl, and the team’s will come from whichever two cities purchase the most TrumpCoin.

submitted 13 days ago • 21 comments

Here for the puppy bowl!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

📌They are wiping entire government agencies off the grid, dismantling others, and installing corporate raiders to steal our information and money. 📌They have been planning this for YEARS. 📌And our media doesn't even have the expertise and/or nerve to call it what it is: 📌A COUP

submitted 14 days ago • 204 comments

If you dog ear the pages of a library book, you suck. FYI.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Where’s the lie? 🤮

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

You know all of this is happening because a billionaire wants to populate Mars and the Christian nationalists want to bring about the rapture…

submitted 15 days ago • 184 comments

Steller Deal to support a group trying to do actual journalism 🙌

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Harrison Butker Announces He Can’t Kick If Women Are Watching. We're fading the Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX after Harrison Butker announced cannot and will not kick if girls are watching.

submitted 16 days ago • 376 comments

People joke that the senate is a retirement home but it’s really more like hospice care

submitted 17 days ago • 55 comments

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do! www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

submitted 18 days ago • 507 comments

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Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

submitted 18 days ago • 923 comments

Can an investigative journalist working for a news organization please dig into what Trump might have on Rubio? Asking for 330 million friends.

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments

“The last several days we’ve witnessed an authoritarian takeover of our federal government by Elon Musk and Donald Trump. They have set their sights on a full purge of anyone in government that doesn’t bend the knee and follow their orders.” - Sen. @wyden.senate.gov

submitted 18 days ago • 122 comments

www.citizen.org/news/advocac... now we are talking!

submitted 19 days ago • 157 comments

The level of failure of the political press right now is going to be studied in literal history books for years

submitted 19 days ago • 101 comments

So let me get this straight … Republicans want people terrified of the maybe 10 total trans athletes in the NCAA. But a billionaire literally stealing every American’s personal information is not a concern?

submitted 19 days ago • 37 comments

For those with the time and desire to participate: Tomorrow is the day for flooding offices with phone calls. Start with R's offices. They have no idea whether you are a R, D, or Independent. Start with the Republicans. Below: Senate Phone Numbers. (Thead below)1/4 www.senate.gov/general/reso...

submitted 20 days ago • 71 comments

If you don't want to be accused of racism, don't vote for a fucking racist, this isn't exactly rocket science my dudes thehill.com/homenews/cam...

submitted 20 days ago • 2414 comments

I wonder why democrat politicians who will continue to get rich through insider trading no matter what don't feel the same sense of urgency as the rest of us

submitted 20 days ago • 40 comments

Yes is there anyone with a pulse? Things seem pretty grim and definitely illegal…..

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Hillary Clinton did not follow federal rules on her email as Secretary of State and it was a huge media scandal Donald Trump is violating a foundational aspect of the Constitution as part of an unprecedented assault on US democracy and the media can't be bothered to cover it with the same intensity

submitted 21 days ago • 47 comments