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Dear CDC friends. Today was the most foolish of April Fool's days. We have not just lost jobs. With entire teams and offices being cut, we have lost vast amounts of institutional knowledge. Take the time you need to grieve. Then join your fired colleagues in the fight. www.firedbutfighting.com

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so as i understand it the president has driven an improvised fertilizer bomb directly into the foundation of global trade?

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A new study finds one of the most cited #AI models used to scan chest x-rays doesn’t accurately detect potentially life-threatening diseases in marginalized groups, including women and Black people. scim.ag/42uhnPO

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Over the last 2.5 months, the Trump administration has purged the gov't of those it deems disloyal, fired tens of thousands of federal workers, enacted a fascistic mass deportation policy, conducted a nationwide crackdown on free speech and dissent, and more or less legalized corruption.

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Musk fired the entire team responsible for managing the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which supports approximately 6.2 million people across the U.S.—from Maine to Texas—in paying their heating and cooling bills.

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“To be deported by Trump, one does not need to be a drug dealer or a terrorist; apparently, having tattoos and being Venezuelan is enough,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes:

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The Trump administration isn’t poised to revive manufacturing so much as reward whatever companies and executives happen to cozy up to it and fund Republican campaigns. Life will get harder and more expensive in the process.

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I enjoyed this idea that authoritarian states are more like the movie Brazil than the book 1984 - because authoritarianism breeds incompetence. observer.com/2025/02/terr...

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Multiple nations facing tariffs from one nation can stand together. As difficult as it may seem, we can all increase our trade with each other and cut out the rogue state. Because you know what? If we all did that, America will come off worse. No more pandering to Fanta Fuhrer.

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Cory Booker just gave the longest speech in the history of Congress and concluded by apologizing to everyone who had to stay up all night keeping the chamber open and operating.

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Despite dubbing himself the “Father of IVF,” Donald Trump actually WILL NOT be funding federal infertility research. Trump has fired an entire infertility research team at the CDC.

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What say you? 👇 Mad yet?!

submitted 18 hours ago • 777 comments

Breaking news: A new lawsuit seeks to challenge the National Institutes of Health’s decisions to abruptly terminate hundreds of grants, totaling more than $2.4 billion, over the past month. scim.ag/3DZnylL

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Donald Trump's lack of restraint makes him dangerous—but also puts him "at risk of catastrophic failure," Jonathan Chait writes. "Nothing illustrates this more clearly than Trump’s insistence on sabotaging the U.S. economy by imposing massive tariffs."

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Thank you Senator Cory Booker. This guy truly cares about the people he represents.

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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.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday that she is directing the U.S. Department of Justice to dismiss its lawsuit against Georgia’s massive voter suppression law, Senate Bill 202.

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Maine Governor Janet Mills stood up to Donald Trump, and he can’t get over it. Trump, who argued that his administration was tantamount to federal law, said, “You better do it, because you’re not going to get any federal funding at all if you don’t." “See you in court,” Mills replied.

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Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador who came to the United States in 2011. He has never been convicted of any crime. Abrego Garcia is married to Jennifer Vasquez Sura, a United States citizen, and the couple was living in Maryland with their five-year-old son.

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Records are meant to be broken. Congrats @booker.senate.gov for stepping up and standing up for the American people. Blazing your own path for the W 👏👏👏👏👏

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Many law firms representing federal employees have come under attack. The legal community is pushing back. More than 4,000 legal professionals have signed an open letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, expressing concern over the administration’s actions against law firms.

submitted 11 hours ago • 291 comments

i think this might be true fwiw

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remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...

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A legal resident of New Hampshire was “violently interrogated” for hours, stripped naked, and forced into a cold shower. Given little food or water and prevented from taking medication, he collapsed and was hospitalized.

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@drneilstone.bsky.social

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Musk has been given more power over the federal government than any other private individual since the founding. This is the world that the Supreme Court’s campaign-finance deregulation efforts have created.

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Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP scienceimpacts.org

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RIP to the U.S. Institute of Peace — nearly all staff members have been fired.

submitted 4 days ago • 613 comments

pedocon theory on its way to becoming a scientific law

submitted 4 days ago • 507 comments

Detain him with plainclothes masked men, send him to a Louisiana jail and don’t tell his lawyers where he is or you’re not serious about stopping shit.

submitted 4 days ago • 563 comments

As a Vietnam veteran who held a top-secret clearance & ran operations in a very dangerous environment, I grow more disturbed by the day hearing Trump officials dismiss the dangers of discussing war plans on a hackable channel. They should’ve all apologized & resigned, but they know no honor.

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The White House Correspondents’ Association said it fired host Amber Ruffin so it can instead focus the dinner on celebrating the First Amendment. Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.

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Voting rights advocates and Democratic officials sharply criticized President Trump's new executive order to transform elections. Some promised to sue over the order, which could disenfranchise millions.

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merit is back baby

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Hiring your brother is the original affirmative action for white people.

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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.

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RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he wants excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.

submitted 5 days ago • 1030 comments

thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

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What the actual fuck:

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Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

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“There’s a reason people who work on sensitive issues in the government aren’t supposed to use Signal.” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social was inadvertently added to a group chat of Trump officials discussing attack plans. He spoke on how the story came about: theatln.tc/U0pEQALY

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"That’s why the CIA guards don’t allow cell phones, or even Fitbits, into their buildings. Which brings us back to Bill Murray’s question: Why was the director of the CIA using a cell phone at CIA headquarters?" www.spytalk.co/p/signalgate...

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Not a historian, but to my knowledge, this is the first time a sitting US Senator — or member of Congress, generally — or perhaps any senior US gov’t official — has included an f-bomb in an official press release. www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-r...

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They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.

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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now Thanks for your service to our country

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President Donald Trump isn’t even denying that his administration has been influenced by Russia.

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