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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

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The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

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"Political deviants of all kinds long found it convenient to slipstream under the language of more respectable right-wing politics. But...this analysis misses the ways in which the Trump years have genuinely made so many right-wing people worse."

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www.thedp.com/article/2025...

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Yesterday it was university of Pittsburgh - today it’s Penn. I fear this will soon be a grimly long thread of more gratuitous Trump/Musk inflicted disabling of America for the long term www.thedp.com/article/2025...

submitted 6 hours ago • 25 comments

I want to say again to academics who are interested in public writing. Look locally. Sure national outlets are good and I do that too, but this kind of visibility in your community can have a real impact.

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Trump’s Pentagon purge has included the top military lawyers. Nobody should be surprised. Dictators politicize the military. Trump wants those with the biggest guns loyal to him, not the Constitution He says he’s demilitarizing it. I call BS. Orwellian to the core. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 7 hours ago • 123 comments

Congrats to Trump’s new picks for top military posts for meeting the job description. You don’t have to say yes, you know.

submitted 7 hours ago • 35 comments

This was published last October www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 12 hours ago • 229 comments

People will die. Blood on Republican hands. RFK Jr. Makes His First Anti-Vaccine Move www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-... via @WSJopinion

submitted 11 hours ago • 26 comments

NEW: Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.

submitted 12 hours ago • 28 comments

Hey guys. It would be great if everyone who sees this could repost this, follow, and like this post so I could get my message out to more people. I am a anti-fascist advocate that is spreading awareness about what trump is doing to america. It is important we push back against trumps fascist regime

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.

submitted 19 hours ago • 46 comments

I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.

submitted 19 hours ago • 198 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 19 hours ago • 320 comments

President Trump's purge at the Pentagon is a major step toward creating an officer corps personally and absolutely loyal to him, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/V6pB4qcF

submitted 17 hours ago • 92 comments

This military purge is about Trump installing loyalists in every senior role, just as he filled his cabinet with sycophants and enablers willing to carry out his dangerous and illegal orders. This won’t end well for our country.

submitted 19 hours ago • 134 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 20 hours ago • 155 comments

Science (and science policy, and conservation) friends, I need your help! We are collecting specific, clear examples of harms caused by the Trump administration's attacks on science, to be included in an open letter. Can be links to news stories/social media posts. 🧪🦑🌎 #SciComm #SciPol

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Goodbye retirement.

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therickwilson.substack.com/p/is-trump-a... LISTEN TO RICK, people! @therickwilson.bsky.social

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listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.

submitted 2 days ago • 2938 comments

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 1 day ago • 985 comments

MARYLAND: “The Maryland National Guard will not participate in the parade honoring abolitionist Frederick Douglass due to guidance set by (Trump’s) Department of Defense.” www.wmar2news.com/local/maryla...

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Elon Musk's private security detail has been deputized as Federal Marshalls and can carry firearms on Federal property. What could possibly go wrong? www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 288 comments

americans are ahead of the politicians "Americans disapprove by a 2-to-1 margin of Musk shutting down federal agencies that he decides are unnecessary, and most (63 percent) are concerned that his team is gaining access to sensitive personal data of individuals"

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The Trump admin unexpectedly clears out the prison camp it set up last month at Guantanamo Bay, Carol Rosenberg reports. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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Presented without comment. www.ft.com/content/a7c9...

submitted 7 days ago • 584 comments

"Republicans in Georgias 7th district, who voted 66% for Trump, are outraged at Elons planned cuts to social security" @leopardsatemyface.bsky.social #LeopardsAteMyFace

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www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... “Holden thinks he may have to sell his cattle to avoid losing his farm if his funds never arrive. He said Hawley’s office pledged to follow up with him but hadn’t responded as of Wednesday.

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We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

submitted 1 day ago • 584 comments

DOGE cuts 9/11-related cancer research funding, which FDNY commissioner calls "a tragedy for all Americans." www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

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"Most Americans don’t want to believe that their government is taking lifesaving medicine away from sick people in Africa, or betraying Afghans who sacrificed for this country" But it's happening www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

Memo to @govwesmoore.bsky.social parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2025/02/open...

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Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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POLITICO: Trump “surprised his own staff” by endorsing a budget that cuts Medicaid, now open to “altering” (CUTTING) Medicare — Just as many warned all along. While cutting trillions in taxes for the rich. Because they don’t actually care about the debt. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 2 days ago • 85 comments

Correct. He’s not capable of playing multidimensional chess. Or chess. Or checkers. Or tic-tac-toe. As one of his aides put it during Shit Show I, “he’s just eating the pieces” on the board. Nothing he does is strategic. He’s purely guided by narcissistic, sociopathic impulses at all times.

submitted 2 days ago • 1268 comments

With all due respect, Congressman, he’s not trying to distract from anything here. He’s a grandiose pathological narcissist. A narcissistic sociopath. A malignant narcissist. A psychopath. A megalomaniac. This is what he thinks of himself. And what he wants others to think of him.

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I can’t even. Everything parents of kids with developmental disabilities hope for: a job, a purpose, and people who appreciate them. Gone in an instant because of musk/trump. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...

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