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No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American so far.

submitted 1 day ago • 121 comments

As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

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submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

trumpflation-demic

submitted 14 days ago • 97 comments

Republicans are doing this because they want gay men and transgender women to contract HIV. They believe that dying of AIDS is a deserved punishment for having gay sex, just as they think that forced childbirth is a deserved punishment for sexually active women. This is not especially complicated.

submitted 14 days ago • 41 comments

Roses are red Violets are blue

submitted 14 days ago • 138 comments

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

submitted 14 days ago • 1610 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 14 days ago • 2691 comments

first day of tennis umpire school look to the person on your left. now look to the person on your right. ok thats basically the job

submitted 16 days ago • 23 comments

Elon Musk is trying to shut down the CFPB, the agency that has forced big banks and corporations to return more than $21 BILLION to families they cheated.

submitted 18 days ago • 177 comments

Vance is pushing idea that Trump is a king with unchecked power, not even accountable to courts and the rulings of judges. This is setting up the Trump administration to break with court rulings, creating a constitutional crisis and pushing the US into full blown dictatorship.

submitted 20 days ago • 54 comments

it's been blatantly obvious to anyone with a brain for the last decade that american democracy would die at the hands of the right wing. mainstream media spent millions convincing you that the left was more dangerous than the right. acknowledging the trump reality now is giving up the game.

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submitted 24 days ago • 57 comments

Kind of weird to say, but I wish they wouldn't do this. Sure, it's a good deal for them: outsmart trump by promising to do something you were already doing. But Trump again gets to create a crisis and then not suffer any consequences for it. The US never gets its wake up call.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

This is Huxley. He hopes you're having a good day, but if not, he’s conveniently right here and an excellent listener. 14/10 (IG: hugoandursula)

submitted 26 days ago • 156 comments

www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I've always felt like a Canadian at heart

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

He's just a happy boy. He doesn't even know democracy is ending

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be

submitted 28 days ago • 199 comments

This is Nellie. She is experiencing her first bad hair day. Please give her a moment. 12/10 (IG: little_cocker_nellie)

submitted 29 days ago • 279 comments

It is 100 percent their fault. They intentionally shut out AOC in favor of an old white guy with cancer. They turned Harris's "fuck those people are so weird" campaign vibe into standard James Carville pablum. It is their fault. And we are all paying the price.

submitted 30 days ago • 212 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

submitted 30 days ago • 1412 comments

Look, I am just a small town scholar of mass murder, so let me ask a simple, naive question: And then what?

submitted 30 days ago • 89 comments

This is Drake. He is very happy to see you. Saw you about five minutes ago, but is thrilled it's happening again. 12/10

submitted 30 days ago • 135 comments

If there were only a name for something like this

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Uhh, I think I know why

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submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

Love getting emails from work about "continuing to monitor the actions of the federal administration." Definitely makes me feel very secure.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

"Live to see them die" is one hell of a slogan

submitted 31 days ago • 94 comments

it’s been one week and literally everything is falling apart. everyones lives are going to be so bad for so long

submitted 32 days ago • 92 comments

if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

submitted 32 days ago • 938 comments

Why is it so hard to believe that a guy who thinks Nazi salutes are hilarious is probably a Nazi?

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

This is Saige. She is curled up into a perfect little ball. As you do when you are a perfect little girl. 12/10 (IG: minidoxiesaige)

submitted 37 days ago • 152 comments

I hear there are stories coming, but putting the brakes on our country’s world-leading medical research system feels like a five alarm fire and I don’t see a newspaper that even has it on the front page yet

submitted 37 days ago • 178 comments

these guys are objectively pro-cancer

submitted 37 days ago • 8 comments

Our lives are going to be sicker, poorer, and shorter over the next 4 years (and possibly beyond)

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

This is Moose. He’s had a very long day. Tried to go down some stairs but got stuck. 13/10 someone please help Moose

submitted 37 days ago • 387 comments

jesus christ man obviously i know you're pagliacci, i was just tryin to fuckin gas you up a b— oh come on don't cry

submitted 41 days ago • 11 comments

New song from the Bookworms out today! Full album comes out next month! open.spotify.com/track/6h3oiG...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

By “free speech” they meant “make it illegal to dislike me”

submitted 45 days ago • 514 comments

me: time for some laundry :) laundry machine: ok :) me: ok time to dry :) dryer: i’ve invented a new knot. it transcends humanity’s current understanding of geometry. and i am testing it for the first time on your sheets

submitted 47 days ago • 10 comments

If a state (in this case, one with roughly 1/8 of the total population and which contributes more federal tax dollars than any other) can't get something as simple as disaster relief, what is the point of being in the Union?

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

My relationship with Big wasn’t the only thing I blew up that day. At the Trinity test site I detonated the first plutonium bomb, unleashing a 22 kiloton blast. Had I become Death, destroyer of worlds? Meanwhile uptown, Samantha had her hands full with her own “Manhattan project”

submitted 49 days ago • 118 comments

What a cliffhanger. Can’t wait for Nosferathree.

submitted 48 days ago • 231 comments