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One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

submitted 8 hours ago • 1012 comments

Very, very important piece about a part of the CECOT story that's gone barely discussed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

submitted 6 hours ago • 55 comments

In 1913 we did not Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, the EITC, SNAP or much else of a social safety net. Life expectancy was about 52 years. If this is the era they want to go back to, lets hear about all of it.

submitted 3 hours ago • 146 comments

Trump’s administration appears to be killing much, if not all, of a historic initiative that was the first, and is still the largest, National Institutes of Health (NIH) effort centered on the health needs of women.

submitted 3 hours ago • 14 comments

Despite being the biggest electric vehicle market in the world, China might decide it's had enough of Tesla. In this episode of "Uncanny Valley," we break it all down. www.wired.com/story/uncann...

submitted 2 hours ago • 13 comments

Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing

submitted 5 hours ago • 104 comments

In all respects an absolute lie

submitted 4 hours ago • 28 comments

“The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, was forced to move to a safe house with her children after the government posted their home address to social media.” 4/23/25 newrepublic.com/post/194289/...

submitted 4 hours ago • 255 comments

Revered producer at 60 Minutes resigns rather than cede editorial independence to corporate execs bowing to Trump. Three career prosecutors resign rather than abdicate ethical duties in subservience to Trump. Principled stands amid dangerous and darkening clouds. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/n...

submitted 16 hours ago • 60 comments

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

submitted 8 hours ago • 472 comments

Funding for investigating child sexual abuse and internet crimes against children; responding to reports of missing children; and preventing youth violence has been withdrawn indefinitely. How Kids Are Harmed by Trump’s Budget Cuts

submitted 9 hours ago • 29 comments

Japanese netizens are shocked by a tweet from the US Embassy declaring that Japanese people applying for non-immigrant visas must provide information on all social media accounts they have used in the last 5 years [or their visas could be rejected]. Some are comparing it to China & North Korea.

submitted 19 hours ago • 132 comments

“Today, right now—and I mean right this second—you have the most power you’ll ever have in the current fight against authoritarianism in America,” writes @adriennelaf.bsky.social. If you wait to speak out against autocrats, you have already lost:

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

@dgraham.bsky.social’s new book, “The Project,” is a topic-by-topic guide to Project 2025—and how the Trump administration is using it to remake America. On Wednesday, he’ll answer your questions on Reddit about what’s next for Project 2025. Ask him anything. www.reddit.com/r/politics/

submitted 21 hours ago • 13 comments

The reason billionaires like McMahon are obsessed with student debt is that creating financial precarity makes people more stressed about losing their job. If you’re worried about your job you’re less likely to quit and find work elsewhere. You’re less likely to ask for a raise. It’s pure class war.

submitted 19 hours ago • 146 comments

love when our billionaire overlords make it so that billionaires can evade taxes by firing irs agents and doj investigators and dismiss multimillion-dollar corporate fines levied before the chevron repeal because they're "unconstitutional" but you poor saps, you have to pay up right now

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after. But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1286 comments

This is actually worse than it looks. There was room for 700 people, you had to be a resident of the district and could only sign up a certain amount of people per family. Byron pre-screened the audience in deep red Lee County and this is still what he got. Angry constituents.

submitted 20 hours ago • 42 comments

The Miami Herald is doing remarkable public service journalism on deported Venezuelans and the crimes being committed against them. Almost like news institutions that are located in and around the communities they serve end up being accountable for serving those communities

submitted 19 hours ago • 35 comments

"The FDA is suspending a quality control program for testing milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division... Another disruption to food safety programs after the termination and departure of 20,000 HHS employees..." www.reuters.com/business/hea...

submitted 1 day ago • 621 comments

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submitted 21 hours ago • 148 comments

"The Trump administration is 'likely in direct violation of numerous federal laws,' the judge wrote in his ruling..." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

submitted 22 hours ago • 167 comments

Trump placidly presiding over the largest measles outbreak in 25 years, with no end in sight. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/h...

submitted 22 hours ago • 397 comments

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“The S&P 500’s performance since Inauguration Day is now the worst for any president up to this point in data going back to 1928, according to Bespoke Investment Group.” www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

Surprised that randomly imposing punitive tariffs on every country on earth, pausing some of them, and then trying to strike ad hoc “deals” isn’t working out

submitted 1 day ago • 204 comments

No. The answer is no. There are those with business interests who have twisted themselves into a pretzel to whitewash Dr Oz’s dubious past. But for those with backbones, he’s the same person he’s always been — a grifter, not an ethical doctor.

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

NEW MEIDAS HEALTH: America First or America Alone? Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, senior leader at WHO, joins Meidas Health host Dr. Vin Gupta to discuss the very real ways a full-scale withdrawal from WHO impacts every American, both visibly and behind the scenes. (more links in reply)

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

The Food and Drug Administration is drawing up plans that would end most of its routine food safety inspections work, multiple federal health officials tell CBS News. 🔗 www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...

submitted 5 days ago • 306 comments

What’s actually behind the increased rates of autism in recent decades? Something nefarious like RFK likes to suggest? Or something rationale, plausible, and far less headline grabbing? Excuse my hospital lightning, but we distilled it down in 40 seconds with the great @stephruhle.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

NEW: The Trump admin is stonewalling plaintiffs' discovery requests in the Abrego Garcia case, their attys tell Judge Xinis. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Rachel Maddow remarks on the passing of Pope Francis and the attention he devoted to the plight of migrants around the world. youtu.be/U1BxNEqwz40

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

FYI y'all - the GOP's attempt to steal a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court is still being litigated but the @ncdemocrats.bsky.social and @carolinaforward.bsky.social are preparing for the possibility of a ballot cure campaign starting Saturday. Sign up for the launch on Friday to learn more.

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I just met with Mohsen Mahdawi where he’s being held in Vermont. He was detained when he showed up for his citizenship interview. He should be released so he can become a citizen.

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