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OK, the report is now fully in major media. Media must get an extensive White House response; Congress must investigate (even if it's a minority report); DOJ and the FBI must investigate; the CIA must issue a report on what it knew about this and when.

submitted 1 hour ago • 131 comments

Why isn't the Democratic party running with a supercut of this called They're Nazis?

submitted 3 hours ago • 20 comments

I need everyone to be crystal clear that this is a continuation of RFK and the wellness community’s obsession with the elimination of the disabled and the chronically ill. They are disgusted by us, they view illness and disability as weakness, and they believe in using eugenics to disappear us.

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It is insanely obvious that Elon Musk is illegally exercising the powers of a principal officer of the United States in violation of the appointments clause

submitted 2 hours ago • 25 comments

This. Is. Insane.

submitted 2 hours ago • 807 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 6 hours ago • 84 comments

But why? It’s a mystery!

submitted 1 hour ago • 82 comments

It’s also logistically impossible. It’s wrong. It’s unconstitutional. And every single federal employee should send @elonmusk & Trump an email and tell them both to go fuck themselves.

submitted 1 hour ago • 84 comments

In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night. 800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream. There is a movement to be harnessed here. @sanders.senate.gov (📸 Anna Bahr)

submitted 12 hours ago • 584 comments

Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

submitted 2 hours ago • 320 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

submitted 2 hours ago • 10 comments

Also, this is a perfect example of the kind of bureaucratic layer that makes actually doing things in government sometimes hard! Do you a VA nurse spending her time providing health care or writing Elon an email about “What I Did Last Week”?

submitted 1 hour ago • 112 comments

Harmeet Dhillon will lead Trump's DOJ Civil Rights Division. Michael Gates will be her lieutenant Both are super partisan election deniers from California who have made names for themselves among MAGA attacking civil rights rather than defending & expanding civil rights Both are unqualified

submitted 2 hours ago • 14 comments

so then it's not a cost-cutting team, is it

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(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The Daily Beast publishes a sourced allegation that Trump has been a Russian spy since 1987 and then—possibly under some form of threat—deletes it. But in an act of unusual heroism, it left it up long enough for Wayback Machine to capture it text. Here it is (please share):

submitted 2 hours ago • 252 comments

she is right

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CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...

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Enrique Tarrio and some Proud Boys just showed up at the JW Marriott trying to get into the Principles First conference, where several J6 cops are speakers.

submitted 1 hour ago • 23 comments

Interesting thing for the President to say about a person who, according the government’s lawyers, “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself” and “only has the ability to advise the President, or communicate the President’s directives.”

submitted 4 hours ago • 277 comments

Literally every single federal employee should refuse and walk off the job. It’ll be interesting to see the results.

submitted 1 hour ago • 11 comments

Tomorrow I will hope for the best. Words can’t express how terrified I am about making rent. I know I’m not the only small biz/creator feeling this. My sales were in the single digits this month & now I have a week to sell 14 framed pieces? Sleep will be hard to come by. Too much bad happening!

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

A key lesson that America’s frontline partners quietly learned from how the US treated Ukraine after Russia’s illegal full-scale invasion is that relying on US weapons or tech that can cut-off, limited, or geofenced leaves you captive to “de-escalation” /1 www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 14 hours ago • 31 comments

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

submitted 17 hours ago • 38 comments

Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Modern-Day Peaceful Protest… TikTokers are hunting Cybertrucks—pulling up behind them and projecting anti-Elon Musk messages onto the tailgate. What’s genius: the driver has zero rear visibility & zero idea. The Cybertruck Hunters account launched a week ago and already dropped a dozen videos.

submitted 16 hours ago • 212 comments

Does your child want to go to college, want to go to med or grad school? The new cures for diseases, new technologies that we depend on come out of universities. #Trump, #Musk, #Vought are now killing higher education. If you haven't been paying attention, this would be a good time to wake up.

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

We have fought so hard for 21 years, I’m not giving up. #DontCutMyMedicaid

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 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

This didn't take long.

submitted 15 hours ago • 83 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 17 hours ago • 226 comments

Hey @chatterton.bsky.social Rufo, among many other things, made up evidence that Haitians were eating people's pets. Now some 500,000 Haitians who were here legally are likely going to get deported. Glad he criticized you in "good faith" though. Enjoy staying on a platform run by the administration

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From a DoD statement released yesterday, about the thing the Pentagon has been calling a threat multiplier for like three decades www.defense.gov/News/Release...

submitted 2 days ago • 52 comments

The reporting on this bizarre story (gift link) is incomplete. It doesn't address TESCREAL (R=rationalism) & larger links to both AI boys & certain Trumpists. A Silicon Valley Intellectual Society Kicked Them Out. Now They’re Tied to a Killing Spree. www.wsj.com/us-news/zizi...

submitted 11 hours ago • 9 comments

The April 1 election for a 10-year term on the Wisconsin Supreme Court carries higher stakes than any election this year until the November contests for governor of New Jersey and Virginia.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

It's weird how everyone in the world knows a Nazi salute when we see it, with the notable exception of journalists and their editors.

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 17 hours ago • 551 comments

The hed doesn't say it is "to field offices within cities that the Trump administration has designated as higher crime locations." The SS is coming to (Black and) blue states. FBI managers are told 1,500 staff, agents will be moved from headquarters www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

Not enough blood. Acting ICE director removed amid White House pressure to boost arrests www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 10 hours ago • 17 comments

New in PN: AOC shows how to fight back and stand strong "Prominent figures standing up can undermine the climate of fear that MAGA relies on to impose terror. AOC’s work on behalf of her constituents and refusal to be intimidated are models of resistance other Democrats would do well to imitate."

submitted 1 day ago • 207 comments

Tell Congress to keep Musk out of our Treasury payment systems! Write your letter here, and then call!

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

A whole generation of early career scientists and physician-scientists, including colleagues and myself, are particularly vulnerable to these funding freezes and cuts, with jobs and careers depending on federal grants. #IDsky #Medsky #Episky www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 10 hours ago • 108 comments

STATEMENT: “This Is The Move Of A Weak And Insecure Tyrant, Not A Strong Commander-in-Chief”

submitted 9 hours ago • 50 comments

If you support this, you’re an awful human being

submitted 9 hours ago • 205 comments