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so @chatterton.bsky.social’s position is basically that i am a cult leader and that all of you are mindless hordes who have no actual thoughts and do not engage with substance

submitted 22 hours ago • 835 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1729 comments

Anyone else see that Cybertruck stuck in the snow while the Honda Fit drives right past it? Pretty much sums up America vs rest of the world.

submitted 17 hours ago • 389 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 3 hours ago • 827 comments

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

submitted 22 hours ago • 673 comments

Liberal activist are urging Democrats to fight harder against the administration. But this is the same bad advice that led to crushing Democratic defeats in 2006 and 2008.

submitted 3 hours ago • 16 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2540 comments

'Worst hack in history' as $1.5bn in cryptocurrency stolen

submitted 7 hours ago • 10 comments

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

submitted 1 day ago • 1517 comments

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 22 hours ago • 1173 comments

Holy crap. At his town hall last night, Rep. Rich McCormick compared his own constituents who asked him tough and fair questions to January 6 insurrectionists

submitted 1 day ago • 1679 comments

Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

submitted 1 day ago • 828 comments

This.

submitted 1 day ago • 368 comments

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

submitted 22 hours ago • 2157 comments

Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 2586 comments

"America is afraid of itself. It is totally afraid of its own history. It has never dealt with it successfully. It really thinks it's something that isn't." - Alice Walker in 1997 (Now replace America with a certain demographic)

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

How long until they realize FAFO

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The bonus will be that all the Mars-goers die of space cancer www.shesabeast.co/mars-radiati...

submitted 1 day ago • 426 comments

Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

submitted 2 days ago • 1346 comments

Exactly right

submitted 2 days ago • 752 comments

BREAKING: Canada defeats the USA to take home the #4Nations Championship 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Canadian PM Justin Trudeau tweeted: “You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game.”

submitted 1 day ago • 917 comments

gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

submitted 1 day ago • 1419 comments

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

submitted 1 day ago • 1242 comments

The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

submitted 2 days ago • 577 comments

Just more proof that this Administration doesn’t care if we survive it…

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

hey @mattyglesias.bsky.social, the piece that you link to here — my piece — does not say that “all DEI critics want to reimpose segregation” and i would appreciate it if you didn’t lie to your audience about what my work says.

submitted 2 days ago • 355 comments

I'n glad Mitch McConnell lived long enough to taste the rotten fruits of his harvest. He was responsible for creating the extremist MAGA movement that has fully turned on him. One of the great villains of the past 30 years.

submitted 1 day ago • 195 comments

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 2 days ago • 2181 comments

Over 120,000 Japanese Americans forced into imprisonment in internment camps simply because they were of Japanese heritage.

submitted 3 days ago • 284 comments

It’s really funny to hold peace talks and make a point of showing how you’re not inviting one of the two countries involved directly in the war

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Seen in Brooklyn this AM: an egged cybertruck with a bag of dogshit and also unbagged dogshit

submitted 3 days ago • 841 comments