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Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

submitted 4 hours ago • 80 comments

99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research. Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts. It will directly impact YOU. #ScienceNOTSilence

submitted 2 days ago • 118 comments

You wouldn't know from reading this New York Times story about Trump punishing the University of Pennsylvania for trans athletes that there are no trans athletes on women's teams at the University of Pennsylvania because the New York Times didn't find that detail worth including

submitted 6 days ago • 135 comments

It is human trafficking.

submitted 7 days ago • 167 comments

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

submitted 8 days ago • 623 comments

Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now

submitted 9 days ago • 133 comments

Out of all the bullies and monsters in the administration, Marco Rubio seems like the purest specimen of how Nazism happened—not a sincere bigot or ideologue, just an empty shell who has literally no limits on what he will agree to do or pretend to believe, embracing brutality to fill his weakness

submitted 10 days ago • 250 comments

Because he said Musk is Nazi-adjacent. An ambassador told the truth about a private citizen, and the United States cut diplomatic ties. Think about that.

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

Walz: Donald Trump doesn't know how anything works. Donald Trump is this caricature that had a reality TV show that pretended like he knew how to run businesses. The reality is, he doesn't

submitted 13 days ago • 144 comments

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

submitted 15 days ago • 31 comments

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submitted 17 days ago • 1605 comments

Just a quick reminder, if Russia ceased firing there would be a cease fire

submitted 19 days ago • 455 comments

This is NOT what I had in mind when I voted for the man who pretended to work at McDonald's for a day and then drove around in a dump truck. I thought he would continue doing those things, thereby providing valuable services in my community

submitted 19 days ago • 306 comments

The PACT Act passed the Senate twice, with 84 and 86 votes respectively. These planned layoffs are tantamount to unilaterally deactivating it. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

submitted 19 days ago • 16 comments

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

submitted 19 days ago • 489 comments

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

submitted 21 days ago • 3330 comments

Hegseth’s pretty clearly on record as being pro-war crime.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

been thinking a lot about the media reaction to Biden's first debate performance compared to its response to fascism

submitted 21 days ago • 18 comments

Trump ran on a pledge to reduce the price of groceries and then, a few weeks after taking office, imposed a 25% tariff on the countries that import the most food to the United States.

submitted 21 days ago • 107 comments

Trump’s murderous freezing of aid that Congress enacted a law to send to Ukraine unconstitutionally usurps the power of the purse, violates the 1974 Impoundment Act, and is an impeachable “high crime and misdemeanor” akin to the extortion for which the Senate should have convicted Trump in 2020.

submitted 21 days ago • 273 comments

I don’t know. This is seeming less and less like a Russian hoax.

submitted 23 days ago • 38 comments

Seems like Hegseth's Stand Down Our Defenses Against Russia order should be getting a bit more attention.

submitted 23 days ago • 459 comments

Democrats hold the line. Do NOT agree to fund DOGE.

submitted 23 days ago • 785 comments

Craig Unger, an American journalist and writer who has written two books on Trump’s connections to Russia, says he is "absolutely certain" that the U.S. president is a Russian asset. The Kyiv Independent sat down with Unger to hear what makes him so certain.

submitted 24 days ago • 135 comments

My friends, the tech bros are exhausting.

submitted 24 days ago • 24 comments

We have a puppet of Russia as President. What an utterly disgraceful, shaming, abhorrent moment for this country.

submitted 25 days ago • 34 comments

Not being sarcastic or glib, but what is the point of destruction like this? What does Musk gain from doing this? Is it really as shallow an explanation as “I want to just destroy everything.” But … for what? I get the attack on USAID, or the FAA, or DOJ. But what does this … do?

submitted 26 days ago • 197 comments

America’s oligarchs got historically rich and powerful off the federal government and are now carrying out an aggressive coup. We’re in a class war and unless we stop them they will plunge us into a nightmarish authoritarian reality. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-birth-...

submitted 27 days ago • 12 comments

Studies show that funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) contributed to 354 of 356 drugs (99.4%) approved by the FDA from 2010 to 2019. Recklessly slashing NIH funding will mean that patients will be waiting much longer for life-saving treatments.

submitted 29 days ago • 36 comments

He nails it.

submitted 31 days ago • 1543 comments

No thanks I’ve already seen this episode Geraldo

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Chris Murphy: "My prediction is that if you vote for Kash Patel, more than any other confirmation vote you make, you will come to regret this one to your grave."

submitted 34 days ago • 731 comments

Brian, Wired isn’t in the White House yet they kick CNN’s ass every day and twice on Sunday. Find some courage or stop wasting everybody’s time with this ‘strategy’ bullshit.

submitted 39 days ago • 14 comments

This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.

submitted 40 days ago • 313 comments

A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.

submitted 40 days ago • 228 comments

well it has certainly been an amusing prank to let the worst people alive take over the american government for a few weeks, but I think it's probably gone on long enough

submitted 41 days ago • 104 comments

Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging? Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.

submitted 41 days ago • 1858 comments

A funny historical fact: if you look up where the top science happened around 100 years ago... it was Germany. I wonder what happened...

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

A quick search of Cotton’s accounts show that the first time he posted a single word critical of USAID was 5 days ago, despite serving in the Senate for 10 years and the House before that.

submitted 42 days ago • 1894 comments

Screw Google for capitulating to this childish nonsense.

submitted 42 days ago • 3925 comments