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With Musk and DOGE, does it feel like the US has been taken over by private equity?

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

I just saw a comment “Thinking the Trump administration is only going to last four years is like thinking COVID was only going to last a few weeks.” 😭

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

NEWS: Eight fired inspectors general are suing to get their jobs back, saying Trump's terminations were illegal. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 12 days ago • 32 comments

MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”

submitted 13 days ago • 306 comments

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

submitted 13 days ago • 934 comments

JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's rate change to NIH grants. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 13 days ago • 74 comments

Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.

submitted 13 days ago • 759 comments

So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?

submitted 13 days ago • 3201 comments

BREAKING: Federal judge temporarily blocks NIH indirect costs rate cap issued Friday as applied to states that sued over the act this morning. Judge Angel Kelley, a Biden appointee, ordered further briefing as well, and set a hearing on Feb 21 in the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 13 days ago • 31 comments

@gtconway.bsky.social will Trump instruct US Marshall to ignore U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell? Will we be a lawless society? How do we resist tyranny?

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An email obtained by NPR says NIH employees are subject to a travel freeze and offers of employment are being rescinded. Scientists worry about disruptions to critical research.

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How are you dealing with the sadness, anger, hopelessness?

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Two students were shot and the gunman killed himself at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee the day after Donald Trump shut down the Office of Gun Violence Prevention.

submitted 33 days ago • 192 comments

i said a few times here and there before the election that we’ll see what the mass deportation plan looks like when it’s ICE agents dragging grandmothers out of churches and, well, here we are

submitted 34 days ago • 610 comments

1/ First Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge David Barron is likely to play an outsized role in litigation against Trump’s Executive Orders. The First Circuit has only five active judges, all Democratic appointees (one current vacancy). Challenges are likely to be filed in the First Circuit.

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

In the space of half a day, the new administration has trashed the Constitution, subverted the independence of the DOJ, granted a broad amnesty to traitors, abandoned the global community on climate and public health, and launched a wide-ranging attack on minority rights.

submitted 34 days ago • 502 comments

Ketamine is a hell of a drug.

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As the oligarchy begins to take shape, this meme seems more prescient than ever. They have convinced you that immigrants are your enemy while they pick your pockets at the same time, you’ve been duped. It’s the billionaires who are ruining this country,not migrants. Always has been. #RiseAndResist

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Morning Joe and Mika can laugh off the backlash but we all remember how this went last time. Find Willie Geist new cohosts.

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@brontyman.bsky.social found you!!!! Welcome

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

If my echo chamber is a combination of accredited subject matter experts, scientists, medical/legal scholars, artists, and human rights activists .. I’ll take it!

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Welcome to everyone new to Bluesky! Here are 4 (illustrated) steps you can take to make your experience here more pleasant than what you left behind on X and/or Threads. A 🧵

submitted 108 days ago • 843 comments

Forced birth in a country with: —No universal healthcare —No universal childcare —No paid family & medical leave —One of the highest rates of maternal mortality among rich nations This isn't about "life." It's about control.

submitted 101 days ago • 110 comments

RFK Jr to be HHS Secretary. OMG. He won’t be confirmed, will he?

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: WHO Forms Urgent Mathematical Modeling Group as H5N1 Pandemic Threat Intensifies, Preparing for Global Containment Crisis

submitted 103 days ago • 7 comments

As someone who has spent a lot of time working on post-coup political order and situations more generally, I'd highly discourage folks from hoping for a military coup here in the US. Here's a thread 🧵on a few reasons why, based on comparative insights. Polisky, dictatorsky, CivMilSky. 1/

submitted 103 days ago • 27 comments

The least shocking turn of events is the rapidity of the shift from "I've got nothing to do with Project 2025" to "every appointee wrote two chapters of Project 2025"

submitted 103 days ago • 28 comments