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The Mad King had a bad week - the economy is slowing, inflation is rising, his poll numbers/consumer confidence are falling, cracks are appearing in his Congressional support and folks are starting to rise up against his historic betrayal of America. More 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-mad-ki...

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 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 16 hours ago • 1285 comments

There ought to be a dozen stories every day on our major news websites about the essential workers who have been fired by Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

This is a five-alarm fire 🔥 for US science 🧪. (We keep saying that, but it keeps being true 😭.) Trump and Musk are blocking ALL NIH grants ‼️ by "exploiting a loophole in the process"—stopping study sections & council meetings. Every biomedical researcher in the country should be screaming. 1/

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Over 40% of All Migrants Arrested In The First Weeks Of February Didn't Have Criminal Charges: The Trump administration lied in saying it would focus on criminal migrants in its deportation efforts www.latintimes.com/over-40-all-...

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Want to know why Trump's approval rating has already taken a huge hit? Consumers understand his policies are re-igniting inflation and weakening the economy. From the new U of Mich consumer survey:

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"many of whom had wondered who is behind the account and if they took one too many Mongolian history courses." THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TOO MANY MONGOLIAN HISTORY COURSES.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

"Traded insults"? Seriously, WaPo? Trump lied, Zelensky calmly pointed out that Trump lied. That's not "trading insults".

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

If you’re wondering who the Elon Musk staffers are, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has several Musk staffers, including Amanda Scales, Brian Bjelde, Stephen Duarte, Christina Hanna, and Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski.

submitted 4 days ago • 178 comments

Since the Washington Post didn't want you to see the anti-Musk ad with your newspaper, please check out this website and share it around www.commoncause.org/work/fire-el...

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

An excellent question. Where are the Fortune 500 & Wall Street CEOs? Where are the university presidents? Where are the civil society leaders? Not just speaking out specifically in defense of their institutions & democracy, but also about 🇺🇸's global interests? The silence is deafening & shameful.

submitted 7 days ago • 169 comments

Ruth Faden & Nancy Kass - The abrupt end of USAID-funded clinical trials is profoundly unethical: It’s also dangerous to the health of thousands of trial participants www.statnews.com/2025/02/16/u... via @statnews.com

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

$1 billion and counting...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

A remarkable detail in the WaPo's write-up of the Trump DOJ's ghastly efforts to bully both their own prosecutors and the Mayor of New York City. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 8 days ago • 40 comments

🚨 Your House representative is now back home through February 23. That’s where we come in. With Trump and Elon Musk pulling off a billionaire coup in real time, this congressional recess is about turning up the heat like never before. Let’s get to work: indivisi.org/muskorus

submitted 8 days ago • 151 comments

This is catastrophic. Call your elected officials and rail against it.

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You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

submitted 8 days ago • 41 comments

Compare an institution’s response to restricting use of language about (or not even about) diversity, equity, and inclusion in grants, to the same institution’s response to cutting indirect costs. What values are being bent “for the sake of the work?” What values are being staunchly defended?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Why did Trump have himself put in charge of the Kennedy Center? Because he knows that the educated and cultured people who patronize it despise him. So he seeks revenge. And he knows that his being in charge of the center will destroy it.

submitted 10 days ago • 1432 comments

Josh Marshall. Gift link. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-a...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

submitted 10 days ago • 596 comments

White House Deputy Chief of Staff makes it official: @apnews.com is being punished for asserting its First Amendment right to call the Gulf of Mexico what it is.

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

Thread.

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Seriously, how hard would it be for the Senate and House Ds to have a morning joint press conference, 7 days a week, contesting Trump's assault on the US right now? Could be a different Senator and House Member each day. We are in a national emergency right now. Our leaders need to act that way.

submitted 9 days ago • 84 comments

None of the MSM coverage I've seen of RFK's confirmation comes close to explaining how loony he is and how loony this is. And they worry about losing trust.....

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

I really wish all these people who want to be ruled by a king would just fuck off to a country that has one. Thailand’s pretty and has amazing food. They’ve even got lèse-majesté laws to stop people from upsetting your bootlicking souls.

submitted 9 days ago • 112 comments

We need to be clear that Trump and Musk are not reducing the size of the US government, or making it more efficient. They are destroying it.

submitted 9 days ago • 37 comments

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

submitted 9 days ago • 791 comments

"an extreme giveaway to the wealthy at the expense of families who already have a hard time making ends meet." www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Feel like we need to start developing a different form of posting here. Ones which don't chase the new but restate what matters. Like: None of these "cuts" Musk is doing are legal. None. He has no authority to cut, dissolve, fire, vaporize. He's an extraordinary criminal, a traitor to the US.

submitted 11 days ago • 45 comments

Trump keeps losing in court. The economy is slowing. Inflation is rising. Consumer confidence is falling. He has highest disapproval of any POTUS at this point ever. His tariffs will make things worse. He's pissing off allies, ransacking our govt. THIS IS NOT WINNING. bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 11 days ago • 27 comments

If you are looking for someone to say that all is lost and the courts can't help protect democracy, you are following the wrong guy. If you are looking for someone who fights hard and will never give up, I'm here for you.

submitted 11 days ago • 1853 comments

My compilation of what you can do to fight the Trump agenda www.headsupnews.org/p/what-you-c...

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

The biggest story in the country right now is how many lawsuits DOJ is losing trying to defend Musk and Trump. I've never seen so many courts, so clearly outraged at the federal government. The latest one, blocks cuts at HHS and FDA. Visit www.democracydocket.com to stay informed.

submitted 11 days ago • 347 comments

The ‘American First’ crowd is awfully quiet about Trump’s pledge to build free housing for 2 million Palestinians in some random country they don’t want to go to that also doesn’t want them. I’m sure this will all work out fine and that’s what people thought they were voting for.

submitted 11 days ago • 340 comments

I, too, am fed up with "heading towards," "approaching," "could see," and "on the precipice" of Constitutional crisis and the end of rule-of-law democracy in the US. America leapt off in Nov. 2024. At best, this is Wile E. Coyote standing in thin air, as if we won't fall if only we don't look down.

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

Trump’s executive orders are not law. This doctor knows it. Many hospital systems know it. Those that comply with something not passed by congress and with power not constitutionally granted to the president are cowardly.

submitted 11 days ago • 46 comments

Maryland people: Sens. Van Hollen and Alsobrooks are having a phone-in town hall "to answer your questions and provide an update on Trump/Musk's illegal actions and our efforts to fight back and protect our federal employees" at 7:30pm on Wed. the 12th. outreach.senate.gov/iqextranet/E...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

An email to Delegate Elizabeth Embry "Delegate Embry, I am writing to ask you to support and co-sponsor the CASA-introduced bills in this session. HB1006, the Sensitive Locations Act, does not list you as a co-sponsor, and I think you should be.

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In my experience in this session of Maryland's Assembly (it'll be over before you know it), everyone is all I LOVE IMMIGRANTS but mysteriously only one of three CASA-sponsored bills seem to be making it into committee. So weird

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Threadlet. This is so awful, and so unnecessary.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The attorneys general of Maryland and 21 other states sued the Trump administration and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Monday, alleging they illegal…

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