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Heroin addict and roadkill enthusiast, RFK Jr. kills flu shot campaigns and cancels a major vaccination conference.

submitted 1 day ago • 994 comments

Better not call it a “vaccine” or it might not get approved. Maybe market it as a recreational drug.

submitted 1 day ago • 866 comments

“What merit means to them” General Brown’s record, which Hegseth questioned for obvious reasons: www.af.mil/About-Us/Bio...

submitted 1 day ago • 430 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 1 day ago • 1997 comments

Seems legit.... We don't want to be a nation of underachieving Americans.

submitted 1 day ago • 851 comments

Egg🥚 rationing is here. As long as bird flu keeps spreading—egg priced will keep rising rapidly. There’s 0 sign of slowing anytime soon. Trader Joe's, Walmart, Costco are all limiting the amount of eggs individuals can buy. Maybe don’t ignore epidemics? www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

submitted 7 days ago • 53 comments

The mass firing bloodbath at HHS continues. We will likely pay for these mistakes in blood of those who could have been saved. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 6 days ago • 217 comments

Heinous—Trump WH/HHS is planning to likely destroy $500 million worth of stockpiled COVID tests. They could give it out for free, but then Trump and RFK Jr would have to admit COVID is serious. And minimizers don’t have the guts to admit millions died. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

⚖️Constitutional crisis — Trump WH is now openly defying a federal court order to fund USAID & other State dept foreign aid. ➡️Will DOJ follow the law & enforce a court order against Trump/Rubio, or will Pam Bondi’s DOJ follow America’s new unconstitutional autocrat?

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

Trump lies about many things, but he lies about Ukraine more than anything.

submitted 3 days ago • 56 comments

The confirmation of Kash Patel as FBI director sends a clear and simple message to MAGA opponents: Don't stand near any open windows. In fact, probably best to avoid upper storeys altogether.

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

Stocks slump with the S&P 500 wiping out almost all of its gains since Trump took office last month, after a widely watched measure of how consumers feel about the economy showed mounting fears over stubborn inflation. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/b...

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The Supreme Court, in its first decision on Trump’s use of executive power in his second term, rules that he cannot, for now, remove a government lawyer who leads the watchdog agency that protects whistle-blowers. @adamliptak.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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“The bad news, of course, is that Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and Russ Vought and Stephen Miller, and Pam Bondi and Pete Hegseth are meanwhile tightening their grip on power…But the public may be beginning to rise up in protest. Perhaps some “leaders” will follow.” www.thebulwark.com/p/inside-dog...

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“The premise of American foreign policy to Ukraine, today, is one of grievance. Ukraine, the victim of a Russian invasion, must "recoup the costs" to the US taxpayer for aid received…This proposition reveals much about America in February 2025.” snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

This is, in no uncertain terms, a rout. The New York Times published an unfortunate op-ed trying to legally justify Trump administration's #Birthright citizenship order. Here, five leading scholars show, with analytic precision, how that op-ed was "fundamentally flawed and irresponsible."⬇️

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments

One more sign of the demise of the rule of law

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

Promoting an 0-9 to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is insane - Trump is going to have to promote him to four star AND waive the legal requirements to even hold the position Dan Caine had a distinguished career, but he’s never been a vice chair, combatant commander or service chief

submitted 1 day ago • 142 comments

Guarding a concentration camp isn't the kind of thing most people want to sign up for. Along with a racist effort to purge officers who aren’t white, military recruiting is going to tank and the ensuing national security crisis will be entirely self-inflicted www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 82 comments

these clowns are genuinely not prepared for the violent backlash that's coming their way once the cascading failures from destroying government agencies and the social safety net start to manifest in concussive, very unsubtle waves

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

submitted 6 days ago • 2696 comments

Too many details in this just-published @ashleyrparker.bsky.social @matteowong.bsky.social @michaelscherer.bsky.social @shaneharris.bsky.social piece to pick just one. Trust me when I say, just read it: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.

submitted 1 day ago • 208 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 day ago • 354 comments

The modern GOP was defined by Reagan at the Berlin Wall. It is now defined by supporting a dictator invading a European nation. This is the Republican Party’s legacy.

submitted 3 days ago • 65 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 858 comments

is this where I point out Jim Jones’ late stage habit of always wearing sunglasses

submitted 2 days ago • 88 comments

Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"

submitted 2 days ago • 1132 comments

Tump has done nothing that would not be on a Russian wish list: -Ukraine invaded Russia. Support Putin. -A de facto Russian agent head of Intelligence. -Kills USAID, the largest competitor against Russia for foreign influence -A drunk cutting defense budget. That's a few. It's a long list.

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 186 comments

This will go down as the real end.

submitted 2 days ago • 1029 comments

There is zero ambiguity here. It’s nauseating.

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

Helpful reminder:

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“Every current and former NNSA employee who spoke to The Bulwark was alarmed about the possibilities of this sort of brain drain, fretting that Musk and his tech-bro buds simply didn’t realize how unsuited the ‘turn everything off and see what breaks’ model was to their line of work.”

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

I just don’t think Elon and his fans understand what “free speech” means.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

www.thebulwark.com/p/dont-purge...

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 4 days ago • 1156 comments

Georgia gop lawmakers have proposed HB 441, a bill that would grant fetal personhood from conception & would allow for women who have abortions to be criminally charged with homicide.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator. He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.

submitted 3 days ago • 3309 comments

He will burn down whatever he can, however he can Our systems of governance, rule of law, global alliances, even the Constitution. Consumed by vengeance and greed, he is the greatest threat to our Republic since its founding. We must meet this moment with the force of a thousand suns. Or perish.

submitted 3 days ago • 676 comments

It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

submitted 3 days ago • 1212 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 3 days ago • 1924 comments