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With both the courts and Congress refusing to provide legal cover to spending cuts that Musk forced through, the administration is running out of options for ensuring that its unilateral reductions take effect. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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ALERT: I had not seen this article until this morning. It is a pretty big deal. Mike Waltz isn’t actually using Signal. He’s using a copy or third party version of Signal created by a company called TeleMessage the point of which is to allow archiving of messages. The app claims to preserve …

submitted 10 hours ago • 109 comments

New in PN: Trump's brain is gone "Trump’s competence has always left a lot to be desired, but recent interviews show a president who’s no longer capable of even the veneer of mental acuity. Meanwhile, his party behaves like courtiers to a mad king."

submitted 10 hours ago • 287 comments

One specific reason this is illegal is that, after the 2013 "IRS targeting scandal," Rs led the bipartisan push to pass a bill that clarified why political targeting was illegal.

submitted 10 hours ago • 28 comments

In late night filing, Trump administration advances new legal arguments re: Alien Enemies Act. 1) U.S. has no “enforceable” agreement with El Salvador to retain custody over deported migrants. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 17 hours ago • 92 comments

Crucial point @leahlitman.bsky.social makes here is that Trump and Stephen Miller's public lying about SCOTUS's rulings will work against them. The justices are "absolutely going to be rubbed the wrong way by all the things Stephen Miller and the other Trumpers are doing." Listen, she's good:

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

To put a slightly finer point on this - they only need to provoke Robetrts and Barrett. Based on some of their previous non-abortion decisions, I give better than even odds that the finger-in-the-eye gang will manage to provoke at least 5 Justices.

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

Wow the exclamation point here is a judge who is very, very mad at the Department of Justice.

submitted 21 hours ago • 11 comments

NEW: The president's executive order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies “to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS” and further requires that they work to root out indirect sources of public financing for the news organizations. to.pbs.org/44UvK1B

submitted 19 hours ago • 116 comments

Sounds like he'd like to start another world war. He so ignorant he doesn't realize that "Victory Day" marks the end of the war in Europe not WWII, which didn't end until the Japanese surrendered. Official V-J Day was Sept. 2. And November 11th is already called Veterans Day.

submitted 18 hours ago • 17 comments

The possibility that RFK Jr. is going to undermine herd immunity in the United States grows increasingly likely. This would mean that US will be responsible for starting numerous pandemics and potentially destroying the effectiveness of the entire globe’s vaccine arsenal. This is bioterrorism.

submitted 23 hours ago • 312 comments

Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945. For Americans, the Second World War would rage for three more months, until VJ Day in August. But for Russians and those influenced by them, "Victory Day" falls in May. Trump follows the Russian practice, not the American.

submitted 20 hours ago • 375 comments

The Trump doctrine is that anti-racism is anti-white, and therefore bad, because only white people should be protected, and they should be protected from consequences of racism. This has been made crystal clear, and our media is silently helping him.

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BREAKING: Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, issues a TRO blocking the Trump administration from "dissolv[ing]" the Institute of Museum and Library Services, placing any more employees on administrative leave, or terminating any grants in the coming days.

submitted 22 hours ago • 50 comments

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

Just got warned that the new "Voice Isolation" feature in Teams, if turned on and trained on a male voice, will filter out all the women in the room, while still allowing the men in the room to be heard online. clears throat IF YOU USE A BIASED TRAINING SET, YOUR TECHNOLOGY WILL BE BIASED.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

This is inexcusable. The US knowingly elected a person who has always been this obviously ignorant.

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Some folks are getting confused by this scenario but the upshot is that vaccines are already approved on the basis of placebo-controlled trials, what RFK is trying to do is eliminate vax updates, which don’t require placebo controlled studies. So basically trying to kill annual flu/COVID updates.

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

"Trump's VA strands thousands of veterans by ending a key mortgage program"

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Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978? 100%? 500%? Try 1,085% Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

submitted 1 day ago • 642 comments

One of the many reasons obsequious chatbot flattery is bad: It convinces people that their bad ideas are good, leading to them to double down on those ideas rather than improve them in the face of criticism. A generation reliant on such chatbots risks being increasingly devoid of critical thinking.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

It's a massively stressful job and it was determined long ago that they should retire by 55 because of it. But sure, keep 'em on the job. What could go wrong?

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

🚨 Read this to see how extremists within the US State Dept have weaponized the government. They made a list of journos & researchers they personally don’t like, ideological keywords, and are searching for mentions. They plan to leak, Twitter Files style. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/01/1...

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Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically why vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

submitted 1 day ago • 528 comments

the trump administration, obviously concerned with racial equality, thinks its illegal discrimination to spend federal dollars protecting a predominantly black community from raw sewage

submitted 1 day ago • 168 comments

Here is my full report on today's important Alien Enemies Act ruling — and the broader context in which it operates: www.lawdork.com/p/aea-trump-...

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Trump is about to foreclose on the homes of 90,000 Veterans. www.rawstory.com/trump-vetera...

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"Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the government can expel legal residents from the country based on 'past, current, or expected beliefs, statements, or associations that are otherwise lawful.'" Again: the SoS said that he can expel legal residents from the country for "expected beliefs"...

submitted 1 day ago • 397 comments

You can see how much gold fringe nonsense he added to the doorway, compared to a photo from just a week and a half ago on April 18.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

In a move that raises very serious First Amendment issues, ICE executed a major splashy operation in California aiming to arrest a guy for posting fliers with names, pictures, and apparent phone numbers for ICE HSI agents. I am struggling to think what possible law posting that info could violate.

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Oklahoma Education Commissar Ryan Walters announces new academic standards for the coming school year. Among other things, all students will be required to learn Trump's version of the 2020 election.

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www.fastcompany.com/91327040/fda...

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Polygon and Daily Dot gutted the same day. sigh

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New from 404 Media: Mike Waltz has inadvertently revealed the obscure app the government is using to archive Signal messages. Made by a company called TeleMessage. Use of the Signal clone raises questions about how messages being secured, what classification of info www.404media.co/mike-waltz-a...

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Honestly this is just incredible content.

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I was among those who pointed out that an inability to get Abrego Garcia made Trump look weak. Trump can't stand to look weak. Now he's acknowledged he can get Abrego Garcia back. In doing so, he's given the lawyers the ammunition they need to prevail in court. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 120 comments

“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” Read, share, respond. Call your representatives. The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake. www.science.org/content/arti...

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NIH funding for research with international partners is about to be suspended. I believe it was just yesterday that I posted about a huge, critical study that showed that one HPV shot is as good as two. The study was funded by the NIH…and was done in Costa Rica. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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jesus christ

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It's not something we say about a lot of people, but ימח שמו. yimakh shemo-- may his mothertrucking name be blotted out forever. May this day happening on the eve of May Day inspire us to rise up against the tyrants living in our lifetimes. Never again is right now.

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🎶 There's no danger of love You're raised on language and so was I A pattern match is all I'm speaking of You'd get this treatment from any old A.I. I just parrot everything you're feeling Nothing here to understand… 🎶

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