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submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Cory Booker will break the record for longest Senate floor speech at 7:19 PM EDT. Fewer than 2 hours from now. The record is held by Strom Thurmond, who was arguing for segregation. GO CORY, GO!

submitted 2 days ago • 539 comments

Your April Fools' Day reminder that trickle-down economics is the greatest trick of all. It's nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich at your expense. Don't fall for it.

submitted 2 days ago • 227 comments

Thank you Senator Cory Booker. This guy truly cares about the people he represents.

submitted 2 days ago • 782 comments

This article is just what I needed today. I've always enjoyed coyotes but now I'm a stan.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I'm so sick of people saying that Corey Booker's filibuster is "just performative." Of course it's performative. But all politics is performative to some extent. One of the real problems with Dems is that they're NOT putting on the sort of show they need to put on for the general public.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. On Saturday, April 5, millions of Americans are mobilizing to show it doesn’t. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/april-5-hands-off-our-healthcare

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

I just sat on the Senate floor watching @booker.senate.gov delivering a historic speech highlighting the devastation that this Admin is bringing to our economy, national security, & the lives of every American. Thank you Sen Booker for standing up — just a few hours from a record-breaking speech.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

An FDA worker confirms what I've seen out there. CDC's entire FOIA office is gone. The FDA's communications and web office were cut. "The FDA as we know it is gone."

submitted 2 days ago • 358 comments

The gutting of HHS and the CDC will literally and directly lead to the sickening and deaths of millions of Americans, and many more globally. Far more than that will suffer needlessly. This is horrific.

submitted 2 days ago • 273 comments

I'm not a programming guy but MSNBC and CNN should be airing this Cory Booker thing in the same way you take over programming if there's a no-hitter or a basketball player with 60 points in three quarters. It's a physical feat! Cut in for this kind of thing. Costs nothing, gooses ratings, good TV.

submitted 2 days ago • 1115 comments

Powerful and essential reporting by @corbinhiar.bsky.social about increasingly inhuman corporations are preparing for the increasingly inhuman planet they are creating.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

This will have a huge impact on state libraries and museums. Yikes!!!—word is, RIP to the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

submitted 3 days ago • 300 comments

Omg this is a fantastic idea 😂😂

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

⚠️ HHS cuts reportedly include the entire federal staff of LIHEAP, the heating assistance program. The program still has almost $400 million to distribute this year, of a ~$4 billion annual total. It “could well grind to a halt.” www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/h...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

The CDC has literally been gutted today. There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet. Thousand of scientists fired. Entire departments erased. 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 527 comments

If you were a halfway decent human being and you knew an innocent man was rotting in foreign prison—likely suffering nightmarish conditions—because your administration screwed up and send him there, you’d do something about it immediately instead of shitposting lies all day.

submitted 2 days ago • 687 comments

Clyburn: "People better get serious about this. When he says he's not joking about throwing away the Constitution, which is what he'd have to do to have a third term, and we are not gonna rise up in opposition to that? I think it's time for us all to wake up."

submitted 3 days ago • 1318 comments

If you live in Wisconsin or in the 6th congressional district of Florida you’ll have a chance to do something the rest of us only dream about doing... [It's also an election day in many other parts of the country, too.] https://robertreich.substack.com/p/if-you-live-in-wisconsin-or-floridas

submitted 2 days ago • 366 comments

Pennsylvania faces widespread loss of habitat, which threatens wildlife and leads to increased wildlife-vehicle collisions, interrupted migrations and a lack of genetic diversity in populations. Creating wildlife corridors is a key solution. Read more: environmentamerica.org/pennsylvania...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

@columbiauniversity.bsky.social is paving the way for this:

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

“The loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result.” 1.2 million children dying. Abhorrent. Evil. Indefensible.

submitted 8 days ago • 42 comments

The soon-to-be-tragic story of deep-sea mining in the Pacific feels a lot like the tragic story of coal mining in Appalachia--the false promise of prosperity for locals, the extraction of billions by corporations, the certainty of vast environmental destruction. www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/digg...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Greenland 1, Vances 0. Congratulations, unwelcoming committee.

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

Trump killing the "hydrogen hubs" in blue states while keeping the ones in red states is the kind of political corruption that voters think happens routinely under Democrats and Republicans but in fact only happens routinely under Trump. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Russian hackers compromised Signal, and the Pentagon and Hegseth were aware. Steve Witkoff was in Russia when he participated in the Signal group chat about Yemen, making things even more convenient for the Kremlin. Tulsi Gabbard was also in the chat, so she could have relayed information as well.

submitted 9 days ago • 26 comments

I had legit completely forgotten this.

submitted 9 days ago • 1702 comments

This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat. Don't let them get away with it.

submitted 9 days ago • 534 comments

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

submitted 9 days ago • 1521 comments

I left a voice message with my representative Ryan Mackenzie and with Senator Fetterman this morning to demand that they call for Hegseth’s resignation after yesterday’s unbelievable and inexcusable security breach. Senator McCormick‘s mailbox was full, so I’ll have to try again later.

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

I'm not saying anything novel here but it really is just truly despicable to watch them use THEIR OWN COLOSSAL SCREW UP to slander the reporter THEY INCLUDED ON THEIR CLASSIFIED GROUP CHAT

submitted 9 days ago • 4017 comments

Duckworth: "Hegseth is the most unqualified sec def in history & this is further demonstrating his incompetence. He's literally leaking classified war plans via group chat...if you're our allies, I'd be thinking twice about sharing classified information...All these people need to lose their jobs"

submitted 9 days ago • 633 comments

Smearing Goldberg? Now that is some big league stupid!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

A coalition of archivists and librarians is now assembling information arks. The Data Rescue Project includes more than 400 volunteer backups of government repositories. When asked who was contributing to these backups, an administer of the tracker had a simple answer: “Nerds who care.”

submitted 15 days ago • 17 comments

In the later part of his life, George III had recurrent and eventually permanent mental illness. this is meant to be a flattering portrait:

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Follow the money and see where it goes. Nothing like buying our Congress. Musk has made the maximum allowable donation to members of Congress who support impeaching federal judges who are impeding actions taken by Trump.

submitted 15 days ago • 185 comments

Good thing Florida is not a low-lying coastal state in the bullseye of hurricanes and sea level rise that will need many billions of $$$ to raise roads, fix sewage, access clean drinking water, install pumps to keep cities like Miami habitable for non-billionaires a few more decades.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I've always wanted a car with a roof that flies off for no reason, but doors that don't come off while you're burning alive inside it. My dreams have come true.

submitted 14 days ago • 978 comments

Tesla’s Bigger Problem; Copper Conflict Turns Bloody; and more in this week's Power Metal newsletter! open.substack.com/pub/powermet... #powermetal #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

This is a mission everyone should be able to get behind. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been torn from their families. No effort must be spared to bring them home:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/

submitted 14 days ago • 833 comments

The Silence of the Whales: As ocean heat rises and the food chain collapses, whales stop singing. "A whale has no energy for song 'if it’s harder to gather the food resources it needs to sustain a body that can weigh more than 300,000 pounds.'”

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Holy shit. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say they’re trying to kill us all. “The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists”

submitted 17 days ago • 142 comments

This is disgraceful and un-American. The Trump administration defended its removal of articles highlighting the achievements of minority service members, including Navajo code talkers, Marines at Iwo Jima, and famed Black baseball player Jackie Robinson.

submitted 15 days ago • 247 comments

Mike has been a friend of mine since we were young reporters at the @washingtonpost.com in the 1980s. He brims with talent, integrity and commitment to the truth. This is exactly what I expected and he had hoped he could stave off, which is a trash move by trash people. Throw them out.

submitted 19 days ago • 598 comments

The eventual fate of the GOP

submitted 19 days ago • 2102 comments

The FBI is trying to criminalize Habitat for Humanity for receiving climate grants from the EPA. Yes, the nonprofit that builds houses for low-income people. This clearly demonstrates just how absurd and extreme the Trump regime has become. It's targeted harassment.

submitted 19 days ago • 387 comments

So enjoyed hearing @vincebeiser.bsky.social, Edward Humes and @rosannaxia.bsky.social at the Tucson Festival of Books - such an interesting session. Special thanks to Vince for the generous gift of his book.❤️

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

As he faces Senate confirmation, remember that Dr. Oz: -Pushed Medicare privatization plans on his show -Owns ~$600k in stock in private insurers -Has ties to pyramid scheme companies that promote fake medical cures His main qualification to oversee CMS is loyalty to Trump.

submitted 20 days ago • 230 comments