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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 10 hours ago • 122 comments

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 107 comments

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

submitted 1 day ago • 121 comments

Tell me how this makes America healthy or safe

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 1217 comments

Did Panama agree to build and run Trump’s concentration camps so he’d stop talking about seizing the canal?

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

At this point, Zelenskyy should not participate in any peace talks which involve the Trump administration He should demand that Europe lead the way-and guarantee Ukraine’s safety if a deal can be reached Clearly, the US is spouting Putin’s talking points and cannot be trusted to negotiate honestly

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

Oh yeah, they should rush this plane out as quickly as possible. Drop the security clearances, ignore the boring safety checks, get parts as cheaply as possible & rush rush rush the work, even if it means the engineers are badly sleep deprived. Do whatever it takes to get Mr. Trump his plane now!

submitted 3 days ago • 163 comments

is this bad?

submitted 4 days ago • 271 comments

ABC [Feb 19] -- Calling it "unadulterated animus," a federal judge appears ready to block the trans military ban explaining: "[T]he greatest fighting force in world history is not going to be impacted by 1% of the soldiers using a different pronoun." [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

"I'm not doing great." It's tragic that @charlotteclymer.bsky.social even had to write this column, which is all the more powerful for being so restrained. charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/you-ask-me...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Sorry but this is plainly a lie as anyone with eyes to see can tell. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 5 days ago • 755 comments

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submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 5 days ago • 862 comments

Musk and his army of dipshits on Twitter keep pointing to Bill Clinton’s federal worker reduction in the 1990s to defend Trump. The difference? Congress passed a law that Clinton signed, he didn’t just get the nearest billionaire to illegally start dismantling the government based on his whims.

submitted 6 days ago • 160 comments

This is a good time to remind everyone that this administration hasn't done anything for anyone. It has literally only taken away things we've already paid for and fired and sued people. Oh and the quid pro quo with Adams. That's the extent of what they have done. Kinda nuts.

submitted 6 days ago • 137 comments

This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

submitted 6 days ago • 148 comments

This week there’s a vote on the SAVE Act. For married women, if you don’t have a birth certificate or passport that matches your married name, you may be unable to vote. Educate yourself, then call your MOCs & tell to vote NO. 202-224-3121 shorturl.at/MSKIl

submitted 7 days ago • 74 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 7 days ago • 382 comments

Quite literally the same statement that ruined Nixon forever because it revealed him to be plainly anti-American.

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 8 days ago • 510 comments

📌There has not been a president in my lifetime who has purposefully inflicted pain on people like this one. He is completely dead inside.

submitted 8 days ago • 649 comments

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

submitted 8 days ago • 273 comments

this would even have been a big scandal in the previous trump administration. we will see how much that's still true

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

There have been many signs of gross incompetence in the Musk-Trump sledgehammer approach. Now this: "Multiple current and former employees described the situation as 'a national security crisis.'"

submitted 8 days ago • 54 comments

This is just sheer brazen criminality by DOJ. Adams gets federal corruption charges dropped not because there isn’t overwhelming evidence, but because he agrees to help Homan round up migrants. And Homan says the charges will be refiled if Adams doesn’t “come through.”

submitted 8 days ago • 2713 comments

Congratulations to rightwing anti-vax forces: you've reintroduced a deadly, vaccine preventable disease back into American society.

submitted 8 days ago • 355 comments

BREAKING: Ranking Member Raskin demands Attorney General Bondi halt illegal intimidation campaign targeting the DOJ’s Public Integrity Office.

submitted 8 days ago • 865 comments

When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted. Yet somehow Musk isn't.

submitted 8 days ago • 562 comments

Hopefully this judgement will be honored by the Trump administration and aid will begin to flow again. It's worth repeating: The President of the U.S. does not decide where or how our tax money is spent. That is Congress's job. That's why Trump keeps losing in court. apnews.com/article/usai...

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

In addition to being brave and the right thing to do, Sassoon’s letter points out that the Emperor has no clothes — it demolishes the utterly fatuous, transparently corrupt excuses for dismissing the Adams case.

submitted 9 days ago • 79 comments

The complete failure of Republicans in Congress to exercise their power as a check on the executive branch is national disgrace. But the courts are doing their job and may yet protect democracy from Trump.

submitted 9 days ago • 242 comments

The United States is now functionally an ally of Putin. Not just backing down or too friendly or compromised in our opposition to him. More of an outright ally of Russia than we are of Canada.

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

This is literally all of Medicaid btw

submitted 10 days ago • 91 comments

"Why is the administration so eager to allow Elon Musk and his hackers to have access to proprietary and private information in the Treasury payment systems?" Rep. Stansbury asks. "Why are colleagues across the aisle shielding them as they are clearly breaking the law?"

submitted 10 days ago • 30 comments

Believing that Tulsi Gabbard — longtime Russian asset and newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence — is acting in the interests of the United States requires an extraordinary level of self-delusion.

submitted 10 days ago • 1041 comments

Hearing that @indivisible.org and @moveon.org are pissing off house dems by mobilizing their constituents to call them too much is frankly the single best endorsement I've ever heard for a political action groups.

submitted 11 days ago • 116 comments

The author of this piece was an associate WH counsel under Reagan. He has a very polite way of explaining that what Trump is doing with DOGE is a coup. wapo.st/4hSE7Ox

submitted 10 days ago • 263 comments

Yes. Important for all NIH people and scientists: The executive orders are not law. The President cannot make laws. And in fact, executive orders may violate the law. As a federal employee, you are obligated not to follow illegal orders. That includes illegal EOs.

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

"Gulf of America" is just a loyalty test. It's a way of checking who is going to abrogate reality for no reason other than a cowardly refusal to stand up to the bully or an opportunistic willingness to toady up to one. Anyone who will call it that will help you round people up or look the other way.

submitted 11 days ago • 166 comments

It is not ideal that the "is a constitutional crisis looming" conversation is centered on Trump vs. courts when the existent crisis — Trump vs. Congress — has been almost completely resolved by Congress's capitulation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 10 days ago • 36 comments

New: Project 2025, which Russell Vought is the architect of, advocates for cutting NIH funding. But, it has been NIH-funded research that contributed to Vought’s own daughter having better treatment options for cystic fibrosis. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 191 comments

Johns Hopkins officials said the NIH funding cut puts at risk approximately 600 current and ongoing clinical trials at Hopkins, including open clinical trials in cancer, pediatrics and children’s health, heart and vascular studies and the aging brain. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

submitted 11 days ago • 25 comments