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Deep and thoughtful reporting on the crises of the NIH funding and review blocks. Share locally, share widely. And make sure your reps know! www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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This is scary too!!

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Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

submitted 9 hours ago • 550 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 2 hours ago • 881 comments

If we want democracy to win, we have to run the authoritarian playbook in reverse. That means building up power in all the competing places that authoritarians see as obstacles to conquer or neutralize. Here's how:

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Even Elon Musk's own AI knows what Musk is really doing.

submitted 48 minutes ago • 31 comments

You never recover from a burn like that.

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"Next week, House Republicans will hold a major vote on Trump’s fiscal agenda. The House blueprint, which Trump backs, lays the groundwork for up to $880 billion in Medicaid cuts and tens of billions in cuts to food stamps." Everybody knows someone this will harm.

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The Pentagon will fire 5,400 civilian workers next week.

submitted 22 hours ago • 495 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 1 day ago • 985 comments

The Trump administration blocked key parts of the federal government’s apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on much of the country’s future work on illnesses like cancer and addiction despite a federal judge’s order to release grant money.

submitted 16 hours ago • 109 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 1 day ago • 2342 comments

WSJ shined a light on MAGA strong hold Huntington Beach, CA So @chriswarcraft.bsky.social a former punter for the Minnesota Vikings showed up at HB City Council mtg to call out Trump & MAGA Republicans as a nazi movement and then gets arrested for an act of civil disobedience! LFG! Be Like Chris

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

We’re definitely seeing a spike in Washington DC jobless claims:

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Jack Posobiec told CPAC that Trump is not violating the Constitution because "Trump is the living embodiment of the American Constitution."

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If you want to know where Republicans are going to gut federal programs next, follow this Project 2025 tracker. www.project2025.observer

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NEW: The Justice Department now says Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 rioters covers unrelated gun charges some faced after the FBI searched their homes. It’s moving to drop felony charges against Daniel Ball and Elias Costianes. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Good morning and Happy Friday to everyone who agrees that if you want people to stop calling your party a bunch of Nazis, then your party leaders should stop doing Nazi things like the Sieg Heil. Did you notsee this coming?

submitted 1 day ago • 678 comments

the french nazis somehow come out looking better than the american conservative movement (to be clear: all nazis suck. fuck all the nazis, theres no good nazis)

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If you are experiencing rage and despair about what is happening in America and the world right now because of the Trump-Vance-Musk regime, you are hardly alone. But a groundswell of opposition is growing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/ten-reasons-for-optimism

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Carville: USAID spent $41 billion the federal budget is 6 trillion. Actually comes to something like .014%. So take that and put it against the 6 trillion and see what you have done when your president is responsible for more federal debt than any president in the history of the United States.

submitted 1 day ago • 664 comments

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

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‘Crucially, through #USAID, the US has projected soft power — building goodwill and strengthening America’s standing around the world. Ending the agency’s programs will have devastating impacts — including acute impacts on the health of millions of people.’ www.themandarin.com.au/286946-trash...

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Tonight we proposed an amendment to ensure that the Republican budget doesn’t raise prescription drug costs for seniors on Medicare. And guess what? Republicans blocked it — just like they opposed us when we gave Medicare the power to lower drug prices.

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We all knew this was part of Project 2025. Trump is looking to cut over a trillion dollars from Medicaid + food stamps & there's already a bill. This will decimate under-resourced communities. Make no mistake that they've declared WAR on the working class. Healthcare & food access are human rights.

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How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

This will especially hurt rural folks

submitted 2 days ago • 577 comments

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 684 comments

How best to poliiticize the military? Replace senior officers who are not aligned with the governing party. Neutrality isn't good enough, they must be puppets. The damage Hegseth and Trump will be doing will take generations to undo.

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Just more proof that this Administration doesn’t care if we survive it…

submitted 2 days ago • 149 comments

This sounds like a great way to cut the deficit. Get rid of the revenue people.

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DOGE is ushering in the enshittification of government services.

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"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

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DOGE is the Elon Musk vengeance tour.

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For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

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We’re about to begin our weekly conversation. We hope to see you in a few minutes. 👇

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WIRED: “The director of data science and engineering for USDS—which Musk rebranded as DOGE— resigned… ‘I do not believe DOGE can continue to deliver the work of USDS’… even DOGE employees don’t know who is legally running it…” 🤷🏻 www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

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This is a very important story by @charliesavage.bsky.social — it lays out how the Trump admin is effectively circumventing judges’ orders to keep federal spending frozen. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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Dear Trump voter with elderly parent(s) in nursing home: Get your guest room ready and kiss your free time, vacation & toy money goodbye!

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments