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This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit. This cannot be allowed to happen.

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

ICE dragged a mother from her home in Massachusetts—clinging to her baby—without showing a warrant or ID. When neighbors demanded proof, ICE sneered, “We don’t have to show you anything.” That’s not law enforcement. That’s state-sponsored kidnapping. This is fascism & it’s terrifying.

submitted 17 hours ago • 292 comments

The disrespect for Congress and the law is glaring - and for our nation a threat to our public safety.

submitted 18 hours ago • 950 comments

BREAKING: Rand Paul calls out his own party for tripping over themselves to approve the largest debt ceiling hike in U.S. history. $5 TRILLION. The same clowns who call food stamps “socialism” are out here writing blank checks to defense contractors. Every. Damn. Time.

submitted 19 hours ago • 364 comments

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

submitted 22 hours ago • 1245 comments

Not to be too pro technocrat, but it is astounding how much this country depended on the selflessness of like a few hundred thousand highly educated public servants who, for peanuts, made sure our food and medicine and environment etc were safe. And in return these servants were demonized.

submitted 1 day ago • 176 comments

fun fact three fighter jets is roughly equivalent to the NEA’s 2024 budget

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

How to square the circle of "there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans" and "no, I don't protest Republicans, there's no chance they'd listen to me, and I could be putting myself in physical danger if I tried"? Those seem contradictory.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

New in PN: The Hope Florida scandal, explained "A GOP investigator said he believes DeSantis's former chief of staff engaged in a conspiracy to launder money. We're sure Pam Bondi is on it (sarcasm). But there could still be consequences."

submitted 3 days ago • 84 comments

The plan is to break the parks, claim they must be privatized, take them from the American people and give them to their friends.

submitted 6 days ago • 98 comments

You refuse to reverse it, you own it. And, again, there are no moderate Republicans in Congress anymore. Because every one of them are individually enabling MAGA control of the whole thing. When you vote for a Republican, you’re effectively voting for Trump to be your Congressman or Senator.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

The media uses the possibility his brain is mush to avoid calling him a liar and the fact that he’s a liar to avoid saying his brain is mush. The effect is that they write up neither of the 2 possibilities, dramatically helping Trump.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

We made a deliberate choice as a nation, until now, not to have a police state. We siloed off federal data and put in place laws, regulations, policies and internal norms to prevent the federal government from putting together everything it knows about you into one place. Trump is ending all that.

submitted 9 days ago • 78 comments

New in PN: Arresting judges is a 5-alarm escalation "It’s not just that Dugan was arrested, but how she was arrested. The whole point was to cause a scene. There’s no allegation she was attempting to evade arrest, but the FBI still forced a sitting judge to do a perp walk at her place of work."

submitted 11 days ago • 970 comments

I just do not understand why Ds keep doing this. Trump is setting the constitution on fire every single day. Just vote against his fucking nominees. how hard is that? what on earth is the perceived downside?

submitted 10 days ago • 31 comments

An advantage that the GOP has with this gameplan is that its biggest and most deleterious effects will not be seen by the general public immediately: much of what the NIH does is slow-burn science that requires years or decades before it ends up as an essential component of health infrastructure. 1/

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

TFW you know that every billionaire is a policy failure but also that Pritzker is one of the very few actually saying what needs to be said so you support him anyway

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

🔹If you cut deals with our trading partners there won't be much tariffs revenue. 🔹If you keep tariffs high enough to generate revenue, you won't get deals. You can have deals, or tariffs revenue, but not both. Each flip-flop from one to the other drives paralyzing levels of uncertainty higher.

submitted 11 days ago • 53 comments

youtu.be/ClY_XjoiYXc?...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Just cueing this classic Benny Johnson tweet about the horrors of socialism for that time in the near future when the tariffs imposed by super-capitalist Donald Trump will make Americans envious of places with store shelves that look like this.

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

Can we get a do-over? Asking for the sane WORLD that wants off of this disastrous rollercoaster known as the Trump Administration/Crime syndicate/moronic monsters.

submitted 12 days ago • 99 comments

This feels a lot like that early period of Covid when some people were shouting about how bad it was going to be while guys like Trump and Musk were predicting it would be over by April.

submitted 12 days ago • 174 comments

Democrats being willing to do a doomed sit-in to oppose Trump’s budget, but not willing to vote against it when they easily have enough votes to block it, is a pretty good clue about what they think they’re doing here

submitted 12 days ago • 22 comments

Thank you for flying with Restricted Airways, where we boast the firmest knee pressed to your neck and tastiest boot in the industry. We'll be making our final descent into authoritarianism shortly. Please keep your seat belts fastened and seats in the upright position, could be a very bumpy ride

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

ICE is now asserting it's a federal crime for bystanders to request that masked people in plain clothes show identification as they're handcuffing folks and stuffing them into unmarked vans.

submitted 12 days ago • 286 comments

What do you call a country where this happens while the political class and media is hosting a gala dinner in D.C.? www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

submitted 12 days ago • 398 comments

the weirdos who insisted children were being abused in the basement of a pizza parlor with no basement sure are quiet in the face of actual trafficking

submitted 12 days ago • 49 comments

Donald Trump’s tariffs may soon usher in the first stagflation in half a century. It may go on for a long, long time, @davidfrum.bsky.social writes.

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

Everything needs to stop until this stops.

submitted 12 days ago • 22 comments

If deporting US citizen children with cancer isn’t your redline, it’s time to reassess your priorities.

submitted 12 days ago • 530 comments

Looking forward to the Fox News goons taking that 2-year old down a few pegs. “That infant is no angel, despite what the libs want you to believe. Did you know she cried a lot? I heard she’s not even potty trained. Disgusting.”

submitted 13 days ago • 317 comments

We are all birthright citizens. I wouldn't know how to prove my own citizenship without relying on the fact that I was born in the United States.

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

What Catherine said - with this addendum: the institutions of the US economy depend on the institutions of US democracy. Both are being deliberately destroyed

submitted 13 days ago • 28 comments

The MAGA rage was never going to be confined to foreigners. A regime that so aggressively ignores fundamental rights for one group today will not hesitate to violate them for others tomorrow. The path from persecuting “alien enemies” to imprisoning “the enemy within” is very short.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported

submitted 13 days ago • 447 comments