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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b... The return on investment from federally funded research and what we could lose with Trump’s policies to slash research funding, “Research has found that every dollar invested in research and development returns about $5 in economic gains”

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The sheer volume of time and energy being spent by thousands of university-based researchers in every field right now to figure out if their funding will exist next month or next year, if their careers can even continue… just citing dollar values doesn’t do it justice, it is full-scale upheaval.

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

President Musk is getting $8 million every day from government contracts while Republicans plan to cut Social Security.

submitted 3 days ago • 52 comments

China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. The U.S., the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has sent nothing.

submitted 3 days ago • 219 comments

Countless skilled, dedicated, and essential scientists are being fired — setting back critical research that preserves our natural resources and mitigates future climate crises. These scientists protect our planet and people. We need to protect their jobs.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...

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Casar: One of the most important things I learned is how so many of the most right-wing elected officials break things, do not want services to work, and then campaign on them being broken in order to gain political power.

submitted 5 days ago • 392 comments

President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump act like this country belongs to them — grabbing everything they can and daring anyone to stop them. On April 5, we’re taking to the streets nationwide to say loud and clear: Hands Off! Join us: handsoff2025.com/?SQ...

submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments

Hands Off our democracy, our diversity, our rights. April 5, 12pm at Seattle Center.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Seattle Indivisible is paying the upfront costs for the 4/5 rally, including reserving Seattle center, the sound stage, and more. We put out a fundraising call linked here, if you wouldn't mind throwing a few bucks in the pot it would be so appreciated! seattleindivisible.com/daily-action...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

submitted 12 days ago • 3872 comments

Tell it AOC!

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And that’s on that 😌

submitted 13 days ago • 1328 comments

AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense. I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...

submitted 13 days ago • 1131 comments

The fight for our democracy is not coming. It is here. When I say that we have months, not a year, to save democracy, I'm talking about this coordinated, relentless legal assault on political dissent. 1/ Let me explain a few elements of Trump's plan: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

submitted 14 days ago • 189 comments

LISTEN to Maxwell Frost: "We know that this country doesn't have a healthcare program. It has a sickness care program." Every Republican needs to be asked every damn day, what is their plan if they cut Medicaid? They want to burn down the house, w/ millions left inside it! #SaveMedicaid

submitted 15 days ago • 51 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...

submitted 15 days ago • 1368 comments

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... A great explanation of how it is wildly misleading to say the republican tax cuts won’t cost anything.

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Pet peeve: I hate how often ppl claim “all the researchers will just move to Europe/Canada!” You vastly under-estimate how little money there is there vs the USA- and unless that changes ASAP this loss is just going to decimate global science, full stop. 🧪🔭

submitted 18 days ago • 71 comments

The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats. An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.

submitted 19 days ago • 1047 comments

DOGE is aiming to close 34 NOAA offices across the US, including in Santa Barbara, CA. Call your reps now! kymkemp.com/2025/03/14/h...

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

In a total betrayal of their constituents and our democracy, 10 Democrats just voted with Senate Republicans to give Trump and Musk a blank check to continue their coup. @schumer.senate.gov led Democrats to this total surrender. We need strong leadership, not cowards who cave at any GOP pressure.

submitted 19 days ago • 152 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u... On how this bill would further embolden Trump and cede congressional oversight “Sen. Murray WA, “…because House Republicans’ bill fails to include the typical detailed spending directives, the basic guardrails that Congress provides each year in our funding bills.””

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.

submitted 20 days ago • 830 comments

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

submitted 20 days ago • 5233 comments

“This is bullsh*t. This is not a real strategy. The reason why you do this is because you think your constituents are too dumb to understand how congressional procedure works.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social Call your Democratic senators and urge them not to cave: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 20 days ago • 151 comments

Authoritarians govern through fear, not legislation. The simple fear of what they would do in certain situations can push even the opposition to capitulate. That’s success for them. We lose when we fold due to a hypothetical. We win when we challenge the REALITY that is hurting working people.

submitted 20 days ago • 223 comments

The only reason "it's about the economy, stupid" rang true is because up until now, we've been able to take democracy for granted, more or less. Now we can't. It's going to be about democracy (but Trump's economy sucks too).

submitted 21 days ago • 70 comments

Great article on the ongoing impacts of the Trump administration on fisheries in the NE Pacific, and the people whose livelihoods both support and depend on them. alaskabeacon.com/2025/03/10/f...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

They're gutting public schools, sending class sizes soaring, and ripping special education services away from families. And they're doing it all to free up the $$$ for their next round of billionaire giveaways. Utterly shameful.

submitted 22 days ago • 26 comments

This is shameful. I have met with many NOAA scientists in our district. Their work monitoring extreme weather and addressing the climate crisis is critical. We must advocate for NOAA and stand with the workers who were unjustly fired. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

submitted 24 days ago • 22 comments

Setting aside the incredibly dangerous and fascist aspect of this, is there actual evidence that Khalil was a “Hamas supporter”? Or is the standard for a green-card holder being sent to a secret location and possibly deported just “critical of Israel”?

submitted 24 days ago • 260 comments

A complete and all-out attack on NOAA. Without a functioning NOAA there is no function seafood industry, no functioning radar network, no functioning weather models (US or otherwise). Would you cut a personal investment that saved you 70 times over your original investment every single year? (1/3)

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

Day after day, I am hearing horrible stories from real people who are now facing incredibly difficult decisions — all thanks to Donald Trump and Elon Musk. These mass firings aren’t making government more efficient. They’re putting some of our best and brightest out of work.

submitted 25 days ago • 17 comments

There’s no rhyme or reason to the cuts and firings. They’re undermining agencies ability to serve the people and meet legal obligations. It’s everyday citizens who lose in the end—cutting off vital services and benefits from those who need it most.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

IT’S WORKING!!!! KEEP SHOWING UP, MAKING YOUR VOICES HEARD!!!

submitted 27 days ago • 672 comments

Five things Donald Trump accomplished this week: 1. Promised more tax cuts for billionaires 2. Further abandoned our ally Ukraine 3. Flip-flopped on tariffs and tanked the stock market 4. Completely ignored skyrocketing prices 5. Went golfing Hope this helps, Elon.

submitted 26 days ago • 269 comments

Trade deficit is up. Stock market is crashing. Gas prices are rising. Consumer confidence is down. Grocery costs are soaring. Trump is terrible at managing the economy. Why? Because all he cares about is the billionaires. Not us.