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What is NOAA? Federal weather, climate agency hit with job cuts has a big mission. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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Iowa has high cancer rates. Trump's cuts to CDC and NIH are already hitting the state www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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We’ve got a friend in Wisconsin who said she wasn’t worried about potential cuts to Medicaid because she and her 3 kids don’t need it - they’re on BadgerCare. She was stunned when I told her they were all on Medicaid. Protecting people from shame by renaming MA has definite downsides.

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I’ve lost track of how many times they’ve broken something and then gamely tried to at least pretend to glue it back together.

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"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 2 days ago • 478 comments

Today's @usatoday.com front page First US death from measles in 10 years First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US All of this fully preventable

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Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.

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I attended my Rep. Sue Errington’s town hall tonight. Lot of people concerned about our money and our social services at local, state, and federal levels. I hope we all keep that energy up and continue to voice our concerns and organize to change our world for the better.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A vote to cut Medicaid by $880 billion is basically a vote in favor of mass death.

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Even the people working at DOGE say it is a lawless nightmare for America. In fact, they know it better than anyone. Thanks to these true public servants who won’t stand for such a dangerous betrayal of the American people.

submitted 2 days ago • 637 comments

Good. Sue them. Make them put it back.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I called my Representative. Please call yours.

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I think this could’ve been run 2 weeks ago. Gonna be a huge hit to the economy flooding it with that many unemployed. Unemployed people aren’t paying income tax.

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NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand

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Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes worldwide because of USGS.

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

One more time for the people in the back: Trump does not give a f*ck about working folks!

submitted 8 days ago • 118 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 8 days ago • 862 comments

“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 9 days ago • 477 comments

Shutting down the CDC’s flu vaccine campaign in the middle of a severe season—with 24M+ illnesses, 310K hospitalizations, and 13K deaths—while #H5N1 continues to spread and public health officials across HHS are being fired is reckless and endangers lives. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

The U.S. president has now chosen to throw America to Putin’s side and is more than willing to see this war end on Russian terms. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 9 days ago • 165 comments

This is the story.

submitted 9 days ago • 103 comments

The head of the Autism, ADHD, and Externalizing Disorders Interventions Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health was fired over the weekend, 21 days shy of the end of her one year probationary period. She posted about it on fb.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

This. Called my GOP reps again. I don’t have the energy to call every day, but they hear from me a few times a week.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

That’s how you write a headline, people.

submitted 9 days ago • 571 comments

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

submitted 9 days ago • 519 comments

Unexpected niche beat for @melissagiragrant.com: Covering the myriad protests happening right now despite claims on social media that 'no one is protesting.'

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

Reminder: we already paid for this. This is our tax $$ he’s trashing.

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

I wrote about all the monsters Final Fantasy 1 "borrowed" from D&D, and how the series has largely dropped or obfuscated many of these, even if some (notably the Mindflayer) have endured, IP be damned. www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/final-f...

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"working to swiftly rectify the situation..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

submitted 10 days ago • 289 comments

A really fun metroidvania worth at least twice this price.

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I love to joke about OSHA (and NIOSH) but every single OSHA regulation was written with someone’s blood

submitted 11 days ago • 42 comments

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

submitted 10 days ago • 754 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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I reviewed a copy of the email received by a fired FDIC employee (who was told by phone they were not being terminated for performance) and it had some very peculiar language: “FDIC finds that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the FDIC would be in the public interest.”

submitted 10 days ago • 50 comments

Every union should be echoing this statement.

submitted 10 days ago • 89 comments

Look! A list with me on it! winteriscoming.net/celebrate-bl... (also some other Major Dudes)

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Stay safe, mask up, wash your hands everyone. Influenza can still kill you.

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