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There are two transgender girls in the state of Maine competing in girls’ sports. There are now SIX federal agencies investigating the state. Here is our latest @propublica.org story with @bangordailynews.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/main...

submitted 3 days ago • 124 comments

Miller and Homan must be so pleased with themselves. Fucking monsters: A family that was deported to Mexico hopes they can find a way to return to the U.S. and ensure their 10-year-old daughter, who is a U.S. citizen, can continue her brain cancer treatment. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

submitted 2 days ago • 83 comments

i’m sorry, i’m tired of this shit. there was no pronoun policing. i have encountered exactly three or four land acknowledgments in like ten years, and the most you’ll hear about “intersectionality” is in liberal nonprofits. this is just freefloating resentment masquerading as analysis.

submitted 8 days ago • 440 comments

(WSJ) - The world economy could face a crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s unless the U.S. rows back on its plans to impose steep tariffs on imports, a senior official at the International Chamber of Commerce warned. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

submitted 10 days ago • 278 comments

Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."

submitted 10 days ago • 5987 comments

MAHA UPDATE: the Trump admin just made a lawyer for Abbott Labs head of food safety. He (unsuccessfully) defended them from charges that premies became catastrophically ill from their formula. Same company caused a formula shortage when they shut down a plant for unsanitary conditions.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

“I find it frustrating and lazy that men don’t get involved,” Ryan Hamilton said. “Why are you not out here going, ‘How dare you?’ … You’re happy to let your wife or daughter go out and tell their nightmare story over and over again while you sit your lazy ass at home?”

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

Turns out "chaotic evil" is not a sound economic policy. GDPNow estimate for real GDP growth in 25Q1 is -2.8% with addition of stagnating ISM manufacturing index and new lower personal consumption growth. www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

This is actually really shocking. Brian Harrison, a white Republican state rep, left the black, Republican-appointed chair of the Texas Water Development Board reduced to tears over DEI. She has two engineering degrees. It's so bad Gov. Abbott and Lt. Gov. Patrick had to publicly defend her.

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

First of many, but here we have a completely manufactured criminal investigation. One career prosecutor already resigned over it. Goal is simply to claw back $20 billion in Biden era climate money. Open and shut corruption. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 15 days ago • 68 comments

NEW: Shortly before he was nominated by Trump to lead the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya appeared on the right-wing Dad Saves America podcast. During the interview, he suggested vaccines could cause autism and expressed sympathy for alternate vaccine schedules. www.importantcontext.news/p/trump-nih-...

submitted 16 days ago • 21 comments

SHAEDON SHARPE, MY GOODNESS

submitted 16 days ago • 24 comments

1) This is real. 2) In a healthy society, a remark like this would cause someone to be instantly shunned as a delusional hatemonger. But instead he'll go right on as a leading light of the political movement that controls the whole federal government.

submitted 17 days ago • 44 comments

I can’t stop staring at this tweet. It’s like the Mona Lisa.

submitted 17 days ago • 263 comments

DOGE "has deleted all of the five biggest 'savings' on [its] original list, after...media outlets pointed out they were riddled with errors ... even as the group claimed...that its savings to date had increased to $65 billion. The website offered no explanation..."

submitted 17 days ago • 23 comments

but biden was boring!

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

In August 2022, I predicted six steps Trump would take in a second term to replace our liberal democracy with something like Viktor Orban's Hungary. Shall we review the bidding a month in? 1/10 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Think the word for this is blackmail….

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

If someone wanted to destroy the United States from within, would they do anything differently than what Trump is doing right now?

submitted 21 days ago • 880 comments

Elon, community noted and ratioed.

submitted 22 days ago • 173 comments

George Washington in 1796 on rising lawless and factionalism: “cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”

submitted 27 days ago • 28 comments

A pro-Hitler paid advertisement is being served to users of X, encouraging them to rethink their opinions of the genocidal Nazi leader.

submitted 30 days ago • 583 comments

OMB's Russell Vought wants to slash funding for NIH, which helped develop a "miracle drug" for cystic fibrosis that his daughter received. “We’re extremely grateful to live in a nation that leads the way on medical innovation,” Vought's wife wrote in a 2021 post. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 31 days ago • 326 comments

It's a big deal

submitted 31 days ago • 73 comments

The CFPB has returned $21 billion to 205 million consumers who were scammed at the hands of predatory banks. You can root out waste, fraud, and abuse... or you can eliminate the CFPB. But you can't do both.

submitted 31 days ago • 215 comments

Folks are shocked that their institutions, after professing commitments to climate justice and DEI, are now caving to Trump and scrubbing all references. It's brutal. And it's the smallest taste of what our students felt when their universities called in the cops b/c they protested a genocide.

submitted 31 days ago • 26 comments

As it has been for 15 months, the narrative about who is obstructing a Gaza ceasefire is upside down. Since the ceasefire officially went into effect Jan. 19, Israel has repeatedly violated it by shooting & killing Palestinians and continuing to withhold aid, tents, mobile homes.

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

This Daily Show clip is so good, but make sure to stick around to the very end for Bill O'Reilly.

submitted 36 days ago • 29 comments

If a 19-year-old Canadian who calls himself Big Balls marches into your federal agency and demands access to your system, telling him to fuck right off should be the mildest reaction you have.

submitted 40 days ago • 623 comments

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

submitted 40 days ago • 1980 comments

a young robert f. kennedy jr disgusts his classmates by frequently digging through "the dead cow pit" on the outskirts of his boarding school "Being in that pit—that was the kind of thing he would do. He almost did things to shock you on purpose. He was such an edgy kid."

submitted 44 days ago • 160 comments

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

submitted 46 days ago • 1094 comments

THREAD. The time has come for more people to be talking about how the news media manipulates coverage of public polling. The New York Times's latest coverage of polling about Trump is unethical and dangerous.

submitted 47 days ago • 7 comments

The fact that NIH grant-making has been switched off so haphazardly, for reasons that remain unclear, and despite the scope of troubles it creates, suggests that higher ed will be profoundly vulnerable during the second Trump era, writes @ibogost.bsky.social:

submitted 49 days ago • 28 comments

“Why would Musk do a Nazi salute?” Well aside from the fact he agrees with a lot of Nazi ideology he’s a heartless troll who knows he can get away with it then giggle about it with his gamer friends later. Because he knows he’s Too Big To Fail. Because he knows the ADL, media, etc will brush it off.

submitted 53 days ago • 12 comments

You can argue that Elon Musk isn't a neo-Nazi, though all the evidence points in the opposite direction, including his open embrace of the German neo-Nazi party AfD and the antisemitic Great Replacement Theory. What you cannot claim is that he didn't know exactly what he was doing with this salute.

submitted 53 days ago • 190 comments

IT WAS, IN FACT, AN ARMED INSURRECTION Weapons wielded amid some in the mob on Jan 6 GUNS TASERS BEAR SPRAY PEPPER SPRAY BASEBALL BAT HOCKEY STICK SHARPENED FLAGPOLES KNIVES SCISSORS BRASS KNUCKLES LACROSSE STICK TOMAHAWK AX ROPES GALLOWS PIPES STICKS (MORE)

submitted 68 days ago • 54 comments