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200 million dollars of waste.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1086 comments

“Like how can you be a remotely competent historian without insisting upon a Great Man interpretation that actual historians rejected ages ago?”

submitted 1 hour ago • 33 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 4 hours ago • 119 comments

"If Trump really said that Ukraine started the war?" Dude. Google it if you don't know. The definition of "low information voter."

submitted 32 minutes ago • 0 comments

Remember when racial equity was banned in college admissions because John Roberts declared that racism is over? Who could have foreseen that claim used to fire Black people as "inherently incompetent?" Oh right, literally everyone.

submitted 36 minutes ago • 0 comments

www.maine.gov/governor/mil... Standing up for all of us. Thank you Governor Mills and thank you Maine.

submitted 6 hours ago • 15 comments

Interesting thing for the President to say about a person who, according the government’s lawyers, “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself” and “only has the ability to advise the President, or communicate the President’s directives.”

submitted 4 hours ago • 276 comments

If you haven't realized it yet, Trump and MUSK are doing an open coup and purging the government of any guardrails as they assume authoritarian rule. But pronouns! Kamala is a woman! Woke!

submitted 1 hour ago • 27 comments

The stage of capitalism where companies advertise on a Nazi porn site for fear of government reprisal. gizmodo.com/it-sure-look...

submitted 1 hour ago • 23 comments

If people were really just dying from chronic diseases then how come they weren’t dying from their chronic diseases until after March, 2020?

submitted 4 hours ago • 69 comments

This is really worth reading. @adamserwer.bsky.social stitches together so much so clearly: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

read @donmoyn.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com: "The costs of dismantling agencies, dramatically politicizing state capacity, and demeaning the idea of public service will still be counted long after Trump has departed the scene." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

New from @karenhao.bsky.social: more than a dozen workers in federal agencies outline how the administration is pushing a new ideology and stoking paranoia within the government’s ranks. “People are terrified,” one source said, “not for losing their jobs but for losing democracy.”

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

The man is completely delusional. This is completely delusional.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Trump and Musk are effectively cutting Social Security payments by closing local offices A single SSA office closure leads to a 16 percent fall in the number of disability insurance recipients in a local area

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

Opinion | Francis isn’t dead yet but it’s not too early to start talking about how the next Pope needs to be a real Catholic. by Ross Douthat and JD Vance

submitted 1 hour ago • 31 comments

Information was shared illegally. A career employee at the Social Security Administration provided unauthorized access to data to Elon Musk’s staffers. This employee, Leland Dudek, a data analyst, was recently promoted to acting commissioner by Trump.

submitted 1 hour ago • 86 comments

I'm not reblogging this for a pile-on because I'm sure you have the best intentions, but I need for everyone to understand something very important. The lives of transpeople are worth fighting for with sledgehammers.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

While many of you are likely yelling "GO USA" or "GO CANADA!" I'm yelling "GO literally any elected member of congress and the rule of law, please, anyone or a single check or a solitary balance or—

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

“i think you’ve overestimated your contributions, and underestimated your blessings” is a banger of a line to use on techbros

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

Free speech means we can use the vocabulary we need to use in our scientific papers and news articles. #MedSky #AcademicSky #SciSky

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

LOL "It's not piracy to steal and use copyrighted works, as long as you don't share them with others!" Ok dude.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Trump already signed an Executive Order claiming that no one in the Executive Branch has the authority to interpret the law. This is more of the same; it's all politicization of public servants. I just wonder if they realize how much work it is going to be for Trump and the AG.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Admiral Franchetti became the 33rd Chief of Naval Operations on Nov. 2, 2023, making her the first woman to have a permanent seat as a member of the Joint Chiefs www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 20 hours ago • 50 comments

What this industry needs is less regulation and for the federal government to switch to it from the gold standard! ALL HAIL THE BLOCKCHAIN!

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1272 comments

I wrote about how particularly ridiculous it is that Senate Democrats, led by Dick Durbin, think the priority should be repealing Section 230 and undermining the very open internet we need more than ever right now. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

I’m asking Congress to provide disaster funding to help Californians recover and rebuild from the devastating Los Angeles wildfires. It’s all-hands-on-deck to support our fellow Americans and get them back on their feet to begin rebuilding as soon as possible.

submitted 19 hours ago • 281 comments

Turns out the Dow doesn’t love it

submitted 20 hours ago • 147 comments

I think the most wrong I have ever been as a political scientist was when I said in a public forum in 2020 that there would not be political violence in the US (Jan 6 was 2 mos later). Tonight’s purges are a clear precursor to more future such violence. This is textbook authoritarian abuse stuff.

submitted 16 hours ago • 44 comments

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 23 hours ago • 27 comments

If you are an agency employee asked to take a polygraph contact a lawyer immediately. I am more than willing to immediately respond to anyone being pushed into this. My email is in my bio and my signal is NationalSecurityCounselors.16

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Hello. Democratic and Justice Officials. Heads up regular tax-paying citizens. This is how coups work. COUP. We are in a COUP and about to lose America. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

submitted 17 hours ago • 38 comments

The American Bar Association will temporarily suspend enforcement of its diversity and inclusion standard for law schools reut.rs/3CZRBJA

submitted 19 hours ago • 86 comments

Amid increasing political pressure on higher education from state and federal government, faculty and administrators shared rare public glimpses of their anxieties Friday at the #LSU Board of Supervisors meeting. #lalege #lagov

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

The "offending" county failed to hold an inmate past his scheduled release date, but told ICE in advance when he was going to be released. ICE didn't show up on the release day, so the county is being "investigated" for [checks notes] not illegally detaining someone.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

México, Canada and the EU are in talks to set up a free trade agreement that excludes the U.S. GOOD! We deserve to be excluded. Too many Americans voted out of bigotry and stupidity, and because of that America is now run by disgusting tyrant who is unfit to be a global leader.

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

DEI. DEI isn't about hiring people because of. It's about not rejecting someone because of. It's about awareness around society's biases. That is HEALTHY THINKING!

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Hidden in a 122-page bill ostensibly about higher ed funding is a section that would prohibit protests at public schools and discourage students from engaging in the political process.🚨 🚨 🚨

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Don't let the bluster and bravado create its own truth. We're seeing over-reach which will have such complex and widespread blowback and consequences, here, there, and everywhere, that the incompetents at the top will be overwhelmed and eventually brought low, as they should be.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

It used to be "the left is making up all the stories of hate crimes or brutality." Now it's "don't let your heart be moved by the bad things we're doing."

submitted 17 hours ago • 13 comments

This will go down as the Friday Night Massacre of the Military. First the Chairman of the JCS and now Adm. Franchetti, the first woman to become a member of the JCS. Next up the Air Force’s No. 2 officer & the top JAGs for each service. Martial law is coming. breakingdefense.com/2025/02/trum...

submitted 20 hours ago • 66 comments