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Three updates: 1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

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i tell this story every time these old photos come up but: I remember in film school one of my classmates asked what about film chemistry in the 1970s caused everything shot in NYC to look so brown and grimy and our professor was like "that wasn't the film, that's just what the air looked like here"

submitted 7 days ago • 90 comments

WTF?! 😱

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Thank you to everyone who has joined the resistance! Our ranks grow stronger every day.

submitted 7 days ago • 441 comments

Ok hear me out

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It may feel weird or somehow improper to talk about your art or your writing, but we need it. It can’t be wall-to-wall nightmare all the time. Art is both counterweight and context. It’s escape and enlightenment and a mirror of our own exasperation. We need it. We NEED it. Keep showing us.

submitted 9 days ago • 203 comments

I found the most upsetting utensil in the world and now you have too: the man fork www.foodandwine.com/why-in-the-w...

submitted 9 days ago • 48 comments

U.S. Forest Service will fire roughly 3,400 federal employees.

submitted 9 days ago • 510 comments

Across the government, probationary employees and Schedule A workers—including individuals with severe physical, psychiatric, or intellectual disabilities, as well as veterans—are being let go.

submitted 9 days ago • 417 comments

We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.

submitted 9 days ago • 779 comments

There's an article being shared by someone at the Vancouver Sun about how Americans are not doing anything about what's going on or that we aren't fighting back and therefore all Americans are complicit. I don't know about anyone else but everybody in my circle is fighting like hell and screaming.

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

This is disgusting, especially for someone who has been given so much power over government programs.

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Education Department employees on probation were abruptly dismissed without cause across the department this morning. Staff have been warned that more layoffs are coming.

submitted 10 days ago • 332 comments

My mother just posted this and as a person with panic episodes... I laughed my ass off. Everything sucks but they can't take my gallows humor from me.

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

submitted 254 days ago • 1244 comments

Incoming Asteroid xkcd.com/3049

submitted 11 days ago • 295 comments

The Trump administration is now allowed to proceed with the federal employee buyout program after a federal judge denied a request to halt the program entirely. Judge George A. O’Toole Jr., a U.S. District Court judge in the District of Massachusetts, did not rule on the program’s legality.

submitted 10 days ago • 131 comments

To the people shocked that the GOP would go after Section 504: Disabled people have been saying this. Disabled people have been saying this. Disabled people have been saying this. Disabled people have been saying this. Disabled people have been saying this.

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

part of my job involves looking for pharmaceutical fraud and if there’s anything fishy going on in Medicaid it’s on such a small scale I can’t find it. If I can’t find it, it probably doesn’t exist.

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The best way to increase the efficiency of government agencies is competition, not budget cuts. The Center for Disease Control should have to compete with a Center For Making Diseases Worse

submitted 14 days ago • 72 comments

For the 79% of heterosexual married women whose legal married name doesn’t match your birth certificate or passport, get ready to have your voting rights frozen. Yes, read that again. No, that is not hyperbole. Act now.

submitted 10 days ago • 36 comments

See: NIH indirect cost rate cap. Whoever made that decision has no idea what those costs are for (or that they're federally negotiated) and that's a hill I'll die on.

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Reposting with alt text

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Them: "How's the diet going?" Me: "Fuck off"

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I voted for Trump. But when he said he was going to wreck the economy, I didn’t know that he really meant that he was going to wreck the economy.

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"No, it's OK, you take your fucking photo first"

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"Trump has dementia." "Elon has autism." "Kanye is bi-polar." Stop blaming their Nazi shit on mental conditions. Stop making excuses for them. They're just really shitty people.

submitted 15 days ago • 70 comments

RIP separation of church and state. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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Breaking news: State attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Vermont, and Wisconsin advise Trump's EO banning trans care is unlawful, hospitals should provide care. Big counter salvo!

submitted 17 days ago • 253 comments

I appreciate this creative justice. Genius.

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It's more important than ever to LET PEOPLE LIKE SIMPLE STUFF WITHOUT INSERTING YOUR NEGATIVITY INTO THEIR LIVES AND FEEDS. If you don't like that movie/show/song/franchise, fine. Great. Be happy someone else is finding a simple, goofy joy in this hellscape even if it's not your particular joy.

submitted 19 days ago • 17 comments

That feeling when the far-right evangelicals remind us that they don't actually pay attention to the Bible. Whoops, whoopsie!

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Marco Rubio's new acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, ladies and gentlemen.

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The schoolyard bully shoves you in the dirt and spits on you. You do not attempt to reason with the bully because he'll just hit you again. You kick the bully in the stomach so he realizes he can't fuck with you like that anymore. This is American politics right now.

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Happy Sunday! order some abortion pills while you still can -- you don't need to be pregnant to order. it could save your life or someone else's. also -- Costco has Plan B on the cheap! requires 2 doses for people over 160 lbs.

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An anonymous person at the CDC just archived all the public CDC datasets as of 1/28 and uploaded it to archive.org

submitted 21 days ago • 75 comments

Know thy enemy is stupid as fuck.

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"California law is unaffected by recent changes to federal policy and continues to provide safeguards against discrimination and harassment based on gender, gender expression, gender identity, and sexual orientation. ....Our commitment to safeguarding the rights of all students persists."

submitted 22 days ago • 24 comments

How your email finds me

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