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I don’t have words for what’s happening to my friends and colleagues at NOAA right now… absolutely reckless destruction of one of the world’s premier science-driven, public-serving organizations.

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USAID staff have two days to clean out their offices at the agency’s former headquarters in DC. People are gathering on the sidewalk in the rain to show their support, applauding workers as they pass by.

submitted 21 hours ago • 108 comments

fascinating to watch a global superpower tear itself apart for no good reason

submitted 13 hours ago • 95 comments

every person I know who’s worked for USAID is so proud to represent the U.S. in their roles. this would be a shitty way to treat them if they all HAD been fired for cause, but instead they’re being treated this way because a group of unelected thugs has seized control of the federal government

submitted 22 hours ago • 9 comments

No more work-from-home, government workers, except for Kash Patel, who will run the FBI from Las Vegas www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 9 hours ago • 638 comments

BREAKING The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.

submitted 11 hours ago • 362 comments

When are major media outlets going to cover the extraordinary white supremacist links of Vance, Musk, and many of the DOGE staffers? There is absolutely no modern parallel for what’s happening: a presidential administration taking instruction from white nationalist extremists.

submitted 22 hours ago • 25 comments

A sampling of the garbage Facebook served up in my timeline this morning without context or correction.

submitted 21 hours ago • 54 comments

Per Puck’s Leigh Ann Caldwell, Spartz flipped on the budget vote after Trump screamed at her: “others could clearly hear the president’s voice screaming out of the speaker. She was a fake Republican derailing his agenda, he yelled. He was the president, he reminded her.” puck.news/how-trump-st...

submitted 21 hours ago • 80 comments

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 21 hours ago • 178 comments

Scientists: We may have finally found a cure for one of the cruelest human diseases! The United States:

submitted 22 hours ago • 39 comments

You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.

submitted 1 day ago • 675 comments

Qanon basically came true. a cabal of pedophile sex traffickers has seized control of the state news.sky.com/story/andrew...

submitted 22 hours ago • 170 comments

"We are becoming less free and our government more corrupt and abusive. But these changes are rarely perceptible from the vantage point of daily life. At least at the start, before some become too entrenched, too consolidated, too invasive to ignore." How it happens, via @aselrod.bsky.social:

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

every passing day they make this country weaker, sicker, poorer, dumber, lonelier, nastier and just straight up grosser. Who could possibly want this.

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Do you know when the EPA declared greenhouse gasses to be harmful? In 2009. These science-denying ideologues are literally taking us back in time and trying to wreck our ability to fight the climate crisis and ensure clean air and water for the American people. We must stop them.

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Musk is actively undermining air safety, potentially causing crashes, then awarding himself a $2.4 billion contract to fix what he is breaking? This is not conflict of interest, this is criminal insanity! Amount of money Musk is stealing from US is bigger than all his “savings” combined.

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

They’re firing disabled veterans

submitted 23 hours ago • 20 comments

Our government is being run by random right-wing and far-right influencers on Twitter, many of whom are anonymous, many of whom are not who they say they are

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Real talk: The entire payroll of the federal government is ~$110 billion. DOGE can't save as much as Elon has taken.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Cassidy was the key vote to confirm RFK Jr, who will probably recommend ivermectin to stop the measles outbreak.

submitted 1 day ago • 517 comments

Love to become a subservient vassal state for a dying authoritarian nation with 90% lower GDP than your own, to own the libs

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

Who among us hasn’t done a little Ebola oopsie

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Birds along the Platte River are showing up on the radar this afternoon.

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Cancelling Ebola prevention is the sort of "mistake" that should get you kicked out of a cabinet meeting — not invited to it. But I guess the rules are different when you pay your way in with a $280 million check. This is idiocy, not efficiency — and it's costing America dearly.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

When Elon’s boss gets back from her vacation south of the border, will she run the cabinet meetings?

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

They are following the measles epidemic like a proud parent.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

I’ve written up a fuller version of this take at Arc Digital www.arcdigital.media/p/the-unbear...

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

1. Massive job cuts 2. Many federal contracts disrupted 3. Extreme regulatory uncertainty 4. Huge new tariffs They’re basically just shooting the economy in the face

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

google is more craven and beholden to bigots than john deere

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Conservatives monitoring egg prices during Biden's administration compared to during Trump’s administration:

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People keep saying "it's gonna be a long four years," and I keep saying: this cannot go on for even a small portion of that. People will die, government will crumble, America will go to war, and our democratic republic will be dead, buried, and rotted out top to bottom. He must be removed ASAP

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

DOGE quietly deleted the 5 biggest spending cuts it celebrated last week: * An $8 billion cut at ICE was actually $8 million * Three $655 million cuts at USAID were actually a single cut counted three times * A $232 million cut at the SSA was actually $565,000 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

A race see which happens first: hurting so many people including their own voters that there’s a massive public backlash or dismantling democratic institutions to the point they can keep power despite public discontent.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

i think it's fair to assume that as DOGE gets more embedded and hoovers up more techbros, this is what will happen over and over - the DOGE personnel who get access to gov data are from the same companies that will financially benefit from that data.

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Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 198 comments

Elon Musk spent $280 million to elect Donald Trump, and he's been handed access to government agencies, cabinet meetings, lucrative contracts and Americans' private information. It's billionaires rigging the game for billionaires — the most corrupt bargain in American history⬇️

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

"Amazon deliveries." This is Jason Calacanis, a venture capitalist & prominent Musk toady. And he does not know a big percentage of Amazon deliveries are made by the USPS. I will never get over how stupid the people at the top of US society are.

submitted 2 days ago • 217 comments

Whoops, I accidentally cancelled Ebola prevention! Doh, I fired the the bird flu experts! Oops-a-daisy, I stopped the Lutheran Charities foster care and adoption services! My bad, I sacked the nuclear weapons workers! Now can I have access to your tax returns?

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If the parties were switched on this issue, the Republicans would already be preparing to introduce legislation, named after this child, to boost vaccine research, tighten vaccine exemptions, etc. (Cf. the Laken Riley Act.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

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I know we’re all long-inured to this stuff, but imagine going back to any point in the 20th century and explaining to people that this is an official statement from the President of the United States

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It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.

submitted 1 day ago • 182 comments

Katherine Graham stood up to Nixon. Jeff Bezos bows down to Trump. Decline is a choice.

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

We’re witnessing a Brexit-level instance of completely unnecessary economic destruction. A country that’s not hit by any shock, but simply chooses policy self-harm.

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