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This is really good and very much worth reading to understand how Trump is trying to eliminate civil service protections. I'd add: the provision in the reconciliation bill that imposes a 5% retirement surcharge on new hires who want civil service protections is a further move in the same direction.

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NIH Director, Jay Bhattacharya, has long been affiliated with (ie funded by) the “Family Research Council,” an advisory group on Project 2025, which is identified as a hate group and primarily promotes anti-LGBT causes and opposes things like PrEP, HPV vaccination, sex education, and civil rights.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

This is the kind of sweeping, truth-telling journalism we need more of. Good job, AP.

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 4 days ago • 461 comments

If oranges were fruit. Then the name “oranges” wouldn’t need to exist. You’d just call them fruit.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will

submitted 4 days ago • 186 comments

Never has any leader had so many people wanting to make the argument that “not wearing any clothes actually makes the emperor better dressed if you think about it.”

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

I’ll say this as many times as I have to. No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.

submitted 5 days ago • 208 comments

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 5 days ago • 1307 comments

They need to figure out which bathroom it can use.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

New, from me: The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...

submitted 18 days ago • 71 comments

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE! Have you taken three minutes to save the political independence of the civil service? It’s easy! Here’s how you can do it: news.chanda.science/archive/urge...

submitted 21 days ago • 23 comments

Nuts watching US budget bill from Vienna today. One place advertises "balcony power plants" to lower electricity bills €140 a year. The other proposes hiking prices $140 a year and slowing renewables deployment. go.auroraer.com/l/885013/202...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Great one.

submitted 37 days ago • 9 comments

Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/

submitted 35 days ago • 93 comments

The men include: - Stiven Prieto, a barber who has tattoos relating to his job - Omar Cárdenas, an H-E-B- employee whose pocketwatch tattoo was labeled TDA - Gregori Díaz, arrested in North Carolina, who has tattoos of Pikachu, Mario, stars, and a rose. - José Caldera, whose partner is a citizen.

submitted 35 days ago • 11 comments

The only reason anyone would cut the Narcan program, a mere $56 million annually, is because they want people to die as punishment.

submitted 35 days ago • 69 comments

It's fun to remember how Republicans insisted Biden wasn't running his own White House and then hear Trump assert in an interview: "I'm not the one making this decision."

submitted 35 days ago • 91 comments

This exchange is so very telling. Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this: "I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"

submitted 35 days ago • 1351 comments

She’s in jail for writing an op-ed.

submitted 37 days ago • 40 comments

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

submitted 37 days ago • 61 comments

New polling finds half of Republicans say it's acceptable if legal residents are accidentally detained by immigration authorities usapolling.substack.com/p/half-of-re...

submitted 38 days ago • 18 comments

“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.” blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...

submitted 40 days ago • 113 comments

Really need journalists to push back on this bullshit. When they say this, just ask them point blank: "Are you saying that because one Latino man committed a murder, another Latino man deserves a life sentence? Do you think all Latino men interchangeable?"

submitted 42 days ago • 784 comments

Trump's immigration crackdown is not about law & order. He has a vendetta against immigrants who followed the law, too His EOs threaten to punish legal immigrants by doubling their taxes (invoking a never-used 1934 law); expatriating their kids; and blocking them from the US entirely wapo.st/4hkbEB6

submitted 131 days ago • 96 comments

If someone is arguing against due process, just ask them if they believe someone is innocent until proven guilty. It's the same thing.

submitted 45 days ago • 508 comments

Key point that doesn’t get enough attention - tariffs are deeply regressive

submitted 45 days ago • 35 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 47 days ago • 1739 comments

Boasberg is right now conducting another emergency hearing after hours, in response to the ACLU filing an emergency motion for TRO concerning DHS plans to conduct further removals Hard working judge

submitted 47 days ago • 11 comments

How amazing that this fiend was never charged with any crime. Surely the government must have been eager to air its abundant evidence of his wrongdoing in court, under oath.

submitted 48 days ago • 28 comments

the big red streisand effect button is right there and all you have to do is not press it

submitted 48 days ago • 7 comments