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I think this is correct. Everyone involved in aviation KNOWS FOR SURE that reckless/ rampant changes of past six weeks will, for sure, make airplane crashes more likely. But no airline exec wants to be the first to say this in public.

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We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

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This is an opinion piece that evidently meets Jeff Bezos' new test for supporting "personal liberties and free markets." Support pro-democracy independent media.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1605 comments

"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary. It can't get a distributor in the US. Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.

submitted 23 hours ago • 246 comments

BREAKING: Major upheaval at the Social Security Administration, as Acting Commissioner Lee Dudek announces the departure of two dozen senior staff, the consolidation of the agency's 10 regions into 4 regions, and headquarters consolidation. Background at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/t/social-sec...

submitted 3 days ago • 75 comments

What a joke this country has become. Far right Trump flatterers cosplaying as journalists in the Oval Office. Rubio sitting there rightly looking embarrassed.

submitted 3 days ago • 363 comments

Exclusive: “Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon…” www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

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SCOOP: The Ebola outbreak in Uganda, which had seemed to be in retreat, has claimed a new victim: a four-year-old boy who died on Monday, according to a State Department cable viewed by The New York Times. nyti.ms/4h5Qfed

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An invitation. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-y...

submitted 3 days ago • 60 comments

If you’re a Dem elected and you’re not mentioning the massive cuts to cancer cure and social security funding in every public appearance you’re just not doing your job.

submitted 3 days ago • 230 comments

ICYMI: Congresswoman Kim Schrier, a pediatrician, tore into HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for downplaying the measles outbreak in Texas as "not unusual," saying she blames him for the death of an unvaccinated child, the first U.S. death from measles since 2015. www.huffpost.com/entry/kim-sc...

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A message from Zelensky through his actions. Honor and dignity. Some things can only be surrendered. They can't be taken away.

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Has the time come to revisit Citizens United? UMich Law Prof Leah Litman explains how the language of the opinion failed to anticipate its impact on campaign finance. New understanding of facts or law is a legitimate basis to overturn precedent.

submitted 3 days ago • 80 comments

Folks, if you are not subscribed, you should be

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Local and state lawmakers are on the frontlines of the resistance against the Trump Administration. Learn more about how they are fighting Trump's deportation machine, protecting the trans community, and safeguarding abortion access in states without bans.

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"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

submitted 4 days ago • 426 comments

🚨BREAKING: Ninth Circuit AFFIRMS lower court decision striking down Arizona voter suppression law H.B. 2492 which imposed unconstitutional and burdensome proof of citizenship requirements. A big victory for our clients and the voters of Arizona. A stinging defeat for the RNC.

submitted 6 days ago • 908 comments

Note here that Musk is now literally assigning himself new contracts based on the use of his DOGE wrecking crew and the associated micro-bros. this isn't a "conflict of interest". it's just handing yourself federal money www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...

submitted 6 days ago • 298 comments

Between this, shutting down the DoJ anti-oligarch unit, obliterating ethics laws, putting puppets in legal jobs, putting billionaires in key admin posts and embracing Russia, it's clear that the motto of this administration "No oligarch left behind."

submitted 5 days ago • 56 comments

Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid. So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.

submitted 7 days ago • 809 comments

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments

There is no better analyst of what is happening in politics, in the GOP, in the pro-democracy movement, and in the media than @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social. Please watch, consider and share. youtu.be/GyleOTPeEHs

submitted 8 days ago • 87 comments

It is going to be another big week for democracy in court. If you want to follow everything happening, while also supporting pro-democracy independent media, please sign up for Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

submitted 7 days ago • 101 comments

The first reaction to this news should be concern about the future of voting by mail www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 10 days ago • 109 comments

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

submitted 10 days ago • 695 comments

The Trump administration is aiming to accelerate unregulated AI across federal agencies. Without critical guardrails, the administration's actions will translate directly into real-world harms.

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

Planes are crashing because Trump and Musk wanted to cut their own taxes even more. Say it over and over and over again until it sinks into people's brains and they correctly associate every crash with two billionaires who never fly commercial.

submitted 13 days ago • 79 comments

Trump: "We have a very corrupt country. Very corrupt country. And it's a sad thing to say ... if you take all of those millions of people off social security, all of the sudden we have a very powerful social security."

submitted 13 days ago • 1208 comments

Trump is telling us to our faces that he's going to stand by while Musk guts and likely steals the social security that several generations have paid into. He's counting on his flock being perfectly fine with it. And sadly, they probably will be.

submitted 13 days ago • 100 comments

Huge thanks to Washington and Columbia Counties for the big turnout at yesterday’s town halls in Hillsboro and Scappoose. Oregonians are outraged about the Trump administration’s lawlessness. I appreciated each question about what it means and how we fight back.

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

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Have you heard about the SAVE Act? It's the newest effort at voter suppression by the House GOP & it's important for all of us. If you're a married woman or someone who doesn't have their birth certificate/passport handy, you're especially going to want to see this. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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Here we go AGAIN 🤬 The SAVE Act would make it harder for millions of Americans to cast a ballot, this includes women who changed their name after marriage. We must spread the word to protect our democracy.

submitted 17 days ago • 93 comments

These f**king idiots

submitted 16 days ago • 238 comments

Jose Barco, a decorated U.S. Army veteran once based out of Fort Carson who served 2 tours in Iraq, was taken into custody last month by ICE because his citizenship papers, which were supposed to be processed while he was in the Army, were lost. Read his story:

submitted 18 days ago • 192 comments

NEW: Trump administration tells federal agencies to fire probationary employees www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

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Trans rights are human rights.

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I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

submitted 18 days ago • 487 comments

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

submitted 20 days ago • 1393 comments

"After efforts to kill CFPB in court ran aground, Republicans are now trying to strangle it through a series of wildly illegal actions aimed at making it impossible to resuscitate the bureau even if the Supreme Court eventually orders them to do so."

submitted 19 days ago • 37 comments

At this point I genuinely don't think it's hyperbole to say that Elon Musk is functionally in charge of the US government. Perhaps not in specific policy areas - two bills or one on the hill, policy in the mideast. But certainly functional control of the state apparatus.

submitted 19 days ago • 141 comments

US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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😂😂😂

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