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Pete Hegseth is a pretty despicable human being, on top of the other, many deficits he brought to the Pentagon But you should be even madder at the 50 senators who knew Hegseth was an alcoholic, a serial abuser of women, and a poser massively unqualified for the post and yet voted for him anyway

submitted 11 hours ago • 314 comments

This Hegseth thing is funny and all — but the unprecedented incompetence, frivolity, and treachery of the entire cabinet puts us all at very real risk.

submitted 19 hours ago • 615 comments

Pete Hegseth is clearly ill-equipped to handle the role of Secretary of Defense. His repeated failure to follow basic operational security procedures jeopardizes the safety and security of our armed forces. He should resign.

submitted 18 hours ago • 965 comments

Just keep in mind: The day will come when America is no longer held hostage by a sociopath, a convicted felon, an arsonist and a vengeful, narcissistic sadist who revels in the pain and suffering of others and builds his fortune on the ruins of public liberty. May it come soon.

submitted 1 day ago • 881 comments

Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 5 days ago • 607 comments

I don't care how many junior staffs Hegseth or others throw under the bus. Hegseth HIMSELF was on the Signal group chat. He used his fingers to enter the sensitive military info into the chat. He bears 100% full responsibility for that -- no matter how many scapegoats he finds.

submitted 6 days ago • 366 comments

Destroy DOGE, undo every bit of its work, and render every DOGE employee unemployable in their professional field for life. End their careers and shame them in every way we can. And make them see that we fixed the government and everything they did was for naught.

submitted 6 days ago • 58 comments

The Trump regime has done more damage to the USA in less than 90 days than all global terrorist groups and militias combined have been able to in the last 60 years.

submitted 7 days ago • 145 comments

Vaccines save lives. And no, they do not cause autism.

submitted 9 days ago • 273 comments

Two-thirds of both houses of Congress could undo this whenever they want by passing a bill over Trump's veto taking all power to set tariff rates away from him. Tariffs are set by law. The Constitution gives the president no power over tariffs--only our current laws do that.

submitted 19 days ago • 77 comments

The U.S. already has some tariffs. It hasn't gone that great : NPR www.npr.org/2025/04/02/n...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

It’s a DOGE eat DOGE World

submitted 42 days ago • 187 comments

Truth

submitted 49 days ago • 127 comments

When the stakes are this high, incompetence is not an option. Pete Hegseth should resign. Mike Waltz should resign.

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“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” - Justice Louis Brandeis

submitted 32 days ago • 27 comments

“No animals have demonstrated immunity to CWD and there is no vaccine.” You do not want to eat venison from a deer that had a prion disease.

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

Photonic Computers: Breakthrough in Bistable Nanoparticles - IEEE Spectrum spectrum.ieee.org/nanoparticle...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Support this bill! “The bills would institute RIF moratoriums at the Department of Energy, the NASA, NIST, NSF, and the NOAA.” @savenoaa.bsky.social @noaa.gov @noaacomms.noaa.gov

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Because they rigged the election

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

On a daily basis, I marvel at how many people in putative positions of power are willing to help obliterate American democracy. The US has faced a series of very easy moral tests in the past decade and it’s staggering how often people in once-respected positions have failed.

submitted 33 days ago • 209 comments

American academic research is the envy of the world. Its system of grant making, which is ultra competitive and rigorous, has been emulated by many countries. And now, as US competitors were doubling down in their STEM investments, we decided that self-inflicted harm was the way forward.

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

🇺🇦Why should the US have any say in Ukraine’s future? They’ve abandoned traditional allies, betrayed Ukraine in its hour of need, and squandered trust across Europe. This is a European war with European consequences. The EU, UK, and Ukraine should decide. Not Washington.

submitted 34 days ago • 14 comments

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

submitted 34 days ago • 200 comments

If you’re wondering what a spreadsheet looked like in 1800 BCE, here is one that tallies foodstuffs for cattle received by four cowherds. Three are named in the right hand column as Ubar-Shamash, Sin-iddinam, Sin-re’um, and the last one making the record simply writes “mine”

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submitted 36 days ago • 72 comments

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

submitted 36 days ago • 643 comments

submitted 37 days ago • 11 comments

So 77 million Americans voted for a vengeful convicted felon who’s pursued a life of crime and promised he’d exploit the presidency for retribution. No one should be surprised this sociopath, immunized by the Supreme Court, is now acting in an utterly lawless manner.

submitted 36 days ago • 168 comments

Rare Earths Reality: Ukraine's Nonexistent Deposits - IEEE Spectrum spectrum.ieee.org/ukraine-rare...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Cornell University have developed a new thermostable, MULTI-TARGET vaccine platform that offers stronger, longer-lasting protection against SARS-CoV-2 AND influenza while providing broader immunity against VARIOUS flu strains. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 39 days ago • 82 comments

The financial shackling of historically Black universities in the United States www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?

submitted 41 days ago • 7832 comments

I cannot overstate how much I love the fact that Williams & Connolly put 14 individual lawyers’ names in the signature block of their complaint. W&C is sending a clear message: We are not afraid. BRAVO.

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After crashing the economy, incompetent UK PM Liz Truss was forced from office by her own party. She served only 49 days, famously outlasted by a lettuce. Trump has betrayed allies, cozied up to enemies & is crashing the economy. His party is servile & silent. Today marks his 49th day in office.

submitted 42 days ago • 14 comments

Tusk is really rising to the occasion www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...

submitted 44 days ago • 87 comments

🤔🤔🤔

submitted 65 days ago • 9 comments

Let me ask again: where are presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton. Where are the Fortune 500 CEOs? The university presidents. Is all this “leadership” stuff they tout just words? I don’t want to think so but the question must be asked.

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