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I just got the official email from the NSF about the drastic cuts and I think the correct translation is "if you are a young researcher who still wants to do science strongly consider leaving the United States if you can." which, really, is not an ideal message to be sending.

submitted 45 days ago • 57 comments

Hitler had Hitler Youth to indoctrinate children. America will have Trump Youth to indoctrinate our own. Glory to our noble leader!

submitted 46 days ago • 224 comments

“Also, we’re ending the environmental and regulatory standards”

submitted 46 days ago • 216 comments

(L to R) -a disgraced news anchor -another disgraced news anchor -that guy who yells -a bayou ghost -guy who filled a jacuzzi with acid -guy who chainsawed a whale carcass and strapped it to his roof

submitted 47 days ago • 150 comments

Oatmeal brain

submitted 47 days ago • 17 comments

I went to the Senate floor to tell a story about Trump’s first 100 days - a story of daily, norm shattering corruption. I laid out 40 different corrupt acts - each one alone could have taken down previous presidents. 1/ A 🧵 of my speech. People need to know this story.

submitted 47 days ago • 195 comments

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, a move that medical experts fear could limit access to vaccines and undermine the public’s trust in immunization depending on its implementation.

submitted 47 days ago • 315 comments

if I lived in a water bong for the next hundred years I would still never be high enough to know what the fuck he’s going on about

submitted 47 days ago • 193 comments

White House cancels program which reduced sudden infant deaths

submitted 47 days ago • 275 comments

Chris Krebs, the former cybersecurity official in President Trump’s first term whom the president recently targeted for investigation because he had said that the 2020 election had been conducted securely, learned that his membership in a program giving travelers expedited status had been revoked.

submitted 46 days ago • 45 comments

We’re cooked

submitted 46 days ago • 987 comments

Here it is. A timetable of 100 days of corruption. Breathtaking. Heartbreaking. We cannot let this stand.

submitted 46 days ago • 604 comments

The Department of Education, among other things, is what funds special education for children with disabilities. Trump’s executive order will hurt kids and parents in virtually every school district in the country.

submitted 87 days ago • 234 comments

Journalists are trying to understand Trump’s irrational behavior, and are generally unwilling to consider the possibility that it's not some grand strategy, but a madman with increasingly diminished mental faculties.

submitted 87 days ago • 275 comments

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

submitted 104 days ago • 1186 comments

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

submitted 108 days ago • 842 comments

NEW: Voice of America is in upheaval. Journalists are facing HR investigations for comments critical of Trump. One of VOA's highest-profile journalists was put on leave today after a Trump aide called him a traitor. And the White House bureau chief was reassigned. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b...

submitted 108 days ago • 168 comments

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

submitted 108 days ago • 2219 comments

Here we go. Certain generals must be removed before any martial law plan is put into action—as Trump and Hegseth are worried there may still be some generals out there who support the Constitution rather than his proposed dictatorship. This is a political purge intended as a precursor to far more.

submitted 116 days ago • 260 comments

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 117 days ago • 259 comments

With all due respect, Congressman, he’s not trying to distract from anything here. He’s a grandiose pathological narcissist. A narcissistic sociopath. A malignant narcissist. A psychopath. A megalomaniac. This is what he thinks of himself. And what he wants others to think of him.

submitted 117 days ago • 1141 comments

If Putin thought Dems were the way to go, then he, Elon and Trump woulda gone Left -- but the mission would be the same. Destroy and dismantle America and let oligarchs and Putin (and Xi) divide the spoils. It was never about ideology. It was about the coup and the heist. Ideology was the vehicle.

submitted 117 days ago • 16 comments

“.. We now have an alliance between a Russian president who wants to destroy Europe and an American president who also wants to destroy Europe,” another European diplomat observed in recent days ... “The transatlantic alliance is over.” @politico.com www.politico.eu/article/dona...

submitted 117 days ago • 201 comments

To those who think Trump is leaving in 4 years, why? He's telling you in as many words he won't. He's there for life. Prepare for this.

submitted 117 days ago • 166 comments

BREAKING: Donald Trump Declares Himself "The King" As He Ends Congestion Pricing. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

submitted 117 days ago • 115 comments

Hell. Fucking. No. Trump and Musk are coming for the World Trade Center Health Program. I’m one of thousands of 9/11 First Responders that are enrolled in the program. They actually called me last week to schedule my annual appointment. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

submitted 118 days ago • 57 comments

On the heels of multiple airplane disasters, including one less than a month ago that killed 67 people, and after years of warnings about our understaffed air traffic control system, Trump has begun firing hundreds of FAA air traffic control workers. apnews.com/article/doge...

submitted 119 days ago • 101 comments

This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ? And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions ! We all look forward to reading your thoughts

submitted 122 days ago • 5971 comments

There are a whole bunch of Senators who could learn a thing or two from Danielle Sassoon about putting the good of the country before their personal ambition.

submitted 123 days ago • 77 comments

True story: when my older boys were little, they both got whooping cough even though they were vaccinated. It was bad. We asked the pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. They would’ve died, he said. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 123 days ago • 223 comments

The Pizzagate Conspiracy theorist is accompanying our Sec. of Defense abroad. Here you go, America.

submitted 123 days ago • 35 comments

ok! www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

submitted 123 days ago • 977 comments

It's getting tiring to keep saying this, but for posterity's sake I will: any previous administration would have been instantly sunk by this. Before January 20, 2017, this would have been the most stunning corruption scandal in the history of the American justice system. Now, it's...a Thursday.

submitted 123 days ago • 58 comments

Residents of New York City and state, tell Governor Hochul whether you would like her to use her power to dismiss Mayor Eric Adams immediately. The telephone number is here, and it’s on 24/7: 518-474-8390.

submitted 122 days ago • 7 comments

This week Trump, Vance, and Hegseth have sought to actively repudiate virtually every foundational value, idea, ideal and structure of the past 100 years of US natsec policy including our alliances, defense of democracy, opposition to aggression, and rejection of both fascism and authoritarianism.

submitted 122 days ago • 21 comments

"Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 122 days ago • 93 comments

This is actually insanely dumb. You shame people you make it a LOT harder to form common cause. Better you hold these people accountable for facilitating Trump. You say, "You're the one who put Hegseth in a position to faceplant on the world stage," you provide accountability.

submitted 122 days ago • 33 comments

Read the letter from Danielle Sassoon to Emil Bove about Eric Adams. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sassoo...

submitted 123 days ago • 199 comments

When Donald Trump suggests annexing Canada, purchasing Greenland, or sending U.S. troops into Gaza, the instinctive reaction from many is to dismiss it as hyperbole...but one lesson is clear: we ignore his words at our own peril. More in my latest: www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com/p/from-canad...

submitted 123 days ago • 24 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 123 days ago • 422 comments

We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...

submitted 125 days ago • 569 comments