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What’s the purpose of this? There’s already very limited wiggle room in the turnaround from the meeting to vaccine production. If this isn’t rescheduled quickly, vaccines won’t be ready before peak flu season.

submitted 16 hours ago • 237 comments

Consumer confidence down. Unemployment up. Iran has enough highly enriched uranium to make 6 nuclear warheads. Are we great again yet?

submitted 7 hours ago • 134 comments

This is evil. Pure evil.

submitted 22 hours ago • 3844 comments

If they truly believed they were saving America they'd be celebrating in the streets, not canceling town halls and hiding from their constituents.

submitted 21 hours ago • 214 comments

Erik Prince - Trump’s proxy to open a backchannel to Putin in 2016 and wanted to guard the nuclear reactors Trump was gonna give to the Saudis - wants to build concentration camps.

submitted 19 hours ago • 213 comments

Among the relevant questions in the litigation alleging that Musk unconstitutionally wields the power of a “principal officer”: 1. Does Musk have the power to hire and fire people? 2. Is Musk supervised by someone other than the president and is that person a Senate-confirmed officer?

submitted 19 hours ago • 32 comments

This doesn’t exist and will literally save $0

submitted 19 hours ago • 4100 comments

Warren: "Our best strategy is to make sure everybody knows exactly what the Republicans are trying to do, and that is they want to give literally trillions of dollars in tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires, and they want to pay for it on the backs of seniors who are living in nursing homes."

submitted 1 day ago • 324 comments

"The teams and contractors that would be deployed to fight an Ebola outbreak have been dismantled..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 18 hours ago • 74 comments

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 1 day ago • 287 comments

Auchincloss: DOGE is about distracting Americans from what is happening in Congress, where congressional Republicans are axing Medicaid.

submitted 1 day ago • 119 comments

What the actual fuck

submitted 1 day ago • 365 comments

I think it’s going to be very difficult for the House and Senate to reconcile this budget, but trying to force the House Energy and Commerce committee to cut 880 billion is going to kill people. Anyone who says Medicaid won’t be impacted is lying.

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

🤔

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submitted 86 days ago • 184 comments

Until mere days ago, President Biden’s industrial policies were surging major investments across the country, particularly in red states. Now, Trump seems determined to kill this progress. Here’s a thread 🧵 on what we know, which we’ll update as more info comes in. www.cleaninvestmentmonitor.org

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

So they started out with ~100 existing staffers, 60 have now resigned. *21 FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY STAFFERS RESIGNED FROM DOGE, AP SAYS

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

Stories like this matter because Elon still has lots of soldiers who genuinely believe that he lives up to his "first principles" patter, and puts merit and efficacy first. Experienced tech folks need to make it clear that he and his goons are partisan hacks with "limited technical understanding."

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

You know… Congress and the senate could always pass resolutions calling Russia the aggressor, supporting NATO and calling for a Ukraine victory. Just sayin…. Stop tweeting start forcing.

submitted 2 days ago • 371 comments

Polish general Rajmund Andrzejczak: "If Russia attacks even an inch of Lithuanian territory, the response will come immediately. Not on the first day, but in the first minute. We will hit all strategic targets within a radius of 300 km. We will attack St. Petersburg directly". (October 2024 onet.pl)

submitted 3 days ago • 198 comments

We can help shift the tide! Wisconsin must have fair electoral maps going forward. Answer Musk’s money with a blizzard of small donations. Give Musk the finger and support Judge Susan Crawford for the open WI Supreme Court seat. Our democracy depends on it. secure.actblue.com/donate/hrccr...

submitted 4 days ago • 292 comments

Happening everywhere

submitted 3 days ago • 267 comments

The young vote in Germany, by gender. 😳

submitted 3 days ago • 294 comments

Promoting an 0-9 to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is insane - Trump is going to have to promote him to four star AND waive the legal requirements to even hold the position Dan Caine had a distinguished career, but he’s never been a vice chair, combatant commander or service chief

submitted 5 days ago • 146 comments

US officials are reportedly threatening to revoke Starlink access for Ukraine if they don’t give us 50% of their mineral rights. That’s not diplomacy, it’s extortion. We’re also pushing them to kill a UN Resolution that blames Russia for starting the war. Facts matter.

submitted 5 days ago • 298 comments

Spending isn't a “conspiracy” just because Musk doesn’t know how to read usaspending.gov. A program isn't waste just because it doesn’t help the richest man in the world. It isn't fraud just because he doesn’t like it. A law is not illegal just because he disagrees with it.

submitted 4 days ago • 75 comments

Five things I accomplished last week: 1. Sued Musk & DOGE (repeatedly) 2. Got Musk blocked out of Treasury 3. Sued Trump (repeatedly) 4. Helped persuade SCOTUS to leave anti-Trump injunction in place 5. Got booked @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social Join us at 9 AM ET Sunday morning to discuss!

submitted 4 days ago • 379 comments

Here’s an opportunity to help some kids and get some cookies 🍪 digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/sixk34....

submitted 5 days ago • 92 comments

Elon Musk and his team say they have saved the government $55 billion. Their “wall of receipts” is riddled with mistakes.

submitted 5 days ago • 155 comments

This is a shameful way to treat our fellow citizens who are public servants. This doesn’t make America great.

submitted 5 days ago • 192 comments

I am trying to imagine the reaction of Joe Biden or Barack Obama had spoken to a Republican governor in this way at a public event. I just can’t. None of us can.

submitted 5 days ago • 163 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 5 days ago • 492 comments

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

submitted 6 days ago • 567 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 5 days ago • 514 comments

Remember this press conference Trump did promising to bring prices down? www.c-span.org/program/camp...

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, its recently departed director, Robert Santos, tells NPR. By @hansilowang.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 51 comments

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

submitted 6 days ago • 726 comments

Yeah, these federal workers actually understand what they do for us and how devastating these cuts are for us. It'd be great if the media could explain that clearly instead of taking Elon Musk's word that he's magically produced "savings" that come with no downside.

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

Words fail.

submitted 6 days ago • 1461 comments

Everyday Americans will pay for Republicans' billionaire tax breaks with their health care. They will pay for billionaire tax breaks with abandoned medical research. They will pay for billionaire tax breaks with shuttered family farms and small businesses. I'm voting NO.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

submitted 7 days ago • 578 comments

"Should the court grant the motion, it would be the first lawsuit against DOGE where the plaintiffs are able to obtain evidence, albeit limited, on how Elon Musk’s faux agency is operating within the federal government." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 8 days ago • 1220 comments

Trump wants you to forget that he gutted the Aviation Safety Committee and ousted the FAA administrator during his first week in office. Don’t forget.

submitted 8 days ago • 301 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 7 days ago • 1004 comments

Some clarity.

submitted 7 days ago • 61 comments

NEW: A federal judge said the Trump administration had made a "mess" of plans for USAID workers overseas after seeming to contradict itself on whether those workers were given a "choice" to remain abroad. He's demanding more details by tomorrow. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments