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NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts. About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone. See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

submitted 17 days ago • 34 comments

Republicans are dismantling the government, weakening the dollar, harming our allies, trying to cut Medicaid and Social Security, passing tax cuts for the rich, killing regulations, dismissing scientists, and kidnapping immigrants. All for greed and racism. Burning the world down.

submitted 17 days ago • 68 comments

What's it going to take for the barely-paying-attention crowd to realize that Republicans are bad for the economy? The facts are obvious, and have been for decades. I think we need to keep repeating the fact that Republicans are bad for the economy. Someday it may break through.

submitted 19 days ago • 35 comments

No, Trump isn't cratering our economy. The entire Republican Party is cratering our economy. The enablers deserve just as much blame as Trump.

submitted 19 days ago • 65 comments

This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

submitted 21 days ago • 154 comments

Here's one statistic for you: → Net jobs created under Clinton and Obama: 33.8 million. → Net jobs created under Bush, Bush, AND Trump: 1.9 million. That is not a typo.

submitted 25 days ago • 31 comments

@hcrichardson.bsky.social “Let’s get in good trouble. “My friend, madam president, I yield the floor.” According to Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, before he was through, Booker’s speech had been liked on TikTok 400 million times.

submitted 26 days ago • 51 comments

Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...

submitted 26 days ago • 337 comments

ELIE MYSTAL: “This is what fascism looks like. I don’t know what y’all expected it to look like… People are being abducted and disappeared from our streets. These people haven’t even been charged in court.” 🇺🇸

submitted 26 days ago • 235 comments

ALERT: We need help phone banking in Wisconsin. Please repost and share this everywhere. www.mobilize.us/floridadems/...

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

Hi folks: Facebook appears to be taking down my posts. Please remember they are available for free here (no paywall), and can be received by email (also free-- just don't put in your credit card information). I guess if I'm being banned I'm doing something right?

submitted 27 days ago • 573 comments

BRAVA! Watch @repstansbury.bsky.social tell it like it is on the House floor. I’d like to hear Hakeem Jeffries—or anyone in Democratic leadership—speak with this kind of 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 27 days ago • 25 comments

Let's talk about the so-called Save Act. Don't let the name fool you. This bill doesn't SAVE anything - this is 100% a voter suppression bill. Are you a married woman who’s taken your partner’s last name? If your legal name does NOT match your birth certificate, you can’t vote. #HandsOffHerVote

submitted 27 days ago • 17 comments

This hasn't gotten enough attention. Very effective questioning by Rep. @crow.house.gov in span of 3 mins 1. exposes how Hegseth endangered servicemembers' lives 2. shows that a scandal upon the scandal is the failure to take responsibility Crow is a U.S. Army veteran (Bronze Star Medal)

submitted 29 days ago • 159 comments

My latest story: The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations. The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary RFK Jr. www.propublica.org/article/meas...

submitted 30 days ago • 18 comments

Seriously -- he's broadcasting plans to violate state and federal election laws, in support of his quest to sway a state Supreme Court election. Arrest him. Yes, even though he's really rich. Arrest him.

submitted 31 days ago • 231 comments

🔥Rep. Mikie Sherrill came in swinging: “You don’t give targeting information. You don’t give time. You put people in danger!” A Navy Vet and former Russian policy officer, she’s not mincing words—Trump’s team endangered American lives, and they know it.

submitted 32 days ago • 62 comments

NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence." The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."

submitted 33 days ago • 1246 comments

There are RULES for gov’t documents—who has them, sees them, keeps them, where they’re kept—because they’re a record of gov’t business. Not open to all—but containing the doings & ACCOUNTABILITY of what our gov’t does. The Nat’l Archives stores much of that vital data. DJT fired the archivist.

submitted 33 days ago • 302 comments

"It is evil, and anyone that is involved with it is evil." Trump and his cronies sent Andrys, a gay Venezuelan man, to an El Salvador prison camp to be beaten with no due process. @timmiller.bsky.social responds with a message of action and fury.

submitted 35 days ago • 103 comments

These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.

submitted 42 days ago • 1857 comments

DOGE should not be anywhere near NSA www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

submitted 46 days ago • 266 comments

The House GOP CR gives RFK Jr. exactly what Trump promised: a free pass to commandeer hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars and set them on fire, relitigating disproven theories about autism and sowing distrust about vaccines amid a measles outbreak that is killing children.

submitted 46 days ago • 49 comments

The Department of Education will begin sweeping layoffs tonight with about half of its 4,400 employees expected to be let go, sources tell CNN. Read more: cnn.it/41IhB4h

submitted 47 days ago • 149 comments

Fascism is here. The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich. 🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 49 days ago • 1124 comments

Emails sent out late last night—The Department of Health and Human Services is offering employees up to $25,000 to voluntarily leave the agency.

submitted 51 days ago • 662 comments

This is insane. They think we won’t fight back. They are wrong.

submitted 53 days ago • 31 comments

Mark Dimondstein, the president of @apwu.bsky.social, warned me in January about the right-wing threat against the Postal Service. It's not about efficiency—it's about funneling services that belong to the people into the hands of billionaires. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 53 days ago • 36 comments

This. Should. Not. Be. Partisan. Watch and call some representatives. Especially Republican ones. Do it NOW. House (202) 225-3121 Senate (202) 224-3121

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

Really wondering if this is throwback robber baron stuff, like buying vacant land ahead of a railroad. They'll end leases to restart them in buildings they own/lease. Commercial real estate ain't hard to find or to buy these days.

submitted 55 days ago • 34 comments

There’s a major shift in U.S. cybersecurity policy. A recent CISA memo removed Russia from its list of priorities, focusing instead on China and local systems. Analysts were told not to track Russian cyber threats.

submitted 56 days ago • 1159 comments

The former head of the Social Security Administration says he expects the agency to miss on some payments over the next three months, interrupting some people's benefits, for the first time in Social Security's history of eight decades: www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...

submitted 56 days ago • 342 comments

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

submitted 56 days ago • 1185 comments

Let's not that Musk went on Joe Rogan and repeated his claim that he believes the entirety of Social Security is itself a fraud and should be abolished. He's also lying about pervasive fraud within the system which clearly means he plans to stop millions of people checks.

submitted 56 days ago • 53 comments

If the Department of Ed is gutted, kids may lose: Speech & occupational therapy Individualized support for disabilities Special education aides/resources Pell Grants/student loan assistance Career & technical training After-school & early childhood programs School nutrition Mental health services

submitted 57 days ago • 69 comments

Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 59 days ago • 249 comments

Could not agree more. The Prez & VP are shameful, embarrassing Putin puppets & a disgrace to our country. 🤮 #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

submitted 58 days ago • 1650 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 59 days ago • 226 comments

There it is! "Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. He went through a phony witch hunt." He is referring to them weathering their collusion becoming public, and now is the big payback: together until the end.

submitted 58 days ago • 573 comments

I’m so fucking ashamed of my country.

submitted 58 days ago • 79 comments

IMPORTANT: Social Security's ability to deliver checks, especially for disability SOC SEC but also for retirement SOC SEC checks will be severely impacted by the gutting of the agency which kicked off yesterday. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/memo-...

submitted 59 days ago • 60 comments

Looking at some survey data here. Trump/Elon cutting off all cancer cure research is the issue that freaks voters out more than any other, also the one they've heard the least about. Important for voters to hear more about this.

submitted 59 days ago • 113 comments

This is straight out of project 2025

submitted 59 days ago • 208 comments

This news truly breaks my heart. We are calling on HHS to take immediate action. Secretary Kennedy needs to bring back weekly measles tracking from the CDC, rehire the health experts, and roll out a serious vaccine campaign. Our kids' safety is on the line! abcnews.go.com/Health/1st-m...

submitted 60 days ago • 1481 comments

The FDA vaccine committee meeting that was supposed to discuss how to update next season's flu vaccine was abruptly cancelled today. It’s a key step to allow influenza vaccine manufacturers sufficient time to prepare updated shots for the next season. No explanation was provided.

submitted 60 days ago • 130 comments

the plan “includes an estimated $800bn in potential cuts from Medicaid, a federal program providing healthcare coverage to more than 72 million Americans” and “$4.5 trillion in tax cuts,” because “fuck the poor” is on-brand for the gop. make them own it.

submitted 61 days ago • 34 comments

Our latest: We’ll talk about this in the news section, but Republicans are trying to destroy Medicaid today. Light up the phones. Let them hear you. Here is the Congressional switchboard phone number to be connected with Members of Congress: (202) 224-3121

submitted 62 days ago • 30 comments

Howard Lutnick, Trump’s billionaire buddy turned commerce secretary, has confirmed that the administration was simply lying to MAGA supporters about not touching Social Security and Medicare.

submitted 62 days ago • 39 comments

If the GOP slashes Medicaid by $880 billion to give billionaires more tax cuts-which is EXACTLY what they promised Even if you’re not on Medicaid it hurts you Hospitals will close And your insurance costs will increase to pay for newly uninsured Americans Don't cut our Medicaid

submitted 62 days ago • 22 comments