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For Women's History Month, may we all remember and summon the courage of Rachel Carson, who wrote Silent Spring to inform the world what DDT was doing to the songbirds, raptors,and by extension, us. While battling cancer, she stood her ground against savage attacks by the chemical industry...

submitted 15 hours ago • 115 comments

"US stock market loses $4 trillion in value as Trump plows ahead on tariffs" www.reuters.com/markets/us/i...

submitted 3 hours ago • 217 comments

They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.

submitted 11 hours ago • 903 comments

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 1 day ago • 248 comments

Read: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 1 day ago • 475 comments

Why take a perfectly safe vaccine to prevent getting sick when you can just get sick from a preventable disease and probably be fine but maybe die.

submitted 1 day ago • 377 comments

They do seem like inconsistent positions, but the attacks on teachers was really about dismantling public schools to get taxpayer dollars for home schoolers and private charter schools run by charlatans.

submitted 1 day ago • 553 comments

I enthusiastically endorse Diane Seltzer for DC Bar President. The election is coming up soon. If you are a DC Bar member please make sure to vote for her!

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

Let the brain drain commence! www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...

submitted 2 days ago • 87 comments

A couple of golf outings could pay for over 300 federal jobs for an entire year.

submitted 2 days ago • 750 comments

"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt." - Gandhi

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

Editor Commentary: Every budget cycle I call to feed the children, and it gets left out by Ohio lawmakers. But I will continue sounding the call, because I hold the firm and unshakeable, but apparently insane opinion that schoolchildren shouldn’t go hungry.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

The question is settled, this is going to funnel money to quacks and grifters to create a CDC-approved fake "study" that supercharges vaccine misinformation. It's not just a public health failure, it's a terrorist attack on public health.

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

Our healthcare system is an extortion racket where thugs hold our lives hostage for profit

submitted 3 days ago • 546 comments

Might save a life.

submitted 3 days ago • 250 comments

Despite negative public opinion, President Donald Trump's administration is gearing up to hand even more of our Medicare over to insurers like UHC with CMS pick, Dr. Oz. They’re planning to push hard for the “Medicare Advantage” & huge profits for insurers. HELL NO! www.knoxnews.com/story/opinio...

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

Somebody ought to notify the FAA ... oh, wait, the guy in charge of revamping it now did this. Never mind, they probably already know.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The US Dollar is backed by one thing: confidence in the US economy. If that confidence holds firm, holding a couple billion worth of Bitcoin "reserves" is going to be utterly irrelevant. If it ever goes belly up, holding a couple billion in Bitcoin "reserves" will be equally irrelevant.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Delaying Mexican tariffs but not Canadian puts the lie to the idea that the tariffs have anything to do with fentanyl flows (since there are effectively no fentanyl flows across the northern border and there plenty across the southern border.) It was all an empty pretext anyway. This just proves it.

submitted 4 days ago • 794 comments

Oh man. This really feels like DOGE = eugenics/ passive genocide.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

🔥 Rep. Al Green is not new to standing up

submitted 5 days ago • 724 comments

Flood the zone with facts

submitted 5 days ago • 158 comments

Good.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

God bless these kids. I didn’t always have enough to eat as a teenager, especially anything healthy, and I can tell you having a guaranteed meal at school would have made a huge difference some days.

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And the majority of it was spent here and benefitted American businesses.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

“Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.”

submitted 6 days ago • 767 comments

a giveaway to tax cheats

submitted 6 days ago • 118 comments

Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

submitted 6 days ago • 1094 comments

Trudeau: "He talked about banking again today in a tweet, which doesn't make any sense because 16 banks are currently active in Canada holding about $113b worth of assets in this country... what he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that'll make it easier to annex us."

submitted 6 days ago • 423 comments

Taking a super nice train in Italy for $45 and thinking of how cool it is that our taxpayer money back home will buy Ethereum to bail out David Sacks.

submitted 6 days ago • 90 comments

Farmers are going to run to Congress for another handout to deal with the retaliatory tariffs and the answer from Dems has to be "no." This isn't out of retribution, it's because we can't keep creating escape hatches for GOP members of Congress. For the benefit of all, keep the pressure on them.

submitted 6 days ago • 1021 comments

It took a lot longer than I'd hoped, but I've finally made the move away from Substack and set up shop on Ghost instead. The newish and improvedish CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io/post-to-the-...

submitted 7 days ago • 125 comments

This is sketchy as hell

submitted 7 days ago • 387 comments

NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

submitted 7 days ago • 1724 comments