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This is horrible for the future of American science and innovation and economic wellbeing and all the things Pitt is not a small institution It has nearly 10K grad students It is where Salk discovered the polio vaccine

submitted 14 hours ago • 36 comments

Nothing says “I love women’s sports!” like forcing every athlete to undergo invasive and unnecessary sex testing.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Illegally cutting cancer research and meals on wheels to pay for PR ads for themselves.

submitted 20 hours ago • 28 comments

One more boost here. Chris is my sister’s partner and a friend. He plays with my kids; he helps assemble my IKEA furniture. He’s a genuinely kind and wonderful human who needs help. Insurance settlements take a long time. He needs groceries and medical care now.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 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 1 day ago • 478 comments

Republicans are really just mounting a full-on war against the First Amendment. Today Florida's new "how did this guy get a license to practice" AG filed a lawsuit against Target for the Pride merchandise it sold in 2023, alleging harms to FL's retirement fund. floridaphoenix.com/2025/02/20/f...

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

I know Chris very well. He’s an excellent person and could use the boost.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Also, they would fund the offices that actually root out fraud, like the Inspector Generals, instead of summarily firing them. Not to mention the IRS, which brings in funds.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

71 years old and finally achieving his dream of killing children. Not just some children here or there, like he's been doing, but thousands of children annually, systematically, by destroying one of the pillars of public health, one of the greatest achievements of humanity.

submitted 4 days ago • 56 comments

NEW: A White House official's sworn statement that Elon Musk isn't technically in charge of DOGE has added to the confusion at the US DOGE Service, where workers say they have no idea who the DOGE Administrator, ie their boss, actually is. This is from @makenakelly.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 60 comments

trying to ban first-time-homeowner 30year mortgages is yet another level of "inventing entirely new forms of stove specifically to touch them" i had not previously considered

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

Sucks for you who have to eat

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

1. What the fuck? 2. Adoption is an alternative to parenting. Abortion is an alternative to pregnancy. These are not the same.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is all absolute basic data management shit. We’re firing tens of thousands of competent, experienced Federal staff and replacing them with idiots who don’t listen to anyone trying to teach them.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

submitted 4 days ago • 288 comments

This guy does not understand the concept of a chronic condition. Yes, it turns out that when there’s a medication for a chronic condition, and it’s available, more people will seek diagnosis to get help with their chronic condition.

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

The Richest Man in the World Says We Can't Afford Any More Cures for Cancer talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-a...

submitted 5 days ago • 127 comments

People in tech talk about the idea of a “10x programmer” — someone whose work is worth that of 10 others. I get the impression Musk etc think they can apply it all over the federal workforce but like… there’s no such thing as a 10x ATC navigational aid maintenance worker. Some jobs just need people.

submitted 5 days ago • 145 comments

18 critical safety manuals removed and destroyed, because they contain phrases like “diversity of state-specific certification, training, and regulatory requirements." It’s just so damn stupid. Governing by find-and-replace.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

"Scientists spend huge amounts of time trying to meet regulatory requirements instead of doing actual science, Dr. Droegemeier said." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/c...

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Build the wall! Around DOGE!

submitted 6 days ago • 410 comments

They literally just did a search for key words and then fired everyone. This is the laziest fucking coup in history. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments

The anti-vaccine crusade is starting. Flu hospitalizations are currently at levels not seen in more than a decade, and the government is no longer promoting flu shots. Madness. Sheer madness.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

One quarter. One quarter of babies who catch measles die. If measles returns to the United States on mass, there will be thousands of babies who die. This is not a joke. This is not a drill. This is thousands of families with empty cribs.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 7 days ago • 382 comments

I am waiting for a delivery I need to sign for, and I am practically vibrating. My brain will not let me do anything else.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 8 days ago • 510 comments

Turns out Federal employees do some really important shit, like keeping the power grid up: oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/02/14/b...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

It reinforces a belief of mine that these people consider you powerful if you can make them feel bad, it violates some bizarre autonomy and flattens out all power relationships for them. I can make you lose your job, but you can make me feel bad, those are the same levels of coercion.

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

yeah the issue isn't that salmonella never appears here in the US, it does; the issue is that when it does, teams of dedicated civil servants track the outbreak, find the source, spread the word, and recall the bad food. and will they keep doing that? will "they" still exist in any meaningful sense?

submitted 8 days ago • 49 comments

Half of EIS, the CDC's renowned "disease detectives," gone. These folks respond to emergencies in the US and around the globe, and are now in tatters.

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

submitted 8 days ago • 678 comments

underrated how much the DOGE groyper dipshits are exposing everyone to regular-ass criminals all over the world. the potential for theft is practically limitless

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 9 days ago • 439 comments

My MIL cries when she tells me about the stories of partition when she was forced to leave and babies and children were murdered on trains in front of her and should I keep going

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

This, of all things, is what broke me. Full on hysterical, out of control laugh-crying. Sure, let’s eliminate all the firefighters! What could possibly go wrong? These stupid, stupid assholes are going to get so many people killed.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The letter is so bad. It basically stands against the very concept of public health, saying individuals should not make sacrifices for the public good. So many people are going to die. ldh.la.gov/news/7478

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I got in an argument with my kindergarten teacher because she refused to acknowledge the existence of negative numbers. They called my mom.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

this is literally the entire budget for Medicaid btw. this is a literal death sentence for millions of people

submitted 10 days ago • 100 comments

Fascinating! And the sort of thing that means maybe the Social Security backend systems might need to be managed by experts.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE and Trump admin have hobbled at least 11 federal agencies that have been investigating Musk's companies. The NLRB alone had 24 ongoing investigations into Tesla & others--but Trump fired top officials so now cases can't move forward. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u... @ericlipton.nytimes.com

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 11 days ago • 424 comments

We really need Democrats to realize we're playing the "Stop the Republic from being destroyed" game not "Maintain a stable Democracy" game at the moment

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Once again: The animating purpose of representative democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of insane rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting.

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

How's this for waste, fraud and abuse?

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments