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A second death from measles - a teen in Nee Mexico. And our Sec HHS RFK Jr. refuses to tell people to get vaccinated!

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

"The DOGE-led campaign to cancel contracts deemed 'wasteful' across the government is hurting Social Security. The agency lost a contract that paid for medical experts to testify at disability hearings..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 142 comments

Transgenic means that genes from 1 organism have been put into another. We make transgenic mice to understand how genes influence biological processes. We make transgenic plants to make them more nutrient rich. We make transgenic bacteria so they make medicine for us. It's wide-ranging & v. useful.

submitted 4 days ago • 536 comments

BREAKING - Trump LOSES at Supreme Court SCOTUS denied Trump attempt to freeze USAID life-saving funding, upholds District Court order that the funding should continue to flow normally pending the full litigation of the case 5-4, Roberts and Barrett joining the liberal justices

submitted 4 days ago • 72 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 75 comments

There it is: Trump announces the US will not be enforcing its new shell company registry, which is the single-best tool to counter kleptocracy.

submitted 6 days ago • 209 comments

Do you need a measles booster? (Talk to your health care provider - chart is a general guideline) www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

F.B.I. Returns Materials Taken From Mar-a-Lago to Trump Next: To Russia With Love, from Donald Trump Vladimir Putin is watching and waiting for a very special delivery from Comrade Krasnov.

submitted 9 days ago • 249 comments

Bully and berate our allies, submit meekly to our enemies

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

MAGA are mad at Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit for an official White House meeting. Meanwhile:

submitted 9 days ago • 577 comments

FOTUS and JD aren't used to their lies being directly contradicted by the facts - usually to preface questions from journalists speaking truths to them - like President Zelenskyy did today.

submitted 9 days ago • 62 comments

Trump and Vance needed to create an incident to provide a justification for their pre-planned abandonment of Ukraine now, then separation from NATO in the near future. That’s what that was all about, and that was always the way a second Trump term was going to go.

submitted 9 days ago • 1162 comments

#BlackSky

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Friday Feb. 28th is no pay Friday. Close your wallet. Let the Broligarchs know you can make them poor again. youtube.com/shorts/7zDZE...

submitted 10 days ago • 279 comments

BREAKING: Chief Justice Roberts grants stay, pausing district court order for USAID to pay about $2B in foreign-aid bills by midnight.

submitted 11 days ago • 332 comments

Kash Patel confirmed as FBI director, 51-49

submitted 17 days ago • 50 comments

This WaPo piece has something valuable inside: the names of some of the grownups running DOGE behind the scenes. The Incels are a distraction. These people are real. It'd be helpful for people in the agencies to ID anyone from DOGE for...reasons. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 20 days ago • 401 comments

This is Charlie. He has literal heart-eyes. 14/10 would be an honor to pet (IG: charlie.the.dalmatian)

submitted 23 days ago • 73 comments

Let's get our justice on!

submitted 23 days ago • 54 comments

This is pure stupidity.

submitted 23 days ago • 13 comments

I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

submitted 24 days ago • 486 comments

BREAKING: Penn. Gov. Josh Shapiro sues Trump admin over federal funding halts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 24 days ago • 22 comments

Trump is reportedly looking to shrink the FDIC and consolidate it into other govt agencies. The FDIC was created during the Depression to protect bank deposits. This would come after Trump and DOGE shuttered the CFPB, which protects us from financial fraud. See the pattern?

submitted 24 days ago • 241 comments

If you understand that apartheid was an economic system first, and a brutally violent system of social segregation second, you'll understand how Elon Musk is trying to update the principles from his homeland, and bring about a neo-apartheid system in the US. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 24 days ago • 127 comments

US pals need to be aware of this!!! Please retweet as this is bound to be a future issue!!! www.newsweek.com/married-wome...

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

Americans should make no mistake. GOP is talking about an $4T debt increase, while cutting valuable programs such as USAID, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, etc.? And paying Musk $8M/day? Insanity. #ProudBlue

submitted 25 days ago • 13 comments

HEADS UP FLORIDA A special election to fill congressional seats in Florida's 1st & 6th districts will be held on: ▪️ April 1, 2025 Are you registered to vote? The last day to register is: ▪️ March 3, 2025 You can register to vote or verify your registration here: ➡️ RegisterToVoteFlorida.gov/home

submitted 25 days ago • 29 comments

Hello...if this doesn't prove that any opposition to the validity of ANY future elections going forward without, read this and think again.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I’m going to expose more and more of what Elon is doing. This is DOGE (Dumb Oligarch Gone Egotistical) Here is who he is hiring. #ElonIsVile These Are Some of the Lawyers Working for Elon Musk’s DOGE www.propublica.org/article/elon...

submitted 29 days ago • 35 comments

Dr. Patricia Bath invented laserphaco, a device and technique to remove cataracts. It performed all steps of cataract removal: making the incision, destroying the lens and vacuuming out the fractured pieces. Dr. Bath is the first Black woman physician to receive a medical patent. #BlackHistoryMonth

submitted 29 days ago • 43 comments

Three weeks ago, I reported in my newsletter, FOIA Files: The National Archives Needs Trump’s Support But the Agency Has a Target on Its Back Today, Trump fired the Archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

GET YOUR NEWS ON CANADIAN SITE re BIRD FLU We are currently responding to cases avian influenza in domestic birds across Canada. Anyone with birds must practice good biosecurity habits to protect poultry and disease. #MOG8 inspection.canada.ca/en/animal-he... inspection.canada.ca/en/animal-he...

submitted 31 days ago • 222 comments

Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.

submitted 32 days ago • 2090 comments

President Musk is going to Dark MAGA the Medicare and Medicaid spending. What could possibly, oh, you know...

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

Senator Bill Cassidy, a doctor and a passionate advocate for vaccination, seemed ready to vote against confirming RFK Jr., Nicholas Florko writes. Then he backed down:

submitted 33 days ago • 127 comments

A finance friend gave me a heads up that Wall Street banks hope to unload the billions of $ of hung debt from financing Musk’s Twitter purchase in 2022. Investors haven’t wanted it (until he became co-president), and even now it will be sold at a discount 1/ www.wsj.com/finance/bank...

submitted 34 days ago • 22 comments

Outrageous. Scrubbing climate data from USDA sites is pure political manipulation—and a threat to agricultural resilience. Farmers face unpredictable weather patterns, droughts, and crop losses. Ignoring science won’t change reality. They need facts to adapt and survive, not censorship and denial.

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

“forbidden words like “transgender” and “LGBT”” Welp. We fucking told you.

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

New — The National Treasury Employees Union just sent out an urgent email to all members re: OPM guidance on deferred resignation. “Don't be fooled. Don't follow this OPM group's guidance. DO NOT RESIGN.”

submitted 37 days ago • 76 comments

One GOP proposal takes aim squarely at single parents by eliminating the “head of household” filing status to reap some $200B more in taxes over a decade. New: @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @justinelliott.bsky.social

submitted 38 days ago • 24 comments

If this doesn't scare the crap outta you, I don't know what will. They better be looking into this.

submitted 39 days ago • 229 comments

Agriculture officials respond to ‘heightened threat’ as bird flu is found on Lehigh County egg farm.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

H5N1 Bird Flu Spreads Rapidly Through California Dairy Herds The USDA has confirmed that five more dairy herds in California are infected, bringing the total number to 732. As of now, 74% of the state's dairy herds have tested positive for the virus.

submitted 39 days ago • 514 comments