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National Parks Had a Record Year. Trump Officials Appear to Want It Kept Quiet. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/c...

submitted 10 hours ago • 19 comments

not saying we won’t have elections again—but none of what they’re doing in the sack & pillage of the institutions & constituencies that sustain Americans’ security, health & economic prospect makes sense if you ever intend to face voters in free& fair contest again www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/u...

submitted 15 hours ago • 23 comments

They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.

submitted 1 day ago • 322 comments

Trump's cutting of Ukraine's access to intelligence feeds is already inflcting a catastrophic loss of life at the front. And today, North Koreans are pouring over the border for the first time. Americans will never be forgiven for this. eutoday.net/us-intellige...

submitted 1 day ago • 92 comments

they want to murder kids. these policies will cause children to die. republicans want to hurt your kids

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w... I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.

submitted 3 days ago • 83 comments

Anyone going to the Chicago #StandUpForScience?

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

This is really, really bad. There are precedents for the United States turning away refugees displaced by xenophobic European dictators bent on territorial expansion. They do not end well for anyone. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

As the President addresses Congress tonight, some words about how We, The People can respond to this moment. The state of the union is up to us—and we must work every day to both push back and move forward. Our team at @democracyforward.org will do just that. www.newsweek.com/state-union-...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Voters have a clear choice in the critical April 1st Wisconsin Supreme Court race: Brad Schimel: 🚨 Led a lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act 🚨 Fought to keep abortion bans in place 🚨 Defended gerrymandered maps OR Judge @crawfordforwi 👇

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

SAVE THIS PDF 🚨 While it's still available, save a PDF of the CDC's adult vaccine schedule: www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp... It also has ALL the specifications and different types of contingencies (pregnancy, immunocompromised, etc.)!

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

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Someday when the U.S. stands alone as a pariah kleptocratic state led by an authoritarian white nationalist regime, historians will point to Friday as the day the U.S. turned its back on the world and its historic legacy of fighting for freedom. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-inte...

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

To donate to Ukraine you can go to war.Ukraine.ua/donate This is an official donation site supported by Zelenskyy (and USAID-that-was). We donated. #SlavaUkraini

submitted 9 days ago • 71 comments

Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.

submitted 9 days ago • 494 comments

Decent people thank Ukraine.

submitted 9 days ago • 233 comments

lol “under fire and pressure”. The idea that Trump knows anything, especially compared to Zelensky, about being “under fire”. What a punk

submitted 9 days ago • 54 comments

"Putin went through a hell of a lot with me." ~Donald Trump

submitted 9 days ago • 112 comments

The politicization and weaponization of both the CIA and the FBI at the same time sets the country up for another intelligence failure on the scale of Pearl Harbor or 9/11. A joint essay by me and @tim-weiner.bsky.social: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/patel-ratc...

submitted 10 days ago • 94 comments

Donald Trump has fired more Veterans than any other President in our nation’s history.

submitted 11 days ago • 28 comments

1/14 Our current constitutional crisis cannot be solved by voting Democrat or by removing president from office- this is a problem that will persist until we fix our information infrastructure. Please hear me out.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

There are many, more eloquent than me who have noted the problems of treating politics as sport. But the one that gets me most is that when you put unqualified, egocentric grifters in power people die. And the penalty is never as great as the crime. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

Dear GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Pasteur, and CSL Seqirus, Let's see some of that lobbying power in action. You make billions on vaccines. Act like it.

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

🔥 @aoc.bsky.social : “The numbers don’t add up. $880 BILLION is a devastating cut to Medicaid, and an attack on Medicare. Anyone who votes for this budget is voting to cut Medicaid and gut health care for Medicare recipients in 🇺🇸.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGg7cr0...

submitted 12 days ago • 588 comments

“An unidentified illness has killed scores of people and infected hundreds in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization has reported” Well - I guess the USA doesn’t have to worry about this one since Trump pulled us out of WHO just in time. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w...

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

An outbreak of a deadly but unidentified illness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been making news. While the symptoms are closely related to other hemorrhagic viruses like Ebola and Marburg, samples have tested negative for those diseases. apnews.com/article/cong...

submitted 12 days ago • 35 comments

Dems talking themselves into validating Trump/Musk attacks on the Constitution by voting for Republicans' budget out of fear Dems will take the blame if a GOP trifecta fails to pass it, and guessing that this is what swing voters will have front of mind 20 months later, would be utterly pathetic.

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

If the Democrats bail out Mike Johnson on ANY spending bill, they deserve the utter political destruction coming their way. Some are already falling for the "but we'll get blamed for shutting down the government" b.s. Have you learned NOTHING? Not. One. Vote.

submitted 12 days ago • 632 comments

Quite good advice from @danpfeiffer.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/messageb...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The fight must be made here and now and we need hunters, anglers, ranchers, and everyone else to push back.

submitted 13 days ago • 37 comments

He and Musk have no idea what they are doing. Dangerous clowns

submitted 13 days ago • 82 comments

Dear Europe, Trump completely melts under pushback. So push back.

submitted 13 days ago • 736 comments

Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota. But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies

submitted 14 days ago • 668 comments

VACCINES SAVE LIVES Vaccines ended the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccines and other public health measures save the lives of millions of children worldwide. Do not let RFKJr and the Trump admin take us back to a time when 5 in 10 children died before the age of 5. theconversation.com/infectious-d...

submitted 15 days ago • 30 comments

ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention? www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

submitted 14 days ago • 414 comments

It is sickening and dangerous that none of my GOP colleagues sporting "I stand with Israel" signs outside their office has said a word to condemn members of their own party giving Nazi salutes. Fascism depends on evil and cowardice; the GOP is rich with both.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 16 days ago • 83 comments

DOGE By The Numbers theonion.com/doge-by...

submitted 17 days ago • 188 comments

Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

submitted 17 days ago • 46 comments

Still looking for anyone in the Trump WH who isn't a billionaire grifter, sexual predator and/or sycophantic coward. Seriously. Name one of these people who you'd trust with your wallet (or a babysitting gig). www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Trump is carrying out the foreign policy agenda of Russia and the CCP. To the sound of crickets from the GOP’s supposed China- and Russia-hawks. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

A reminder: 1. Elon Musk's wealth is mostly in Tesla stock 2. Tesla is successful because at a key moment in 2009 the federal government gave it a $465 million loan so it could make sedans 3. Musk is now firing thousands of government workers and slashing every service ordinary people depend on

submitted 19 days ago • 42 comments