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Uganda's Ebola outbreak has worsened — but the country’s ability to fight it has been severely weakened by the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign assistance, per recording of US officials obtained by @lattif.bsky.social @stephanienolen.bsky.social. Eye-catching + worrying scoop.

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

submitted 9 days ago • 1192 comments

As someone who camps at Yosemite a few times every year... this is frustrating. And so pointless.

submitted 19 days ago • 80 comments

New: Last night, hundreds of CDC post-doc fellows were fired, including all in the group who call themselves the "disease detectors," and are the future of public health lab leaders. One senior official told me, "It is going to cripple public health for decades." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 20 days ago • 77 comments

This negotiation between the US and Russia, and cutting out Ukraine, is just like when Trump cut out Afghanistan and negotiated with Taliban. We see how that “good deal” turned out. Afghanistan was on Trump Every Trump deal fails

submitted 20 days ago • 758 comments

These absolute morons are going to destroy the United States. If you’re in favor of the US leaving NATO, you either don’t want the US to succeed, or you don’t know wtf NATO does. Worth noting that Mike Lee voted to expand NATO in 2022.

submitted 20 days ago • 2596 comments

“So Elon Musk killed this program for disabled kids (illegally) because it included the word ‘transition.’ It helps them to transition from high school to work.” H/T @palafo.bsky.social, who posted the above on another platform.

submitted 20 days ago • 350 comments

"Elon Musk’s US DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country, according to three people familiar with the activities, sparking alarm within the tax agency."

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

1. After a very manly bubble bath to cleanse my soul, I remembered a story. It's a true story, one about the difference between frugality, and being cheap, and why frugality is a good idea, cheapness is not. This happens in my home state of Louisiana, and I was told the story over thanksgiving meal

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

This is a de facto massive budget cut to research universities. We are talking Great Recession size impacts.

submitted 29 days ago • 96 comments

I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

submitted 29 days ago • 940 comments

He's only gonna be a dictator a little bit on day 1, though

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 34 days ago • 961 comments

NEW: The board president of a small WV nonprofit says they haven't received their HHS funding since the Trump/Musk budget freeze. They had to lay off 3 of 5 employees on Friday. An 86-yr-old woman is counting on them to take her dialysis tomorrow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 34 days ago • 445 comments

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they done yet but the level of …

submitted 35 days ago • 591 comments

Duty to Warn: 77 Nobel Prize winners signed a letter imploring senators NOT to confirm RFK Jr., Trump’s highly controversial pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Warning that Kennedy is an existential threat to “important and highly respected institutions and…

submitted 39 days ago • 136 comments

I want to make this clear: diversity is extremely popular. THAT is what they’re furious about. They lost that battle in the culture and want to reverse it by force.

submitted 44 days ago • 38 comments

Pamela Hemphill, who pleaded guilty for her role on Jan. 6 and was sentenced to 60 days in prison, has refused her Trump pardon: "I pleaded guilty because I was guilty, and accepting a pardon also would serve to contribute to their gaslighting and false narrative." www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 44 days ago • 47 comments

Trump attorneys’ call into question U.S. citizenship for Native people. They state because Indians “owe ‘immediate allegiance’ to their tribes, they are not ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States and are not constitutionally entitled to Citizenship.” www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

submitted 44 days ago • 212 comments

Iowa activists, activate. ICE is rounding up “suspected” undocumented immigrants. No due process for American OR undocumented human beings. 🙏🏽

submitted 44 days ago • 277 comments

~Party of the working class~

submitted 44 days ago • 7 comments

"We now have a government that wants you to feel not hope but fear, not peace but paranoia, in a nation where the scales of justice have been replaced with the blunt end of a nightstick. I fervently believe that we shall overcome, but we’re going to have to absorb some hard blows along the way."

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Sounds like Trump is upset that civilian airliners have become too safe and is cracking down.

submitted 44 days ago • 89 comments

Warrantless arrests of U.S. citizens. Buckle up.

submitted 44 days ago • 35 comments

We’re on day 4 of the second Trump admin and have already reached “ICE arrests citizens in warrantless raid” www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...

submitted 44 days ago • 29 comments

The incoming administration has nominated a gang of sexual predators, vindictive psychopaths and utter incompetents to be the presidential cabinet and the Washington Post has gone full-court-press on the Hunter Biden pardon. Our political media is deeply, deeply broken.

submitted 96 days ago • 123 comments

The top 6 stories on the NYT right now are on Biden pardon. This is the seventh story. These people are fucking insane. Prosecuting journalists is below 6 other Hunter Biden stories.

submitted 96 days ago • 52 comments

This This This. Not sure how any credible news organization talks/writes about the Biden pardon WITHOUT noting this reality....yet that's exactly what's happening with legacy newspapers & news networks.

submitted 96 days ago • 14 comments

Reading the pardon coverage...I don't think the significance of the Gaetz/Patel/Bondi nominations has sunk in. People still aren't getting what a politicized DOJ and FBI, with the power to arrest/bug/harass anyone for any reason, would be able to do.

submitted 96 days ago • 408 comments

pardon me as I explain why Danforth is a right bastard, because this is one of my areas of intense nerdery

submitted 106 days ago • 13 comments

Shade status: transcending centuries

submitted 106 days ago • 36 comments

way too long of a name. i would have called it "gray skies are gonna clear up"

submitted 106 days ago • 3 comments

Fantastic.

submitted 110 days ago • 55 comments

Partisan prophecy: God warning powerless people of their fate if they do not support and defend the cause of the right people in power. Biblical prophecy: God warning those in power of their fate if they do not support and defend the cause of powerless people.

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You don't have to do this if you think your nominees can pass a background clearance. You only do it if you know they can't. www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/p...

submitted 113 days ago • 307 comments

Letting American kids die of measles to own the libs. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

submitted 114 days ago • 54 comments

Prayers tonight for Mexico! Hurricane Otis cat 5 is now projected to make landfall at sunrise in Acapulco MX. The winds at landfall are expected to be 161 mph with gusts up to 196 mph! Catastrophic damage & storm surge with large destructive waves! There are NO comparable storms!

submitted 501 days ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: Trump's lawyers argue his DC federal charges are unconstitutional and should be tossed. The lawyers argue the special counsel's indictment violates the First Amendment, due process, and double jeopardy protections.

submitted 502 days ago • 4 comments

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submitted 502 days ago • 3 comments