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submitted 4 minutes ago • 1 comment

1/ Town halls continue to go badly for GOP congresspeople, an ongoing thread: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2Pc7F6y/

submitted 8 hours ago • 64 comments

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

submitted 8 hours ago • 112 comments

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

submitted 2 hours ago • 364 comments

Public universities often receive little state funding. Grants fund research and training of future researchers and practitioners (undergrad/grad students). Access to funding opportunities is important for recruiting incredible faculty that make US universities great. An example from Colorado:

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1523 comments

The reply email inbox for this “what did you do last week” email is [email protected], so, you know, definitely don’t send them any unrelated messages that would interfere with their ability to carry out Elon’s dumbass bullshit

submitted 4 hours ago • 268 comments

1. Facilitated new training 2. Undertook assigned tasks 3. Carried out key responsibilities 4. Kickstarted new projects 5. Updated stakeholders

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Fed employees in agencies do not work for Musk, who is a contractor special government employee in the White House. Fed employees already have performance evaluations, which they submit to their actual bosses, in their agencies. Anyone who fires someone for not responding, is probably breaking laws.

submitted 5 hours ago • 6 comments

I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

submitted 7 hours ago • 319 comments

Virginia representative (where NSF HQ sits) takes NSF to task for "unilaterally stripping permanent status from both union and non-union workers, including executives, without notification." www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico. Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts! New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1918...

submitted 15 hours ago • 233 comments

Trump: Fire hundreds of thousands of career civil servants trying to keep America safe and running. Also, Trump: Give DHS a budget of up to $200 million to run anti-immigrant ads that repeatedly thank Trump for leading an immigration crackdown. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 14 hours ago • 23 comments

So DOGE's 'wall of receipts' is riddled with errors, falsehoods and distortions. big shock. about what you'd expect from 6 tech bros dragged over from the strip club www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 22 hours ago • 35 comments

Overflow angry crowd for town hall with Glenn Grothman in Oshkosh this morning ... www.wpr.org/news/glenn-g...

submitted 23 hours ago • 205 comments

holy crap .... Another Town Hall(s) Goes Off the Rails – Oregon 2nd District Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/anoth...

submitted 23 hours ago • 137 comments

Genuinely: I've been working on this story since November and went waaaay down some research rabbit holes to uncover NEW and SERIOUSLY FASCINATING information about the origins of pizza bagels.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

submitted 1 day ago • 121 comments

Constituent: When will you stand up to them and say that is enough? Rep. Fitzgerald: The end result of the fraud and abuse that has been discovered Crowd: Booo

submitted 1 day ago • 290 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1076 comments

Picking the Trump administration over girls, science, and museums, couldn't be me

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

To get a sense of some of the specific types of grant research being affected at universities by the anti-DEI McCarythism here is excellent student reporting with details…

submitted 1 day ago • 5 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 • 471 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 1 day ago • 965 comments

"farmers are apoplectic. In Ohio, they’re stressed about USAID contracts and USDA cost-sharing investments. They held up their end. The government made promises. Now their family farms and livelihoods are on the line. Billions of dollars are at stake. It’s all being held hostage by Musk and Trump."

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

Fwiw anecdotally the calls to elected are still at "very high volume" but slowing down. That's not good.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.

submitted 1 day ago • 262 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have fired “multiple FAA lawyers whose job was to help prevent pilots with drug and alcohol problems from getting in the cockpit.” Musk and Trump want you to die in an airplane crash. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

And here it is, my Joker moment. I am insane now.

submitted 2 days ago • 255 comments

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 2 days ago • 687 comments

hanging out on the podium making awkward small talk with wolf blitzer, as one does

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Question about firings at #CDC and re: nuclear facilities, saying they let ppl go & then had to hire them back, why is this so disorganized/chaotic? McCormick starts by saying "13k work at CDC"-- already displeased rumblings from the crowd as he tries to imply there are more than enough people-- 🧵

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U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was peppered with boos and catcalls throughout a town hall meeting in Roswell late Thursday, as hundreds of critics jeered the Republican for backing President Donald Trump’s agenda during his first month in office. #gapol ajc.com/politics/mcc...

submitted 1 day ago • 127 comments

Countries need to stop being cowards and ban Elon Musk’s disgusting Nazi website. Yes, right wing extremists in those countries will squeal about it. That’s better than continuing to tolerate a website that’s actively attempting to put those extremists in power globally.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Here's @bluestein.bsky.social's uncensored thread of the town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA), in which an unhappy audience pushes back against DOGE cuts: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18927...

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

Yeah. To put it into perspective, if Trump is permitted to rearrange the post office, he is also permitted to rearrange the lower federal courts however he likes. Both are spelled out as "The Congress shall have Power" in Art I, Sec 8. And there's more too, like armies and the militia, second pic.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

CNN’s latest poll shows a majority of Americans believe Trump has overstepped his presidential power and that it was a bad move to give Elon Musk a job reshaping the government.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Finally. More of this.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

"The Postal Service ultimately delivered 97.9 percent of ballots from voters to election officials within three days [in 2020, despite Trump blocking funds]. The successful delivery of ballots turned Trump’s opinion of DeJoy, The Post has previously reported."

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 431 comments

Holy shit! You’ve got to see this town hall. Republicans are starting to get torn apart by their own constituents. Rep. Rich McCormick: “You don’t think I’m going to stand up for you?” Woman in the crowd: “You need to stand up.” Another woman: “Don’t bend over.” 🔥

submitted 2 days ago • 1012 comments