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Evidence of US brain drain? US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad Jan-Mar 2025 than during same period in 2024. US-based users browsing jobs abroad increased by 35%. Data from Nature Careers global science jobs platform. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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A second lamp in the belfry burns! Old North Church, April 18, 2025 #TwoLanterns #PaulReveresRide250

submitted 22 days ago • 42 comments

So… this was supposed to be about Paul Revere’s ride, but the Senator just unloaded about the Trump administration and its Republican enablers. Far more newsworthy than I expected. (You can probably see me shifting to “crap, this was not the interview I prepped!” but the result was memorable.)

submitted 23 days ago • 177 comments

“The world is now seeing Trump’s America for exactly what it is becoming: a rogue state led by an impulsive strongman disconnected from the rule of law and other constitutional American principles and values.” ~ Thomas L. Friedman

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Americans are going hungry under Trump. Food banks across the country — already strained by deep cuts to locally grown food programs — the U.S. Department of Agriculture is canceling $500 million in expected food deliveries, further disrupting aid as demand continues to grow.

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Kaufmann: DOGE claims to have found Social Security loans going to 11 year olds and under. It's a survivor benefit annuity to young children whose parents have passed. That's the problem billionaires without a clue doing a job they don't understand

submitted 50 days ago • 529 comments

DOGE scrubbed a long-dead contract from its site—the same place it’s been posting phony “receipts” to fake success. Do they not understand how government works, or are they lying to the public? My opinion: These aren’t mistakes. They’re trying to dupe us.

submitted 65 days ago • 691 comments

Legal counsel representing federal employees is now being targeted by the Trump administration. Law firms are receiving a clear message that retaliation is possible for those advocating on behalf of individuals or groups opposing the administration’s agenda.

submitted 65 days ago • 377 comments

I don’t think enough people appreciate what an apocalyptic disaster it is for Elon Musk to have this kind of access to federal government databases. There is absolutely no doubt that these clowns are installing back doors throughout every system.

submitted 65 days ago • 10 comments

Between Elon’s chainsaw and Trump’s budget Republicans are crushing veterans. Make sure they know it.

submitted 65 days ago • 13 comments

NOAA is an absolute mess, and it’ll be worse tomorrow. Please help us. There have already been over 1,000 terminations. It’s not just layoffs—Elon Musk and his staffers are trying to completely dismantle us. Today, there were tons of firings, and more are coming tomorrow.

submitted 72 days ago • 514 comments

Angus King’s call to action: “…this is a constitutional crisis, and we've got to respond to it… the framers… didn't intend to have an efficient dictatorship, and that’s what we’re headed for. We've got to wake up…”

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President Trump told Fox News this week that Medicaid is “not going to be touched.” Not according to the budget the house just passed. Oops.

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"working to swiftly rectify the situation..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 81 days ago • 2865 comments

Musk fired America’s disabled Veterans.

submitted 82 days ago • 3 comments

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10/20/1942 Tillich to the German people: “What is being attempted today is the fundamental… abolition of ordinances, without which… humanity… cannot live… an attempt to create, with every means of highest intelligence & technological maturity, a world in which that which is human has disappeared.

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Elon Musk re-shared a tweet containing Judge John McConnell Jr.’s daughter’s job and financial records on X after the judge ruled against DOGE.

submitted 86 days ago • 404 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 87 days ago • 422 comments

“The selling out of Ukraine was an inevitable consequence, no doubt, of America’s decision to reëlect Trump.” Susan B. Glasser writes about President Trump’s breathtaking pivot toward Moscow.

submitted 86 days ago • 61 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Note: In 2024 alone, Musk’s enterprises were awarded approximately $3 billion across nearly 100 federal contracts, averaging about $8 million per day.

submitted 86 days ago • 145 comments

Oct 1942, Paul Tillich radio talk to the German People: “Friends of the German Opposition: that is your hope! See to it that more and more Germans grasp that a power that has destroyed justice is surely no longer power, even when it still has the most enormous tools of oppression in its hand.”

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Aug. 1942 - Paul Tillich to the German people through Radio America: You can no longer speak of the kingdom of heaven as an otherworldly power... For with that you hand this work over to satanic powers such as those that have power today… & that are destroying the church along with the nation.

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submitted 94 days ago • 228 comments

The USA is now too weak to provide humanitarian aid. The dictators of the world are delighted. RIP USAID.

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German Theologian Paul Tillich speaking to the German People (through a collaboration between Radio America and the BBC), May 1942: “Your present leaders despise people: not only the enemy that they fight but all of you. They see you only as a means to their power and as objects of their commands.”

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Get them out of government. Most not old enough to be elected to anything. One suspects they are part of Musk’s gaming posse.

submitted 96 days ago • 1010 comments

Now you know what “drunk on power” looks like, America.

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