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Abortion bans kill women.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Unbelievable.

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If it were not for Jim Crow voter suppression tactics, Kamala Harris would have had 3.5 million more votes and would have won the presidency. Trump doesn’t have a mandate, there was no landslide — so what do we do now? Full interview with @jessicadenson07.bsky.social >>> youtu.be/UhzJfiYHXZw

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

The best Alzheimer's research in the world was NIH funded, and after a difficult decade, we were finally starting to see really promising leads for new therapeutics. This is like taking away your kid's bike the day the training wheels come off just after an Olympic coach said they have potential

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, just 11 years old, “took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 3 days ago • 1412 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 1216 comments

"An 11-year-old girl in Texas took her own life after she was allegedly harassed by classmates who threatened to call the authorities and have her family deported."

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

@msignorile.bsky.social I just tried to order covid tests. I'm getting a 404 page no matter how I try to access.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

FDA staff were reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company. DOGE just fired them. submitted by /u/WorkingOnPPL [link] [comments] https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1is19yb/fda_staff_were_reviewing_elon_musks_brain_implant/

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

The Health Resources and Services Administration at HHS provides funding for HIV/AIDs care, maternal health, and community health centers. Today some employees arrived at work to find their access revoked. Terminated without even being notified. Total number affected unknown. @alt-hhs.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 5 days ago • 861 comments

He's getting access to literally everything about everyone, IRS records, social security records, health records etc. No one can have any sense of privacy after this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 44 comments

No one in Republican world seems to have a lot of curiosity about why Musk needs people’s personal data to engage in government cost cutting

submitted 5 days ago • 141 comments

Ok, we’re on! Our co-founder @SSWorks, Nancy Altman, is quoted here in the NY Times. Because @elonmusk is violating YOUR privacy to justify his tax cut.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

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submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 7 days ago • 382 comments

Knowledge is power…

submitted 7 days ago • 1039 comments

Oh now, Polly, this could happen to anyone. I shut off my phone service until I realized that is what enabled my phone to work. 🤪Next time, I am going to cancel my water service, because who the hell knows what that's for???

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

The Food & Drug Administration exists to keep private businesses from poisoning American food and medicine for profit. Not hypothetically,

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

2 died of Ebola: They said Obama should resign. 4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a 4-year probe. 881,776 Covid deaths, an armed insurrection & theft of classified documents: They cheered, and made Trump a dictator.

submitted 7 days ago • 104 comments

CDC Layoffs = 10% of the current workforce. This is absolutely INSANE! With a surge of upticks in Bird Flu and Measles outbreaks it does NOT take an expert to see this is a DEADLY idea! Donald Trump is calibrating the United States to be VULNERABLE to the next pandemic.💔😡 www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 8 days ago • 64 comments

This is one FAFO situation where I don't want to see the find out half of it.

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ? And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions ! We all look forward to reading your thoughts

submitted 8 days ago • 6089 comments

This whole thing is such a clusterfuck. And will do lasting damage to this country. But like with everything, the American people are just gonna have to learn the hard way.

submitted 8 days ago • 40 comments

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

submitted 8 days ago • 1089 comments

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

submitted 8 days ago • 600 comments

A major escalation from the federal funding freeze (which is itself in violation of court orders): the Musk-Trump team literally took $80 million that had already been given to NYC's local government out of a New York City bank account: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/n...

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

🤨 Big diff btw discuss & wish. Wish is want, & many do. Discuss wud b 2 form & have a real plan, yes? House Dem rips Elon Musk: I wish we could impeach ‘fake presidents’ "US Rep Jamie Raskin D-Md wishes he could impeach “fake presidents” like tech billionaire Elon Musk" www.nj.com/politics/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Senator Richard Durbin says he has info from "multiple sources" & meeting notes indicating that Kash Patel has secretly helped direct the FBI purge (via Stephen Miller to Emil Bove), and asked for an IG investigation. Says if true, Patel may have perjured himself. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

submitted 12 days ago • 475 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

submitted 12 days ago • 135 comments

The judges are holding the line. But will the Trump-Musk regime comply

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

Darkly funny that Republicans spent four years insisting that Biden was a senile puppet of [insert right-wing bogeyman here] and the second they returned to power the entire party very publicly handed over the keys to the federal government to an unelected fascist billionaire

submitted 12 days ago • 23 comments

This is how it starts…

submitted 12 days ago • 64 comments

Dear Costco, Please change to a paper products manufacturer that is NOT Georgia Pacific, a Koch company. Koch is behind the entire right wing agenda. Costco, you stood up to rethuglican bigotry, misogyny & purposeful cruelty. Please stop doing business with Koch.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Update: DOGE members Luke Farritor and Gavin Kilger are no longer “read only” users at the CFPB. They are now listed as domain administrators in the bureau’s system, meaning they can provide or revoke access as they see fit

submitted 12 days ago • 42 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge has determined that the Trump administration is violating his order lifting the blanket spending freeze on federal grant programs. He is orderin gthe administration to immediately unfreeze funds, including for NIH and the IRA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 days ago • 470 comments

Five ex-Treasury secretaries warn Elon Musk's DOGE poses a threat to democracy. Robert E. Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew and Janet L. Yellen say DOGE may violate the Constitution if it attempts to halt payments already appropriated by Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

submitted 12 days ago • 31 comments

If Elon Musk is looking for wasteful government spending, he should start with Pete Hegseth. Hegseth approved a $49,000 ‘emergency’ paint job on his government home—while critical services are being cut. But sure, tell us more about fiscal responsibility. MORE: www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

submitted 12 days ago • 135 comments

That was fast. (Both lawsuit and story by the incredibly hard working @jonathanwosen.bsky.social and Angus Chen.) Subscribe to STAT!

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

A newly leaked document from the National Science Foundation reveals a long list of phrases which could find your research grant censored. Source: Futurism search.app/s7bhWgC8vsA6...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Via @19thnews.org: For decades, USAID’s family planning program was the main source for contraception and HIV treatment in some countries. Experts say without it, women and LGBTQ+ people will die.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Pentagon pushes out CNN, Washington Post, The Hill in further favoring of pro-Trump media: The move is part of Defense head Pete Hegseth's "media rotation program"

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities this week published analysis warning that work requirements for Medicaid recipients could put 36 million Americans, or 44% of all Medicaid enrollees, at risk of losing their health insurance. www.alternet.org/medicaid-req...

submitted 14 days ago • 35 comments

Holy shit this cartoon.

submitted 15 days ago • 302 comments

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

submitted 16 days ago • 168 comments

Oh nothing, the kid who Elon allowed to access our sensitive information was a eugenicist who "was racist before it was cool."

submitted 16 days ago • 377 comments