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Lee Zeldin was on Fox today talking about clawing back money lawfully appropriated to organizations by legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act simply bc Trump doesn't like it. This is an especially egregious example of how Trumpers have redefined "fraud" to just mean "spending I disagree with."

submitted 18 hours ago • 127 comments

Every time a Republican utters the phony ‘waste, fraud & abuse’ talking point, they should be confronted with key fact noted by Aaron here that ‘fraud is really just spending I don’t agree with.’ Call out the musk/maga scam.

submitted 15 hours ago • 13 comments

CLAIM: The House budget resolution (H Con Res 14) doesn't touch Medicaid. FACT: The resolution directs the Energy & Commerce committee, which oversees Medicaid, to find $880 billion in cuts, and Republicans have openly called for spending less on Medicaid. Connect the dots.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

House Republicans just voted to rob 72 million Americans of their Medicaid coverage to give tax cuts to the rich. 😤 Give your House Reps a CALL BACK to let them know how you feel about their vote. 👉 5calls.org/issue/budget...

submitted 15 hours ago • 7 comments

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA): “A program is not waste just because it doesn’t help the richest man in the world. It is not fraud just because he doesn’t like it."

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

submitted 3 days ago • 3912 comments

The court ordered that NIH grant funding be unfrozen, so The Regime found a way around it. For NIH grants to be funded, a review panel must rank them. In order for a review panel to meet, they must post it on the Federal Register. Submissions to the Federal Register are now on hold “indefinitely”.

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments

People who are telling you that there's a lot of fraud in Medicaid are lying to you in order to try to convince you to support taking healthcare away from children on dialysis. Because the only way to convince enough normal people to harm disabled children is by lying.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

what we’re seeing is that the courts are willing to rule against the government on certain things but there’s no one to actually enforce it.

submitted 17 days ago • 79 comments

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

submitted 18 days ago • 105 comments

🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 18 days ago • 445 comments

New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."

submitted 19 days ago • 157 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 19 days ago • 168 comments

Pushing live production code cooked up by some young coders over a week of sleepness nights in place of a legacy system that is fundamental to the operation of the US government is against every programming best practice.

submitted 22 days ago • 128 comments

"[DOGE] personnel ... physically tried to access the USAID headquarters ... & were stopped. [They] demanded to be let in and threatened to call US Marshals to be allowed access ... [They] wanted to gain access to security systems and ... classified information." www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...

submitted 24 days ago • 66 comments

BREAKING: everyone

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

The FDA has scrubbed from its website guidance on conducting medical trials with representative numbers of men/women and racial/ethnic minorities. these aren't symbolic issues. Drugs affect men/men, people with different genetic backgrounds differently. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/medic...

submitted 33 days ago • 131 comments

hes talking about rape allegations here

submitted 43 days ago • 32 comments

I am going to put together a thread covering Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing. Follow along for clips and commentary.

submitted 43 days ago • 457 comments

"Taken together, the Bush tax cuts, their bipartisan extensions, and the Trump tax cuts would be responsible for more than 100 percent of the increase in the projected debt ratio, with the Trump tax cuts responsible for nearly one-third of the future growth in the debt ratio above 2024 levels."

submitted 62 days ago • 12 comments

As the Supreme Court debates trans kids' right to essential healthcare, today is a good day to ruminate on the fact that the United States is the ONLY UN member state not to have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

submitted 83 days ago • 12 comments

One thing I didn’t expect in the wake of the CEO shooting is the sudden attention on health insurance policy. I have seen this video and the BCBS policy itself go viral on almost every platform. People are waking up. Real lasting change in healthcare is coming. youtube.com/shorts/vWA2a...

submitted 83 days ago • 71 comments

I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this: Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...

submitted 96 days ago • 157 comments

If you’re shocked about Matt Gaetz But you still let the weird creepy dude who constantly attacked women serve in an office in your coop/ working group/ community org …. I need you to lock it in Because the guy closer to you is gonna do more damage and you ACTUALLy have power there

submitted 103 days ago • 7 comments

I get a lot of weird, hostile emails related to the blog but never so virulent as when I suggest ejecting sex pests and joy-killing, hostile assholes from the optional fun things you do with people you like in your free time.

submitted 101 days ago • 12 comments

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

If you didn't know, I was banned by Midjourney 3 times for exposing their infringement and plagiarism. Their AI can very easily recreate stolen training data (even without naming it), so here's a thread of images you can use to shut AI proponents down. 🧵 spectrum.ieee.org/midjourney-c...

submitted 99 days ago • 65 comments

I want all streaming services to have the option to mark things as “Never suggest this to me again, and frankly I’m offended.”

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

I’m Serindipity on Storygraph.

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Matt Gaetz announces plan to prosecute women who turn 18

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Swing Left is saying that Casey can hold onto his Senate seat if provisional ballots are cured by the Nov. 12 deadline and is looking for folks to phonebank and canvas in PA. In-person canvassing sign-up: www.mobilize.us/swingleft/?o... Phone-banking: www.mobilize.us/2024pavictor...

submitted 108 days ago • 36 comments

the arc of the moral universe could be a bit shorter imo

submitted 111 days ago • 82 comments

great gaby del valle scoop about a text campaign targeting swing states that seems to be from the Harris campaign, but emphasizes her Israel stance if the recipient identifies themselves pro-Palestinian www.theverge.com/2024/11/5/24...

submitted 113 days ago • 7 comments

The way this Tressie McMillan Cottom reply blew my hair back…

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submitted 114 days ago • 2 comments

NYT tech workers are on strike for a fair contract. We are asking you to #BreakYourStreak on NYT games in solidarity. You can also support our strike fund to keep us going. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

submitted 114 days ago • 52 comments

Why yes, they did choose that headline instead of “trump’s future head of DHS says 6% of all US citizen children will be at risk of deportation from their own country”

submitted 119 days ago • 8 comments

This election is insane because it isnt even a choice, one candidate is literally worse at every single thing that isnt being a nazi and we have to put up with these useless stuffed shirts on TV playing it as a horse race all the way to the close, these institutions as constructed need to die

submitted 120 days ago • 19 comments

An apparent act of arson in a ballot drop box in Vancouver, Washington, a blue area home to a swing House district. Local officials expect hundreds of mail (anything deposited since Sunday at 8am) ballots were destroyed: www.katu.com/news/local/v...

submitted 121 days ago • 21 comments

Burning ballots were pulled from inside a smoking ballot box in Vancouver, Washington, this morning, hours after police responded to an arson at a Portland ballot box www.katu.com/news/local/v...

submitted 121 days ago • 108 comments

hey is this good when this happens www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/...

submitted 121 days ago • 6 comments

This is well in line with the Blue State Challenge, where people in "blue states" who are annoyed or angry or whatever about red states 1. pick a red state 2. pick an issue 3. support people in that state working to make things better on that issue.

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

Worried about the election and the state of the world and wanna do something positive about it all? I got some starter packs for you! First, here are a bunch of folks sharing good info about the election and practical things everyday people can do to help. go.bsky.app/JLpiBtE

submitted 122 days ago • 8 comments

🚨🚨 Per The Daily Beast “Trump waited to make sure that Bezos did what he said he was going to do, and then met with the Blue Origin people,” he said on Saturday. “Which tells us that there was an actual deal made." Ex-WaPo Editor: This Is a Straight Bezos-Trump ‘Quid Pro Quo’

submitted 122 days ago • 58 comments

Some people believe that not voting for Kamala will somehow punish Democratic leadership when it will actually punish abortion seekers, LGBTQ people, immigrants and their families, and, yes, anti-war activists

submitted 126 days ago • 1 comment

Buddy of mine in Philly said his mail ballot showed up sealed and was told it was because of the heat. Here's what to do if you get one as well. Remember that Rs are gonna try and toss every ballot they can!

submitted 133 days ago • 11 comments