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The people the Trump administration are families, parents and children, trying to migrate to the US from war-torn countries.

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Make it make sense "Trump begins firings of FAA staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash" apnews.com/article/doge...

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Another word for "regulation" is... "consumer protection" "environmental protection" "Regulation" means your milk is safe. "Regulation" means toys that harm your babies are removed from the shelves. "Regulation" means chemical companies can't dump waste in your river.

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"There's an old saying in diplomatic circles: 'If you are not at the table, you are on the table.' Hard to believe it's 2025, and two superpowers are meeting to split up a sovereign nation—like colonialism never went out of style. #Ukraine

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I’m angry; you should be too. Call your member of Congress every day until they stop this hemorrhaging of scientific and clinical expertise. #Musk #Trump #Vought are making us less safer and making us sicker. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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A new paper from Drew Shindell and @joerirogelj.bsky.social shows that using carbon dioxide removal for anything other than "hard to abate" emissions and overshoot would make achieving net-zero emissions impossible.

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The MAHA EO is out. Kennedy’s pet theories are in it, in euphemism form.

submitted 9 days ago • 44 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 7 days ago • 538 comments

Have been doing a lot of German media lately. Here is a conversation with the “Weltspiegel” podcast centered around two questions: Is it really justified to speak of a constitutional crisis and an ongoing autocoup? (yes!) And: Has American democracy been rendered defenseless? (not quite yet, but…)

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The French stand in solidarity with American scientists. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

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The British stand in solidarity with American scientists. www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

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Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

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What is going on here? Why does MAGA hate cancer research? The Trumpists don’t look at a specific budget item or topic - they are engaged in a comprehensive assault against what they have identified as their enemy. In response, we must also develop a holistic view of their political project.

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What a sign

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After a decade of right-wing fools yelling about “cancel culture,” “free-speech,” and an (imaginary) threat of left-wing censorship, the first thing they do when the get power is ban talking about anything that hurts their little feelings. Ok, back to writing about these neo-segregationists.

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

lmao yes if there's one lesson from the last eight years it's that Trump has been subject to way too much accountability and he loves it

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People keep saying there's no hope out there but the New York Times found some!

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

Anyway here's how it played in the press last time anything went this far, just for reference

submitted 9 days ago • 227 comments

Giving infectious disease research a break, as promised by the MAHA agenda. Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is really saying. Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 9 days ago • 105 comments

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Your body is amazingly flexible. Maybe not in a touch-your-toes-from-standing kind of way, but deep inside at the cellular level. This metabolic flexibility enables your body to fuel itself using different kinds of macronutrients such as carbohydrates or fats. www.alive.com/health/metab...

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A lot of talk about cutting "wasteful" spending. How much do you think NIH is about to spend investigating baseless anti-vaccine theories with Jay Bhattacharya at the helm?

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But ultimately history will judge him as the guy who refused to convict Trump after Jan 6th in the Senate and allow him to run for president again.

submitted 9 days ago • 263 comments

There will be no clearer measure of the cowardness, cravenness, and weakness of Republican senators than a vote to confirm RFK Jr., an undeniable dangerous threat to the health and well-being of literally every American.

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

Yesterday it was revealed that the Trump administration is expected to purchase $400 million worth of armored Tesla vehicles. After the story broke, the State Department's procurement document removed mention of Tesla. "Transparency."

submitted 9 days ago • 188 comments

Fuck me, no way. I wonder what it is about the Sieg Heil guy's leadership that led to this outcome.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

Hegseth is the perfect avatar for Trumpist foreign policy: All about faux-alpha-male bluster and constant assertions of aggressive dominance, all based on the idea that there are no rules or values, there is only power, and the biggest privilege of the powerful is to bully the rest.

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

Sickening. Surreal. Heartbreaking. The worst person on planet for this job, got the job. Dark Age 2.0. RFK Jr. confirmed, elevating anti-vaccine activist to nation’s top health post wapo.st/3QgnosB

submitted 9 days ago • 27 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 9 days ago • 523 comments

the only way to save civilization is to make the government stop the investigations into my company and start giving it a bunch of money instead

submitted 10 days ago • 22 comments

Maybe the United States should become the 4th territory of Canada ... the Downsouth Territories. 🤣

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“Today, DEI has become the new N-word; the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism.” My latest for the Guardian, in which I cite Lee Atwater, and bring lots of receipts. Sorry, but it has to be said:

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“We are in the midst of a constitutional crisis right now. There have been so many unconstitutional and illegal actions in the first 18 days of the Trump presidency. We never have seen anything like this.” —Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of University of California, Berkeley law school. Time to stand up:

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Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study

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My granddad came here, in migration wave, with 5 kids, racism meant no engineering job, became low paid bus conductor, council house, gran stayed home, 3 more kids. Their kids became headteachers, senior civil servants, nuclear physicists. Who judges whether my grandparents “genuinely contributed”?

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A shout-out to my #Yale colleague Jason Stanley's new book. Want to know why #Trump/#Musk are going after universities, whitewashing federal agencies' histories, taking down photos, etc.? This is what fascists do.

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“They didn’t assault.” That Trump is allowed to deny the reality we saw with our eyes on Jan 6th, that is on tape!, & just ramble on with lie after lie, is a total indictment of our failed media industry. How reporters can just stand there as he says this stuff is beyond me. Have some self respect!

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Bookshops in occupied East Jerusalem are the latest target of the Israeli apartheid state. Ideas have always irked the totalitarian powers, especially the ones hellbent on ethnic cleansing and erasing the culture of their victims edition.cnn.com/2025/02/10/m...

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Israeli police have raided the best-known Palestinian-owned bookshop in Jerusalem and detained its two owners after using Google translate to examine the shop’s stock. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Apartheid by stealth

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DO NOT MEMORY HOLE THE NAZI SALUTE! Elon Musk did it not once but twice, and with vigor! It’s been 3 weeks, and there’s been no accountability. Institutionalized Judaism has let him off the hook. It is up to us to remember, to never forget the ancestors who deserve better, and to make it stick.

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#USDA reports 3 more #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herds today, 2 in Nevada (up to 7) & 1 in California (up to 739). The cumulative national total is 962 herds in 16 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...

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MAGA has entered the Brexit "we didn't sign up for this" phase.

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Counterpoint: this is exactly what you signed up for, and now you're pretending it wasn't just so you'll never have to admit that you did this to yourself.

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AP: "Trump’s demand that US aid workers return home sparks outrage in Washington and anxiety overseas" apnews.com/article/usai...

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