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And I suggest that the United States should seize and nationalize Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink. We can both make suggestions!

submitted 14 hours ago • 24 comments

Three have died in ICE custody as Trump rapidly expands capacity to incarcerate immigrants, including at Gitmo and mainland jails. “His family says he entered completely healthy, no history of health conditions, and within three weeks he left the facility brain dead." truthout.org/articles/law...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

context for non Americans/people who’ve never had a reason to need to know that face: that’s the Chief Justice, and dementia-in-chief just, on a live mic, implied Roberts is doing favors for him, which, whether or not it’s true, Roberts looks like he did not enjoy having aired on live national TV

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Al Green after he was THROWN out: 🔥 "It is the best way to get on the course to a person who uses his incivility, who uses his incivility against our civility."

submitted 1 day ago • 93 comments

Sale of state assets was what created the first generation of Russian oligarchs. They're running plays from a known playbook

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Does he... does he mean...transgenic mice?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Bruh

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

submitted 2 days ago • 1096 comments

the explicit warmaking policy of the United States is now to inflict as much death, pain, and suffering as possible -- including to civilians

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The protest announcement is extremely alarming. There’s a reason why for years, I was against the “Send in the troops” for Black Lives Matter, and the harsh, militarized crackdowns on students protesting Gaza. The boomerang is here, and white people will feel it.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

submitted 2 days ago • 101 comments

What a measles rash can look like on different skin tones.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

I know everything about Nixon seems quaint in comparison, but this was specifically one of the crimes mentioned in the articles of impeachment against Nixon.

submitted 3 days ago • 59 comments

🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

We laugh, but this is basically R1 research universities' strategy for dealing with an existential assault by the fascists on their entire business model

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

14 years old...she was a baby. Her name was Emily Pike. Say her name, MMIWG2S are not numbers.

submitted 4 days ago • 51 comments

Temporary special consulting employee from another agency without authority seeks to break law and endanger public

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Bessent said under oath that he would protect this system for 2025 filers. Donor class wins again.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

submitted 5 days ago • 96 comments

this is the effect of social media on social movements

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

submitted 6 days ago • 935 comments

The Justice Department is continuing a wave of efforts to free Jan. 6 defendants jailed for crimes unrelated to the attack on the Capitol. Tongiht it's Ben Martin, who was convicted for possessing a firearm despite a criminal record for domestic violence.

submitted 6 days ago • 178 comments

i was a part of the probationary employee firings at the national weather service today. being a part of the environmental modeling center is all i have ever known in my career. it is where i always wanted to be.

submitted 6 days ago • 174 comments

@jeremyfaust.bsky.social’s reporting on the cancelled VRBPAC meeting includes this important context. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-fda-...

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Wow.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

This is terrifying.

submitted 7 days ago • 89 comments

Seems like a good time to tap the sign once again: would strongly recommend supporting non-billionaire owned news media - especially the independent, local, worker-run and/or reader funded variety

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

Yes, good, this is the kind of hustle I want to see

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Democrats' midterm message for 2026: Planes stay in sky, no crash Kids not starve Kids not die because of preventable illness Not make enemy of friends abroad No kings

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

NEW: President Trump moved Tuesday to punish a law firm for providing pro bono legal services to Jack Smith as he prepared to face a potential investigation from the Trump administration. He is stripping security clearnces and govt funding from the firm. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 8 days ago • 201 comments

this is part of why I get so annoyed with the “lol and you’re surprised???” genre of lefty cynic reply guy. always calling a bad thing bad is important! there are many more reasons to state something out loud besides “my stars, this is a development no one could have predicted”

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Congrats to the WHCA, now officially less courageous than the French

submitted 8 days ago • 36 comments

Medicaid pays for 40% of births in America. 🤰 Call your Rep! (202) 224-3121

submitted 8 days ago • 88 comments

Remarkable resignation letter from the Justice Department's chief information officer in the immigration review division — a disabled veteran. Obtained by @propublica.org's Brett Murphy:

submitted 8 days ago • 298 comments

BIG: DC Metro Police decided they had sufficient evidence to arrest sitting GOP Congressman and sent warrant request to USATTY's office. Acting USATTY Martin, who's been explicitly acting as Trump's personal attorney, ignored it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-b...

submitted 9 days ago • 123 comments

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

submitted 10 days ago • 579 comments

I want to see every scientific society going into emergency mode. This is a good example of how an organization can flex its specific power in a time of great need. What else is possible?

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand

submitted 11 days ago • 136 comments

"Aren't you embarrassed to tell people you can't compete on an open, level playing field?"

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints. youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...

submitted 11 days ago • 675 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 11 days ago • 253 comments

Let’s go.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Lmao?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 13 days ago • 33 comments

Breaking — The Social Security Administration is dissolving its Office of Analytics Review and Oversight effective 2pm today, an agency source tells me. In a meeting leadership claimed it was part of government-wide mission to “align missions better” & said it was the first of many changes to come.

submitted 12 days ago • 50 comments