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submitted 6 hours ago • 8 comments

Elmo is demanding that 2.3M federal employees submit 5 bullets representing their accomplishments last week (or be fired). Fun fact. If 2.3M employees spend 5 minutes each answering that email, it will cost taxpayers $8.5M. Your taxpayer dollars funding his harassment of Feds. Now you know.

submitted 7 hours ago • 74 comments

COME ON YOU LOONS LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO!!! IT'S FRIGGIN MATCH DAY!

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

This call is an urgent one to make (vote is on Tuesday) and I like that I can be confident my Rep (Ilhan Omar) is going to fight like hell (but I'll still probably call with some encouraging words). (So many lives are on the line with this one, including mine.) 5calls.org/issue/budget...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

Conservative ideas can’t compete so they demand special treatment.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

And if the whole article is too long or too confusing, take a look at this very well done thread that summarizes it: bsky.app/profile/elis...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A lot of what he's doing is very illegal, but beyond that it's also a shock and disappointment to see how much of what I thought was bedrock foundation might be Jello.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Stuff like this should be headline news, there should be so many big stories that are unavoidable about the damage being done and the time being lost.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Yet another sports study supporting trans inclusion in women's sports. These are becoming harder and harder to ignore.

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submitted 2 days ago • 103 comments

Wish Dems on national level would take lessons from what the DFL did here in MN when they had the trifecta. Party voted together and held together. And learn from how Gov. Walz moved left on issues and was wildly popular as a result. Getting shit done that helped people was popular.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Ah, the Penistone and Scunthorpe Problem video has popped up in my recommendations -- the ham-fisted efforts of the Trump-Musk regime to wipe out supposed DEI terms have been having similar effects youtu.be/CcZdwX4noCE

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"Modern antivaxers are exposed to no such monitory horrors. They indulge their stupidity in ignorance of real suffering; their good health guaranteed by the “herd immunity” provided by the mass of sensible citizens who do get vaccinated." www.thetimes.com/article/b3bb...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Endless fuckery

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

#ABNMC #MusicChallenge Starting with T

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

With Trump declaring himself above the law and Musk calling for jailing journos, there's a big risk voters get acclimated to this kind of authoritarian talk and come to see it as normal. Another reason Dems must step up now. My exchange w/Steve Levitsky on this: newrepublic.com/article/1916...

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

submitted 5 days ago • 1251 comments

Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

submitted 5 days ago • 767 comments

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

submitted 13 days ago • 143 comments

😂😂😂😂😂😂

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Every. Damn. Time. How often are folks gonna fall for this? 🤷‍♂️

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

The emperor has no brains either

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

so it’s the full woodrow eh

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Happening now: Protesters at the Tesla service center just outside of Minneapolis. Signs reading “Unplug Mad King Musk”, “This car runs on facsism”, “Who buys cars from a nazi?”, “Say no to doge”, “Don’t buy swasticars, BAD DOGE!”.

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

Fun fact: my doctor said I qualified for the pneumonia vax (even though I’m under 50) bc celiac, an autoimmune disease, puts me at increased risk. Talk to your doctor and get those vaccines while you still can

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 8 days ago • 510 comments

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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

This was one of RFK Jr.’s first orders after being sworn in. Just an astonishing denial of science and will cause so much pain to the 45 million Americans facing mental health challenges.

submitted 8 days ago • 1536 comments

PATHOCRACY — This, right now, is a more important concept than oligarchy. We have pathological leaders. They attract other people with personality disorders, who seize the opportunity to gain influence. At the same time, individuals who are moral, empathic & fair-minded gradually fall away.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

A lot of chronic illness is post viral. People are healthy until they get flu, mono, covid etc It only takes one infection to upend your life & leave you with severe disabilities RFK Jr says he wants to end chronic illness epidemic & yet will make avoiding viruses harder Get boosted. Wear a mask.

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

From Paul Krugman: Elon Musk Is Faking It Bonus points for the term "Muskenjugend"... open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Bumping this. Come lend a hand!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

submitted 9 days ago • 558 comments

Turns out it doesn't really matter how your sales are doing when you control the US Treasury. www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g...

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Future archeologists will see that we let polio come back on purpose and dismiss the evidence as too stupid to be credible.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments