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SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

submitted 71 days ago • 259 comments

The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 72 days ago • 161 comments

The Face of Courage open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social

submitted 71 days ago • 10 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 71 days ago • 2665 comments

“I emphasize the import of civil society, including groups that have been preparing for these legal challenges for months. As others have pointed out, the battle over fascism often centers on the battle over pre-existing networks of civil society, networks that often are not themselves political”

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Instead of watching RFK Jr’s confirmation hearing, watch A SHOT IN THE ARM, my friend Scott’s doc about the anti vax movement that shows how Kennedy prompted a measles outbreak in Samoa. www.pbs.org/show/shot-in...

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

In this age of increased terrorist threats and actions, we strongly need an FBI run by seasoned and competent leaders, not political hacks like Kash Patel.

submitted 115 days ago • 1004 comments

French onion soup, a dish traditionally eaten after a night of revelry as a nourishing restorative, is the perfect recipe to share with you for New Year’s Eve. Still my most popular post, and what I’ll be making for tonight’s New Years Eve celebration 🥳 jamieschler.substack.com/p/authentic-...

submitted 117 days ago • 32 comments

Happy New Year! My wish for 2025 is for humans to be kinder, more compassionate & empathetic to others. To help lift each other up, help thy neighbor and a stranger, spread more joy and love. I pray for peace, the end of war, and hate so that we may all live in a more blessed world. I’m a dreamer!

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Mary Fitzpatrick Prince was a young, Black woman wrongly convicted of murder in the Jim Crow south. A victim a court system rife with racial injustice, she was serving a life sentence in a Georgia prison. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter believed deeply in Mary’s innocence. With the Carters’…

submitted 117 days ago • 46 comments

“Though there is no way to know how often coverage gets cut off mid-treatment, ProPublica has found scores of lawsuits over the past decade in which judges have sharply criticized insurance companies for citing a patient’s improvement to deny mental health coverage.”

submitted 117 days ago • 33 comments

We have larger concerns heading into 2025, but I can't let go of the idea that the next season of Sesame Street could be its last. So I wrote about why the kids' TV institution is still vital after more than 50 years:

submitted 117 days ago • 84 comments

The world has lost a truly good, honorable, faithful man. May his soul be rejoicing in the heavens with God and his beloved. My deepest condolences to his family, friends and loved one. In our mourning let’s commit to also try live by his amazing example. ❤️💔❤️

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

Undocumented immigrants paid $7 Billion in taxes last year. Nearly all immigrants who are in the U.S. without permanent legal status pay social security payroll taxes without claiming benefits. But sure, let’s mass deport them, then complain about SS viability. www.marketwatch.com/story/your-s...

submitted 120 days ago • 48 comments

My neice, a PhD in Math, tried to explain this to me. I didn't understand. But this explanation seems much easier. Still not 100% sure I get it, but find this fascinating. The part about people so sure they knew better was mind blowing priceonomics.com/the-time-eve...

submitted 121 days ago • 2 comments

Six little stories sum it up nicely... #goodness #wholesome

submitted 121 days ago • 28 comments

Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Education has been flying below the radar screen. It’s time to put a stop to that. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 121 days ago • 96 comments

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Leaders in the Musk backed Germany’s #AfD party have called for revising history books in Germany to minimize the Holocaust and to stop shaming Germany by remembering the Holocaust. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

submitted 126 days ago • 5 comments

Struggling to find the words for just how disturbing this is. But suffice it to say that at one point, even Baldoni’s own publicist essentially says “thank goodness people hate women.” nyti.ms/3DoqZSq

submitted 126 days ago • 25 comments

Dr. Paul Offit, a leading pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, on the dangerous nomination of RFK Jr. for HHS: “He is about to do everything he can to destroy the vaccine program in this country. And I think it is a dangerous time to be a child in the US of America.”

submitted 127 days ago • 50 comments

Here’s Kaine (D) saying Rand Paul (R) dropped his objection to the child cancer research funding bill that was removed from the C.R. after Musk’s objections to the bipartisan deal, allowing it to pass through Unanimous Consent. Musk & others claimed Schumer was the hold up.

submitted 127 days ago • 19 comments

Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids. Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?

submitted 130 days ago • 2162 comments

If somehow you’ve fallen into the trap of thinking RFK Jr might not be all that bad as leader of HHS, please read this article. He’s a fucking looney tune who, if allowed to have his way, could kill off whole sections of our society… especially our children! www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 127 days ago • 34 comments

The AfD is controversial even among other European far-right parties because many of its leaders are not shy about expressing Nazi sympathies. And Elon Musk is straight up applauding them, calling the party Germany’s last, best hope.

submitted 127 days ago • 112 comments

Praying for all those affected by the brutal act of terrorism tonight at a Christmas market in #Magdeburg, Germany 🇩🇪. So terribly sad. “We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world – the company of those who have known suffering.” — Helen Keller, 1929 💔🕯️🕊️

submitted 127 days ago • 32 comments

Prosecutors have gained access to a large cache of emails, phone records, and other messages sent by Trump allies in their criminal investigation the 2020 election subversion plot.

submitted 127 days ago • 27 comments

Elon Musk and X Are the Top Misinformation Spreaders Online The tech billionaire always had a problem with telling the truth — now he has an entire social network built on lies! www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

submitted 162 days ago • 164 comments

An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.

submitted 127 days ago • 704 comments

This is terrifying. If you can handle it, read the document, not just the headline. They caught him before he could execute his plans, but not before he'd already waged a campaign of armed terror against queer neighbors.

submitted 127 days ago • 18 comments

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan says she has often reassured police officers traumatized by the violence of Jan. 6, 2021, that “the rule of law still applies.”

submitted 128 days ago • 7 comments

LOCK HIM UP!

submitted 128 days ago • 24 comments

They cut pediatric cancer research out of the bill after President Musk got involved. Pediatric cancer research. Merry Christmas.

submitted 128 days ago • 421 comments

[email protected] is right. This arbitrary formula puts too many schools at risk, and will make the teacher shortages we face even worse. We should be investing in public education & investing in students, not shuttering schools. @OFTUnion.bsky.social ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/12/17/o...

submitted 128 days ago • 7 comments

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a child cancer research center with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

submitted 128 days ago • 2650 comments

First lady Jill Biden has done so much to provide students and communities with an opportunity to learn and grow. Her passion and love for public service are unmatched. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

submitted 128 days ago • 8 comments

Another provision not getting much attention that Republicans cut from the funding bill at the direction of the wealthiest man in the world — the SUPPORT Act, bipartisan legislation key to fighting the opioid epidemic. thehill.com/policy/healt...

submitted 128 days ago • 13 comments

Message from Hillary Clinton

submitted 128 days ago • 61 comments