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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

submitted 2 days ago • 2595 comments

Nothing abt what DOGE claims it's doing, or even what most suspect they're doing, requires anything like the current access they now have to critical data and nat sec computer systems across the federal govenrment. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

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Criminals are running amok inside our government and nothing will be done about it because—oh, that’s right!—America voted for a convicted criminal to be in charge of all federal law enforcement See how that works

submitted 4 days ago • 346 comments

RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

submitted 4 days ago • 699 comments

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

submitted 4 days ago • 5977 comments

#medsky#pedsky#idsky#immunosky 🧪 In the midst of all of the scary headlines recently, I thought I could take a moment to share a bit of good news: for the first time in history, a malaria vaccine with >90% efficacy seems to be within reach! Here’s why that’s a really big deal for EVERYONE 🧵

submitted 9 days ago • 443 comments

“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:

submitted 12 days ago • 50 comments

This is sort of the skeleton key to understanding a lot of shit: there 100% is a non-trivial amount of inefficiency and waste in the federal bureaucracy, and most of it is a direct result of ‘reforms’ that are meant to assuage the people who complain about “waste and inefficiency in govt”

submitted 12 days ago • 43 comments

Why they really shuttered CFPB paulkrugman.substack.com/p/springtime...

submitted 11 days ago • 59 comments

People used to make so much fun of me when I pointed out that the dirtbag "left" had constructed a neat pipeline to the far right, because WHY would they do that? And the simple answer has always been, money. Just look at the Red Scare hosts becoming besties with Peter Thiel.

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

lol elon musk's dealer is running DOE

submitted 14 days ago • 83 comments

A Nazi billionaire is drilling directly into Fort Knox in broad daylight and we’re just watching it happen.

submitted 18 days ago • 80 comments

Peter Dutton’s “free lunch for fat cats” policy will cost the budget as much as the Housing Australia Future Fund and this #TemuTrump must NEVER govern this country. Angus Taylor admits they are not costing their free lunch policy. Full story here, #auspol: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments

JFC, there is no grant worth a shit in the social sciences that excludes all of these words. It’s super weird watching fascism play out in real time and the best we can do is rage on social media and adjudicate that fascism is not the right word for it all.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Never ask a linguist "Is that a word?" because you will always get the same response, "IT IS NOW!" 😃 delivered with some variation of jazz hands like you just won a very low stakes game show and I'm so sorry it's just part of the training it's not something we can control.

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

submitted 21 days ago • 6202 comments

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

submitted 21 days ago • 312 comments

I remember not that long ago when the audio went out during the Star Spangled Banner at an NHL game in Toronto, the Mapple Leafs fans in the stands stood up and finished it for our players. That depth of friendship and mutual respect, Trump has killed in less than two weeks.

submitted 21 days ago • 9 comments

To help people understand how much of a threat is taking place: The United States Justice Department leadership appears to be outright breaking the law to fire career civil servants for Trump. One person - acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll - is heroically staying true to the law.

submitted 21 days ago • 53 comments

Corporate leaders who were fine with Trump sadistically imposing mass suffering on vulnerable groups as long as they got their tax cuts deserve every last bit of what this madman is now unleashing on them with these tariffs. Assholes.

submitted 21 days ago • 97 comments

Retaliatory tariffs are all right and good but if Canada, Mexico and the EU want to get this over with sanctioning the hell out of Trump’s oligarchs seems like a force multiplier.

submitted 20 days ago • 100 comments

If you’re describing the current/evolving situation through condescendingly referring to doomscrolling and people needing to touch grass then I really don’t know what to tell you because we’re living through a historic moment, in a pretty bad way.

submitted 20 days ago • 11 comments

Feel like this stuff only goes one way. In four years a Shapiro-AOC ticket could be up 20 points and it wouldn't be suing networks to demand payouts.

submitted 22 days ago • 38 comments

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

submitted 23 days ago • 876 comments

Literally if you were going to have a cheat sheet in front of you it would have this at the top

submitted 23 days ago • 225 comments

They all should use "lies", IMO. But the ABC's is truly pathetic. What a cowered media org it now is.

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

Donald Trump's America, just like we warned you it would be

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

If you see something (horses), say something ("horses")

submitted 24 days ago • 57 comments

occasional reminder, now that we're squarely in "purges" and the "dictatorship" light is flashing yellow

submitted 25 days ago • 18 comments

let's have a big hand for the dumb racist goons of the Teamsters Union leadership, they worked so hard to make this possible

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

Now that the Trump Administration is frantically ripping pages from Project 2025 and writing them into one executive order after another, it’s worth remembering that it polled at 4% approval back in September 2024. Socialism’s numbers were 4X higher.

submitted 25 days ago • 58 comments

continuing america's habit of turning its wars back onto itself, we have attempted de-democratification

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

I am filled with despair. I don't know how we come back from all this.

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

For "One First," I wrote about Monday's OMB memo purporting to (temporarily) freeze billions of dollars of appropriated federal spending—and why it constitutes both unconstitutional and unlawful "impoundment" that's unlikely to be upheld by even this #SCOTUS: www.stevevladeck.com/p/120-the-im...

submitted 25 days ago • 83 comments

Dear God. I almost feel sorry for anyone who allows themself to be fooled by this guy.

submitted 25 days ago • 5855 comments