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Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

submitted 42 minutes ago • 322 comments

Letter: This 92-year-old great-grandmother is crying inside at what is happening in the United States Department of Education.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

Because people are talking abt Hanania again, here’s my story exposing his white supremacist past - and, I would argue, present. Straight-up eugenicist who wrote for Richard Spencer. Wtf are we doing here, why are people so determined to make him respectable www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...

submitted 22 hours ago • 62 comments

Most Americans don't want a manufacturing job; the US remains an industrial titan; & globalization has helped us move UP the value chain: "Nostalgia for manufacturing will make the US poorer: Donald Trump’s vision to onshore factory jobs reverses decades of progress" 💯 on.ft.com/3XYt1Qv

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

New: RFK Jr. warned FDA staff about the influence of the “deep state” on the agency in an all-hands meeting where he also made off-color comments about children with developmental disabilities

submitted 3 days ago • 253 comments

@ninajankowicz.com’s testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee this month was truly impressive. I’ve testified about two dozen times before the House and Senate. It’s not easy to rebut lies during a hearing premised on lies. And she did it - a real masterclass. Read her piece too:

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Trump now saying — contrary to his previous statements and those of federal officials — that people removed from the U.S. to El Salvador are in the “sole custody” of El Salvador

submitted 1 day ago • 607 comments

Russia just killed dozens of Ukrainians in a missile strike on Palm Sunday, a day after Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff met Putin, shook hands and posed for cameras. Witkoff visited an Orthodox Christian cathedral. Today church-goers were targeted. Report w/ @maxseddon.bsky.social on.ft.com/42k2tuc

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

It is very good question and one I’ve been asking for months. If there is an international agreement with El Salvador for these renditions, the Trump administration is legally required under the Case-Zablocki Act to share it with Congress. To my knowledge, they have not done so.

submitted 1 day ago • 112 comments

This part

submitted 2 days ago • 649 comments

NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance. By @lisalsong.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 358 comments

Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government. DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox. with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 197 comments

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Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

submitted 3 days ago • 498 comments

Of course they did. 🎁 Financial Times gift article www.ft.com/content/ede5...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Not for nothing, but how, exactly, is it legal to send people for punishment in a foreign prison (esp with no due process)? Were the funds being used for it appropriated for this purpose? I feel this has just become a thing no one questions

submitted 3 days ago • 520 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 829 comments

During remarks to FDA employees today, RFK Jr touted his work for the Special Olympics but shocked several FDA employees when he said he spent 200 hours in high school working with “the retarded.”

submitted 3 days ago • 229 comments

Can this finally put an end to the idea that Republicans are fiscally responsible?

submitted 3 days ago • 102 comments

a musk acolyte using his access to govt information to make dubious rhetorical points?????? who woulda thunk

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett said the reason Russia was one of the few countries spared in Trump’s tariff barrage was that slapping it with tariffs could disrupt peace talks Yet—SHOCKER—that reasoning apparently didn’t apply to Ukraine, which did get tariffed.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

"No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 4 days ago • 238 comments

When I get to the Senate, I'll support a bill to ban Congressional stock trading on day one. No elected official should be cashing in while the American people see their retirements go down the drain.

submitted 3 days ago • 368 comments

Sixteen attorneys general and a Democratic governor sued the Trump administration on Thursday to restore access to over $1 billion in federal pandemic relief aid for schools that was recently halted, saying that the pullback could cause acute harm to students.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

The viral TikTok trend in which audiences seeing the Minecraft movie trash the theaters at a certain point, dumping their popcorn and shouting and brawling—unclear how widespread this is—is incredibly disrespectful to the theater workers and probably scary for uninvolved theatergoers.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Travel fears force Venezuelan NWSL players to miss international duty

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House Republicans just voted to cut health care, cut school lunches, and cut veterans' benefits — all to hand $7 trillion in tax breaks to Elon Musk and his billionaire friends. They've deserted their hardworking constituents to help the rich get richer.

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

Trump has cut the part of the FDA that notifies doctors and the public when there is a safety problem with a drug or a medical device. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 5 days ago • 284 comments

The White House has censored at least two dispatches from press pool reporters this week because they included inconvenient facts that the administration didn't like. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 4 days ago • 59 comments

"IRS officials who sign off on data sharing under these circumstances risk breaking the law..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

submitted 5 days ago • 105 comments

The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

submitted 4 days ago • 887 comments

NEW: DOJ is dropping its prosecution of a man it identified as an MS-13 leader and whose capture was celebrated with a huge press conference by AG Bondi, Kash Patel and Glenn Youngkin. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 4 days ago • 445 comments

The insiders seem to have had a 20min warning before the public

submitted 4 days ago • 318 comments

Great reporting by @reuters.com on how Trump and family are wide open to corruption via their various crypto endeavors. Eg, over 94% of the $Trump and $Melania coins are owned by just 40 mega investors. www.reuters.com/business/fin...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

New: Named after a turn of phrase from the governor, the Maryland Tough, Baltimore Strong Key Bridge Relief Fund raised $16 million. None of it went to help the victims’ families despite the Baltimore Community Foundation initially saying it would. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

White House officials appear to be withholding pool reporters' dispatches when the reports include information -- eg that a Netanyahu press conference was canceled, or that AP was barred -- that they don't like. Another holy-shit scoop from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/white-hous...

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

President Trump's nominee to head NASA, Jared Isaacman, really really really really really did not want to admit that Elon Musk was in his meeting with Trump, when Isaacman was offered the NASA post. This ranks up there as some of the worst testimony that I have ever seen on Capitol Hill.

submitted 4 days ago • 96 comments