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RFK at his confirmation hearing: “I am not anti-vaccine” After RFK confirmed as HHS head: - CDC flu vaccine campaign pulled - Childhood vaccine schedule reviewed - Federal funding to schools with COVID vaccine mandates withdrawn - Meeting to update flu vaccines cancelled

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“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers". Shakespeare’s Henry VI.

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apnews.com/article/meas... Hmmm, I wonder if a vaccine could have prevented this death? Yes, anti-vaxxers it would have. Stop endangering your children and the public at large.

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Elon Musk has fired an estimated nearly 6,000 Veterans from their federal jobs, including many who are disabled. In Trump's America, the world's richest man gets to kick thousands of our nation's heroes to the curb. punchbowl.news/article/wash...

submitted 1 day ago • 108 comments

Elon Musk is firing workers and cancelling contracts across the government, except of course the ones that make him richer. It doesn't take a genius to see who he's working for, and it ain't you.

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What damn century are these people living in?

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U.S. Attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers. You didn’t pledge an oath to a President, you pledged it to the constitution. This statement alone is reason enough to resign.

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Holy shit. This is scary. Senator Chris Murphy just revealed on the Senate floor that Republicans now have the votes to cut $2 trillion in services for seniors on Medicare and kids on Medicaid. Tomorrow is the House’s vote. $2 TRILLION IN CUTS. The worst part 👇

submitted 2 days ago • 772 comments

Hey fam. We know this has been a tough Monday in the midst of a very tough winter. Now that the latest panic about Elon is over, remember that mass requests are not aimed to cut staff. This is how they demoralize. Elon is a troll and is tweeting for reactions. IGNORE HIM. DO NOT RESPOND.

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Shorter hours. Longer lines. And no more guided tours. Visitors to America’s national parks can expect some of those impacts after the Trump administration fired 1,000 park employees as part of its latest effort to dramatically reduce the federal workforce.

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www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p... History is not going to remember the US favorably. Since when does this country align itself with the likes of Putin?

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FED. WORKERS: I am collecting data on agency instructions w.r.t the OPM email. I am seeking the following: (1) Your agency and bureau, (2) who sent the instruction, (3) whether you were told to reply, (4) a screenshot of the instruction for verification (anonymize) (if possible). Signal: Nbednar.46.

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Oh but I thought Trump was going to help out his MAGA base?

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But what are you doing about it @schumer.senate.gov?

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🌈💫Did you know that government jobs used to be awarded through a patronage/spoils system? This changed in 1895 when Teddy Roosevelt implemented merit-based civil service positions.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Ooh, I know: the Black guy and the woman. Not qwhite sure why, though.

submitted 4 days ago • 405 comments

Every day, the goals become clearer: The point of DOGE is not efficiency, but regime change www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 4 days ago • 130 comments

'Maybe I'll just resign': Federal workers react to the mass DOGE email. That’s what Musk and Trump want. If you can afford, financially and emotionally, to hold the line, then HOLD THE LINE!

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It is very, very important that Admin Scholars are very, very clear right now these e-mails are wildly unlawful. Russ Vought and Elon Musk trying to terrify and harass government employees, and they need to know that these e-mails are the very definition of arbitrary and capricious action.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Only Donald Trump and Elon musk can make someone like Kash Patel look reasonable.

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“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers". Shakespeare’s Henry VI.

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What fresh hell is this?

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Some mob boss tactics. By the US president. Shameful.

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Apparently about 50% of the voters.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing to see here, just the president of the United States of America siding with war criminal Vladimir Putin and lying about Ukraine starting the war. My god.

submitted 8 days ago • 148 comments

This is not hard: If Lenin says to NewPravda: “if you do not write that I won the election 99%-1%, you will be banished from the Kremlin” ….that is government censorship. (Ie. it’s not about whether or not NewPravda has access to the Kremlin—the JD Vance and right wing talking point) 1/

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Watching the press conference in Saudi Arabia and I’m wondering: Is Marco Rubio in a hostage situation or did he drink the Koolaid?

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Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich and declared “peace for our time.” His name has been permanently stained for getting it so wrong. Now imagine Chamberlain had come back and declared: “we get half of Czech minerals!” That’s what Trump’s trying to do. Truly shameful.

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

How refreshing—talking about the benefits of vaccines instead of anti-vax nonsense

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The Washington Post pulled an ad that was set to run in some editions on Tuesday calling for Elon Musk to be fired from his role in government, a group that ordered the ad said. It would have covered the front and back pages of editions delivered to the White House, the Pentagon and Congress.

submitted 9 days ago • 270 comments

Americans don't do history. That's why we don't need a Department of Education anymore. Knowing facts is boring. Watching TikTok videos is more fun.

submitted 11 days ago • 115 comments

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 10 days ago • 273 comments

This is a special kind of stupid

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Republicans aren’t hiding anything. Their priorities are written in black and white: trillions of dollars in tax breaks to the rich, while making savage cuts to Medicaid, housing, nutrition and education. The reconciliation bill will make the rich even richer and the poor poorer.

submitted 10 days ago • 211 comments

If you’re a Trump voter and you’ve been fired from your job as a civil servant, contact me using the info in my bio. I’ll keep you anonymous.

submitted 11 days ago • 223 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk going after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau tells you everything you need to know about their priorities. Instead of lowering prices on "day one" as Trump said, he's raising costs on families by letting Wall Street cheat them.

submitted 10 days ago • 164 comments

www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

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"When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it." - John Lewis. It's not enough to simply recognize something is wrong; we have a moral duty to act.

submitted 10 days ago • 32 comments

It also screams of appeasement

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Those who uphold the rule of law save their country.

submitted 11 days ago • 182 comments

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

submitted 11 days ago • 345 comments

www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/h... Maybe you should have vaccinated your children. Or would you rather hospitalize them. A special kind of stupid.

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