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I joined the other place to follow first epidemiologists and later historians. Here for the same. More likely to like and repost than share my thoughts with the world. She/Her.
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Let's say their names: * General CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: FIRED FOR BEING BLACK * Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE * Admiral Linda Fagan, Coast Guard Commandant: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE All replaced by less qualified white guys.

submitted 22 hours ago • 82 comments

Yeah when????🙄😡

submitted 11 hours ago • 35 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

If you look at all the firings across the government over the last two weeks it's frequently been taken as a given that any black or woman official or officer is either a DEI hire or supports DEI and is summarily fired on that basis. Seems like the same model here.

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 1 day ago • 1309 comments

One of the first targets here will almost certainly be blocking the mailing of abortion medications like mifepristone. If I'm right, it'll be a the biggest blow to reproductive freedom since the repeal of Roe.

submitted 2 days ago • 454 comments

The guy who used to run social media for the NRA is now creating the same violent rhetoric for the White House.

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 1216 comments

Did you see how Ukraine was dressed? It was asking for it.

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

Murphy: "Let's be clear about why he wants these mineral rights. This is just about the billionaires that he serves that can make a ton of money in Ukraine if they are taking those minerals out of the ground and selling them globally for a profit. It's consistent with the way that Trump operates."

submitted 4 days ago • 103 comments

The border czar wants the FBI to arrest AOC. A Fox News contributor is calling journalist Mehdi Hasan a terrorist. Elon Musk said everyone at 60 Minutes should go to prison. You all see how quickly we’re descending into madness, right? It’s not subtle, slow, or anything but a premeditated scheme.

submitted 3 days ago • 172 comments

Trump and Musk have market sharks’ views of the US—they have no interest in our long term fate. They just want to suck out whatever value they can before they take their profits and move on. They’re corporate raiders doing a hostile takeover and selling the assets off bit by bit.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

This is probably a good time to point out that one big group of IGs Trump fired were busy finding $100s of billions in COVID fraud, enabled by Trump's own incompetence. Another big group fired were in charge of tracking spending in Ukraine. He literally fired people tracking problems with this $$.

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." As the foundation of #democracy in America crumbles and the vulnerable are under attack from a rogue administration, we, the people, are asking our former presidents to "Say something!”

submitted 3 days ago • 185 comments

Marco Rubio's collaboration with Russia's Sergei Lavrov and Putin is one of the most disgusting acts of betrayal to democracy and our nation. Rubio has secured his place in history of infamy.

submitted 4 days ago • 1363 comments

FBI cancels community outreach programs for seniors

submitted 5 days ago • 251 comments

Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

submitted 5 days ago • 135 comments

The UK has a shadow cabinet - political positions within the party that isn’t in power - and so should we. Plus, we need weekly press briefings led by @petebuttigieg.bsky.social on the state of the union. Business-as-usual time is over.

submitted 5 days ago • 893 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 6 days ago • 186 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 346 comments

Rising influenza numbers tie for highest peak since COVID-19 pandemic - mask, handwashing, ventilation, stay home when sick apple.news/ADna-hT2WTNW...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

(alt text: they're firing the airplane safety people en masse)

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

At the start of the COVID pandemic in early 2020, the Trump administration used a model developed by Hassett showing that COVID deaths would drop to zero by May 15th.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

“Fiery Tesla Crash Traps & Kills Four After Electric Doors Couldn’t Open *** The 4 people were reportedly unable to open the doors of the car after it caught fire & a 5th passenger only survived…after onlookers smashed a window & dragged them from the wreckage.” 11/13/24 jalopnik.com/fiery-tesla-...

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

submitted 7 days ago • 312 comments

At some point very soon, republicans in Congress will have to choose between pleasing Trump to avoid being primaried, and helping their constituents to avoid being primaried.

submitted 7 days ago • 823 comments

Checked this story about Trump shaking Ukraine down in exchange for continuing military aid to see if it mentions that he got impeached for doing that exact thing, and friends, you will not be surprised that it does not.

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

I am so done. Goobye Google Search. When I look something up and you show me a bunch of X/Twitter results and I can't choose not to see those at the top of the search page...what kind of shady deal went down between Musk and Google? So what search engine should I try instead?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 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

So, a literal concentration camp?

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

submitted 8 days ago • 834 comments

Trump administration laying off more than 200,000 workers--in addition to 75,000 who took buyouts. How will this impact you? There will be NO ONE there to help you with Social Security issues, Medicare payments, veterans services, etc. All of this is to save $ for tax cuts for Trump's oligarchs.

submitted 8 days ago • 38 comments

We need an outline of crisis scenarios in which everyday people will be fucked over (and how) because of the evisceration of government agencies. Most people have no idea what any of these cuts or firings mean for them.

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

I shudder to think of the thousands of books and articles on how Russia lost the Cold War that are going to have to be revised by the time Trump and Musk have finished their errands for Putin.

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

Never. Forget. Never. Forgive. ✨

submitted 9 days ago • 931 comments

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

submitted 9 days ago • 519 comments

Hey, look! It’s @timothysnyder.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

La Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen nous apprend que "les hommes naissent et demeurent libres et égaux en droits". "C’est faux !", dit Timothy Snyder. Pour l'historien, nous naissons en hurlant, attachés à un cordon ombilical, couverts du sang d’une femme. ➡️ l.franceculture.fr/3sn

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Agree

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Billionaires became billionaires by exploiting people—not by caring about people. So when billionaires work to dismantle CFPB, USAID, NIH, CDC, & social welfare in general, it's because all they know how to do is exploit. That's who they are. Stop trusting them. Start taxing them out of existence.

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments