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This is very bad Once they start screwing with the data, that’s the whole ballgame

submitted 6 hours ago • 145 comments

“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” Neither do we. But the N.I.H.—the world’s leading public funder of medical research—has canceled 1,389 grants and delayed over 1,000 more. The true cost won’t be known for decades. 🧵

submitted 7 hours ago • 9 comments

Lee: Would say it would be “illegal DEI” for a lesson plan on the Tulsa race massacre? McMahon: I’d have to get back to you Lee: Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is? McMahon: I’d like to look into it more and get back to you on it.

submitted 5 hours ago • 507 comments

"The projection they're using does not match what we want people to believe, so we reject it and pretend it's not valid." Just like they've done every other time they want to blow up the deficit to give more tax cuts to billionaires. They only accept CBO analysis if it makes Dems look bad.

submitted 5 hours ago • 30 comments

For the record, you deserve every cent of every promised Social Security payment after you spend a lifetime earning benefits.

submitted 4 hours ago • 9 comments

“One Big Beautiful Bill”? Try one big, bold-faced lie. They swore this mess wouldn’t add to the deficit…but the nonpartisan budget office says otherwise. $2.4 TRILLION added to the deficit—and for what? Tax cuts for the rich.

submitted 7 hours ago • 407 comments

Reportback from Minneapolis, where multiple federal agencies — ICE, FBI, DEA, and others fitted in tactical gear with heavy weaponry — descended on a taqueria in an attempt to carry out a raid yesterday. Community response reportedly sent those agencies into retreat: crimethinc.com/2025/06/04/m...

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Our study just out in Nature: the extreme North Atlantic heat in summer 2023 was mainly due to weak winds causing shallow mixed layers, which heat up more quickly. Global warming is causing a trend toward shallow mixed layers, making such extremes more likely. 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

CBO is out with its final cost estimate of the tax-and-spending bill passed by the House. - Revenue ⬇️ by $3.7 trillion over 10 years - Spending ⬇️ by $1.3 trillion - Debt ⬆️ by $2.4 trillion over 10 years - Uninsured pop. ⬆️ by 10.9 million in 2034 Full analysis: www.cbo.gov/publication/...

submitted 9 hours ago • 49 comments

PETERS: Will you commit to me that the forecasting office in Marquette will not cease its round the clock operation? LUTNICK: You don't understand it yet because nobody has explained it to you. These are hard drive computers literally that nobody has seen in 25 years PETERS: So the answer is no

submitted 8 hours ago • 382 comments

McMAHON: Magnet schools are great. COURTNEY: Talk is cheap. Budgets are what counts. And this budget does not say magnet schools are great. McMAHON: We now have the full budget, so we might take another look. COURTNEY: Yeah. It says 0.

submitted 8 hours ago • 52 comments

In Iowa 430 people suffer from cystic fibrosis like my son. In Iowa 20, 000. people are diagnosed with cancer every year. Come on Iowa, don't take this crap ! We have worked all our lives paying into programs like Medicaid & Medicare. Really, the tooth fairy ? youtu.be/gqdwSLKE554?...

submitted 23 hours ago • 93 comments

Ummm…what in the actual fuck?! media.defense.gov/2025/Jun/02/...

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Fuck the GOP and anyone who votes for them.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Please help make this shame of America go viral.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I’m officially running to be the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee. These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment. Read my full letter to my colleagues here: crockett.house.gov/media/press-...

submitted 1 day ago • 1887 comments

Trying to come up with good words but the best I have right now is — fuck these clowns. Pray tell me what the actual fuck this accomplishes? www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

RFK Jr. wants to eliminate as many vaccines as he can. Don’t believe him when he claims otherwise and says he just wants better science and safer vaccines He’s lying. His endgame is, for all practical purposes, to eliminate access to vaccines. thehill.com/policy/healt...

submitted 1 day ago • 126 comments

Things are getting good 🤣🍿….knew it was gonna be an ugly divorce

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

Boom!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

We need to bring constant attention to this fissure. Musk finding The Big Beautiful Lie repugnant will peel support from MAGA’s tech bros.

submitted 1 day ago • 129 comments

This is impeachable. It is a “high crime” to impound appropriations, bc it’s in defiance of both the Constitution (basically ≈ all of Article I) and the Budget Control and Impoundment Act of 1974. Ya know, laws and shit! Rs just dgaf when their team breaks laws to do stuff America doesn’t support.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

I cannot get over these cops wearing night vision to arrest a dude on a Southwest Airlines flight in broad daylight.

submitted 1 day ago • 523 comments

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

submitted 1 day ago • 843 comments

Amazing reporting here on how things have backfired on the capitulating law firms and their enabler. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

submitted 2 days ago • 607 comments

1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride. So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels. They opened the drawbridge to block them. So they marched to a different bridge. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 1 day ago • 237 comments

Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

submitted 2 days ago • 586 comments

No AI art here, mother-funsters! 😅

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Just as many suspected — @GovBillLee’s own company benefitted from the billion-dollar corporate tax handout Republicans (and Johnny Shaw) passed. Core Civic also. wpln.org/post/the-gov...

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

The FBI is now going after trans people and their healthcare. Today it's gender affirming care, tomorrow abortion. This is the authoritarian playbook on display.

submitted 2 days ago • 115 comments

The Washington Examiner (the conservative news outlet) reports that Stephen Miller screamed at ICE officials: "What do you mean you're going after criminals? Why aren't you at Home Depot? Why aren't you at 7-Eleven?" Kinda blows up the narrative that they care about public safety.

submitted 2 days ago • 201 comments

DOJ and DHS again at odds over the deporation of Jordin Melgar-Salmeron in violation of a federal appeals court order Left: DOJ says "series of unintentional administrative errors" led to deportation. Right: DHS says "There was no 'error.'" Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 266 comments

Bwahahahahahahaha Lowly’s human car can’t even correct a cite properly! Why because he has nothing to cite to support his dumb ass and wishes you wouldn’t check them. He finds it annoying and doesn’t want to talk about it anymore. newrepublic.com/post/195941/...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

New in PN: Tesla Takedown takes down Musk "While Musk isn’t vanquished, it’s important to recognize that he has, in at least a limited way, suffered a defeat. It’s a reminder that billionaires are not all powerful, and that resistance isn’t futile."

submitted 2 days ago • 191 comments

Chem trails. This crazy MFer! The brain worm has taken over.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

This is a scene playing out at Job Corps centers across the country and it's absolutely devastating. DOGE celebrates while thousands of young people who dreamed of a better future are left behind.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

US senator calls for the destruction of a civilian ship that intends to deliver humanitarian aid

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

"The man plans to use the authority of the federal government and its health agencies to launder his own crackpot beliefs into official policy."

submitted 3 days ago • 125 comments

Absolutely bonkers — Joni Ernst doubles down on her “we are all gonna die” defense of Medicaid cuts while walking through a cemetery

submitted 4 days ago • 4891 comments

“As many as 2.7 million households would lose food benefits, with the average blow to the family grocery budget totaling $254 a month… “By design, the Trumpy Medicaid changes will remove 10.3 million people from their health insurance, according to the CBO…” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 3 days ago • 285 comments

Vought is lying. 60-70% of Project 2025's executive action proposals have been initiated or implemented — like gutting education and environmental laws. 30-40% is currently proposed as legislation — gutting healthcare, banking deregulations, voter suppression, and more.

submitted 3 days ago • 74 comments

🚨🚨🚨Law enforcement used license-plate readers in several states to search for a woman who had an abortion apple.news/AtyY6Tzv9Szm...

submitted 4 days ago • 69 comments

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will

submitted 4 days ago • 186 comments

“.. it’s unclear why the children were zip-tied during their detention or why they were detained at all.” @mysanantonio.com www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

submitted 4 days ago • 392 comments

Mom, come look — the new GOP 2026 slogan just dropped

submitted 5 days ago • 52 comments