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Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

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NEW: Per a source, the firings of probationary employees hit NOAA's office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) today. It includes not just newer young scientists but people at the top of their field who have been there for years but were technically probationary for admin/not-relevant reasons.

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It’s horrifying that it’s come to this, but as someone with a deep affinity for Europe I feel moved seeing that continent come together to try to save itself in the absence of any meaningful aid from the totalitarian regime that’s in the midst of taking over the United States through an illegal coup

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I’m positive you all saw the video from Coeur d’Alene, where a woman was pulled out of her seat and arrested by men who claimed to be sheriff deputies, but were not in uniform. I need the men to do something: When you see a woman being abused, step in. Step up. Get in the way. Put your body to use.

submitted 5 days ago • 707 comments

The Revolution will be AI-icized

submitted 4 days ago • 3439 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 7 days ago • 452 comments

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

submitted 7 days ago • 293 comments

This is really something

submitted 8 days ago • 1770 comments

They’re going to try and prosecute their political enemies

submitted 8 days ago • 2402 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 12 days ago • 2289 comments

"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man." - Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC

submitted 13 days ago • 288 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 14 days ago • 1533 comments

BREAKING: Elon Musk and his team of teenagers posted classified data about a federal intelligence agency on the DOGE website. Experts are scrambling to see what was exposed. What a disaster.

submitted 14 days ago • 75 comments

BREAKING: France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks. This is leadership. It’s also unprecedented. A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.

submitted 16 days ago • 703 comments

When social media exposes traditional media’s deceit, it’s time for independent journalists to investigate why the press is backing a president who undermines free press—and is it coordinated?

submitted 19 days ago • 1711 comments

Best cultural analysis of the Halftime Show I've read so far: "Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways" — @clarenceokoh.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Super Bowl Confetti Made Entirely From Shredded Concussion Studies theonion.com/super-b...

submitted 19 days ago • 46 comments

Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate Kendrick: actually

submitted 19 days ago • 119 comments

All government agencies submit audited financial every single year. So, the last time USAID was audited was ... this past December! oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul... Who does the audits? The Inspectors General. Who are presently under attack, so that future crimes won't be seen.

submitted 22 days ago • 79 comments

On CNN we played numerous examples of Rubio praising foreign aid as vital to American interests. We also revealed a letter he wrote to Biden in 2022 suggesting USAID's budget needed to be increased to counter Chinese Community Party influence around the globe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL1s...

submitted 22 days ago • 93 comments

Is this who we are? Never mind, don’t answer that. 🫤🇺🇸

submitted 22 days ago • 491 comments

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

submitted 23 days ago • 1103 comments

Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.

submitted 25 days ago • 851 comments

This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility

submitted 27 days ago • 86 comments

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

submitted 27 days ago • 817 comments

REAGAN: “Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies… beware of demagogues ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, national security, and the entire free world—while cynically waving the 🇺🇸 flag.” Trump’s bad ideas are not new.

submitted 27 days ago • 161 comments

Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.

submitted 27 days ago • 926 comments

DEI prevents organizations from hiring the best and brightest. Here’s why Brian Schottenheimer will be the next head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. by Jerry Jones

submitted 29 days ago • 17 comments

OpenAI right now

submitted 30 days ago • 303 comments

what the FUCK

submitted 31 days ago • 748 comments

So far the war on so-called "DEI" - has come for - women at the CIA who want to get together and celebrate women spies - people at the Defense Intelligence Agency who want to observe...Holocaust Remembrance Day. - apparently, any federal celebration of...Black History Month.

submitted 30 days ago • 432 comments

if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

submitted 31 days ago • 938 comments

Pentagon Warns China Developing Love, The Greatest Weapon Of All theonion.com/pentago...

submitted 32 days ago • 54 comments