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submitted 17 hours ago • 48 comments

DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America. Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1173 comments

One potential good outcome after Trump's address to Congress: Lawyers challenging #DOGE have seized on Trump’s Tuesday shout-out to Elon Musk in his congressional address as evidence the administration is misleading judges about the tech mogul’s authority. (my gift link) www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

🔥 Rep. Al Green is not new to standing up

submitted 3 days ago • 727 comments

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

submitted 6 days ago • 222 comments

www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 940 comments

Imagine that. 💰

submitted 5 days ago • 1048 comments

This is the future that republican lawmakers are building for themselves: mudcompany.thecomicseries.com/comics/210/

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Trump went to the South this weekend. Not to visit flood victims in Kentucky, but to have his security drive him around a race track. He doesn’t give a shit about you or your needs. He’s on a vanity tour for the next four years.

submitted 17 days ago • 136 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 347 comments

Elon Musk has shut down a team of tech-savvy civil servants responsible for developing the IRS’s free tax-filing service and improving government websites. As a result, 90 employees were immediately locked out of their devices and informed that their jobs were deemed non-essential.

submitted 7 days ago • 331 comments

The jobs these NOAA employees peform “provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States.” That is the very definition of an essential duty of government. hhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/weather/national-weather-serivce-cuts-trump-impact.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

This is a bigger scandal than people realize. It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance. If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was. Putin.

submitted 8 days ago • 867 comments

Supported by USAID, the Ethiopian clinic provides lifesaving medicine for HIV-positive kids and teens to suppress the virus. First came the 90-day freeze — and now an immediate termination of support.

submitted 8 days ago • 47 comments

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

submitted 9 days ago • 930 comments

Hungry kids die, fancy art lives. Priorities. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 7 days ago • 19 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 8 days ago • 301 comments

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

submitted 8 days ago • 856 comments

Not even hiding it.

submitted 8 days ago • 569 comments

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

submitted 8 days ago • 3190 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 2566 comments

The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach. www.tsunami.gov

submitted 9 days ago • 282 comments

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?

submitted 9 days ago • 1945 comments

Duckworth: "Donald Trump has fired more veterans than any other president in our recent history. This has to stop, because these are hard-working people."

submitted 10 days ago • 216 comments

Glad to see @duckworth.senate.gov on here, bc no one trolls Whiskey Pete better.

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

The CFPB was taking on Capital One for an alleged scheme cheating millions of consumers out of more than $2 billion in interest rates on savings accounts. But Trump and Musk have frozen that enforcement case.

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

Global sea ice continues to set new record daily lows. Yesterday's record low extent was 2,053,000 square kilometers below the 1991-2020 average. I know I've been posting these images a lot lately, but the ongoing collapse of global sea ice is quite obviously the top story on the planet right now.

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

Trump and Musk don't think the American government owes military veterans anything.

submitted 10 days ago • 24 comments

The Fort Knox conspiracy theory seems to have begun with this exchange on X. 2 days later Fox ran a segment about it. A few days after that Trump began bringing it up w reporters. Hard to overstate how much influence posters on a far-right forum have over the national conversation right now

submitted 12 days ago • 185 comments

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

submitted 12 days ago • 542 comments

My graphic showing cumulative change in the mass of reference glaciers around the world has now been updated with 2024's data. We are losing ice. Graphic available at: zacklabe.com/climate-chan.... More info: wgms.ch/global-glaci...

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

FFS New York Times. They’re not *his generals. Unbelievable

submitted 14 days ago • 198 comments

US officials are reportedly threatening to revoke Starlink access for Ukraine if they don’t give us 50% of their mineral rights. That’s not diplomacy, it’s extortion. We’re also pushing them to kill a UN Resolution that blames Russia for starting the war. Facts matter.

submitted 14 days ago • 299 comments

🔥WATCH: 🇬🇧’s Julia Hartley-Brewer showing everyone how it’s done. Master class. Why can’t 🇺🇸 media do this to Trump, Musk, and everyone else enabling this? Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGYb7Ox...

submitted 14 days ago • 41 comments

A way to respond to attacks on authors: buy their books. bookshop.org/p/books/spel...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Before it's taken offline, I want you to know about the NASA website where you can learn about the stratospheric ozone hole and check on how it's doing. It has cool movies like this one, showing the growth of the ozone hole during the Austral spring last year. ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/SH.html

submitted 15 days ago • 17 comments

Here’s what is going on. When you start firing the military’s top lawyers, that means you are getting ready to order the military to do unlawful things. Trump replaces those JAGs with men who will justify any future unlawful and unethical actions that he wants the military to do.

submitted 15 days ago • 88 comments

In the Senate, I proposed blocking tax breaks for people who make over $10 million a year. Every Republican voted no. Republicans then refused to rule out tax breaks for people who make over $100 million. And $500 million. Is ANYONE too rich to get a giveaway from the GOP?

submitted 15 days ago • 27 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 14 days ago • 236 comments