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We are destroying the next generation of scientists.

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Gift link. The actual story of the shackled people being deported without even being told where they were being taken — maybe to countries where they’d face torture or death — while their terrified children cried.😢 The White House posted that pic with “ASMR” tag. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 4 days ago • 1926 comments

This is fantastic.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

A wonderful organization, it gives me hope

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I hate everything. Just want to find one little morsel of joy to cheer up.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Banning and punishing diversity and inclusion. Stripping women and people of color of their rights and erasing them from history. Reveling in Nazism and the confederacy. Flaunting and celebrating corruption. Don’t call this a course correction. It’s retribution.

submitted 8 days ago • 46 comments

Mercy

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

More than three weeks since the US government temporarily froze PEPFAR funding, there is still widespread confusion and uncertainty as to whether this critical lifeline for millions of people has been cut off. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/uncer...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Raising teenagers is stressful enough. Add in not being sure what the future hold for them in this country makes it even harder.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out. Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation. Say equity, which a just society should pursue. Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.

submitted 13 days ago • 912 comments

When you were in high school, were you led to believe that Manifest Destiny was a good thing?

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Clarion call from The Lancet on Trump and Musk’s attack on research that will leave America—and the world—weaker, slower to adapt and innovate www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Sad to rethink your dreams for your kids based on the status of our country. I have high hopes they will make a difference in the world but I’m not sure it can be done in the US.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Federally funded community health centers in at least 10 states are experiencing delays accessing their funds, forcing some to shut down and others to contemplate closures, several officials tell PBS News.

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

Schools should be safe for all students, no matter their immigration status. Demand that your local school board takes a stand: http://indivisi.org/...

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.

submitted 17 days ago • 33 comments

Trump signs an order to withdraw the US from the UN Human Rights Council and "review American involvement and funding in the UN"

submitted 18 days ago • 248 comments

"in bombed-out Sudanese cities, Kenyan clinics and Mauritanian refugee camps, the policies of the Trump administration are already having profound consequences for some of the world’s most vulnerable people" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

submitted 18 days ago • 42 comments

Do you see that this is a test? If he can get away with creating fear and stripping away rights of trans people, he will move to another group next. Stand up for trans rights!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

If not supporting international aid is really what most Americans want, then I truly do not belong in this country.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I can’t believe we are turning our back on science! Do people really support this? Please republicans stand up for them. This is literally our lives.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Schumer: (202) 224-6542 in DC; (212) 486-4430 in NYC Gillibrand: (202) 224-4451 in DC; (212) 688-6262 in NYC (Please remember that the staffers taking these calls are not your enemies. Don't be jerks. But call!)

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

That food is purchased from US farms in collaboration with USDA, btw www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

submitted 19 days ago • 30 comments

Bloomberg: Musk said DOGE was shutting down payments by the US Department of Health and Human Services to Lutheran Family Services, a faith-based charity that has been providing social services to refugees. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 20 days ago • 311 comments

Cutting off all foreign aid and development assistance—which is less than 1% of US spending overall—won't save American taxpayers anything. It will cause millions to starve, and spur mass migration and terrorism as a result. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 20 days ago • 25 comments

President Donald Trump has targeted transgender and nonbinary people with a series of executive orders since he returned to office. Here are things to know about Trump’s actions.

submitted 21 days ago • 24 comments

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

submitted 21 days ago • 4939 comments

California DOE fires back against Trump's executive order: "It does nothing" "It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach" Will not comply.

submitted 22 days ago • 178 comments

This is crucial reporting from @katherinejwu.com. Among the data being scrubbed is “the agency’s AtlasPlus tool, which contains nearly 20 years of CDC surveillance data on HIV, hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosis…” www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 22 days ago • 268 comments

NEW: Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated the GSA and they're looking for ways to use White House credentials to access agency tech, potentially allowing them to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say. w/ @zoeschiffer.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 22 days ago • 328 comments

Look, Trump is trying to oversaturate us with nonstop chaos so we can’t react meaningfully to any one thing. But Friday's global stop work order on almost all U.S. aid is dumb and murderous. You need to know about it. 1/ A short🧵on this evil.

submitted 25 days ago • 184 comments

"A private citizen with zero Constitutional authority is effectively seizing control of critical government functions. The Constitution explicitly requires Senate confirmation for anyone wielding significant federal power" www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...

submitted 22 days ago • 120 comments

FBI agents are stunned by the scale of Donald Trump’s expected purge of the bureau, which could include hundreds of agents and officials, @shaneharris.bsky.social reports.

submitted 22 days ago • 150 comments

Am I crazy or does this guy not even work for the government?

submitted 22 days ago • 39 comments

This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.

submitted 25 days ago • 608 comments

It’s difficult to keep trying to be decent, honest and hardworking when the cheaters keep winning

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

As a result of the new administration's actions, health centers funded by PEPFAR, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, are closing their doors and no longer dispersing medication.

submitted 25 days ago • 74 comments

A LOT (a LOT) of dictators in the past grabbed power with something claiming to be "temporary."

submitted 25 days ago • 9 comments

You know that the scientists who work at the NIH are the ones that were smarter and worked harder than you, dedicated their careers to finding cures and treatments that are helping protect you and your loved ones, and by cutting off their funding and studies, you are only hurting yourselves.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I think we're checking almost every one of these in the US right now. (Reposting with alt text.)

submitted 28 days ago • 14 comments

“The dismissals appeared to violate federal law, which requires Congress to receive 30 days’ notice of any intent to fire a Senate-confirmed inspector general…” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 29 days ago • 829 comments

Firing independent watchdogs is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Removes another obstacle to corruption and abuse of power www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 29 days ago • 153 comments