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leading the fight against woke ... St Jude's Children's Research Hospital

submitted 12 days ago • 29 comments

the “administrative state” in practice is a lot of very hard working, practically anonymous people doing the thankless work of making this country run and a drug-addled dipshit is slandering them in order to steal our money for himself

submitted 12 days ago • 160 comments

Every time there's some conservative outrage about a new shibboleth (political correctness, CRT, cancel culture, woke, DEI, etc) if you just assumed the most uncharitable interpretation you'd be more accurate than if you'd engaged with any of the elite Discourse™ over what it all REALLY means.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Super Bowl USAID Save Foreign Aid

submitted 13 days ago • 59 comments

Faith-based organizations have long been at the heart of helping the most vulnerable. The Trump administration’s attacks on them aren’t just wrong, they’re a betrayal of core American values. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 13 days ago • 42 comments

I understand why Republican politicians try to destroy public schools, Social Security and workplace safety laws. It’s disgusting and immoral, but I can tell the story behind it. But I don’t understand at all why Republicans are sabotaging cancer research.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

All of Musk's and Trump's actions center down on cutting as much funding for cancer research as possible. Whether it's the research grants, gutting the places that do the research. The biggest moves Musk & Co have made are about cutting research for cancer cures.

submitted 13 days ago • 68 comments

this is where the rubber meets the road. NIH doesn't just fund research univs and hospitals in blue states. if anything they're most important to regional economies in the reddest states and districts.

submitted 13 days ago • 136 comments

I wrote about the importance of "prebunking," in light of rumors that Elon Musk may have purchased $40 million in Super Bowl ads to spread misinformation about the "fraud" and "corruption" in this vital agency. I hope you will read and share asharangappa.substack.com/p/prebunking...

submitted 13 days ago • 113 comments

I hate dynasties even more than I hate Philly sports, so go Eagles.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

"There should be room for those conversations" — OK but why isn't there room for pointing out that it's a moral panic utterly devoid of evidence

submitted 13 days ago • 46 comments

There are a thousand horror stories like this happening, and most of us are only going to hear about a small portion of them.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Breaking: NEW YORK (AP) - Democratic attorneys general sue to stop DOGE from accessing the Treasury Department's central payment system.

submitted 15 days ago • 65 comments

Trump and Musk are shutting down US AID because they do not want to interfere with overseas issues WITH ONE WEIRD EXCEPTION

submitted 15 days ago • 71 comments

SCOOP: Kash Patel—whom Donald Trump has nominated to head the FBI—took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries.

submitted 15 days ago • 100 comments

Notable that Elons crew of incels and edgelords are full fledged men for the purposes of being given the keys to car to run the govt. But for the purposes of being accountable for their actions they’re just kids from good families with youthful indiscretions.

submitted 15 days ago • 175 comments

JD Vance wants a "deBaathification" of the public sector, canceling people who dedicated themselves to public service for attending a DEI training. But the kid (25 year old) who said that Gaza and Israel should be razed to the ground? Put him back in charge of foreign aid spending

submitted 15 days ago • 50 comments

More grace and forbearance toward “normalize Indian hate” than for folks who were fighting AIDS, malaria, and hunger before Trump smashed their agency upended their lives. Take note of that, please.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

It was always apparent but now it's increasingly undeniable that all these 20-something DOGE employees were chosen not in spite of inadequate vetting but because they would not pass vetting. Trump & Musk chose the people who seemed the most willing to commit illegal acts on their behalf.

submitted 15 days ago • 149 comments

Shut down Congress until Musk is fired, @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov @mccollum.house.gov. This is a genuine national security crisis and a crime of staggering scale happening right out in the open. You CANNOT leave ANY tools unused.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Such a basic, clear, compelling, common sense demand. It’s nuts that they still haven’t settled in this.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I’m so tired of everything secretly being about gender.

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

The moment we say it's ok to violate the law to shut down one agency – we say it's ok to violate the law to shut down anything.

submitted 15 days ago • 382 comments

Proud of my state AG @keithellison.bsky.social today.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Elon and his DOGE buddies ran scared yesterday. We’re not going to let any billionaire CEO take over the Department of Labor to hurt working families. Not on our watch.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

All right babes I have 20 minutes so let's do some "I help you read the research on how to keep a democracy." First of all: let's talk about factors positively and negatively associated with democratic resilience. we're pulling from this free full-text paper: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

submitted 16 days ago • 20 comments

Elon Musk's “team” is targeting career federal workers who make our country run, dismantling anti-discrimination and harassment programs, and erasing workplace protections. This isn’t reform - it’s a corporate raider looting the federal workforce. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

We are standing up the Department of People Who Work for a Living. A.F.L.-C.I.O. Pushes Back on Elon Musk’s Campaign Against Federal Workers www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

A federal court just blocked Elon Musk from interfering with the federal government’s payments system. There is power in fighting back. We won’t let up until this block is permanent.

submitted 16 days ago • 737 comments

Thank you @chrismurphyct.bsky.social!

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

submitted 17 days ago • 2610 comments

My heart breaks for the trans kids who were playing soccer with their friends without issue who now have to learn the sting of exclusion from the fabric of their communities. They deserve elected leaders who will fight for them and mean it.

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

Hi. If you’re a religious organization that uses federal funds to do your work, but are now frozen out of using those funds, feel free to drop me a DM or, more securely, a line over Signal (in bio). Same goes federal workers who work on/with religion, but are facing cuts.

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

This is why, in 2025, I am asking all patriotic Americans to be Uncle Buck.

submitted 17 days ago • 20 comments

So now that Trump has banned trans people from participating in sports and trans teens from getting transition-related care, all of the "but we just have some concerns" people will surely come out strong in opposition to additional attacks on trans rights, yes? No? Ah well, nevertheless.

submitted 17 days ago • 49 comments

Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.

submitted 17 days ago • 2101 comments

“President Trump is breaking the law. Here are some examples.” See? It’s not hard.

submitted 17 days ago • 186 comments

35+ Dems plan to hold the Senate floor all night to oppose the confirmation of Musk-Trump funding freeze architect Russ Vought. THIS is how we fight back while in the minority. (via @schatz.bsky.social)

submitted 17 days ago • 392 comments

At a meeting today with staffers for Senators Markey and Warren, the staffers made two concrete asks: 1. Please call or email and share your stories about how the current administration’s actions are hurting or will hurt you personally. The Senators can use these human stories to persuade those /1

submitted 17 days ago • 69 comments