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SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source. They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).

submitted 8 hours ago • 146 comments

What an amazing coincidence that the chair of Wisconsin College Republicans got one of Elon Musk's $1 million checks in Musk's most-likely-illegal stunt to bribe the voters. MAGA Republicans are con artists trolling for easy marks. Don't be one, Wisconsinites.

submitted 9 hours ago • 68 comments

Breathtaking. A federal prosecutor in LA was fired Friday at the behest of the White House, after lawyers for a fast-food executive he was prosecuting pushed officials in DC to drop all charges against him White House ordered firing of L.A. federal prosecutor on ex-Fatburger CEO case, sources say

submitted 1 day ago • 756 comments

Was at an event tonight and someone’s aunt, who had been a green card holder for 50 years (five decades) went out of country for a visit and was not let back in. She was just deported, for visiting another country. After 50 years. This is not about illegal immigration.

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

You can’t make this stuff up! It was never about anyone not having qualifications!

submitted 2 days ago • 175 comments

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

submitted 2 days ago • 677 comments

The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.

submitted 2 days ago • 990 comments

Writing an op-ed is not illegal activity. They are revoking visas for thought crimes and for constitutionally protected expression.

submitted 3 days ago • 403 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 458 comments

NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence." The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."

submitted 5 days ago • 1257 comments

On Tuesday, we can secure the liberal majority on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court and show the GOP that Elon Musk’s money can’t buy everything. Help us GOTV for Susan Crawford from anywhere. Wisconsin residents: indivisibleproject.formstack.com/forms/2025_s... Everyone else: mobilize.us/indivisible/...

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

anyway calling these "war plans" when they were actually plans to blow up an apartment building full of civilians because the girlfriend of a guy we don't like lived there sounds more like "terrorism plans" or perhaps even more accurately "terrorism factory creation plans"

submitted 5 days ago • 400 comments

With all the concern about what messaging app was used by our leaders, I'd love it if we also considered that we dropped bombs on a civilian apartment building and killed 53 people. Some number of whom were children. If another country did this to the United States, we'd call it a war crime.

submitted 5 days ago • 187 comments

Gee, I wonder what that study on vaccines and autism will show www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... "Geier and his father, Mark Geier, have published papers claiming vaccines increase the risk of autism, a theory that has been studied for decades and scientifically debunked."

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

The entire conversation is a disaster. It was an illegal use of a disappearing messaging app which none of them objected to. Hegseth appears to have copied and pasted the targeting packages into the chat, and Witkoff was literally in Moscow when he joined the chat. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 6 days ago • 447 comments

A must read from @gregolear.bsky.social An amazing peace that will make you proud, bring tears you your eyes, and bring out a desire to fight this administration to the last breath!! open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Oh, so caving to Trump's demands runs in the Schumer family. @schumer.senate.gov must step down as Senate Minority Leader.

submitted 8 days ago • 77 comments

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submitted 10 days ago • 536 comments

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

submitted 10 days ago • 883 comments

Is he bragging about shitty prison conditions? What a fantastic caring leader. Nobel peace prize!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This is insane

submitted 11 days ago • 3961 comments

DOGE laid off 10,000 postal workers today. Farewell to the US Postal Service – more than 10,000 employees will be laid off following the agreement signed with DOGE unionrayo.com/en/usps-job-...

submitted 11 days ago • 979 comments

Just less rich. That’s all we’re asking.

submitted 11 days ago • 110 comments

Roses are red Violets are blue

submitted 11 days ago • 2606 comments

Have you watched this yet? If you can, make some time to watch it -- you'll be glad you did.

submitted 11 days ago • 375 comments

Oh, so let me get this straight: deciding not to buy a car now qualifies as “treason”, but beating cops with flagpoles, smearing shit on the walls of the Capitol, and trying to overthrow an election is just good old-fashioned “peaceful protest”? Give me a fucking break.

submitted 11 days ago • 309 comments

I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.

submitted 11 days ago • 2314 comments

Wisconsin—this is the battleground. Hold the court, shut Musk down, and stop the extremists in their tracks. Judge Susan Crawford is the firewall—let’s make sure she wins on April 1. No excuses.

submitted 11 days ago • 57 comments

Trump rescinded Biden’s executive order requiring federal contractors to be paid a minimum of $15/hour. Now, the minimum is $7.25/hour. No full-time employee in America should be making $7.25/hour. Congress needs to support Americans and vote to raise the wage.

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

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submitted 11 days ago • 358 comments

This is who we sent. Never committed a crime. A soccer team logo and a single picture of the rock and roll horns sent him to be tortured in El Salvador.

submitted 11 days ago • 118 comments

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

submitted 12 days ago • 622 comments

“I did not put my life on the line for some tech bro billionaire from South Africa to come in here and try to destroy our country...” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 12 days ago • 520 comments

When oligarchs talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful. When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Know the truth.

submitted 12 days ago • 187 comments