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Any university still using X and promoting it on its web site is making a mockery of "institutional neutrality."

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Russell Vought before the election, speaking of federal workers: “WE WANT TO PUT THEM IN TRAUMA!”

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We don’t have massive federal debt because of Social Security & Medicare. We have massive federal debt because the rich don't pay their fair share of taxes. Now R's want to make major cuts to SS to give rich people more tax breaks. #ProudBlue #HandsOffMyMedicaid #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

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NPR reports that the RFK Jr.-led CDC has halted the "Wild to Mild" flu vaccination campaign that promotes flu shots by emphasizing their role in reducing symptoms and severe illness The decision to pull the campaign comes as flu hospitalizations hit a 15-year high, with 50,000 admissions in a week

submitted 20 hours ago • 212 comments

Statement from the Musk-appointed head of SSA celebrating the deletion of research grants studying the financial security of the older adults and the disabled. Just one way that the richest man in the world is dictating societal priorities. www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

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Musk just amplified a leader of Germany’s far-right AfD, who called the country’s Holocaust memorial a “monument of shame,” demanded a “180-degree turn” in how Germany remembers Nazi crimes & was convicted for using a Nazi slogan Let’s hope the people of 🇩🇪will choose wisely in tomorrow’s election

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🚨 Trump’s DOGE purge just made Veterans’ data a massive target. They fired key cybersecurity staff protecting VA.gov —leaving millions of Veterans’ medical & personal records exposed. This isn’t efficiency. It’s reckless and dangerous.

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Rep. Jason Crow: “The purge of senior officers at DOD is deeply troubling, but purging JAG officers worries me the most. “JAG officers interpret law for our commanders. They help determine what's lawful and constitutional. “Replacing these military lawyers with Trump loyalists is so dangerous.”

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Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

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So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

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Well, if there wan any doubt left, this settles it. We’re officially the asshole in this version of Earth. Thanks, Little Donnie Drumpf.

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This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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The Freedom of Information Act is an essential pillar of transparency and democratic accountability for the US government. Eliminating the capacity to comply with laws in general, and FOIA specifically, is a ticking grenade under our democracy.

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Hi new folks! I'm Gemma, Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Award nominated author, illustrator, screenwriter (fledgling) and podcaster/occasional narrator. I like a martini made the way it should be, all things horror, folk, weird, wild, wonky and whimsical. My latest spooky seaside book is THE FOLLY.

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The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 118 comments

This is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 7 days ago • 1060 comments

so Bobby will make sure black children get the opportunity to get "re-parented" and sent out to some farm somewhere.

submitted 6 days ago • 81 comments

🚨BREAKING: Michelle King, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, was ousted after denying Elon Musk access to “sensitive files,” the Washington Post reports This. Is. Insane.

submitted 5 days ago • 211 comments

At least 20 FDA staffers reviewing Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant company, were fired in an ongoing DOGE purge of federal workers.

submitted 5 days ago • 280 comments

I’m the dairy farmer running to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District. Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?

submitted 6 days ago • 131 comments

"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.

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Catch up with our last episode and listen to (or watch!) the brilliant @delilahsdawson.bsky.social talking about letting go how each book is different and the idea of writing a perfect book can be a hinderance. All the ways to watch/listen: linktr.ee/ukpageone #booksky #podcast

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Trump has nominated ‘Stop the Steal’ leader, J6 defense lawyer/advocate Ed Martin, who recently amplified notion that DOJ does not require independence from the President, to a full term as U.S. Attorney in DC. Trump doesn’t mention those most-recent parts of his bio here.

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Since the Washington Post didn't want you to see the anti-Musk ad with your newspaper, please check out this website and share it around www.commoncause.org/work/fire-el...

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

Reagan associate counsel: Congress has not authorized this radical overhaul, and the protocols of the Constitution do not permit statutorily mandated agencies and programs to be transformed—or reorganized out of existence—without congressional authorization. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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We must not move on from this. What he said here is utterly un-American. You either condemn it, laugh it off, or embrace it. History will remember your response.

submitted 6 days ago • 265 comments

Schools across the country received a racist threat letter from the Trump Administration on Friday effectively stating that schools that receive taxpayer dollars cannot address the stark racial inequalities in education by any means. #THREAD ed.gov/media/document…

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The first president in modern times who refused to release his tax returns as a candidate wants to give Elon Musk and his goons access to yours. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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The Trump administration fired 20 immigration judges from already-backlogged courts without explanation, a union official said Saturday.

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The activity coming from the Trump administration is consistent with a regime shift away from democracy and toward authoritarianism. It’s important to use this label so people begin to appreciate the gravity and consequences of what’s happening. 1/3 🧵

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

submitted 7 days ago • 479 comments

Mock hearings, last-minute deals and primary threats helped move President Trump’s controversial nominees through the Senate.

submitted 7 days ago • 106 comments

If there is an obnoxious and idiotic way to do something, trump and his people will find it.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Vile, disgusting, disgraceful - but exactly what I expect from this administration filled with racist filth.

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Dept. of Hiding in Plain Sight: Disbarred Trump consigliere John Eastman's 2006 report for Heritage Foundation laying out a legal attack on birthright citizenship that goes far beyond children of undocumented persons to establish a president/king's power to take citizenship away from... anyone. 1/

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On January 6th, 1995, my (now ex) wife and I boarded a flight from Heathrow to JFK on a one way ticket. We had two suitcases and about $900 in cash - this was everything we owned and we were moving to the US. We thought it was maybe for 2-3 years. I had visited the US once, for a conference, and

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The U.S. Forest Service is firing roughly 3,400 federal employees across every level of the agency beginning today, according to two people familiar with the plans.

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CISA would be the good folks who protect us from cyber threats & among other things run the dot-gov domain registry

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lol doge.gov still shows defaced pages doge.gov/workforce?or...

submitted 9 days ago • 42 comments