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Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.

submitted 10 days ago • 382 comments

We WERE warned...

submitted 14 days ago • 13 comments

Sen. Mark Kelly is ditching his Tesla

submitted 14 days ago • 1062 comments

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

submitted 15 days ago • 708 comments

For years, Craig Spencer has fought infectious diseases around the world. In 2014, while treating Ebola patients in Guinea, he survived Ebola himself. “I know how lethal Donald Trump’s assault on America’s outbreak preparedness could be,” he writes. “We are sure to regret it.” theatln.tc/wJk69wgA

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

“If the state can deprive an individual of his freedom simply because of his politics, which is what appears to have happened [to Mahmoud Khalil], then no one is safe,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes: theatln.tc/87FfKC8B

submitted 17 days ago • 27 comments

Sen. Mark Kelly - U.S. Navy captain, NASA astronaut, and combat pilot who flew 39 combat missions during the Gulf War is a “traitor” says Elon Musk - a South African bastard of apartheid and "bone spurs" draft dodger...

submitted 18 days ago • 68 comments

‘The sewage scandal ends now’: UK water company fines to be used to clean up rivers

submitted 19 days ago • 24 comments

Probably fine

submitted 21 days ago • 473 comments

AARP has created an easy way to contact your lawmakers and tell them Social Security must be protected. Learn more.👇

submitted 23 days ago • 424 comments

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

submitted 23 days ago • 1275 comments

No, Trump isn’t giving a State of the Union address tonight. Does the distinction matter? Not really. But for those wondering, here's why Trump's big Congress speech isn't *technically*a SOTU address👇

submitted 23 days ago • 17 comments

"To control the country's education system is, in no uncertain terms, to control the country's future," Clay Risen writes:

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

📍New York March 4th For Democracy! (Continued in🧵) More NY events may still be coming. Please check the website for new listings, we will continue adding events until 12:00am March 3rd. Find a March 4th demonstration at www.FiftyFifty.one. 50 Protests. 50 States. 1 Movement. @polrev.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

submitted 27 days ago • 3201 comments

POTUS and VPOTUS “showed the U.S.-led alliance something it needed urgently to know: The national-security system of the West is led by two men who cannot be trusted to defend America’s allies—and who deeply sympathize with the world’s most aggressive dictator.” search.app/uwV185FqGEFb...

submitted 28 days ago • 218 comments

"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States" from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 28 days ago • 1639 comments

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

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submitted 31 days ago • 1827 comments

$19,000,000,000,000.00

submitted 30 days ago • 1631 comments

Clan RamĂ­rez: FiscalĂ­a incauta bienes de JoaquĂ­n RamĂ­rez y allegados Por megacaso de fraude en la administraciĂłn de personas jurĂ­dicas y lavado de activos, que compromete tambiĂŠn a la universidad Alas Peruanas. peru21.pe/investigacio...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

A Southwest Airlines plane was forced to abort its landing this morning after a private jet taxied in front of it across the runway at Midway Airport in Chicago. Whatever that guy from The Real World is doing with the FAA has gotta stop.

submitted 31 days ago • 1060 comments

Leadership is doubling down, but GOP members are getting nervous about the budget’s extreme unpopularity. You can call your Representative now at 202-224-3121.

submitted 31 days ago • 566 comments

The real president always keeps watch over his puppet

submitted 31 days ago • 1386 comments

President Krasnov

submitted 31 days ago • 26 comments

CRIPTOMONEDAS, ESTAFAS Y NUESTROS AHORROS - mi Ăşltimo artĂ­culo pedrofrancke.com/2025/02/24/c...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.

submitted 32 days ago • 3288 comments

Ukraine resolution at the UN called Russia an aggressor and demands the full withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders. The United States, Israel, and Russia voted against it. Every free democratic country around the globe voted in favour. #EndImpunity

submitted 32 days ago • 482 comments

CNN plays a clip of Russian state TV praising Trump for being "in total alignment" with Putin

submitted 33 days ago • 427 comments

submitted 32 days ago • 467 comments

“Be brave” @janefonda.com

submitted 32 days ago • 263 comments

I am trying to imagine the reaction of Joe Biden or Barack Obama had spoken to a Republican governor in this way at a public event. I just can’t. None of us can.

submitted 34 days ago • 161 comments

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

submitted 34 days ago • 44 comments

Bird flu found in California rats as USDA scrambles to rehire scientists

submitted 33 days ago • 13 comments

If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

submitted 34 days ago • 658 comments

These people all have actual conflicts of interest that should keep them from working on any investigations like this. It's a measure of how tainted and corrupt this Justice Department is becoming and it breaks my heart. I hope it doesn't break our country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 34 days ago • 123 comments

Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope. THIS is good trouble! Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.

submitted 34 days ago • 1004 comments

Pope Francis now in a critical condition after respiratory crisis, Vatican says

submitted 34 days ago • 38 comments

There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

submitted 35 days ago • 1147 comments

If you support this, you’re an awful human being

submitted 34 days ago • 234 comments

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

submitted 34 days ago • 2077 comments

When even the New York Post has to publish this, you know you fucked up.

submitted 35 days ago • 666 comments

A new bat coronavirus that has the capacity to spread to humans, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered by a Chinese researcher. Good thing we are completely prepared this time. www.newsweek.com/new-coronavi...

submitted 35 days ago • 787 comments