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BREAKING The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.

submitted 14 hours ago • 387 comments

You only fire the lawyers if you plan to break the law. It's that simple. That's what Hegseth meant when said "roadblocks." www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 22 hours ago • 95 comments

The ongoing bloodbath at the Social Security Administration has only one goal: The total annihilation of Social Security by firing half of the work force and closing the field offices. Wall Street billionaires want to destroy Social Security so they can give themselves trillions in tax handouts.

submitted 13 hours ago • 53 comments

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

submitted 18 hours ago • 857 comments

you know they know how completely fucked they are legally by the way none of them want to admit theyre in charge

submitted 14 hours ago • 24 comments

You've heard of girl math, but have you heard of billionaire math? Trump's temporary tax handouts for the rich are expiring this year, and Republicans want working Americans to foot the bill. They're claiming it'll cost you nothing, but in reality, these tax handouts cost trillions.

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

The richest man in the world has seized control of federal spending and is demonstrably lying to the whole cabinet on television.

submitted 23 hours ago • 33 comments

The hypocrisy is off the charts.

submitted 23 hours ago • 301 comments

Trump & Musk are lying—PEPFAR funding has not been restored. Millions of lives hang in the balance, including people cut off mid-HIV treatment. Fired workers & activists staged a “die-in” to protest this deadly betrayal. “What we are demanding of Congress is that they stop behaving like doormats…”

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

Macalester student workers voted overwhelmingly to unionize, forming the first undergraduate student worker union in Minnesota. via @minnesotareformer.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/1100...

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

For those of you still looking, my UMaine colleague Tim Waring has a fully funded 4-year PhD position to research how people learn and adapt to the threats of tick-borne disease in New England forests in relation to invasive plants: timwaring.info/wp-content/u...

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, who has been a central figure in nearly two decades of instability and controversy, could soon be barred from political office — and even face jail time, pending a possible appeal.

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If your representative is dodging in-person town halls, call them out! Tag them and demand they face their constituents.

submitted 1 day ago • 1468 comments

More DOGE incompetence… Among the 1,000+ FDA employees the Trump administration fired indiscriminately, some are now receiving notices that they’re being un-fired. Y’all see the pattern here, right?

submitted 16 hours ago • 164 comments

It would be hard to distinguish sincere from frivolous complaints, especially if the complaints were, say, machine generated to cover every single school in the United States. I wonder how hard that would be to do. The portal seems simple enough. enddei.ed.gov

submitted 16 hours ago • 17 comments

It would be a real shame if the racist transphobic ableist portal enddei.ed.gov got flooded with garbage and spam.

submitted 15 hours ago • 37 comments

The Department of Ed has a form to snitch on DEI policies in schools. I’d be a shame if we broke it with thousands of responses… enddei.ed.gov

submitted 17 hours ago • 815 comments

If you ever have any questions about this related to any other vaccines, the CDC STILL has the color coded Adult immunization schedule chart. And on that same page is the whens and specifics and such. www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp...

submitted 15 hours ago • 10 comments

BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun. The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.

submitted 17 hours ago • 201 comments

Not pro-life

submitted 18 hours ago • 470 comments

Don't the anti-vaxxers running our country now think mRNA vaccines are satanic? Odds are they would not approve a cancer vaccine - and will pull whatever govt funding is supporting these trials.

submitted 16 hours ago • 10 comments

Unbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 22 hours ago • 129 comments

I shared this note with the owner of the Washington Post this morning.

submitted 1 day ago • 1166 comments

THIS is how you write about the absurdity of this administration. It’s brilliant prose, full of irony and subtle humor, with a meticulous eye for the farcical details. No other approach could have adequately captured what happened in that room. All who chronicle this era should take note.

submitted 1 day ago • 326 comments

Truth sandwich The President does not have power to ignore the courts. John Yoo and Robert Delahunty essay recently invoked Cambodia case claiming Pentagon "ignored" a court order. The legendary Burt Neuborne sets the record straight in this brilliant essay. (Burt argued the case in 1973.)

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DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?

submitted 18 hours ago • 1777 comments

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

submitted 4 days ago • 539 comments

Reading up on Starlink (starting on Wikipedia), I stumbled across this paragraph. It could explain why USAID was targeted so quickly and ruthlessly by Elon Musk. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlin...

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

Musk tanks Tesla share value. The price of being a Nazi.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Awful news --> Delivery of therapeutic food assistance to nearly 400,000 severely malnourished kids abroad is suddenly in doubt due to Trump-Musk firings at USAID, two manufacturers of the product tell me. "Starving children are waiting," one says. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1919...

submitted 2 days ago • 186 comments

Cutting aid to fund defence, Mr Starmer, is both cruel and self-defeating. I agree we need to defend ourselves. But creating a less stable, less humane world is no way to do it.

submitted 2 days ago • 88 comments

To the vatniks, campists, fascists and self-described "pragmatists" saying "maybe Trump has got a point": There is one nation and one nation alone that should decide the terms for peace in Ukraine. Ukraine.

submitted 2 days ago • 59 comments

This week's column asks a question that should be in everyone's minds, as Trump reshapes the world's alliances: How, given that our defence and security capacities are completely infiltrated by the US state, do we defend ourselves if the US becomes our opponent? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 1 day ago • 143 comments

If you still think Republicans care about child welfare, you’re a dummy. They happily voted for a guy who greets the death of a child with a shrug.

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Gene Hackman was a titan. One of the best actors of all time, his range was incredible, but for me, no one could play a bastard as well as him. The edge he put on villainy was unique and surprising, always adding shades and colors where others would make obvious choices. RIP, King.

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Oh, man, not Gene Hackman. 2025 can just fuck right off. Okay. Let me tell you a little bit about Gene Hackman...

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

new column: wrote about the irony of the fact that the same administration that is asserting a radical expansion of executive power is also the one that has given the united states its first co-president.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

This. This. This. Watching incredulous as American journalism cuts its own throat over some shards of access that will then be snatched back piecemeal regardless. The gutlessness and stupidity is simply astonishing.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

I know I keep banging on about this, but it's simply unfathomable to me that legitimate news organizations continue to participate in the WH press pool.

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments

Trump had paused his imposition of tariffs on Canada and Mexico. Now they're back on the calendar. Good luck with rebuilding efforts—and lower prices on groceries, or anything.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments