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Iowa is on the brink of doing what no other state has: revoking statutory civil rights protections for trans people. In 2007, the legislature expanded Iowa’s civil rights law to include sexual orientation & gender identity. Today, the legislature passed a bill to take gender identity out.

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

Can’t believe in this day and age I’m having to check if my measles immunity is still effective.

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

List of companies & executives that have donated to Donald Trump (updated February 2025)

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

If Donald Trump was working for Vladimir Putin, what would he be doing differently? It is time to reckon with the very real possibility that the United States has been overthrown by Russia.

submitted 9 minutes ago • 3 comments

When you're suddenly desperate to convince people it's a good thing you drove the economy into recession.

submitted 1 hour ago • 296 comments

Hey, who wants to see the latest text of the anti-DEI bill that’s being drawn up for Georgia right now, with the blessing of noted dumbest boy alive governor Brian Kemp, who I’m told will support it because he a) is The Worst and b) wants Elon to fund his Senate race against Ossoff

submitted 18 hours ago • 10 comments

This is one of those areas where I think focus groups are right. Dems are feckless, weak, and irrelevant right now and the fact that guys like Schumer and Jeffries can't figure out how to attack the wildly unpopular Musk shows that they're not cut out for the politics of this moment.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

please for the love of fucking god speak up and dont allow the american voice of freedom to be muted by this fascist putin puppet condemning the innocent people of ukraine to death. fuck all of them.

submitted 47 minutes ago • 10 comments

I'm old enough to remember when Ukraine refused Trump's directive to try to dig up dirt on President Biden. Trump is a petty, vindictive little 🐔💩.

submitted 47 minutes ago • 1 comment

GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office. ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

submitted 44 minutes ago • 2955 comments

these chowderheads forget that Zelensky before he took ion this job was probably the single most popular comedian in his country, dude could roast Glenn like the last turkey of the year in his sleep, this answer was actually him holding back and he still wrecked this dunce

submitted 38 minutes ago • 28 comments

It's a nation of morons - Kick them out of NATO - Suspend US military access to all European air bases - Sanction European assets owned by The Trump Organisation - Suspend all intelligence sharing - it'll land in Putin's hands - Suspend airspace agreements and European defence contracting in the US

submitted 36 minutes ago • 1 comment

This sounds extreme except it’s not, it’s totally rational. NATO needs to treat the USA as an enemy collaborating w/Russia while Russia actively wages war against NATO. NATO, Europe, & UN need to severely sanction & isolate USA, & push for the removal of these fascist backstabbing scum from power.

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CFPB has just dropped several enforcement cases filed by the previous regime, including this one against Rocket Mortgage over an illegal kickback scheme that steered buyers to their loans and reduced competition:

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Hot mic pick up: Trump tells Zelensky, "Either you sign this agreement, or we'll let you collapse." Audience gasps. Vance also overheard aggressively attacking Zelensky to his face. Then both Trump and Vance laughed in his face. The most shameful 10 minutes in American history.

submitted 49 minutes ago • 10 comments

NEW: Sources tell me that US Attorney for DC Ed Martin just demoted multiple senior attorneys who oversaw the January 6th prosecutions. The lawyers were told they would now handle low-level crime cases usually given to junior AUSAs. Martin sent the demotion email himself, per a msg I saw. 1/

submitted 2 hours ago • 98 comments

USAID contractors have urged the Supreme Court to require Trump administration to pay $2 billion for services rendered, as ordered by a federal judge. Filing: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

submitted 1 hour ago • 7 comments

The government’s application was obfuscatory. This opposition brief is clear and compelling.

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Jeff Bezos has managed to shave off 75,000 more subscribers with just one tweet. For context: 300,000 people cancelled after Bezos spiked the Kamala endorsement, though some have come back, at greatly reduced rates. Via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social 1/2 www.npr.org/2025/02/28/n...

submitted 43 minutes ago • 48 comments

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submitted 23 hours ago • 49 comments

This is absolute perfection. (Although I must say even I could draw the fiancée!)

submitted 16 minutes ago • 18 comments

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 18 hours ago • 401 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 1 day ago • 96 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 17 hours ago • 54 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 21 hours ago • 908 comments

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

submitted 18 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 • 73 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

The hypocrisy is off the charts.

submitted 1 day ago • 305 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...

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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...

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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.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 1497 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 20 hours ago • 179 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 20 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 19 hours ago • 40 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 21 hours ago • 904 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 19 hours ago • 12 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 20 hours ago • 209 comments

Not pro-life

submitted 22 hours ago • 514 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 20 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...

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