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We are starting to see reports of National Weather Service workers being told to come back to work - with pay - as they have been sent letters saying they were fired 'in error.' This is another example of the DOGE cuts being reversed. This was sent to a fired NWS meteorologist in Idaho.

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Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 14 hours ago • 197 comments

Do you say "bring the water to a boil" or "bring the water to the boil"?

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

They will kill or disable you for profit. The “let it rip” approach isn’t limited to COVID, which has killed >1M Americans. 4M can’t work due to long COVID disability. 6M kids have LC. It’s not over. This admin loves “let it rip” and abandoning folks who get sick or disabled. Those folks are YOU.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps block the path

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

Yes, yes, and yes. He believes he can do anything, and he’s making it possible for him to do anything he wants to do.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

This feels like a major inflection point. If ICE can apparently unlawfully arrest & disappear a permanent resident and it is not immediately met with strong opposition from the public, officials, and courts, there is no going back.

submitted 16 hours ago • 32 comments

Ok concrete plus the 70s high tech system colors? YOU LEAVE THIS BUILDING ALONE

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 20 hours ago • 498 comments

NYC artists catching up to London now

submitted 22 hours ago • 52 comments

Come work with us! Haymarket Books is hiring a full-time publicist to join our team in Chicago. www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/jobs

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Huge turnout for the public lands rally in Missoula this afternoon. Hearing from fired federal land managers and former BLM director Tracy Stone-Manning ✊

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Where's the best place in Chicago to donate/ drop off old routers and a laptop?

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Apparently the cta is fucked up by daylight savings time as well. Waited almost an hour for a bus, missed my connection. Late to work. Yaaaay.

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NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.

submitted 21 hours ago • 127 comments

Israel will cut the flow of electricity into Gaza immediately, a week after blocking all aid into the territory: cnn.it/4kBAmiz

submitted 20 hours ago • 174 comments

These looks say "there is no bus on the bus tracker, you should just stay home with us instead of going to work" don't they?

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fuck daylight savings time all my homies hate daylight savings time

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Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access ‘weaponised’

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One of the greatest regrets dying people have is that they wished they'd been truer to themselves rather than living the lives people/society asked of them. I think about that a whole lot, especially in this current situation. It's not fame or money or work. It's self-acceptance.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Am I the only on that sees it?

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

I'm old enough to remember when unilateral presidential alteration of the terms of student loan programs was considered on the right to be the greatest threat to the constitutional order.

submitted 2 days ago • 78 comments

Denmark's state-run postal service, PostNord, will stop delivering letters at the end of 2025. It will be down to private companies to deliver mail. This ends 400 years of the company's letter service. 8,000 jobs gone and many more cuts to come. The decision will affect elderly people most.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Chicago's budget problems aren't due to immigrants

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I think it's time for me to stop eating meat unless I buy it at the farm myself.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The daycare layoff index is right up next to the yankee candle in indicators for things.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Everyone who cares about the Constitution needs to read this. DOGE has restructured the Treasury Dept to automatically block payments by federal agencies that do not align with EOs, impounding federal funds appropriated by Congress. This is a Constitutional crisis. @nathantankus.bsky.social

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Three yachts were swallowed by fires early Friday after witnesses described a massive explosion in northwest Miami-Dade. https://nbcnews.to/3DtQPVl

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BREAKING: HUNDREDS of New Yorkers have swarmed and shut down the Tesla dealer in Manhattan. Six have been arrested after occupying the showroom. Protests are erupting across America to reject Musk's billionaire regime. This is how we beat fascism. Mass direct action. #TeslaTakedown

submitted 1 day ago • 237 comments

Pro-democracy patriots protest outside a Tesla showroom in downtown Chicago. Hit Elon Musk in the pocketbook, which is all he cares about. Check out TeslaTakedown.com for protests near you.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

It is fucking WILD just how the public is openly and loudly talking about how much they want this one guy dead. Like we really have not seen this level of open populist rage in a long time. Love to see it.

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

Trump threatens new tariffs on Canada, including 250% tax on dairy - CNN

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

You can have the cops come beat the shit out of your students to prove you’re not a filthy commie and they’ll still do this to you and all you’ll have done is show everyone what a pathetic little coward you are. Might as well do the right thing the first time

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Oh my. Each graf worse than the one before www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

I think people are extremely on edge, and horrified by how quickly society has slipped into this banal techno-fascism, and scared about how far it will go, and that makes people brittle and impatient, and if I were a better person I would extend grace to people because of that, but, you know, I’m me

submitted 2 days ago • 412 comments

Bygone Chicago businesses

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Great turnout in the snow in Chicago today to #standupforscience - and a lot of really clever signs pushing back on the vile assault on research now underway!

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BANDCAMP FRIDAY! I GOT BOTHERED / UNBOTHERED VINYL + ALL MY MUSIC DIGITALLY 100% OF ALL PROFITS FROM BANDCAMP SALES GO TO THE ARTISTS!!!! jerska.bandcamp.com

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Evil

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the purpose of banning section 230 is to ban all political, sexual, or critical speech from the internet this is to silence grassroots movements that don’t have the explicit sanction of the wealthy and powerful you are an abject moron or a liar if you believe it has any other purpose

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

I just bought my second kufiyyeh. This one is black and neon purple. 💜🖤💜🖤 Want one for yourself? www.palestinianelegance.com/collections/...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Might have to break with my tradition of not really buying t-shirts.

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Interracial marriage did not cross 50% approval in the US until 1996, when I was 30 years old. Good political messaging drives opinion, it doesn't follow it.

submitted 3 days ago • 237 comments

Five jailed for far-right plot to overthrow German government

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Those 10 democrats are: Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) Ed Case (D-Hawaii) Don Davis (D-North Carolina) Chris Pappas (D-New Hampshire) Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Washington) Jared Golden (D-Maine) Gabe Vasquez (D-New Mexico) Susan Wild (D-Pennsylvania) David Scott (D-Georgia)

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Wilhelm Scream

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