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a very confused Trump still thinks that people who make political asylum claims by definition come from insane asylums

submitted 1 day ago • 740 comments

Just a forest in Ukraine. Maybe you need a moment of nature now.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.

submitted 3 days ago • 2950 comments

A whooping 83% of Americans oppose Trump pardoning violent J6 rioters. EIGHTY-THREE PERCENT!!!

submitted 2 days ago • 304 comments

The Trump administration is now bringing the postwar era to an end. No one should be surprised: this is what they said they would do. America's European and Asian allies need to adjust, quickly. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 3 days ago • 63 comments

[They're not 'his airplanes']

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Trump Admin Says It ‘Accidentally’ Fired Bird Flu Officials: As C&L’s Conover Kennard has reported, Unelected President Elon Musk recently fired a big chunk of government workers on the already-stretched “front line” of bird flu safety. Apparently, Musk’s latest blunder did not go over too well…

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NATO Holds Combat Exercises To Protect Eastern Border - W/O U.S.: NATO members continued their largest combat exercises of 2025 yesterday, testing their ability to rapidly deploy on the 32-nation alliance’s eastern border as worries grow over its most powerful member, the United States. Via the…

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Preeclampsia has impacted my own family and I know it’s impacted families across the world. It’s a confounding condition and diagnosis can be super challenging This is what NIH-funded research enables: incredible innovation that may just save your life.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

All hail King Donald Jezebel Trump, First of his name, Lord of the morons, Destroyer of the Constitution, Water boy for the Oligarchs, Protector of Putin's ambitions. Short may he reign.

submitted 3 days ago • 190 comments

AP is banned from WH events and all the other legacy journalists walk right in. If this was the 60s, we know who would have been with the Freedom Riders, and who would’ve been writing about them from a safe place. AP stands alone. Sad but true.

submitted 5 days ago • 1094 comments

As much as I love getting lectured by people in my replies that ACTUALLY the Republicans weren't able to score any points at all against Obama when they were in the minority, I did write a book that covered a lot of this.

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

"As the modern presidency has become ever more imperial, we should ask our leaders to relearn what Washington knew: when to be assertive toward other levels and branches of government and when to defer to them." Lessons from George Washington:

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I had this weird idea of fatherhood where I was with them every day growing up and coached their teams and went to their activities, but I guess MAGA family values are a little different.

submitted 8 days ago • 227 comments

"Griffin isn’t alleging that a single fraudulent vote was cast, and he’s not claiming any irregularities with the final vote count. He’s simply trying to change the rules after an election, so that he gets more votes."

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

The usual dance of “moderate” Republicans complaining about everything they just voted for when it affects them. Rinse, repeat.

submitted 8 days ago • 1559 comments

Penn has always wanted to be the nation's leading university and it finally is -- in chickenshit cowardice I guess when your most famous alums are Donald Trump and Elon Musk you have a legacy to live down to www.inquirer.com/education/un...

submitted 8 days ago • 54 comments

Just looking at the events of this one day compels the conclusion that the United States Government is being run by morons, psychos, invertebrates, and crooks.

submitted 9 days ago • 982 comments

Lame. Weak. Useless. Cowardly.

submitted 9 days ago • 1585 comments

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

submitted 10 days ago • 1247 comments

You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

submitted 9 days ago • 41 comments

Dear Governor Kathy Hochul: It's time. You have the power to remove Eric Adams from office as NYC mayor. Take a stand -- and stand up for cleaning up corruption in New York. REMOVE ADAMS NOW. Sincerely, A New Yorker

submitted 10 days ago • 681 comments

#RemoveAdamsNow #NYC

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And just like that, the fascist MAGA regime announced a major policy change in ruling out Ukraine from ever joining NATO which throws full support for murderous Dictator Putin and his war crimes. Fuck you to ever chose this treason. I’ll never regret voting for VP Kamala Harris.

submitted 9 days ago • 33 comments

The complete failure of Republicans in Congress to exercise their power as a check on the executive branch is national disgrace. But the courts are doing their job and may yet protect democracy from Trump.

submitted 10 days ago • 242 comments

“Trump has packed so much illegal, unconstitutional, lawless activity into three-and-half weeks that the press, politicians, and many Americans have already forgotten or normalized activity that can only be described as a coup.” — Robert Hubbell Newsletter Feb. 13, 2025

submitted 10 days ago • 112 comments

The fact that NBC can (accurately) call the Administrative Procedure Act “obscure” just shows how little Americans know about how their government works. It literally is one of the most important laws ever enacted by Congress.

submitted 11 days ago • 273 comments

jokes aside, the really interesting thing to me here, and with similar posts from other right wing pundits complaining about the performance that I've seen is that there seems to be a mass delusion that Trump's win represented a total cultural victory, not a narrow win in a low enthusiasm election

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Elon Musk wearing a baseball hat in the Oval Office reminded me of right-wing outrage when President Obama hoisted a selfie stick

submitted 11 days ago • 105 comments

The Democratic Party right now is pretty close to f—ing useless.

submitted 11 days ago • 507 comments

Pope Francis' remarkable rebuke of JD Vance and Trumpism lays bare an essential truth: Trump is overseeing a massive and systematic abandonment of obligation to the global poor, and Vance's theological obfuscation can't make that disappear. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1914...

submitted 11 days ago • 119 comments

Elon Musk’s Dystopian Attacks on Federal Workplaces are Also “Incredibly Stupid”: As the United States Agency for International Development remains paralyzed after the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s attempts to murder it, employees cannot access the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington D.C.,…

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Elon Musk and other allies of Donald Trump lashed out at federal judges who have blocked the president's biggest initiatives, including ending birthright citizenship, in some cases challenging the independence of the judiciary reut.rs/4jRJO0Z

submitted 11 days ago • 47 comments

How did Putin become a dictator? Mikhail Zygar lists ten steps open.substack.com/pub/zygaro/p...

submitted 12 days ago • 46 comments

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

submitted 13 days ago • 402 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 20 days ago • 1330 comments

Thou shalt not spend millions on Super Bowl ads about Jesus when you could’ve used it to feed the hungry.

submitted 13 days ago • 855 comments