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The Democratic Party needs new leadership—not just lip service to big, bold ideas, but a genuine ideological commitment to achieving them.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Elon Musk just tried to simultaneously extort every Federal Employee in the entire federal government with termination unless they told him exactly what they did last week. It's criminal, it's insane, and if we let this man rampage across the government with abandon, we will be left with nothing.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

submitted 12 hours ago • 213 comments

"In an era where political forces seek to distort, suppress, or co-opt scientific knowledge for ideological purposes, the scientific community must recognise that staying silent in the face of these challenges is no longer an option." My latest substack kityates.substack.com/p/uk-and-oth...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Kennedy is just a shameless grifter.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

ICE Prosecutor Runs White Supremacist Account in His Free Time

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

This data is way too limited but this could be a cure for pancreatic cancer. How can we know if it is? And if it is, how can we access it? By funding scientific research. And with health agencies that can review data to ensure safety & efficacy, approve new treatments, & make sure they are covered.

submitted 17 hours ago • 17 comments

They’re coming for your retirement so Elon Musk can keep playing with rockets.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Quid, meet quo

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

I talked to the only Department of Education Office for Civil Rights investigator in Alabama, who was terminated in DOGE cuts, for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

More of this energy. Show up at town halls. Bring friends. Be disrespectful.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 478 comments

"It's kind of been sad, because I've been trying to prove to people that it's a really awesome truck that's not falling apart, and then mine starts to fall apart, so it's just... Yeah, it's kind of unfortunate and sad."

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

blowing up the entire American hegemonic order for like 50 million a year in tribute, and probably not even that

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

American Nazism.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I don’t give much credit to sweaty right-wing blogger Paul Thacker, but I will give him this: His Substack, The Disinformation Chronicle, is 100% honest advertising.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

NEW: Trump NIH pick Jay Bhattacharya’s financial disclosures are out. Last year he was awarded the $250K Bradley Prize from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, a major funder of right-wing causes. He did not include the money, which he previously claimed to have given to charity, on the form.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

NEW: Trump NIH pick Jay Bhattacharya’s financial disclosures are out. Last year he was awarded the $250K Bradley Prize from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, a major funder of right-wing causes. He did not include the money, which he previously claimed to have given to charity, on the form.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

One Tea Party tactic that was extremely effective was showing up at town hall events and yelling at politicians. It scared the heck out of Democrats. Big money-backed Tea Party groups sought to encourage this behavior. Liberals and progressives should take note.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It was, my lord; who lined himself with hope, Eating the air on promise of supply, Flattering himself in project of a power Much smaller than the smallest of his thoughts: And so, with great imagination Proper to madmen, led his powers to death And winking leap'd into destruction.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Musk’s investment paying off

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

How much of a disaster is the new administration for health? In one month, they have: - Left WHO 🌍 - Slashed global health funding 🌍💰 - Gutted USAID 🚨 -Undermined PEPFAR, risking millions of lives 🦠 - Erased critical public health data 📉 A disaster for global health #WHO #PEPFAR #PublicHealth

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone is scared right now. And that fear is paralyzing. But now is the time to knuckle up. These fuckers aren’t anything close to a majority. Now is not the time to withdraw. It’s not the time to be silent. It’s not the time to make concessions. We have to not only hold our ground but advance.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Can someone please explain again why we had to have the last four years of DeJoy?

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

During his Senate confirmation hearings, anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert Kennedy Jr. said he would prioritize long COVID research. As worthless a promise as any he made.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Rosen has voted for 7 of Trump's nominees. Yesterday she was the lone Democrat to vote for Kelly Loeffler to lead the Small Business Administration. Loeffler & her husband (CEO of the company that owns NY Stock Exchange) sold millions in stock after she attended a closed COVID briefing in Jan 2020.

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

The very idea of an under-taxed billionaire slashing and burning vital government programs and agencies to “save money” is obscene.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments

Between DOGE, the Supreme Court, and this new EO, Trump is dismantling all corporate oversight and turning our regulatory agencies into the legal and policy equivalent of decorative gourds this WILL kill people at scale, but every story I read about it puts you to sleep by the fourth paragraph

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

It’s the dark money. A coordinated, global right-wing campaign to weaponized disinformation and the internet—particularly social media—to politicize public health and sow distrust and doubt. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

#MedSky From @walkerbragman.bsky.social Bhattacharya and his fellow GOP experts are all members of the so-called Norfolk Group, an offshoot of the Brownstone Institute, a dark money group that has become a hub for COVID-19 misinformation. whowhatwhy.org/science/heal...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Snow is now coming down as hundreds of people protest outside HHS. #FundDontFreeze

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

submitted 3 days ago • 518 comments

Elon Musk is not a smart man.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

To the feckless, Democratic consultants, here’s a free one: buy a billboard highlighting Musk cutting the veterans suicide hotline program and have it placed across the street from Pete Hegseth’s favorite bar.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments