It is infuriating to see scientists, doctors, and other federal employees risking their careers and livelihood for the wellbeing of the country while billionaire CEOs, with the wealth to live the rest of their lives in luxury, bow and bribe an aspiring tyrant just so they can take a little more.
August 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
It is infuriating to see scientists, doctors, and other federal employees risking their careers and livelihood for the wellbeing of the country while billionaire CEOs, with the wealth to live the rest of their lives in luxury, bow and bribe an aspiring tyrant just so they can take a little more.
Four more top #CDC officials have submitted their resignation in the past few hours - Debra Houry (chief medical officer), Demere Daskalakis (director of NCIRD), Daniel Jernigan (director of NCEZID) + Jen Layden (director of OPHDST) www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
It is horrifying
It is horrifying
August 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
What are they doing this to DC?
1. They can.
2. Retribution.
1. They can.
2. Retribution.
August 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
What are they doing this to DC?
1. They can.
2. Retribution.
1. They can.
2. Retribution.
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National Guard members currently deployed in Washington, D.C., have now been authorized to carry weapons.
It‘s unclear whether Guard members would carry rifles or handguns, or whether they would be loaded. https://wapo.st/41mqdyh
It‘s unclear whether Guard members would carry rifles or handguns, or whether they would be loaded. https://wapo.st/41mqdyh
Hegseth authorizes National Guard to carry weapons in D.C. deployment
Members of Joint Task Force-D.C., which includes members of the D.C. National Guard and six other states involved in President Donald Trump’s deployment to the capital, are affected.
wapo.st
August 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
National Guard members currently deployed in Washington, D.C., have now been authorized to carry weapons.
It‘s unclear whether Guard members would carry rifles or handguns, or whether they would be loaded. https://wapo.st/41mqdyh
It‘s unclear whether Guard members would carry rifles or handguns, or whether they would be loaded. https://wapo.st/41mqdyh
Truth will not be tolerated in this administration.
BREAKING: Pete Hegseth fires the general whose agency's initial intel assessment of damage to Iran nuclear sites angered President Trump, AP sources say.
Hegseth fires general whose agency's intel assessment of damage from Iran strikes angered Trump
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of damage to Iran nuclear sites from U.S. strikes angered President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the decision.
bit.ly
August 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Truth will not be tolerated in this administration.
Unidentified masked federal agents violently arresting a food delivery driver. Do you feel safer?
Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning.
The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
August 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Unidentified masked federal agents violently arresting a food delivery driver. Do you feel safer?
Trump rolled out a red carpet for a war criminal undermining years or pressure and isolation imposed to stop an unproked war and accomplished nothing for the effort.
August 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Trump rolled out a red carpet for a war criminal undermining years or pressure and isolation imposed to stop an unproked war and accomplished nothing for the effort.
Trump's actions are damaging the economy, leading to rising unemployment. His solution: fire the person responsible for measuring employment.
In a regime built on lies, truth is a terminable offense.
In a regime built on lies, truth is a terminable offense.
Trump, Claiming Weak Jobs Numbers Were ‘Rigged,’ Fires Labor Official
www.nytimes.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Trump's actions are damaging the economy, leading to rising unemployment. His solution: fire the person responsible for measuring employment.
In a regime built on lies, truth is a terminable offense.
In a regime built on lies, truth is a terminable offense.
Looks like Paramount's presidential bribes are working
Breaking News: The FCC said it would allow Paramount to merge with the Hollywood studio Skydance, clearing the biggest remaining hurdle for the deal.
FCC Approves Skydance’s Merger With Paramount
The agency’s blessing was one of the last hurdles for the deal, which was being subjected to close scrutiny by the Trump administration.
trib.al
July 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Looks like Paramount's presidential bribes are working
So, he's definitely in the files
The president said Attorney General Pam Bondi has “handled it very well” and said it’s up to her whether to release any more records related to the sex trafficking investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.
WATCH: Asked if his name appears in Epstein files, Trump claims Comey, Obama and Biden made them up
When asked by a reporter if the attorney general told President Donald Trump whether his name appeared in any of the records, he said, “No, no.”
to.pbs.org
July 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
So, he's definitely in the files
A president threatening to nullify a citizen's constitutional right because she exercised a constitutional right.
President Donald Trump says he is considering “taking away” the U.S. citizenship of a longtime rival, actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, despite a decades-old Supreme Court ruling that expressly prohibits such an action by the government.
Trump says he's considering 'taking away' comedian Rosie O'Donnell's U.S. citizenship
“Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump wrote in a social media post on…
buff.ly
July 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
A president threatening to nullify a citizen's constitutional right because she exercised a constitutional right.
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the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
www.nytimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
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Further tests reveal Grok 4 appears to consult Elon Musk's views on a range of sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's personal opinions (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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July 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Further tests reveal Grok 4 appears to consult Elon Musk's views on a range of sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's personal opinions (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Cognitive decline or the preexisting incompetence and racism?
Trump to the President of Liberia: "Such good English. Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?"
English is the official language of Liberia...
English is the official language of Liberia...
July 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Cognitive decline or the preexisting incompetence and racism?
Trump seems determined to add the United States to his list of bankruptcies.
July 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Trump seems determined to add the United States to his list of bankruptcies.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“In my 50 years of following tax and budget policy, I don’t believe I have seen another piece of legislation that would have such broad and deep impacts on virtually every American,” Steven Rattner writes. “It is a result that should embarrass the Republicans.”
“In my 50 years of following tax and budget policy, I don’t believe I have seen another piece of legislation that would have such broad and deep impacts on virtually every American,” Steven Rattner writes. “It is a result that should embarrass the Republicans.”
Opinion | The Ugliness of the ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill, in Charts
Steven Rattner reveals the ugly reality lurking within the ‘big beautiful bill.’
trib.al
July 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“In my 50 years of following tax and budget policy, I don’t believe I have seen another piece of legislation that would have such broad and deep impacts on virtually every American,” Steven Rattner writes. “It is a result that should embarrass the Republicans.”
“In my 50 years of following tax and budget policy, I don’t believe I have seen another piece of legislation that would have such broad and deep impacts on virtually every American,” Steven Rattner writes. “It is a result that should embarrass the Republicans.”
Among the other insanity in the big awful bill, ICE and border enforcement will now have a budget larger than every military in Europe outside Russia. But we can't afford food or healthcare.
The bill allocates more than $100 billion to ICE and border enforcement, and makes ICE the largest federal law enforcement agency.
How the GOP spending bill will fund immigration enforcement
The bill allocates more than $100 billion to ICE and border enforcement through September 2029.
www.axios.com
July 4, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Among the other insanity in the big awful bill, ICE and border enforcement will now have a budget larger than every military in Europe outside Russia. But we can't afford food or healthcare.
This bill is a disaster. Fiscally, socially, and environmentally negligent, it sells the future to enrich the few, tearing apart a safety net already paper thin. It breaks the budget with unsustainable tax cuts unbalanced by meager savings through death by bureaucracy for the most vulnerable.
A List of Nearly Everything in the Senate G.O.P. Bill, and How Much It Would Cost or Save
The legislation includes tax cuts as well as big cuts to Medicaid, food benefits and other programs, and it would add more than $3 trillion to the national debt.
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This bill is a disaster. Fiscally, socially, and environmentally negligent, it sells the future to enrich the few, tearing apart a safety net already paper thin. It breaks the budget with unsustainable tax cuts unbalanced by meager savings through death by bureaucracy for the most vulnerable.
Without congressional approval, without provocation beyond a fuzzy potential for WMDs, with a morally vacant president manipulated by a foreign leader, the United States is again at war in the middle east.
June 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Without congressional approval, without provocation beyond a fuzzy potential for WMDs, with a morally vacant president manipulated by a foreign leader, the United States is again at war in the middle east.
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JUST IN: The U.S. has completed attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran, President Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday.
U.S. completes strikes on Iran nuclear sites, Trump says
The U.S. has completed attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran, President Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday.
n.pr
June 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
JUST IN: The U.S. has completed attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran, President Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday.
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Here's a quick look at how science fares in the proposed Trump budget, from William Broad, @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social @kchang.bsky.social and me. nyti.ms/437jhFw
Trump's 2026 Budget Proposal Calls for $163 Billion in Cuts: Live Updates
The president’s $1.7 trillion discretionary budget blueprint would cut $163 billion for the 2026 fiscal year, offering an outline of his vision for Washington and dramatically curtailing the role and ...
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Here's a quick look at how science fares in the proposed Trump budget, from William Broad, @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social @kchang.bsky.social and me. nyti.ms/437jhFw
But wait until all those high paying banana manufacturing jobs come to the USA ... any day now.
May 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
But wait until all those high paying banana manufacturing jobs come to the USA ... any day now.
It's not just some frightening hypothetical, they are already deporting American citizens.
Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana
The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
It's not just some frightening hypothetical, they are already deporting American citizens.
"Any custodian of a public record who 'willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys (any record) shall be fined ... or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office ...'"
Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.
Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label
The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases include a Haitian asylum seeker and a minor child.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"Any custodian of a public record who 'willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys (any record) shall be fined ... or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office ...'"