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Only a month and a half after announcing comedian Amber Ruffin would host the White House Correspondents Association dinner, WHCA has acquiesced to White House demands to end criticism of the President at the event.

Thus ends 41 years of tradition and precedence.

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Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.

Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

Star Trek did say the 2020s were gonna be a little rough

Trump administration moves to make tech officials political appointees amid DOGE clashes The change could smooth Elon Musk’s efforts to access the technology systems of various federal agencies through his Department of Government Efficiency. One former personnel management official calle...

New: Trump’s White House is ending the decades-long practice of ensuring federal CIOs are career employees. OPM is reclassifying the job so they can be replaced with loyalists, per agency memo published today. Total authority over agencies’ IT infrastructure, email, etc.

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal
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Members of Congress going into the US Agency for International Development!

list of banned keywords

🚨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.

Trump’s rapid-fire moves have ranged from banning birthright citizenship to firing 18 inspectors general to freezing trillions of dollars in federal spending and dismissing members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

#ResistTrump

An EEOC admin. judge sent a fiery all-department email this AM alleging:
1. Trump's exec orders & instructions to target private citizens with them are illegal.
2. the judge had sent an earlier email with a similar tone yesterday that later vanished from their sent folder & colleagues' inboxes.

Adopting rightwing policies ‘does not help centre-left win votes’ Study of European electoral data suggests social democratic parties alienate supporters by moving towards the political centre

“We’re now in a different era. The data strongly suggests centre-left parties can build a coalition of voters who believe a strong welfare state, effective public services and real investment, for example in the green transition, are essential"

Centrists leaping rightwards lose in every way:

Shut down the Senate: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Do not text them from your work cell phones either.

We're all of the opinion that this guy has been reading from the teleprompter all along?

In case you missed it: 2024 was the world's warmest year since @noaa.gov records began in 1850.

Global surface temperature was 2.32°F (1.29°C) above the 20th-century average. The 10 warmest years since 1850 have all occurred in the past decade.

BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE... Hurrdurr