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Millennial pause

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

Let’s see a dem introduce a bill banning federal officers from wearing face masks. Only one of these protestors has a medical mask on, and the Hochuls of the party seem to think that needs to be stopped.

we need a Democratic party for the left

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time

We need new leaders in Washington. I’m running for Senate to be one. Let’s go.

Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with 'improper ideology' President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”

“efforts to ‘remove improper ideology’ from… the National Zoo.” is an actual line in this story. apnews.com/article/trum...

The Christian nationalists are getting reeeal comfortable. The BDRs are psalm posting on LinkedIn.

So the GOP position is that abortion, education, civil rights - you name it - should be up to the states. But not… congestion pricing?

The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.

New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."

between starting another trade war with China, dumping a bunch of Central Valley water into the ocean for no reason, and ending purchases of US grains for humanitarian aid, nobody is committed to more anti-farmer aktion than Donald Trump

Is it actually working?

Trump’s Green New Deal: tariffs will destroy the auto industry, skyrocket gas prices, and raise the price of beef. Thank you comrade Trump 🫡

This might be controversial to say but someone should stop all of this

Most homoerotic Jesus ever award goes to these guys.

the two things I believe most strongly in this world are that public services should be wholly replaced by the private sector and that the government should intervene instantly the second I personally feel a little bit scared

Annexing Canada and potentially flipping control of the senate would honestly be pretty funny.

“The Post Office loses money” yeah so does the Fire Department, shut the fuck up

“Historic Landslide and Mandate”

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The most deadly animal for humans is mosquitos. The second most deadly is other humans.

It is remarkable that there are still people who believe that the reason hundreds of thousands of people have nowhere to live is that we haven’t made having nowhere to live unpleasant enough.

"Aren't you worried about government spending?"

No.

Former Uvalde schools police chief loses bid to toss criminal charges related to 2022 shooting A Texas judge has refused to throw out criminal charges accusing the former Uvalde schools police chief of endangering children in the slow law enforcement response to the 2022 Robb Elementary shootin...

“If the state is allowed to proceed in this manner, all Texas peace officers should be terrified.” Good. apnews.com/article/uval...

"More people died from homelessness than homicide in Nashville this year.”

A friend shared this photo from yesterday's memorial at Riverfront Park.

A bar chart showing child mortality in children under five in the United States from 1800-2020. The mortality rate starts at 500 per 1,000 live births and decreases exponentially to closer to 0 in 2020.

200 years ago 50% of children died before age five. 100 years ago it was 20%. In the United States. That’s why people used to have like 10 kids. Because 2-5 of them would just die from diseases that are now preventable.