life finds a way

NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”

@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

literally every day is going to provide more evidence that the "let's provide some votes for the least bad trump nominees out of respect for the presidency" was a boneheaded strategy. any idiot could have told senate democrats that any vote for any of these people was going to make them look bad.

ALL of the Republicans are standing up and cheering for DOGE, Elon Musk, and Trump’s “policies.”

Remember that when you’re unemployed and can’t afford your basic necessities because of Trump’s tariffs.

even with all of the ways this shitshow administration is going to go down in history it's hard to imagine anyone coming out of it as more utterly a chump than marco rubio

Who’s boycotting Trump’s speech bc they’re the only people who deserve your vote

Left-wing censorship was a fantasy, but the right-wing censorship is real, unconstitutional, and murderous. There was no majority anti-conservative social media bias or casual forced use of words like “birthing person.” But stripping protest rights and official language is actual deadly censorship

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!

Unions Ask Court To Pause “Fork Directive” - Democracy Forward

Group of unions representing 800,000+ federal workers has submitted a temporary restraining order seeking a court order extending tonight's deadline for employees to accept the Fork in the Road directive. Call it an "arbitrary, unlawful, short-fused ultimatum buy-out program."

Hearing at 1pm today.

House Democrats made an unsuccessful attempt to subpoena billionaire Elon Musk to testify about his efforts to radically reshape the federal government, only to be blocked by Republicans.

What the ever loving fuck

Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

Someone is going to write a piece about how that executive order claims it’s defending women but now the National Science Foundation is shuttering programs that serve women and trying to cancel grants that mention women, right? 🧪

Here are the words putting science in the crosshairs of Trump’s orders National Science Foundation staff have been combing through thousands of active science research projects, alongside a list of keywords, to determine if they include activities that violate Trump’s ex...

More context here: www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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.

She should be in jail :)

Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized (Gift Article) A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

The only two groups that I've seen who deeply understand the spiritual peril we are in:

Black women and Jewish women.

I'm talking about feeling it in the cells, our bones. Like, making emergency exit plans.

I'm not trying to be hyperbolic, just saying the truth.

This white sock and loafer thing is Michael Jackson, I don’t make the rules

Jennings: This salute trutherism is outrageous. 

Rampell: Do it right now on TV! If you think it’s a normal way to greet people, do it right now on TV. Why won’t you?!

Democrats should not vote on a single Trump cabinet nominee until this federal assistance freeze is rescinded.

Do not let up.

if you're a nerd like i am and want to track all of the trump litigation, boy howdy do i have a website for you:

clearinghouse.net

Can somebody show me a list of democrats who are doing ANYTHING rn (I’ll give you bonus points if it’s NOT AOC, Warren, Sanders, Raskin, or Crockett)

Abortion restrictions pass Wyoming House committee One bill would cause the closure of Wyoming’s only clinic that provides procedural abortions. The other would require pregnant people to “catch” their fetal tissue following a medication abortion and ...

"One would cause the closure of Wyoming’s only clinic that provides procedural abortions. The other would require pregnant people to “catch” their fetal tissue following a medication abortion and return the tissue to their physician for disposal."

www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/politics-gov...

So we all can see that both parties are indeed not the same, right??

Nancy Mace is telling a black woman she broke more glass ceilings? I … truly cannot

The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires insurers to cover the cost of preventative health treatments such as cancer screenings.

Understand what's at stake: voxdotcom.visitlink.me/1xCuGx