The Trump Justice Department is pushing U-Va. to fire its president because he has not in its view adequately dismantled DEI programs, the latest effort by the new administration to dictate how universities run their campuses. Mike Schmidt @michaelcbender.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
It comes as no surprise that Stephen Miller is tied to Peter Thiel’s Palantir, considering the alignment between their white Christian-nationalist and neoreactionary ideologies, both of which are infiltrating the government in an active attempt to dismantle and replace democracy with dictatorship.
ABC’s Jay O’Brien is reporting that republicans in Congress were briefed ahead of the strikes, but that democrats were not briefed until after the attack was underway.
Trump has not called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in the aftermath of the assassination of House DFL Leader Melissa Hortman.
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Say what now
Grateful for the takes of the prostate cancer + Ukraine + immigration + crypto experts on X, but this is an interesting read from a physician who has also studied how the health of political leaders is managed and relayed to the public. www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/b...
SCOOP: A young man with no government experience who hasn’t even finished his undergrad degree is working for Elon Musk’s DOGE at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and has been tasked with using AI to rewrite the agency’s rules and regulations.
Matt Bai: If the ADL thinks Trump’s thuggery is protecting Jews, it’s wrong
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Way to go !
* CHINA IS SAID TO RESTRICT COMPANIES FROM INVESTING IN THE US 🇨🇳
@bloomberg.com
Turns out the world‘s richest man is just not that popular, maybe that would change if he gave money to things like childhood cancer research instead of cutting it
"Roberts’s immunity ruling not only gutted Smith’s case against Trump, it also sent a clear message: If Trump won the election, he could freely engage in even more egregious crimes. As later events would demonstrate, Trump got the message loud and clear." — @davidrlurie.bsky.social
Zelenskyy: I don't know what history books will write about me it's not my purpose or goal. I want to see my kids walk the streets without hiding.
Growing up during the Cold War, I never imagined the US would turn its back on a country invaded by Russia.
#ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
Elon Musk might be cutting government spending, but not on his own projects — billions in extra federal money is likely headed toward SpaceX, thanks to policy changes that will make the world’s richest man even richer. A NYT investigation examines the Trump-era shift toward SpaceX
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Musk group offers $100 to Wisconsin voters ahead of pivotal state Supreme Court election.
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New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
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The civil servants Trump is firing are those on the front lines helping us all. Trying to save lives and livelihoods. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
Well said!
NEW: HEALTH ALERT
Measles has been confirmed in Washington state.
An infant in King County has been identified as the first confirmed case of measles in Washington this year. This follows an alarming increase in measles cases in other regions of the United States.
The King County infant,…
DOGE recommendations have driven the Trump administration to begin axing employees at NOAA — the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
NOAA is considered one of the world’s premier centers for climate science and weather forecasting.
While the Trump administration claims that no…
This.
Letter from 5 former Secretaries of Defense calling for ASAP hearings re. firings of military officers: Appeal to the Congress from Former Secretaries of Defense 2/27/2025 We are deeply alarmed by President Trump's recent dismissals of several senior U.S. military leaders. We write to urge the U.S. Congress to hold Mr. Trump to account for these reckless actions and to exercise fully its Constitutional oversight responsibilities. The President offered no justification for his actions, even though he had nominated these officers for previous positions and the Senate had approved them. These officers' exemplary operational and combat experience, as well as the coming dismissals of the Judge Advocates General of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force, make clear that none of this was about warfighting. Mr. Trump's dismissals raise troubling questions about the administration's desire to politicize the military and to remove legal constraints on the President's power. We, like many Americans -- including many troops -- are therefore left to conclude that these leaders are being fired for purely partisan reasons. As former Secretaries of Defense, we call on both the House and the Senate to hold immediate hearings to assess the national security implications of Mr. Trump's dismissals. The House and Senate should demand that the administration justify each firing and fully explain why it violated Congress' legislative intent that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff complete a four-year term in office. General C.Q. Brown Jr. had not yet completed two years in the job. In the meantime, Senators should refuse to confirm any new Defense Department nominations, including that of retired Lt. General Dan Caine as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. President Trump's actions undermine our all-volunteer force and weaken our national security. Talented Americans may be far less likely to choose a life of military service if they believe they will be held to a polit…
🚨 Five former Secretaries of Defense have signed a letter demanding Congress hold immediate hearings regarding the firing of senior military officers.
No doubt 🤡 and his band of Russian asshat assets will use their bully pulpit to bully them.
Let’s not be bystanders.
@votevets.org
we may be one of the few pubs that got this headline right
Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
Is this how the USA surrendered to Russia? This and the obscene ruckus in the White House today?
Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
Statement begins: The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others). Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....
I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.
I can't think of a faster way to undermine the country than simultaneously firing government workers, cutting scientific research, rolling back protections on public health & environment, & cutting essential services. It's like the US was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy.
NOAA begins firing hundreds of staffers: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) began the process of firing hundreds of probationary workers Thursday, the latest mass job cuts within federal agencies, three sources with knowledge of internal operations told The Hill. The cuts,…
Don’t listen to HHS Secretary RFK Jr. on anything—especially health, disease, and vaccines. He’s straight-up lying and going to get folks killed.
Vaccinate your damn kids, people!
