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Captainant

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  1. And AIDS prevention funding wasn't gutted then like it is now. AIDS is gonna go back to the 80s, baby! That's why you're getting the reaction you are.
  2. Yes, and the state you describe is the end state of what happens when the justice department and basic government systems are destroyed by a dictatorial leader.
  3. Have you been paying attention to the gutting of DOJ and dropping basically every corruption case on the books? SDNY has completely been ransacked over their refusal to drop the Eric Adams case. Buddy we are off the goddamn rails. The courts are for sale and do not follow precedence any longer
  4. I wish him the outcome of every oligarch that gets too big for his britches
  5. BBC: US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago The US government is trying to bring back nuclear safety employees it fired on Thursday, but is struggling to let them know they should return to work, NBC News has reported. The National Nuclear Security Administration workers were among hundreds of employees in the energy department who received termination letters. An email obtained by NBC said the letters for some NNSA employees "are being rescinded, but we do not have a good way to get in touch with those personnel". The terminations are part of massive effort by President Donald Trump to slash the ranks of the federal workforce, a project he began on his first day in office, less than a month ago. Last week, nearly 10,000 federal workers were let go, according to multiple US outlets. That figure was in addition to the estimated 75,000 workers who have accepted an offer from the White House to leave voluntarily in the autumn. The nuclear security officials who were laid off on Thursday helped oversee the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons. That included staff who are stationed at facilities where the weapons are built, according to CNN. Attempting to reach the workers, the email, which was sent to current employees, said: "Please work with your supervisors to send this information (once you get it) to people's personal contact emails."
  6. I'll take "phrases likely to get booked for 200, Alex"
  7. This should be a major news story, maybe it will be once the murderers become cabinet members
  8. Love the fallacy of using a single data point to discount a whole trend. Republican control of legislatures across the board from local to state to federal in every state is significantly more broad than their electoral support. They're getting barely more than 50% of the vote but control a supermajority of seats. That's fucked We need ranked choice voting for starters
  9. Bro do you even know what gerrymandering is?
  10. Thank goodness ICE got rid of this dangerous brown person
  11. bro do you even epoch?? I thought every John Doe was born on Jan 1 1970
  12. It's time. To put our nukes on the blockchain.
  13. DOGE going at it with firing over a thousand employees from various DOE offices, including the NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION President Donald Trump's administration has laid off between 1,200 and 2,000 employees at the Department of Energy (DOE), including staff from the nuclear security administration and the loans office, two sources familiar with the decision told Reuters. Democratic lawmakers confirmed to the outlet that the layoffs also impact workers at national laboratories, hydroelectric plants and Cold War-era nuclear sites. The DOE employs approximately 14,000 federal workers and oversees 95,000 contractors across various energy and security sectors. According to two sources, the layoffs followed the arrival of three representatives from billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the agency. One source revealed that approximately 325 employees have been dismissed from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which oversees the U.S. nuclear weapons fleet and works to secure radiological materials worldwide.
  14. Internet sleuths are pretty sure the collision was just aft of her starboard quarter elevator. Here's what she looks like when not damaged, impact area circled
  15. NTSB is doing a presser right now on initial findings, they're going to be publishing a full report too
  16. Buncha fucking tiny dicked incels acting like choads. God help us all, they represent the majority of Americans now whether we like it or not
  17. Weird - it's almost like running a school as a private equity owned business isn't condusive to learning and stability, or something
  18. Selling fewer than ever cars too! Or are they an AI company now?
  19. Gotta love when the ruling oligarch is referring to the citizens of America as the "parasite class". Shit, slashing NOAA is gonna fuck us six ways to Sunday when hurricane season hits https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-team-looks-to-drastically-cut-noaa-staff-and-budget/ DOGE paid em a visit last week.
  20. Hooray, our nextdoor neighbor state is no longer promoting vaccination! https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/louisiana-end-mass-vaccine-promotion-states-top-health-118807539 NEW ORLEANS -- The Louisiana Department of Health “will no longer promote mass vaccination” according to a Thursday memo written by the state's top health official and obtained by The Associated Press. A department spokesperson confirmed Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham had ordered his staff to stop engaging in media campaigns and community health fairs to encourage vaccinations, even as the state has experienced a surge in influenza. Abraham's announcement occurred the same day vaccine skepticRobert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in by the U.S. Senate to serve as President Donald Trump's health secretary. In a separate letter posted on the department's website, Louisiana's surgeon general decried “blanket government mandates” for vaccines and criticized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's COVID-19 vaccination push. Individuals should make their own decisions about vaccinations, Abraham said.
  21. Brazen lawlessness. But hey like our republican friends loves to tell us, if there's no charges, there's no crime! Simple as.
  22. *They're And holy shit you're one dense mother fucker
  23. He also has a history of trying to get Zelensky to lie on his behalf to better his domestic political situation. Granted, that is moot because Trump is effectively a monarch now
  24. Unfortunately, the Kremlin has gained an extremely strong ally that will refill her coffers and unleash new death on Ukraine. Its us.
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