Researchers working to prevent deaths from the disease, which has killed over 75,000 miners, received layoff notices.
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A Coal Miner’s Daughter Takes On DOGE Amid Rising Cases of Black Lung Disease Read Post »
The cuts have already caused some 300,000 deaths and could lead to more than 3 million preventable deaths per year.
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USAID Cuts Lead to Global Rise in Death, Hunger, Poverty, and Disease Read Post »
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency was many things in the first months of the second Trump administration. It was a chain saw, a wood chipper, and “a way of life, like Buddhism,” according to Elon Musk, its fearless leader according to everyone but the president’s lawyers. It was a funnel of disinfo, a conflict […]
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Trump’s Washington Is a Technofascist Fantasy—With or Without Musk Read Post »
“This is a sad day for our democracy and a scary day for millions of people,” said the coalition behind the challenge.
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Supreme Court Allows DOGE Continued Access to Sensitive Social Security Data Read Post »
The faulty tool, created by a staffer with no medical or government experience, helped accelerate the gutting of the VA.
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How DOGE Created an Error-Prone AI Program to Tear Up Veterans Affairs Contracts Read Post »
Author Quinn Slobodian speaks on how empowering these “titanically sized egos” threatens our collective wellbeing.
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Trump and Musk’s Dramatic Falling Out Displays the Hazards of Billionaire Rule Read Post »
Kelly Hayes and Eric Blanc unpack the fallout of Musk’s cuts and assess where things stand for the labor movement.
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After Elon Musk’s Federal Chainsaw, What Comes Next for Labor? Read Post »
On Friday, Elon Musk once again pledged to depart his role at DOGE, taking with him his bad personality, weird public behavior, complicated family life, troubled businesses, alleged regular illegal drug use, compulsive social media habits, exploding rockets, messianic conviction that he control all of earth’s resources so as to colonize Mars, and a remarkably […]
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The Optical Illusion of Elon Musk’s Fading Influence Read Post »
“Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they’re … in sync with the administration,” she said.
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McMahon: University Research Must Be “in Sync” With Trump Goals to Keep Funding Read Post »
On January 28, Dr. Troy Jacobs was in Ethiopia getting ready to board a plane from Addis Ababa to Washington, DC, when his phone and computer suddenly stopped working. Jacobs, a pediatrician and recognized expert in the field of child survival, had been a contractor with the United States Agency for International Development’s maternal and […]
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What We Don’t Know Will Hurt Us Read Post »
The billionaire’s term as a “special government employee” is set to end, but his outsized influence remains.
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Musk Officially Exits Trump Admin, Leaving His Cronies to Continue DOGE Carnage Read Post »
Model legislation from right-wing policy incubator ALEC aims to extend deregulation far beyond Washington, DC.
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After Federal Rollbacks, Corporate Interests Wage War on State Regulators Read Post »
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