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Listen to @thejenniwren.teamlh.social: This bill is stuffed with garbage measures that desperately need a Byrd bath. And it's already downgraded our debt rating! Our senators must propose amendments, vote-a-rama, object to every motion, shut down the Senate, and force everyone to pay attention.

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This is a big deal. The GAO is outside the executive branch for good reason. Yet the R congress has chosen to ignore their findings, and those of the senate parliamentarian, to do whatever the hell they want. Our senators have *got* to step up and stop Senate Rs' objectively lawless behavior.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Democracy isn't dying quietly. It’s being suffocated, by noise, lies, distraction, and systems that profit from confusion. But we’re not here to mourn it. We’re here to fight for what comes next.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

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My grandfather, Fred Dingler, just before going off to fight in WWII. He was a tail-gunner on a B-17, shot down over Germany in 1944, and spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft IV in Poland. He hated Nazis and autocrats, and if he were around to see the regime today, he'd have been frothing mad!

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Dear Sen. Sullivan, I’m a voter. I’m urging you to please vote NO on the OBBB. The bill is full of non-budgetary items and it explodes the deficit. I urge you to fulfill your oath to protect ALL Americans. #HeyGOPGrowASpine #CallYourSenator #PGAS app.sosha.ai/s/4dekaVK7

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"[T]he DanaBot defendants infected their own PCs, resulting in their credential data being uploaded to stolen data repositories that were seized by the feds." :picard-facepalm: krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/oops...

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NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research. NSF Astronomy was cut by 53% Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79% Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO. #GiftLink ⚛️🔭 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 5 days ago • 40 comments

Georgia folks -- here's a good opportunity to do something locally, to push back on voter suppression.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Am I crazy, or is there no way in hell this bill satisfies the constraints required for reconciliation?!

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I like the idea of building things on top of BSky/AT, so why not give this a shot? stonking.com?ref=4WUIQIFE h/t @0x0.boo, whose news.0x0.boo/news also builds on top of the protocol.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

My two kids are planning to study stage management and biochem. We've told one to apply in the UK and Ireland. The other has French citizenship; she will also apply in the UK/EU. We have among the best unis in the world, and our kids have to consider other options. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Another round of self-defeating stupidity flowing from the White House. I thought Burgum was supposed to be good-ish for all energy projects. But as usual no one can say no to this fool. We're going to be cleaning up this mess for *decades* 🤦 www.eenews.net/articles/how...

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This is a clever and obvious-in-retrospect framing, that should inform every conversation about traffic, urban development, cycling, and transit. If you *must* drive, then do so! Every person *not* driving will have far more positive impact on traffic, than any loss of lanes or parking spaces.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment