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This is what happens when you automate “support services”. Note that there is no facility for telling them *why* they rated a 2 out of 5. It was because I spent the better part of half an hour trying to figure out how to mark a comment as spam, with their “help”.

CDC division responsible for asthma control and lead poisoning prevention effectively eliminated. Workers say no other HHS unit has capacity to respond to such public health crises.

I, for one, welcome our penguin overlords…. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Sadly, this does not appear to be an April Fools post, although it’s is April and it is clearly the work of fools. www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/h...

This warms my heart. It’s a great thing Guster did. I wish I could see the musical. Hopefully, they’ve found another venue.

The Social Security Administration snatched Alex Vukovich’s January payment right out of his bank account and hasn’t made February or March payments — because the government insists he's dead. (He's not)

Our hearts are with Myanmar today. Also filled with tremendous sorrow and shame for our country that USAID isn't there to help.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order putting Vice President JD Vance in charge of an effort to “remove improper ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and research centers and the National Zoo.

I can’t even. 

Opinion: Cuts to #Medicaid will set the U.S. back 35 years in #dementia care Reducing, rationing, or even closing services will be catastrophic for patients, families www.statnews.com/2025/03/25/a...

The @nytimes.com highlighted @cip.uw.edu co-founder @katestarbird.bsky.social's recent 2025 UW Faculty Lecture where she described how a “machinery of bullshit” has become "intertwined with digital media." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/b... [1/3]

How to… delete your 23andMe data But truly deleting your personal genetic information from the DNA testing company is easier said than done.

This is terrifying. What happens to the food supply if these lines aren’t maintained and we have a disaster or a pandemic worse than the last? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

I've started to realize that Anne Frank and her family wouldn't have been safe around a lot of people I know and loved and once respected. That's not something you get over.

Five books to help young readers understand #wildfire

Hearing that there are 700+ people at the empty chair town hall tonight for CA-03’s Rep Kiley…CA-03 is a R+4 district….

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing bird flu to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Veterinary scientists said that would be inhumane, dangerous and have enormous economic consequences.

Critical fire danger expected for Colorado’s Southeastern plains ahead of “damaging” winds across dry land

WHO issues starkest warning yet on fallout from U.S. withdrawal of aid for global health. Trump moves will vastly undercut efforts to combat HIV, measles, and other diseases, agency says. www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/w...

Cat standoff! ⚔️ Orange thinks he has high ground. He strikes and Gray retreats... But it's just the opening gambit... #cats #catsofbluesky #cat #checkmate #4Dchess

Good morning from me and Sally!

“Denying the Seriousness of Long COVID Is Dangerous for Me – and You” On Long COVID Awareness Day, pleased to publish this piece for Zeteo from @juliadoubleday.bsky.social

Always remember that you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~ Christopher Robin ~

I'm a broken record on this so I'll just say again that you should take every opportunity to [if you can] gather with other people who are trying to do constructive things in the world. Attend the zine fairs, the craft circles, the workshop sessions, food distros, people's assemblies, all of it.

Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer. "Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.

Elon Musk met with the head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command this week, an NSA spokesman said on Thursday, a sign that the effort to shrink the size of the federal work force could soon turn to a critical arm of the intelligence community.

A federal judge in Washington has ordered Elon Musk and operatives involved with his Department of Government Efficiency to hand over documents and answer questions about its role in directing mass firings and dismantling government programs.

Today we're publishing a monster feature that dives deep into the initial six weeks over Elon Musk's government takeover. Our entire newsroom came together to help make this story happen. Read this culmination of our blood, sweat, and tears: