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abbykoch.bsky.social
Epidemiologist, knitter, kitty mama, armchair sled dog enthusiast #uglydogs
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#UglyDogs #MusherSky I saw this great article linked on another site, from the Minnesota Star Tribune, about Emily Ford, plus it contains the best map I've seen so far of the 2025 Iditarod route in comparison to the original. www.startribune.com/duluths-emil...

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NEW: While Elon Musk and his underlings demand budget cuts and layoffs across the federal government, funding for the agency they operate — the Department of Government Efficiency — has soared to some $40 million, ProPublica found.

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This is just to say I have fired the bureaucrats throughout your government Even the ones that were probably keeping planes in the air Forgive me I am not very smart So efficiency Much savings

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Unprincipled men were useful, enabling those who had more scruples to keep their hands tolerably clean in a world where there was much dirty work to be done.

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If you're an early career researcher - perhaps based in a fledgling authoritarian state - and want an out, @britishacademy.bsky.social offer 2-year fellowships to come to a UK university (including relocation costs and research funds). www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

What's absolutely maddening about this moment is that media refuses to pay attention to Musk and Vance's neo-Nazi connections because they feel like it's unserious Twitter stuff... except, Musk and Vance take it so seriously they're putting these people in charge of the entire US government

submitted 15 days ago • 61 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 15 days ago • 6591 comments

Trump already empowering the worst bosses to just.. ignore labor law. Whole Foods workers won their union vote, and now Whole Foods (owned by Jeff Bezos) is saying they simply won't recognize the vote because nobody is going to make them.

submitted 16 days ago • 189 comments

Pictured: Rep. Andrew Clyde witnessing President Trump's "outside the box" thinking on January 6th.

submitted 16 days ago • 114 comments