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The American people did not vote to make Putin our leader.

Pull the thread…

Make no mistake: this is the next step in Trump/Musk’s plan to slash public services that benefit every American to pay for tax breaks that overwhelmingly support the ultra-rich.  Americans must mobilize to stop them — as we did when Trump tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

DOGE asked what federal employees did last week. Here’s how I replied.

For most folks, democracy is local. So get out and run for office. The people are demanding change. Don’t just wonder when that change will happen. Be that change.

Never ever stop sharing this.

The accelerationist belief that if things get bad enough, then things will start to get better is quite something to see in the wild. It’s wrong though. Historically, misery creates more misery and is visited on the most marginalized in ever intensifying cycles of horror.

Hot Take von Michael Hüther hier in der @faznet.bsky.social angesichts einer postulierten "Flucht aus den Palaverfächern": "Kann von der Unvermeidlichkeit der Geisteswissenschaften noch die Rede sein?" zeitung.faz.net/faz/feuillet...

Please share FAR & WIDE. New Mexico AG Raul Torrez should be a household name. He is spearheading a multi-state AG effort to stop Elon Musk‘s illegal actions since Congress will not! Thank you, AG Torrez. We support you.

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...

My public health YouTube channel is completely free. Whether I have 1, 10 or 1 million subscribers, I will not be monetizing access to accurate health information. I would love your feedback is all I ask. youtube.com/@vinguptaoff...

📌“My parents always said… you are who you hang out with. There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla.” 📌Sheryl Crow dumped her Tesla and proceeds from its sale went to NPR. 📌This is everything to me, and how I live my life. Walk the walk, patriots. ✊🏼

"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man." - Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC

Happy Valentine's Day, America.

Our government is being dismantled in a fast-moving coup because a bunch of ostensible adults are afraid of mean tweets from a spent 78 year old skin bag who wears Oompa Loompa makeup.

The one and only @robertgarcia.bsky.social. You should give him a follow.

Good question.

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

This video will make your day ❤️🐿

Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.07.637078v1

This is EXACTLY the sort of thing that surely made Trump's fucking HEAD explode, and the more he sees and hears this type of mockery the sooner he will dump his BF Elon... www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/m...

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#Florida tycoon is behind oil-for-migrants deal U.S. reached with Venezuelan strongman www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-... via @miamiherald.com

Also follow my reporting partner @anthonycormier.bsky.social ! We've been in the trenches together for 8 years now. He's new to BlueSky!

DEI = Deport Elon Immediately

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it really is appropriate to view this as potentially the biggest privacy and cybersecurity scandal in American history

Environmental groups, incl. @westernwatersheds.bsky.social, say the federal government violated the National Environmental Policy Act by failing to consider the effects of livestock on an expanding Mexican gray wolf population. Cattle grazing in the Greater Gila Bioregion could threaten lobos ⬇️

It turns out the only president worse than Donald Trump is Elon Musk.

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A new paper on microplastics accumulating in the brain was just published in Nature Medicine. I've reviewed the background and main findings in a new Ground Truths post erictopol.substack.com/p/the-microp...

Frankly, I am surprised that these horrible people are getting interviewed as if they are legitimate. All that does is to 'normalize' pathological liars and con artists. This harms everyone. www.yahoo.com/news/kristi-...

🧵Someone from the /r/fednews subreddit put together a list of all the Elon folks working for DOGE. They are: Amanda Scales Brian Bjelde Riccardo Biasini Anthony Armstrong Steve Davis Baris Akis Thomas Shedd Edward Coristine Russell Vought Michael Peters Josh Gruenbaum Russell “Rusty” McGranahan

I'm with Asha 100% here.

There have been more grounds for impeaching Trump in the past two weeks than in his first four years in office.