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not a clue what this means.

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"Your Mom."

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“We don’t work for DOGE. We have always worked for you.” New secure government workers’ website for the American public. www.wethebuilders.org

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Medicaid coverage for virtual visits ends April 1st. As someone who cares for children that live up to 8 hours away, this is DEVASTATING. Children, adults, elderly will all suffer. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES The 5 calls app makes it easy!

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DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.

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When Rupert Murdoch’s rags turn on you …

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“If Vladimir Putin comes to the negotiating table and agrees to a cease-fire, we need to bear in mind that he is the gentleman who has countenanced this outrage," U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, said. https://buff.ly/3ENGeVA

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A whole generation of early career scientists and physician-scientists, including colleagues and myself, are particularly vulnerable to these funding freezes and cuts, with jobs and careers depending on federal grants. #IDsky #Medsky #Episky www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 11 hours ago • 114 comments

He nails it.

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Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

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Another nice day in the courts--for us. Not for them. democracyforward.org/updates/judg...

submitted 20 hours ago • 5 comments

From our upcoming product safety cautionary tale novella 'The Day They Gave the Dinosaurs Jet Packs'*

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WIRED health & biotech writer here. If you're a USDA employee working on the government's response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak and would like to speak securely about what's happening at the agency, please reach out to me on Signal at emullin.06. I can honor requests for anonymity.

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“civil servants at the technology arm of the GSA even bombarded an online chat with spoon emojis to express their displeasure at … the “fork in the road [offer].” (Their bosses responded by removing spoons from … searchable emojis permitted in their videoconferencing platform.)”

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From The Daily's science desk: Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @trevorabranch.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com share their motivations behind switching platforms. www.dailyuw.com/science/scie...

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If we have enough people with the knowledge and moral fortitude of Maine Governor Janet Mills, and the Associated Press- we might be able to save our Democracy

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Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: A woman (50s?) in a denim jacket and hiking boots is sitting at a public piano, a far away look on her face as she plays the theme from the movie Amélie. A backpack and walking poles at her side. People chilling nearby, soaking up the atmosphere. (1)

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And we got finger-wagged by a New England journo "expert" for not staying in our lane and sticking to our knitting (his words) and leaving hard stuff to (paywalled) NYT and Wapo. So we were right, and we did the right thing, and we didn't need anyone's permission to make our own news decisions.

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“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

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BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

submitted 23 hours ago • 156 comments

Lest this seems obvious to you, I assure you: it is woefully not.

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I’m with friends this weekend and we are discussing our core missions and stuff, and here’s mine: I’m against brutality. Everything I do, in every sphere, is about this. Brutality is a wasteful abomination that I will fight until I’m dead. In all the ways.

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🌱 Everything starts with plants. Did you know there are two different species of Juniper found at the #TarPits? Learn how our paleobotanists have been piecing fossilized plants together and as a result, have found a number of exciting things about this seed mystery: tarpits.org/stories/solv...

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New zine drop on geoz.one! "Glitch Infrastructures, Walking on a Mosaic of Failures" takes a closer look at a series of sidewalks in Medellín, Colombia, and introduces the concept of glitch infrastructures.

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Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

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I talked to Black and brown veterans who are raising awareness about veterans who've been deported to their birth country. thetriibe.com/2025/02/blac... “No immigrant is safe, not even those that serve in the United States Armed Forces. If you were not born in the US, you are a target.”

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Well now.

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A new report from the Brattle Group shows that eliminating IRA's clean-energy tax credits would increase generation costs, eliminate jobs, & slow US economic growth. Importantly, this report was commissioned by ConservAmerica, a conservative group. conservamerica.org/wp-content/u...

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

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Feds, we chose this path to serve a greater purpose. In these times of cruelty and fear, remember: our work still matters, even when the public forgets. Every life we impact is a strike back against false kings. Stand tall, stay strong, and hold the line. We are needed, now, more than ever.

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In this Indiana diner, everyone has three questions: How's the breaded tenderloin? Is the quarry hiring? And when will the feds finally put an end to congestion pricing in Manhattan?

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Inside the lobby at NSF…

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Sometime after the election I changed my standard public greeting from “have a nice day” or the like to “take care.” But it wasn’t just me; many people moved toward this tender sign-off at around the same time. #TakeCare

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I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

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Out of the 12,000 civil rights complaints the Education Department has put on hold since Trump took office: • 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students • 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence • 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination

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Marco Rubio's collaboration with Russia's Sergei Lavrov and Putin is one of the most disgusting acts of betrayal to democracy and our nation. Rubio has secured his place in history of infamy.

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Math is hard

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hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

submitted 4 days ago • 152 comments

Out there. Doing the work.

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Oh look our sad faced lil toady with the folks who assassinate people in other countries with hideous toxins and the other ones who murdered and chopped up a great journalist and shoved his body parts into a suitcase. Nice new allies ya got there, America. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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This is HUGE. The administration is trying to dismantle the board so that government employees have nowhere to file termination grievances.

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@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."

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NEW 👀: As predicted, Judge Ho has ordered a hearing for 2 p.m. this Wednesday to explore why the DOJ has moved to dismiss the charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/n...

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This sentiment will make my day bearable.

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Can I just say, as a Latin person, that literally no one “forced” me to use Latinx (and I didn’t), but the current administration is actually threatening organizations for using ‘Gulf of America’ and is actively trying to erase the existence of trans folks.

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