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Shutting down already installed infrastructure isn't "efficiency," it's sabotage electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

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Social Security has a payment accuracy rate of over 99 percent. Only 0.3 percent of Social Security benefits are improper payments, which are typically caused by mistakes or delays. That's better than any private insurance company. www.cbpp.org/blog/setting...

submitted 15 hours ago • 24 comments

I can’t help but think that Trump would think twice about crapping on voters in Maine and California if every vote counted in the presidential election. This matters for red states too, which are taken for granted. www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-expl...

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@gtconway.bsky.social do you know anything like this?

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It’s also logistically impossible. It’s wrong. It’s unconstitutional. And every single federal employee should send @elonmusk & Trump an email and tell them both to go fuck themselves.

submitted 11 hours ago • 114 comments

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

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Can we have a website where USAID, FEMA, FAA, NIH, CDC etc employees can write what they did in a typical week? “I saved 79 kids from malaria.” “I got 9 families in temporary housing” “I kept 323 airplanes from running into one other” “I made steady advances toward a vaccine for prostate cancer”

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Not content with purchasing the presidency, Elon Musk now wants to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court as well. His PAC just pumped $1M into supporting anti-choice right-wing extremist Brad Schimel. Wisconsin — don't become Musk's latest acquisition! Vote @crawfordforwi.bsky.social.

submitted 10 hours ago • 149 comments

NATCA: National Air Traffic Controllers Association. Let’s also look at this language: “…a _social media post_ requiring federal employees…”. Which social media is now the “newspaper of record” for the federal government? “Ummmm…I kept airplanes from running into each other?” www.natca.org

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Good grief. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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“Melania Trump said…that [Barron Trump] had played an important role in President-elect Donald J. Trump’s victory, advising him to appear with media personalities popular with younger voters.” Wait! Wasn’t that one of Kamala Harris’s fatal mistakes?

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Does some agency set standards for this stuff? “The fact that there were no fatalities with an aircraft left upside down on a runway tells you a lot about how the restraints worked, how the aircraft design worked, how the rescue teams responded and how the cabin crew played their role.”

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They have all signed this letter!

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Trump is selling out our veterans just to give tax breaks to his billionaire friends. This is not America first, it’s America for sale.

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The top criminal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington quit today, citing pressure by the Trump administration to open what she viewed as an improper criminal probe of a federal contract. ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro...

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This spectacular video shows the Delta CRJ crash at Toronto. My first impression was a high rate of descent (confirmed on radar) and _failure of the right wing spar_. I know that sounds preposterous, but look for yourself. Radar: www.airwaysmag.com/new-post/fli... @jfallows.bsky.social

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The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

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813 US billionaires held a record $6.72 trillion in wealth at the end of 2024. The bottom 50% of Americans held roughly $3.9 trillion in wealth. When 813 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

submitted 5 days ago • 176 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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What a disgrace. Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them. This is how democracy dies.

submitted 5 days ago • 869 comments

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

submitted 6 days ago • 272 comments

I see Nicholas Kristof labeled a “reactionary centrist”, I gather because he criticizes Chávez/Maduro and Ortega. He also criticizes Modi, Putin, Orbán and Trump. There is a coherence to his views: All are autocrats, or dictators. I am also disgusted by dogmatic centrists, but Kristof is not one.

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@nytimes.com I am _so_ sick of the many articles of this type that you publish. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u...

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“If he didn’t believe that firing his weapon was necessary to protect these officers’ lives, why would he do it?” Because Allan Feliz did not show Sergeant Jonathan Rivera the respect he thought he deserved. This is the explanation for a lot of police violence. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/n...

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This is a remarkable science and personal story, but I want to highlight Workman’s humble spirit www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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But, if one of the MuskRats makes a typo, or deletes the wrong file, and Social Security benefits don’t go out, accidentally, to, just say, Blue counties, then the richest man in the world will be the one left holding the bag, and Trump will insure that the bag is under the bus. Say hi to Biden.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

No law for thee, no law for me. #Secession www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Wow, having long advocated for secession and formation of the North American Union, I was surprised today when I searched on the term here. Crisis is opportunity, and if the rule of law is dismantled, Blue/Maker states will be free to stop subsidizing Red/Taker states. #Secession 1/5

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Is the is true? @coloradosun.com ?

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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National Nuclear Security Administration officials are attempting to notify some employees who had been let go that they are now due to be reinstated — but they're struggling to find them because they don't have their new contact information. nbcnews.to/4104StF

submitted 7 days ago • 1573 comments

I guess one thing I like about Facebook is the ability to react to a post with (heavily censored) emoticons. Apple has now freed us, so I can use the 🤮 emoticon. @bsky.app ? 🙏 It’s a target-rich environment out there.

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The New Mexico Department of Health has declared a measles outbreak in Lea County. The decision came after two adults in the county tested positive for the disease, bringing this week’s total of unrelated cases up to three. The cases border Texas’s Gaines County, where measles is spreading…

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This is a fabulous analysis by @timoreilly.bsky.social. “…[T]hat “programming” is getting closer…to human language, that our machines can understand us rather than us having to speak to them in their native tongue of 0s and 1s…should be cause for celebration. www.oreilly.com/radar/the-en...

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@gallego.senate.gov has some very good and very coherent thoughts here. Read it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/m...

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“Now, there's a strong sentiment in Ukraine that we made a big mistake…If you have nuclear weapons, people don't invade you." One thing is virtually certain: Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders would remain if they had not given up their nukes in 1994. Lots of small countries have been paying attention.

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@maiasz.bsky.social thanks for this. I had not thought about the smoking/vaping tradeoff like this before. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

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Wikipedia has not supplicated to the Orange MAGAt (tm) ✊✊✊ In fact, they have an entire section on the executive order, including the fact the it was Colbert’s idea back in 2010, and a couple dozen references. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of...

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