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contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, writer for The New Yorker, Wired, and elsewhere, slowly writing a book Tennessean on the Puget Sound, a pal and a confidant https://brookejarvis.net
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A Washington Post opinion columnist weighs in on Jeff Bezos’s directive:

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Storm alerts during the next hurricane

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Looking forward to relying on storm warnings from my neighbor's bum knee

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Still contemplating the quiet but profound wisdom of this sign above a toilet.

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I keep hearing people say Trump is dumb for firing immigration judges just as he’s trying to dramatically ramp up deportations. It’s only dumb if you assume they plan to respect due process for those they deport. I think “ominous” is the better word. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/18/m...

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They arrived at the United States border from around the world, hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled and flown by the U.S. military to a faraway country, Panama. Our exclusive look at a new front in Pres. Trump’s immigration crackdown:

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the line about how trump is just trolling or joking about the “king” thing is belied somewhat by the fact that his administration’s explicit position is he can do whatever he wants and that everyone in every branch of government needs to bow to his demands or be banished

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“They were buying down future risk,” said Erin Sikorsky, director of the Center for Climate and Security and a former U.S. intelligence official. “Invest a little today so we don’t have to spend a lot in the future when things metastasize.” Thanks to Somini Sengupta for this important piece.

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Of course many federal workers can just “find another job”. But the point is that the jobs we do are done for the *public good*. There are no private sector corollaries. We do things that are largely not profitable and that is on purpose. We do work that benefits everyone, if sometimes indirectly.

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If "saving money" = causing a bunch of expensive future problems

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Republican Senators are lobbying Elon Musk to release money to their states that they themselves appropriated. So I guess Musk is two branches of government now. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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..... www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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SCOOP: Trump administration has been evaluating the costs of destroying or disposing of tens of millions of coronavirus tests that would otherwise be provided free to Americans. My story w/ Carolyn Y. Johnson. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Fun facts about milk regulation: before we had it, milk often carried tuberculosis and other infections and killed literally thousands of children every year. To make it seem drinkable producers added plaster dust, liquefied calf brains, and formaldehyde. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

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"I'll just peek at the news"

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Another word for "regulation" is... "consumer protection" "environmental protection" "Regulation" means your milk is safe. "Regulation" means toys that harm your babies are removed from the shelves. "Regulation" means chemical companies can't dump waste in your river.

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"run the government like a business"

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Poland as the 17th German state? Well the Third Reich is due for quite a wake up call if there are ever elections again! Ha ha ha! What the fuck are we doing here

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Energizing to see people showing up in different ways. www.oklahoman.com/story/news/p...

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"stop with the pussyfooting about what’s happening... Big Journalism’s leaders need to think hard — and fast — about whether they are just presenting facts or actually getting the nightmarish reality across." [email protected] margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/four-essen...

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My favorite from today’s 50501 March in Boston.

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at least he’s being honest about One thing guys. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Read this one by the great @katherinejwu.com www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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Don't know what to say that doesn't seem hollow, but my heart is breaking for the awful disruption to the lives and work of federal employees that's going on right now -- and the terrible consequences that's going to cause for everyone. These folks are the backbone of our health and safety.

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Happy Valentine's Day from my

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Note: these funds had already been credited to low-income residents, *who will now be made to pay them back*.

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I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

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A new study finds that with every degree global warming, the global mean area burned by fires each year will increase by 13.8% www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Long overdue analysis to show how global supply chains stretch around the world to have a major impact on biodiversity in distant countries - those outsourcing resource needs are responsible for much greater cumulative range loss to species outside their own borders than within

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When Musk's minions forced their way into USAID's servers, they made themselves "super administrators" meaning they had access to workers' Social Security numbers, credit histories, and home addresses. They may have well broken the law. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

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Looking forward to relying on storm warnings from my neighbor's bum knee

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Purging dissent in the security services and giving loyalists power is something we *instantly* recognize in other contexts.

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Not-so-fun fact: In 2024, the combined salaries of 2M federal employees totaled $213B (avg. $106K each, per OMB). Coincidentally, Elon Musk’s net worth rose by $213B in 2024 (per Bloomberg). Helps to put in perspective where the real inefficiencies lie.

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“Truly our office has gotten more phone calls on Elon Musk and what the heck he’s doing mucking around in federal government than I think anything we’ve gotten in years. … People are really angry.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Trump and Musk's shuttering of the DOJ's Office of Environmental Justice proves the goal isn't cost cutting or efficiency. The tiny OEP brings in tens of millions of $ from illegal polluters. Without that, tax payers have to foot the clean up bill From OEJ's deleted-today annual enforcement report:

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The stop-work order on USAID-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

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Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

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A warning from the outgoing ambassador to Hungary www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/m...

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@wired.com under @katie-drummond.bsky.social is distinguishing itself as a rare news organization that’s meeting the moment.

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One of so many unsettling details in this wild story: Musk's agents have halted all IT upgrades at OPM, an agency that's been repeatedly hacked by foreign governments. “You let your defenses down," an intelligence official said. "It’s a perfect time to strike.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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NEW: The removal of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 database signals the Trump administration’s intention to not only spare his supporters any further consequences for their role in the riot, but to erase the event from the record. By @alecmac.bsky.social

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This happened to me in Trump 1.0 when I called in and the dude said, “wow lots of calls about this issue today!” and I asked how many is a lot and he said “Seventeen!” Motivates me to pick up the phone every time.

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The "lying makes it true" approach not going over well in reality-based countries www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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