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Call your state rep, senator, and governor's office, ask what their plan is when the federal government withholds funding to states? How are they preparing? Courts may temporarily prevent funding freezes, but Republican majority will pass budget reconciliation bill w/o filibuster to authorize Trump.

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The official White House account literally posted an AI image of Trump wearing a crown with the words "long live the king". www.instagram.com/p/DGRDGQWxlhX/ An anti-American show of open hostility to the Constitution, which forbids titles of nobility, and the the founding idea of the US.

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Musk is all about corruption, to enrich himself even more, at most everyone else's expense. We don't see the word "corruption" used nearly enough in news coverage of this.

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“Good luck with that, they just fired the whole privacy team,” an OPM email address responded to CNN’s FOIA request, in which CNN asked what security clearances DOGE people who have been granted access to sensitive or classified government networks have. www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

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Got a few responses on the weekend. Anyone else have recommendations? And why do you recommend them? (Click on the post below to see the thread and reply there)

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Rose is one of thousands of federal workers who have been terminated by the Trump administration. At 26, she's left wondering what to do now.

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Clear view of the Delta plane landing and then crashing in Toronto. #cdnpoli #onpoli

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Musk's doogies are still in agencies they're not allowed to be in, still exposing private data and classified secrets on the Internet. Even if you already called, call representatives & senators again today, & call the White House line too (202-456-1111). What to say: www.reddit.com/r/esist/comm...

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Musk's doogies are posting a bunch of claims to their web site. For a hint of how credulous you'd have to be to believe them, see the example in this thread.

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Who don't we see the word "appeasement" used in coverage of how Trump is dealing with Russia's grabbing of other countries through bullying and conquest? www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/p...

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Abruptly firing people who work in air traffic control is like murdering your own soldiers in the middle of a war. Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.

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Even before the fatal DC crash, Trump had already pushed out the head of the FAA with no replacement, threatened air traffic controllers with firing, and frozen hiring. It seems like he's hell-bent on causing more disasters, but just as likely he doesn't even think it matters.

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I started another account here just for posting photos: @cospics.bsky.social Starting with fish and birds and bugs but I'll probably add cats and maybe street art and other things, like I've posted on instagram in the past.

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The likelihood that this happened because of an intranet web search for words like “transition” is much higher than it should be

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Ten years ago this month was the height of the snowmageddon in Boston. Pic from this week 10 years ago showing what all the sidewalks around here looked like - little canyons with a wall keeping you from crossing (or seeing) the street except where people dug walls in the sidewalk-fort at corners.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Google Opinion Rewards, the app that pays you a bit for answering short surveys, sent me a survey last week that began with "Do you reside in Florida?" Answer options were "Yes", "No", and "I don't know"

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What groups are you donating to to help counteract the harms of the Musk/Trump administration's extremism? In addition to my regular monthly donations (such as @aclu.org) I recently made extra donations to several including @propublica.org and miracoalition.org. What about you? Recommend any?

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www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m... Obligatory "but her emails!" reference goes here.

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Elon Musk searching for corruption is like OJ Simpson looking for the real killer. (seen in several other places on social media)

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www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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Holy Shit. They're burning through people pretty fast now. After Sassoon refused/resigned, the next two people - heads of Public Integrity Section (DC) and the Criminal Division also refused/resigned. This all JUST happened. And these are all 'actings', so they're people the Trump crew chose.

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Thank you @aclu.org www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

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A good account to follow: @altnps.bsky.social

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"Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps" www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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See this bit in Electoral-Vote's news groundup yesterday: www.reddit.com/r/AmericanPo... A bit too long to quote it directly in a bluesky post.

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slate.com/life/2025/02...

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News that wiki editors are facing threats from Musk and the Heritage Foundation because of “bias” should be raising alarm bells for platforms that rely on user moderation (basically all of them, but Reddit esp. since its mods have come under fire recently).

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www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-sho... "No Archivist of the United States has ever been fired by a president, in almost 100 years since the position was created, making Shogan—the first woman in the office—the [first]" A potential subject for my calls to Congress tomorrow.

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Some other countries let their people bribe corrupt foreign government officials, so let's join them, says Trump! www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/t...

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Rampant lawlessness from the Trump administration is even more serious when they're directly disobeying court orders, so there's no longer even a pretense that they might think what they're doing is legal.

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