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Proud of my alma mater for sharing important stories of how federal funding matters, in ways people can really appreciate.

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UC Davis is going all in on showing why federally funded research matters for everyone. Love to see it! Throwing in a pic of my lovely fam is for sure a win-win! 😎📚👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

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Donald Trump is lying to you.

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Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."

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"Residents on several Slow Streets have installed Telraam sensors that track daily vehicle volume and speed. Our live analysis of Telraam's sensor data shows how Slow Streets are currently tracking against SFMTA's threshold of 1,000 vehicles per day at 15 MPH." transpomaps.org/projects/san...

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"I'm burning America down and making it illegal for you to complain about it."

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gotta say it’s pretty amusing to see republicans who lost their mind about a $9 congestion relief zone (in the most transit-rich part of the country) support tariffs that will cost the average family thousands of dollars

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shout it from the rooftops

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ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

submitted 3 days ago • 221 comments

PSA: When the recession hits and the economy tanks remember every action they take to stop the bleeding enriches them even further. (Bailouts, buying things cheaper, etc) Heads: Trump and Musk and the oligarchs win Tails: you lose

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Absolutely a no-brainer to introduce paid parking to Golden Gate Park. It can help raise much-needed funds for SF Rec & Parks, and also help cut down on the congestion on MLK and other popular spots. cc @parkingreform.org www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit...

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The Bay Area weather radar (KMUX) has been out of service for more than 24 hours now. An expensive broken part needs to be replaced and specially ordered, but that may not be possible due to ongoing freeze on government credit card spending, I’ve been told.

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🚨 BREAKING: This is beyond outrageous. Elon Musk, his cranky mother Maye, and one of his young kids were chauffeured in Air Force One and Marine One—straight to the White House, where they’re apparently staying. WTF is going on? It goes without saying, this is not normal. 🙄

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There it is: Speaker of the House says Elon has already started running your Social Security through his AI.

submitted 3 days ago • 636 comments

The Terner Center has a few interesting jobs open for professional housing posters: ternercenter.berkeley.edu/careers/

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No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”

submitted 3 days ago • 160 comments

🚨🌊Breaking News: San Francisco’s newest park is officially opening on Saturday, April 12! To prepare for the park’s opening and the SFPUC’s annual sand-moving operations, the Upper Great Highway will permanently close to cars starting Friday, March 14.

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Obama and Biden may think they are honoring the office of the presidency by keeping quiet at a moment like this — if so that’s just preening vanity — they owe it to the office and to the Republic that until last month it served to speak up loudly and clearly and without relent.

submitted 5 days ago • 529 comments

“Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.”

submitted 5 days ago • 222 comments

ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs

submitted 5 days ago • 193 comments

meantime....in annals of conflict of interest

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The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming. 1/11

submitted 6 days ago • 46 comments

Between the FAA/Verizon/Starlink contract news and today's NOAA and NWS firings, remember: the privatization is the point (or one of the main ones). This is about enriching the few, not creating efficiency for the many.

submitted 6 days ago • 28 comments

It's absolutely insane that Elon Musk and his wrecking crew are saying they're firing entire swaths of our government infrastructure and the press are just like "oh that's sad but what are you gonna do, guess they're fired." It is batshit crazypants, and it's being covered like normal policy choices

submitted 6 days ago • 46 comments

This is terrifying.

submitted 7 days ago • 89 comments

The Trump admin is causing chaos in transport research. Studies have been canceled, datasets have vanished, and experts have been fired. The Nat'l Academies’ Transportation Research Board has caved to Trump’s demands for censorship, triggering upheaval. Its future is in doubt. From me (w/scoops) 🧵

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

RFK Jr saying that measles outbreaks are normal is his way, and the entire administration's way, of gaslighting the American people and their health

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Dean Karlan, Chief Economist at USAID, has resigned www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

This is extremely, extremely bad. Our legal system cannot function if the govt retaliates — and if courts allow it to retaliate — against lawyers who take matters the govt disfavors.

submitted 8 days ago • 69 comments

Deport people who work hard for a living, import international criminals

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Musk called DOGE “maximally transparent,” but it has refused to release info about its spending and operations — including the names of its employees. ProPublica has identified 46 of them, including 12 new names we've just added.

submitted 10 days ago • 94 comments

UPDATE: The GOP framework that passed Tuesday allows the party to move ahead on a sweeping multitrillion plan to address defense, energy, immigration and tax policy.

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Elon Musk’s team posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts. Now it has deleted all of the five biggest “savings” on that original list, after The New York Times and other media outlets pointed out they were riddled with errors.

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House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care. They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely. This won’t just harm people. This will kill people. They own this.

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"Elon Musk is not a scientist, he is not an engineer. He is a billionaire con man with a lot of money." - @aoc.bsky.social 🎯

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NEW EPISODE: What's happening with federal funding of transit, bike/pedestrian projects and the transition to EVs? What is DOT Secretary Sean Duffy’s “Woke Rescission Memo”? Beth Osborne, executive director of Transportation for America, breaks it all down for us. thewaroncars.org/2025/02/25/e...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

an unelected billionaire with no official job in the government thinks he can fire half the workforce for not replying to an email

submitted 9 days ago • 103 comments

"As President Trumps' [sic] lawyers" ... Uh ... that's not your job, champ.

submitted 9 days ago • 32 comments

Elon Musk is stealing your tax dollars and putting them in his own pocket

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Musk’s endgame is the US government becomes his client. It’s far worse than crony capitalism. He’s just backing the truck up to Fort Knox, figuratively and literally. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...

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👇👇👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/mark-w...

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When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump. www.sfgate.com/california/a...

submitted 10 days ago • 77 comments

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

submitted 11 days ago • 286 comments

Accidents down 55% and injuries down 51% since nyc congestion pricing (!!!) www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/22/c...

submitted 11 days ago • 46 comments

Even if US democracy survives this hostile takeover, the economy is taking a hit regardless. futurism.com/economist-el...

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let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

submitted 11 days ago • 139 comments

Man he really called it

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