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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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Breaking: Secretary of Defense removed Adm. Lisa Franchetti as chief of naval operations. Story to come for USNI News.

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Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

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The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

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Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

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i feel like with thirty minutes time and a couple diet Cokes i could get him to reverse the Louisiana Purchase

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Anxiety and sadness still through the roof (can sadness rise?) but also woke up with a visit to Sauna Glo and have been parsing JSON all morning which helped my brain dive into something else for a tiny while and I'm grateful.

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I just spent the weekend with a 21 year old young man. We drank some beer, definitely hung out with friends, and there were tons of jokes and laughter. Oh and some sporting even. Of course we were also plotting the rebellion, so maybe that was the bad person part?

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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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Reminder: Office hours with Councilor Green at Sellwood Community House on Friday, Feb. 21 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. and more dates coming soon. Come by. www.portland.gov/council/dist...

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If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

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My fired USFS daughter & her roommate are discussing how to get ahold of some Pulaski's so they can help dig fire lines this summer. Brought me to tears - the responsibility to community & the self worth of their work. The community is going to try and it's going to be terrible.

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Please don't say that no one is doing anything. We're waiting for @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov to catch up with their constituents.

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State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE. DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

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1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

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Chase Bank - all the work to clear the car parking but hazardous to get to the bus stop via the sidewalk. On a well traveled corner.

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So, JD Vance met with the leader of the far-right AfD party, but not the German chancellor. The timing, ahead of the elections to the Bundestag, is tacit endorsement of the Nazi-ish party. www.euronews.com/2025/02/14/u...

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The enemies of the nation state now run the nation state.

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AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

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You know when you go visit that friend who has 3 kinds of olive oil? I think I've become that with soap. L to R: dog shampoo, shaving soap, face soap, hair conditioner, hair shampoo. Not pictured: body soap.

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Also so many of these professions just don’t exist in the private sector. Our government does many things that doesn’t actually make a profit, such as maintaining public lands. This seems to be missing from the convo - it’s not like many of these folks can just find the same work elsewhere

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This week, approximately 200,000 federal workers have been let go.

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it’s like he’s just programmed with one catchphrase and that’s all he knows to say

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I keep thinking of the economic repercussions of these layoffs. I know one fed employee who just bought a house and is now laid off. In a high unemployment small town.

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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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My kiddo is most likely getting her termination notice tmrw. In the Butte MT USFS office, 33 ppl are probationary. I'm guessing that's at least a third of the staff. Most have been there > than 18 months, but because they are often seasonal, they can stay probationary for 3 calendar years.

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