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"Wired takes a leading role in tracking Elon Musk’s team." By the AP's media reporter, David Bauder. apnews.com/article/elon... "Wired gained 62,500 new subscribers in the United States during the first two weeks of February alone..."

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Austria conservatives, after the failure of their negotiations with the far-right party FPO that came in first in September's elections (with 29%) just ended up allying with a social-democratic party & a centrist party to form a new governing coalition. The far-right will remain in the opposition.

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My businesses depend on government contracts. Here’s why my newspaper will only publish editorials supporting free markets. by Jeff Bezos

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ALERT! It just broke that tomorrow, the Senate will attempt a procedural vote on a transgender sports ban. It will take 7 Democrats breaking rank in order to have enough votes to pass cloture. Democrats held very strong in the House and only lost two votes. CALL YOUR DEMS! (info in next post)

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It takes massive balls to spend 5 years aggressively peddling the obvious lie that Joe Biden wasn’t falling apart in front of our eyes, then write a book about how there was a conspiracy to peddle the obvious lie that Joe Biden wasn’t falling apart in front of our eyes.

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It's fine. This person only went to the gym while contagious. kentuckylantern.com/briefs/kentu...

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It's been 37 days since the full-on assault on science in the United States began. Since then, not a single word from the National Academy of Sciences. Not one word. And silence is a choice. Completely and utterly spineless.

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republicans straight up removed their house speaker while the democrats can't even bring themselves to gently criticize hakeem jeffries. pathetic!

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Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]

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NEWS: The Trump administration has funneled Elon Musk's company $86 million out of NASA coffers since the inauguration - all while NASA now slashes 5 percent of its entire workforce.

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The SEC has closed the investigation into the Gemini Crypto exchange, which is controlled by the Winklevoss twins. There will be no enforcement action. The Winklevoss twins are strong Trump supporters.

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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

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PORTLAND: the Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund holds nearly $100 million in Tesla stock. The Oregon Investment Council, which controls these investments, meets next Wednesday, March 5 at 9 am in Tigard. Go let them know we want to liquidate the position now! www.oregon.gov/treasury/inv...

submitted 19 hours ago • 43 comments

Bout to see levels of sick we never seen before. All because Cheryl had to divorce Larry and get with Ted, er, Bobby

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Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.” That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social. “There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.

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Good god that first sentence is a nightmare

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The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion... The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.

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The plant, formally known as Ovicula biradiata, is especially notable for being the simultaneous discovery of a new species and genus. It was found with help from the community science app iNaturalist. By @jamesdoubek.bsky.social

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NEW: 72 museum workers for the Chicago History Museum are unionizing with @afscme.bsky.social @afscme31.bsky.social

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DOGE has announced a total of 45 Social Security field office closures--so far. SSA has 1,200 field offices where people can receive in-person help getting benefits, updating records, enrolling in Medicare & more. They served 30M applicants & beneficiaries in 2023 — nearly 120K per day.

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A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

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Senior Israeli official says all Palestinian adults in Gaza 'should be eliminated' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/senior-israeli-official-says-palestinian-adults-gaza-should-be-eliminated

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From @nicke.bsky.social, a reflection on his involvement with Leonard Peltier's clemency campaign: nickestes.substack.com/p/a-prayer-f...

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Republicans want one thing and it’s fucking disgusting (tax cuts for the rich funded by healthcare cuts for the poor)

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When we look back at this period of time, Leland Dudek will be the face of gutting social security.

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There is no way for for “democracy” to function in a world that looks like this

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Every House Republican just voted to defund Medicaid. Reminder: there are no moderate Republicans in Congress, and stop pretending there are.

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Legitimately the stupidest man alive I cannot fucking STAND this shit

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1. Major exclusive breaking news: Marco Rubio may have just banned trans foreigners seeking visas with correct gender markers from US Entry. A new cable, effective immediately, says visas must contain assigned sex at birth and should be rejected if they don't. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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i love everything about this photo including the 3.5-mile 23’-wide sewer tunnel this behemoth will be boring over the next four years.

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One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.

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Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn. www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...

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Do you really need a roomful of reporters for this

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My racist HS physics teacher just put a photo of Snoop and Trump on his feed and my classmate posted a response that said "you wrote me up for listening to Snoop in your class in 1993 so fuck you and I think it's about time you know that your daughter stayed over at my house after prom"

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I'm seeing a lot of talk about the importance of candidate recruitment... Here's a thread of some REALLY WILD instances of elections going unopposed that I've reported in the past, to show you how big a trend this is.

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readsludge.com/2025/02/24/d...

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THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US. This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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this is a really an unfathomable level of evil “shut off all foreign aid” is of course just as evil but it’s a blunt instrument, where you don’t have to directly face the specific programs you’re killing but these little fucks were manually vetoing PEPFAR time and again

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Generative AI is so damaging it got all the UK papers to unite against it. How's that for some solidarity 🇬🇧

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FT Exclusive: Peter Navarro, one of the US president’s closest advisers, is pushing for the US to remove Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network — which also includes the UK, Australia and New Zealand. www.ft.com/content/2dfa...

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The Trump Justice Department is declining to prosecute a sitting Republican Congressman who was referred to them by the DC police for beating a woman.

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me either

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

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Non zero chance this makes it really obvious how shit generative ai is

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We're in trouble.

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Researchers say the Trump administration's plan to slash payments for indirect costs will hamper new medical science. One example? A lab studying respiratory viruses faces losing half its staff.

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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

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