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The Greater Austin area permitted 45,000 new homes in 2022 while the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts permitted 17,000 new homes.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

I think if someone upends the lives careers of hundreds of thousands of people we should be allowed to know their name but, you know, I’m not a “government transparency advocate” or whatever these people call themselves

submitted 11 hours ago • 15 comments

For my fellow Kindle users... might want to back up your books, by Wednesday.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Y'know, when I created this account, I was planning on making this a light-hearted social account to connect with friends and stuff. I guess it's just hard to focus on that stuff when one's country go through a fascist coup. Sorry everyone...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Treating Elon Musk as the equivalent of a malign foreign actor seems to be the only prudent approach at this moment.

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

I hope it goes without saying that this goes doubly for purged military officers

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

As a Californian, I love this idea.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 6 days ago • 489 comments

They’re also firing generals and attorneys for the crime of not being male.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 6 days ago • 2002 comments

saying it again: if there are "conditions" on aid to california, no democrat should vote for any disaster aid of any kind to any state. all states get aid or no states get aid. that's it

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

The waste is coming from the White House. 👇

submitted 8 days ago • 837 comments

Musk's hypocrisy in attacking government funding of technology is not only infuriating - it's going to destroy this country's future. Read this article if you don't already know what I'm talking about.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

“Re-establishes the longstanding norm that only the president or the Attorney General can speak for the United States when stating what the law is.” That was NEVER a longstanding norm. EVER. Don’t let them rewrite history and civics like that.

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

Headline: Exploding rocket company to oversee changes to airplane safety. buff.ly/3X86gt4

submitted 9 days ago • 1215 comments

There’s just no chance we ever have anything approximating real elections after this

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

submitted 13 days ago • 24 comments

A politician's stance on the Consumer Financial Protection Board is a litmus test. If they hate the CFPB... they are NOT on your side.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

This is a nightmare. So many people losing so much, to settle the petty grudge of a spoiled rich man.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

“It won’t work so don’t try” is basically the dem party motto at this point

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

SpaceX and its subsidiary Starlink, companies that Musk owns, have received approximately $1.7 billion from NASA, $1.3 billion from the Air Force, and $199.2 million from the Defense Information Systems Agency --- a massive total over $3.3 billion in just the past 12 months. REPOST

submitted 20 days ago • 37 comments

In a functioning society, people would be building fucking barricades over an unelected billionaire gleefully declaring an end to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Call me crazy but I’m thinking that wildland firefighter jobs are not what we should be cutting just now

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

@roguenasa.bsky.social please tell me someone over there is busy archiving everything at science.nasa.gov/climate-chan... …right?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Looks like it's time to follow the unofficial accounts again

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

submitted 20 days ago • 105 comments

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

submitted 20 days ago • 199 comments

NCMEC isn't just some nonprofit, they were created (and are funded) by Congress to run the mandatory reporting system for CSAM. They run the filtering system tech companies use, too. Shutting them down, you might as well issue a proclamation saying CSAM is legal now.

submitted 21 days ago • 18 comments

This is the "administrative state" that Trump and his cronies want to dismantle. Emergency management and communication. Disaster relief. Resilience funds for communities to protect themselves from future disasters.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Trump already empowering the worst bosses to just.. ignore labor law. Whole Foods workers won their union vote, and now Whole Foods (owned by Jeff Bezos) is saying they simply won't recognize the vote because nobody is going to make them.

submitted 21 days ago • 190 comments

let me put this plainly: if NCMEC is shut down, then Donald Trump has effectively legalized child pornography

submitted 21 days ago • 37 comments

the only people who benefit from this are child predators and i'd like dem officials to say so into a microphone

submitted 21 days ago • 83 comments

🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

submitted 21 days ago • 379 comments

Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

submitted 21 days ago • 2289 comments

FACTS: "There are proposals from Republicans to cut $2.3 trillion from Medicaid." THIS is what it would do: It would destroy Medicaid. It wouldn't fight inflation. It wouldn't bring anybody's prices down. It would just steal people's health care #HandsOffOurMedicaid H/T @socialsecurityworks.org

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

This by Ezra Klein is really spot on: “You never want a power grab to look like a power grab.” It looks like a power grab. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

submitted 24 days ago • 76 comments

I knew this administration wanted to privatize the government. I hadn't expected they could just steal it.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

an unelected billionaire storming into US agencies, installing his unqualified and unapproved lackeys, purging civil servants, seizing access to sensitive data and payments, unilaterally eliminating federal agencies: fine identifying the lackeys: illegal

submitted 24 days ago • 245 comments

If you are in any position to get to DC on Tuesday, go to DC on Tuesday.

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Speaking as an auditor—what Musk is doing is not an audit. You don’t shut down operations and lock people out of systems during an audit. Even if you suspect malfeasance—shutting everything down just makes it harder to find. What Musk is doing is SOP for a company about to be scrapped for parts.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

submitted 27 days ago • 510 comments