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So Mad King Elon posted this about two hours ago and I've now seen one of the actual emails. Not going to mention the agency my source works out. But suffice it to say it's entirely shuttered. So everyone there was forced to stop working more than a week ago. The actual email is one is that in ...

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PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

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On March 6 I’ll be redelivering my TED talk on the psychological traits that predict our political beliefs and how our political media environment uses them to divide us. At Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater! Free event focused on American democracy. www.visitphilly.com/features/ted...

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Much of the chaos of the past few weeks can be understood as part of the Trump administration’s “central ideological project: restoring America’s traditional hierarchies of race and gender,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. Call it the “Great Resegregation.”

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“…abandoning the climate fight, weakening social programs, cutting taxes on the wealthy, abolishing the CBC, gutting the civil service, repealing gun control ... slashing foreign aid, ending diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, and undermining public health science.” tinyurl.com/4h4dwekd

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Feels like using the N word in public won’t be too far behind. “I should be able to say whatever I want, that’s the freedom that America stands for” types of arguments.

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This was published last October www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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womp womp Here’s the Ontario version. Covid caused a lot of death that wouldn’t have happened otherwise

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This is 100% correct — I have heard the Silicon Valley money guys admit as much out loud, about all of these fools.

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What if what the things they got done are classified? What if they work at a remote post with limited access to email? What if they’re stuck on the space station?

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Bringing over some threads from X to here. And then will leave there.

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

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Quote: “They have stepped down from their posts and filed more than two dozen lawsuits. They have staged protests … joined federal worker unions in droves ... sent emails to hundreds … set up encrypted Signal chats … to share information and plan future actions.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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What was up with Friday evening's SCOTUS order about the U.S. Office of Special Counsel? At Law Dork, I explain: www.lawdork.com/i/157688311/...

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PBS Newshour gave a twelve minute interview to Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, who has called for the “eradication” of trans people from society

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😡 F'ing ridiculous. After updating its FAQ yesterday, NSF refused to directly answer a simple question: "Will the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) continue to award fellowships in 2025?" GRFPs are a lifeline that support 2,000+ graduate students/year. www.nsf.gov/executive-or...

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Albertans are slowly waking up to the depths of the scandal enveloping the UCP government. A lot of folks are wondering how to explain what's going on to people who haven't been tuning in. Here's the what, so what now what, and what's next of the situation. 🧵

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Quote: “’The implications for the health of the public are grave,’ said Susan Polan, an associate executive director at the American Public Health Association, which is suing the Department of Government Efficiency …” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Great new piece by Christopher Holcroft on Poilievre’s hamfisted attempt to rebrand as Captain Canada, despite opposing literally everything that makes Canada, Canada @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social @chrystia-freeland.bsky.social www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...

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Accounting is not a priority, since accountability definitely isn’t. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Thank god they installed someone independent to check his conflicts of interest 🙏

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Quote: “President Trump tonight began a purge of the senior ranks of the United States armed forces in an apparent effort to intimidate the military and create an officer corps personally loyal to him.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Remember when Kash Patel said he wanted to turn FBI HQ into a museum to the Deep State? Well … www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Again for those in the back

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Interesting thing for the President to say about a person who, according the government’s lawyers, “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself” and “only has the ability to advise the President, or communicate the President’s directives.”

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To my American friends from your worried Canadian neighbour: bsky.app/profile/stan...

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1/ I don’t know what to do about it—journalists need to eat—but paywalls are big part of our problem.

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Donald Trump has told Kristi Noem to spend $200 million of public funds on ads thanking him for "securing the border," North Korea-style www.semafor.com/article/02/1... www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Quote: “The Trump administration has blocked key parts of the federal government’s apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on much of the country’s future work on illnesses … despite a federal judge’s order to release grant money.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...

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Kudos, PLOS!!! Quote: “We are deeply concerned about a range of recent US Executive Orders that collectively have the potential to dismantle the US scientific enterprise as it has existed for the past 70 years.” theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos...

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Quote: “If a candidate announced a tax increase on the poor and middle class to fund a tax cut for the rich, voters would soundly reject that proposal. But tariffs wrap this fiscal switch in a veneer of nationalism.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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