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New — State Department employees have been instructed not to reply to OPM’s 5 bullet email, per an email I reviewed, saying leadership “will respond on behalf of the Department.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 98 comments

The Columbia Spectator is ahead of NYC’s msm in covering the campaign to get @BradLander.bsky.social to move NYC’s pension funds from dirtier to cleaner money managers. If he does it, it’ll be huge in climate change policy & finance. Kudos to student news! www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

another Nazi salute at CPAC

submitted 20 hours ago • 1117 comments

Send it in! [email protected]

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 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 1 day ago • 1995 comments

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1450 comments

NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 15 hours ago • 9 comments

It would be a real annoyance to DOGE if folks emailed random things titled "What I Did Last Week" to [email protected]. Probably shouldn't do that. Nope, not at all.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Sending an email to employees asking them to list five things they did that week is a classic move from a manager who has no idea how to manage

submitted 15 hours ago • 823 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1227 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 1 day ago • 1861 comments

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.

submitted 3 days ago • 406 comments

From a DoD statement released yesterday, about the thing the Pentagon has been calling a threat multiplier for like three decades www.defense.gov/News/Release...

submitted 3 days ago • 52 comments

I can’t even…

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I’m at Union Station where DOT Secretary Sean Duffy is set to make an announcement “on the California high-speed rail priorities”

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

A coalition of congressional Republicans from the New York area rebuked President Trump for cuts to a federal program that administers aid to emergency workers and others suffering from toxins related to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

submitted 3 days ago • 167 comments

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will make an announcement at LA Union Station tomorrow on California High-Speed Rail priorities.

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social Madness… sheer MADNESS 😫 wapo.st/42VLGQh

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Firings happening right now at the NSF.

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

Fun fact (which blew my mind): CO2 emissions from China's iron & steel sector are nearly twice as large as emissions from the country's entire transportation sector! And cement production in China is also roughly equal to transportation emissions. Industrial decarbonization is the next frontier...🔌💡

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Just under a third of Project 2025’s policies have already been implemented, according to a developer who is tracking them. More than half of its goals for DOJ, the State Department, and the White House are now in progress. Great Q&A from @jeva.bsky.social: heatmap.news/politics/pro...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Grateful to all who've engaged w/ our large load study! For those who've been offline, a quick roundup of coverage (1/3, no particular order): Axios www.axios.com/newsletters/... E&E www.eenews.net/articles/stu... UtilDive www.utilitydive.com/news/us-grid... TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/02/13/d...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

A dark and painful day at a space agency that brings so much light and joy to the world. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

“I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights,” he said. “I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

submitted 5 days ago • 259 comments

A rare, somewhat optimistic post @thebulletin.org by @glennbranch.bsky.social. Because the federal government has very limited power over state standards, climate change education in public schools can weather four years of climate denial at the top thebulletin.org/2025/02/clim...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Thousands of protesters opposing President Trump’s agenda took to the streets on Monday across the U.S., derisively calling him a “king” on Presidents’ Day for his efforts to terminate thousands of federal workers and to fire prosecutors and independent watchdogs. nyti.ms/3CQA2LX

submitted 5 days ago • 284 comments

Climate change is moving faster than scientists projected & they're not totally sure why. One possible explanation is declining cloud cover. If that's true, we may be entering a feedback cycle that accelerates warming much faster than we've modeled.

submitted 5 days ago • 108 comments

NY City Council speaker Adrienne Adams: "With the resignation of deputy mayors, it has become clear that Mayor Adams has now lost the confidence and trust of his own staff, his colleagues in government, and New Yorkers. He now must prioritize New York City and New Yorkers, step aside and resign."

submitted 5 days ago • 106 comments

BYD lands massive 12.5GWh battery storage deal with Saudi Electricity Co, enabling grid stability & renewable integration. This could be the world’s largest BESS, capable of powering 250K homes for a full day! Saudi’s Vision 2030 is transforming energy. #EnergyStorage #Renewables #Lithium #BESS #LFP

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

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”

submitted 6 days ago • 2241 comments

We are the ones who are coming to save us.

submitted 7 days ago • 108 comments

I saw a video of known alcoholic Pete Hegseth drinking multiple scotches in the middle of a televised presser and started laughing so hard I began coughing as I believe we're less than 2 weeks removed from him promising never to drink a single time as Secretary of Defense and nothing matters anymore

submitted 8 days ago • 1010 comments

"Gasoline consumption in the US peaked five years ago, according to federal data, and the transition to cleaner energy is eroding demand for other fuels, too. That’s turned the refining industry into a Darwinian battleground in which only the fittest survive." 🔌💡 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Did you know that the countries with the most heat pumps installed are also in some of the coldest climates? Find out more in our article in Nature Energy 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

They are just swinging sledgehammers in the dark.

submitted 8 days ago • 603 comments

This is fascism.

submitted 7 days ago • 3193 comments

Why has it taken more than 13 years to start construction on a simple 3rd track project critical for more frequent Capitol Corridor service to Roseville? Extortion by big corporations like Union Pacific and Kinder Morgan, plus poor design and funding workflows explains it. Read more here:

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

submitted 7 days ago • 345 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 8 days ago • 2697 comments