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Today the Netanyahu regime once again unilaterally broke the ceasefire, bombed Gaza, and killed at least 112 more Palestinian civilians with the majority being women and children. And in response the US Senate voted 85-15 to send Netanyahu more bombs to drop on Palestinians. This is genocide.

The research was led by one Professor Songbird, no less. #birds #navigation 🧪

Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.

Nice explainer on why letting H5N1 rip (yes, it was proposed by RFK Jr.) is a terrible, ignorant, and flat-out dangerous idea for many reasons... Kudos to @drjenndowd.bsky.social 🛟📉🧪 policy

If I try to charge a USB device from my government client it will alert IT to will send someone to my office to investigate but Musk's crew is just casually setting up their own WH/EEOB wifi, no vetting no ATO, and replacing fiber with slower Starlink. Lol nothing matters

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

BREAKING: A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act immediately after we filed our lawsuit. President Trump is not above the law.

"If America is still the world’s policeman, then we are Derek Chauvin with our knees on the neck of Ukraine or Panama, ripping off their “raw earth” or blackmailing them to take our shackled prisoners." Read @willbunch.bsky.social on Trump's thug life: www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

"I gotta be honest with you, I don't really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.” — JD Vance (February 2022)

New York Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi: "If we reward Putin now, what do you think the people in Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Estonia, Poland are gonna say? If he [Putin] goes through Ukraine, he's going straight into Poland.

Want to know why it matters that Cathy Harris won her TRO against Trump and was reinstated as Chair of the Merit Systems Protection Board? This is why. Employees Trump/Musk illegally fired are now reinstated, with more to come. She, like Hampton Dellinger, is a backstop to all this illegality.

Sure Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the CNO....but they fired the top JAG's in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Why would you fire the top lawyers in the armed services at night on a Friday? That's the part you should be freaking out about.

The poster child for white male mediocrity, Pete Hegseth, is firing qualified Black men and women from the military.

This military purge is about Trump installing loyalists in every senior role, just as he filled his cabinet with sycophants and enablers willing to carry out his dangerous and illegal orders. This won’t end well for our country.

Crazy question but is there a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs right now? there's never a gap. Brown is out but Caine needs to be confirmed by the Senate. He also I think needs probably a couple waivers. I assume the responsibilities devolve on the Vice Chair. But still seems pretty weird.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator. He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.

This is the most cowardly administration in history.

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

DOGE cuts 9/11-related cancer research funding, which FDNY commissioner calls "a tragedy for all Americans." www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

I have run out of patience with the apparent silence of most US science institutions (and not just US) in the face of Trump & Musk's rampage. There are of so many facets of that, but in this column for @chemistryworld.com I talk about the assaults on inclusion. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

Please share this REAL impact! AK colleagues tell me 17 of 20 ppl were terminated from Mendenhall Glacier Visitors Center (MGVC) in AK. I’ve worked w/ this professional and wonderful group serving the public & they have a display in their museum about the Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP). 🧪

Un-freaking believable. Ukraine is not included in peace talks….so Trump just gives their land, which they fought and died for, to Putin. Trump isn’t just stupid, he’s PURE EVIL.

Cool, Putin gets premium treatment as a revered dear partner as well as everything he has stolen and even much more -- Ukraine gets a spit in the face, an extorted $500 billion bill, no security guarantees, and a new Russian offensive to kill it as soon as Russia is ready. The Art of the Deal.

The Trump administration, which has been anti-EV, is buying EVs from the company controlled by the guy overseeing wasteful government spending and possible misuses of taxpayer dollars: www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g...

BREAKING On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.

the beyond parody presidency

We’re done here. Right?

The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. — especially at the state level, where local election officials rely on CISA resources to securely run elections — at risk. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Cancer research budgets down 85%, clinical trials on vital HIV and malaria treatments ended overnight, but we did manage to update Google maps. This is what *winning* looks like. 🙄

Judge rules FBI must release records on Trump documents cases including ones he flushed and others he took to MAL. Judge stated records can be released under FOIA since Trump is no longer under investigation. #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory lawandcrime.com/high-profile...

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

Both running for Prime Minister of Canada. One is respected all over the world and has the credentials to back it up. The other can’t even pass a security clearance. Remind you of anybody you know? How is this even real? Don’t screw this up Canada, you see what’s happening down south. #PMCarney

Germany’s protest against Nazis and the AfD ahead of the election. “democracy needs you”. (🎥Kilian Boedrich) #3E

Been thinking a lot today about the words of this NIH researcher, speaking about morale at the agency: “Every day there’s something new, some new curveball… I think a lot of people are worrying, what is my backup plan?” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Republican Senator Jerry Moran of farm-state Kansas sounds the alarm on dismantling #USAID. Impending global implications as well as domestic implications for U.S. farmers. kansasreflector.com/2025/02/07/k...

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

An unelected, self-dealing multi-Billionaire who made his vast fortune off huge government contracts should not be able to buy access to the US Treasury. Elon Musk is now deploying unsecured private servers to tap into the records of every single citizen and business. We must follow his footprints.

The President of the United States is openly advocating for ethnic cleansing of Gaza. There is no bottom. "Live Updates: Trump, Hosting Israel’s Leader, Says Palestinians Should Leave Gaza" www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

A decade of collaboration between #Wikimedia UK and the National Library of Wales: Building a sustainable future for Welsh culture online - diff.wikimedia.org/2025/01/27/a... #wales

‘New way of bearing witness’: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online