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1. UPDATE The NIH is still blocking most ongoing scientific funding over concerns about DEI, according to NIH sources and internal NIH correspondence. The freeze has continued even after top NIH officials acknowledged that continuing to block the funding would violate a federal court order.

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NEWS: Donald Trump closes key military base in Greece at the request of Putin and Erdogan, the CIA sounds the alarm over Trump's cuts leading to exposure of secrets, and Ukraine remembers three years of war. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

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Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"

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New in PN: Despite the hype, DOGE hasn't found a shred of fraud "With nothing to show for its efforts to find actual fraud, it has become clear that DOGE is the enforcement arm of a Trump administration that has no interest in working with Congress to implement its policy priorities."

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For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

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Lots of good responses to this, including some really interesting writers in my inbox. Love that. Now how do we make it structural instead of just me in my spare time answering all these emails.

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THINGS YOU CAN BUY WITH ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS

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“The thing Trump and Musk value most of all is money. Their entire regime is best understood as a criminal junta whose end goal is to redirect the wealth of the nation into their own pockets. They are running a kleptocracy, and they’ve figured out that facism is actually the quickest path to riches”

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Here’s how many billions Elon Musk’s companies are making from U.S. taxpayers

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“So Elon Musk killed this program for disabled kids (illegally) because it included the word ‘transition.’ It helps them to transition from high school to work.” H/T @palafo.bsky.social, who posted the above on another platform.

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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Three updates: 1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

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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.

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Today (2/17/25) at 11am Judge Tanya S. Chutkan will conduct a TRO (temporary restraining order) hearing in a challenge to the constitutionality of DOGE under the Appointments Clause (Art II, §2, cl 2). I’ll try to live-blog here for @lawfare.bsky.social . You can also phone-in yourself. ... /1

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Let’s make ‘Gulf of Mexico’ the new universal phrase. Instead of ‘high five,’ say ‘Gulf of Mexico!’ Instead of ‘iconic,’ say ‘that’s so Gulf of Mexico.’ Imagine the chaos. The confusion. The beauty. Who’s in? #GulfOfMexicoVibes You take it out of the US map we put it in everyday US vocabulary.

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Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.” Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!

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The public broadcaster says it is closing its Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) office to comply with a recent executive order from President Donald Trump.

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The Department of Education has agreed to temporarily block DOGE from accessing federal student loan data.

submitted 16 days ago • 149 comments

Reposting as Sagan is so prescient from 30 years ago.

submitted 17 days ago • 202 comments

I’m not a scientist, but with five plane crashes and three plane touches in the past three weeks, I have to believe that DEI was the only thing keeping airplanes safe. Maybe we should bring it back?

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-miners

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If the White House decides it can defy the will of the courts, then the people must defy the will of the White House.

submitted 17 days ago • 284 comments

Costco is definitely the place to shop. Pass it on.

submitted 19 days ago • 364 comments

Please reskeet!!! Pass it On!!!

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Washington, D.C. yesterday. "Shut down the Senate, Shut down the Senate." Chanted for hours. More massive #USprotests, ongoing. Sources here report, "Millions of people are getting ready as we speak to take this country back and save the USA. Their days are numbered. Stay tuned." #3E

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It’s not hard to know. We are, in fact, on the precipice.

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Makes watergate look like checkers

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After Kristen Welker let National Security Adviser Michael Waltz lie and evade on NBC's "Meet the Press," she wound up her interview by asking him for his Super Bowl pick. That's how you normalize fascists and tell them you're friendly enough that they can come back later and lie some more.

submitted 18 days ago • 148 comments

If you're screaming at a hospital about teen trans care, keep screaming.

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This is still beautiful writing, with a reference to the emptying of USA landscapes -> The End of Days Inn by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...

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Canada does pissed off so well

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Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

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not exaggerating, you can see the PDF create date in the metadata

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This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake web.archive.org/web/20231206...

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He didn’t get the memo apparently.

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We were just denied entrance into the EPA after asking to meet with a DOGE representative. More to come.

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The world's on fire, make friends with crows. 🐦‍⬛💕🦐

submitted 21 days ago • 87 comments

My staff is hearing reports from Head Start programs in Oregon that they're still locked out of federal funds. My office is doing everything it can to get more info and get funds flowing before providers have to start closing their doors.

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🚨🚨🚨 The tuberculosis outbreak has expanded from Kansas to Ohio.

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Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

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“I don’t think the United States Senate should vote for a single nominee until this is over!” - @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

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Andy Biggs helped plan January 6, according to Ali Alexander. He should be in federal prison, probably for the rest of his natural life. But Merrick Garland had to play politics first, so instead tens of millions of workers will lose all safety protections at work. That the size of it, basically?

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BREAKING: New lawsuit challenges Trump's anti-diversity executive orders, alleging Spending Clause, vagueness (Due Process), free speech (First Amendment), and separation of powers violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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