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The Justice Department is continuing a wave of efforts to free Jan. 6 defendants jailed for crimes unrelated to the attack on the Capitol. Tongiht it's Ben Martin, who was convicted for possessing a firearm despite a criminal record for domestic violence.

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One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.

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This quote says it all, in a nutshell: “This loss of talent at NOAA is going to set the agency back years and compromise the integrity of missions that directly support human health and safety, economic prosperity and national security.”

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Quite the management technique. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats. After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.

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Here are some regional trends in the data from our 2016 BAMS paper on changing U.S. tornado exposure... Notice the trends in the the most recent 30 years, especially in the Mid-South (MS) and Midwest (MW)...

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All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

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The United States is a rogue state and the international community needs to rein it in before it’s too late. It should feel what it’s like to be on the receiving end of the pressure it typically applies to other countries.

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The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach. www.tsunami.gov

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"We underestimate how much leverage we have in our relationship with the United States." @emmashortis.bsky.social says the Government can use Australia's significant economic clout to push back against Donald Trump. 🎧 australiainstitute.org.au/post/doge-da... @ebonybennett.bsky.social #auspol

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More hits to #NIH: "The Trump administration has imposed a new restriction on employment that could push out thousands of NIH’s senior scientists: The agency cannot retain scientists in 1-year to 4-year positions that have long been routinely renewed." 🧪 @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social at @science.org

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Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵

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This week's column asks a question that should be in everyone's minds, as Trump reshapes the world's alliances: How, given that our defence and security capacities are completely infiltrated by the US state, do we defend ourselves if the US becomes our opponent? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Five alarm fire. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Hello, I’d like to go back to October and MAKE EVERYBODY LOOK AT THIS

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I’ll be speaking at this tomorrow in DC and it’ll be live streamed

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Meanwhile, 150,000 years ago: hunter-gatherers thrived in rain forests, once considered too harsh for early Homo sapiens to survive. Here's my story [Gift link] nyti.ms/3EThoDL 🧪

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JUST IN: The Pentagon has issued its formal guidance for currently serving transgender members of the military. It says they will be separated from service unless they obtain a waiver meeting these criteria: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Peter Baker at The New York Times is doing something a lot of the mainstream press is not, and it deserves to be noticed. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

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"Service members who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria will be processed for separation from military service in accordance with section 4.4. of this attachment." The administration is kicking people out for being trans.

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“It is relatively low-cost … scalable too and can democratise weather forecasting. But we assume that there is enough granular data available, which isn’t the case [in India], at least not yet. Lack of local level data can pose a fundamental problem"

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1. Major exclusive breaking news: Marco Rubio may have just banned trans foreigners seeking visas with correct gender markers from US Entry. A new cable, effective immediately, says visas must contain assigned sex at birth and should be rejected if they don't. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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"Preferential voting allows you to tell the two-party system to fuck off." @thejuicemedia.bsky.social #auspol

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I will never, ever tire of seeing this

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A distributed system is a set of concurrent components that communicate by exchanging messages over a network Distributed systems are inherently concurrent—no component blocks another. Any wait is voluntary Is blocking a meaningful notion? My take: No bsky.app/profile/domi...

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Query Optimization Techniques Ten tips for writing efficient and faster SQL queries: 1. Use column names instead of * in a SELECT statement 2. Avoid including a HAVING clause in SELECT statements 3. Eliminate unnecessary DISTINCT conditions 4. Un-nest sub queries

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A vision of the UK’s future: “Legislation from previous governments had already made resistance more difficult. The Conservative government of 2019-2024 had reduced the independence of universities through the Higher Education Freedom of Speech Act in 2023”

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This is extremely, extremely bad. Our legal system cannot function if the govt retaliates — and if courts allow it to retaliate — against lawyers who take matters the govt disfavors.

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I would die on the spot of shame if I were this spineless.

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this is the face of a man who is about to end the bird flu epidemic by eating every infected bird

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I completely missed that Republicans introduced a bill to increase the endowment tax from 1.4% to 21%. If passed, Harvard would go from paying ~$35m to $525m/yr in federal taxes (that’s 8.2% of its current operating expenses)

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Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

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Reflecting on how many quantum leaps in innovation were achieved by women and people of colour, only for those achievements to be forgotten when some white guy showed up to purchase the company and claim credit.

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🤔

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Whoever described generative AI as the aesthetic of fascism made a sharp point.

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PROOF is on a mission to explain exactly what Musk is really up to long-term. This report advances that cause significantly. I hope you will check it out and share it.

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Reporter: Migrants who were in Guantanamo Bay say they were shackled and placed in cages and say they were not treated as human beings. Any response to those conditions? Leavitt: It’s a promise the President campaigned on

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Trump: "It's true. A lot of people in Canada are liking becoming our beautiful, cherished 51st state."

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Federal workers are being asked to report on colleagues who are involved in after-work groups for LGBTQ employees: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Today in headlines that sound too cartoonishly evil to be true: Social Security Administration (SSA) acting commissioner Leland Dudek has axed the agency's Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity. You know, the office that investigates harassment, discrimination, and medical/disability claims.

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Meet the acting DOGE administrator: a former USDSer named Amy Gleason — who happens to be on vacation this week and didn't know in advance the White House was releasing her name. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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The research estimates that it would take a combined 15 million workers earning the average global income a full year to earn the same amount of money that around 2,800 billionaires added to their collective net worth last month alone.

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BTC is over it and I’m here for it. Sometimes it’s hard to find the words to describe what’s going on but this pretty well sums it up.

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THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US. This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Dear FUCKING GOD.

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Pundits: "If the press stands in solidarity with the AP and boycotts the White House, the only media left covering it will be Fox, Newsmax and Breitbart." White House: "We have determined that the only media we will allow to cover us is Fox, Newsmax and Breitbart."

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