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The Trump administration is frantically trying to rehire nuclear weapons employees. USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them. This administration is pathetic!

So Trump’s USDA is now saying that it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them. If bird flu escalates into a pandemic, with this kind of leadership, we are going to be toast.

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

Feb 18, 2025 — USDA Admits Mistakenly Firing Bird Flu Officials, Working to Rehire Them. www.newsweek.com/usda-admits-...

Math is hard

Donald Trump is set to again withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council and stop UNRWA funding. UNRWA stands for United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East which gives relief and aid to people in Gaza. Bravo, Jill Stein voters. 🤦‍♀️

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce on Feb. 4 that the United States will withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council and extend a freeze on funding for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, a White House official told Reuters.

An executive order signed by President Trump Tuesday orders the U.S. to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council and end U.S. support for UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees. www.democracynow.org/2025/2/5/hea...

New reporting from @maeveallsup.bsky.social and @lisamartinejenkins.bsky.social on today's layoffs and the end of a "weird, quiet limbo" at the Department of Energy. DOGE is in the building. Russ Vought and Elon Musk are finally bringing their plan to inflict maximum cruelty to DOE.

Musk & DOGE just contractors. "Management, in this case, is [Russell] Vought. [His] agenda has little in common with the rhetoric that rocketed Trump to prominence.... it’s firmly in line with decades of establishment consensus [on] radical cost-cutting & deregulation..." jacobin.com/2025/02/russ...

all this stuff is “dude looking at database not designed for him to look at wants changes to make it easier for him to look at”

Tulip says.. ELLO

There are so many to choose from but this has always been my favorite Steinlen cat. 1909. emuseum.mfah.org/objects/4936...

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