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Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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🔬🧪🧬 @sadbumblebee.buzz and I are collecting stories from scientists whose research funding has been halted by the Trump admin. Feel free to share this form with anyone who has been impacted and as always you can reach me on signal at caitlingilbert.24 thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/scient...

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Wanted to echo @jeffstein.bsky.social here. my work has always been about keeping the public informed and holding the powerful to account. That has not changed. If it does, you’ll hear it from me. And no you can’t yell at me to “learn to code” because coding is already my job.

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"Gulf of America" first sprung up in a pretty unexpected place. One of the first references I can find to the idea of renaming the Gulf of Mexico? Comes from Stephen Colbert and partially sponsored by... Bing. From 15ish years ago: news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Do...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

DOGE claims don't stand up - check it out www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... w @abtran.bsky.social @rachellerman.bsky.social @jonswaine.bsky.social

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🚨WaPo scoop: Trump’s new leader of the Social Security Administration was being investigated for privacy violations when he was named to head the agency. — via Lisa Rein

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Every few months, a new feature from ggplot2 makes its way to datawrapper! Very excellent. (geofacets next, please)

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The White House now doubling down on Musk's false claim that "tens of millions" of dead ppl receive Social Security benefits. Every credible report suggests the number is in the thousands. Mayyybe tens of thousands. "Tens of millions" is just false. The sky is not yellow and made of marshmallows.

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Michelle King, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over its attempts to access sensitive government records, people familiar with her departure said.

submitted 11 days ago • 148 comments

Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

we just published a list of more than 30 people working for (or closely with) DOGE. message me on signal @rachellerman.55 with tips on the office www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 14 days ago • 29 comments

all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

The "large scale social deception" contract Musk is conspiracizing about was: * first awarded under Trump * paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom * for researching defenses against deception * not revealed by "DOGE investigations" and was a public record, visible online for many years

submitted 15 days ago • 184 comments

Heartbreaking again, from our own pages www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

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NEW: RFK Jr. has repeatedly claimed that vaccines are not tested rigorously enough, and has called for an alternative type of testing that medical experts say would be unethical latest from @laurenweberhp.bsky.social and me wapo.st/3CUPZR5

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My first big-ish? contribution in Opinions: A digital for the fantastic series the department has been running on public servants, which can't come in a more appropriate moment. Still one more story to go to assemble these true 'Avengers' of government. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

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There’s no more Gulf of Mexico Division of the Environmental Protection Agency. It’s now the Gulf of America Division. As of Wednesday, the agency has also renamed the body of water even on obscure pages about mangrove swamps. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Exclusive: Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud.

submitted 21 days ago • 38 comments

One more thing to note about the USAID cuts: Project 2025's text actually recommended more USAID programs to counter China’s Belt + Road Initiative. and criticized Biden for discontinuing particular Trump-era USAID programs. Speaks to how quickly all this blew up.

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I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

submitted 22 days ago • 1575 comments

Who put USAID on Elon Musk's radar? @sarahellison.bsky.social and I found that Musk only began posting about the agency after ⁦right-wing influencer Mike Benz appeared on Joe Rogan, calling the organization a CIA front. More: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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NEW: Officials across the US government privately warn that Musk's DOGE blitz appears to be violating numerous laws Legal objections voiced at Treasury, Education, USAID, GSA, OPM, EEOC, OMB & elsewhere Messages, audio, interviews all reveal internal concerns www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 24 days ago • 90 comments

analytics.usa.gov says the US Government's official National Strategic Dad Joke Reserve website only got 861 pageviews in the past month. I think we can do better than that.

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NEW: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social + I analyzed over 400 of RFK Jr.'s appearances since 2020 and found that he has disparaged vaccines in at least 114 appearances, falsely linked vax to autism in 36, and argued that White + Black people should have separate vaccination schedules wapo.st/4jwQS2R

submitted 31 days ago • 17 comments

Deleted this thread because the claims on Reddit about the authors don't appear to be accurate. The metadata is present and does list author names, but they aren't who the initial post suggested.

submitted 32 days ago • 22 comments

From @ccemorse: @washingtonpost identified more than two dozen presidential directives with language similar to Project 2025 text — more than half Trump's directives since taking office, excluding pardons and appointments. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 33 days ago • 16 comments

5 ways Project 2025 appeared in Trump’s presidential directives www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... Great work by @ence.bsky.social

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Ichiro is now a hall of famer but he was also the funniest man in human history

submitted 37 days ago • 31 comments

Incredible throwback piece (2010) from Elisabeth Bumiller on PowerPoint in the military. “It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control,” General McMaster said … “Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.” www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/w...

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officially starting @washingtonpost.com as a staff reporter covering political data. extremely lucky to get to work with the brilliant journalists here. 🗞️🫡

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Exclusive: The Post’s block-by-block accounting of events on New Year’s Eve and into the next morning on Bourbon Street found major security lapses and shortcomings in the city’s street-closure plan.

submitted 46 days ago • 11 comments

New: Google just donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration, falling in line behind Meta, Amazon & other tech giants Trump vilified. Will feature event on YouTube homepage (#2 in world, behind Google). Google founder Sergey Brin once said he was “deeply offended” by Trump’s first win wapo.st/4a8R2Jm

submitted 50 days ago • 23 comments

absolutely yes I want to pre-order the latest from Fyodor Dostoevsky. how DID you know

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Since September (yes, this September), former VP Mike Pence's 2024 presidential campaign committee has gotten $1.5 million in matching funds from the U.S. Treasury: projects.propublica.org/itemizer/com...

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well, now it's official: musk has given more money in this election cycle than anybody since at least 2010. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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You'll never guess who bankrolled that shady dark-money mystery group that invoked Ruth Bader Ginsberg in contradiction of her family's wishes and the political ideals she stood for www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 85 days ago • 84 comments

wow, hi again everybody

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New story by @joemenn.bsky.social, @naominix.bsky.social, @ence.bsky.social and I for @washingtonpost.com about foreign influence operations on X. Please read if you can. Gift link: wapo.st/3T4I0GI

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At the request of an Israeli friend, I've written a guide for people on how to avoid seeing traumatizing content on social media and how to minimize the long-term impact on you if your job or volunteer service is suddenly requiring you to scrutinize it. synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/803314.html

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What do Illinois Democrats and Texas Republicans have in common? They've both gerrymandered maps to give their parties 3 extra seats in the U.S. House. + much more in this deep dive on the House with Kevin Sullivan, ft. exclusive data from the Princeton Gerrymandering Project! wapo.st/3LSCfI2

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Which "champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends"-style toast is better? 1. ChatGPT's "Confetti for my loyal friends, bitter truth for my deceitful friends" Or 2. My algorithm's: "focus for my real friends, real cuss for my faux friends"

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i love that amtrak advertises me their discount night train from dc while I’m on their discount night train from dc… target audience reached ✅

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New from me on Substack: Target says it is closing 9 stores due to crime but publicly available data casts doubt on their stated rationale and suggests a more complex answer. Check it out!

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New: Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court. www.propublica.org/article/clar...

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