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US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

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From what I hear from multiple people in the space, the latest NIH indirect costs for medical research grants will basically mean the end most academic medical centers.

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Houston Nobel Prize nominee earns latest award for public health research: Dr. Peter Hotez, Congratulations! houston.innovationmap.com/peter-hotez-...

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I take back every time I’ve ever called a dystopian novel unrealistic because I thought there was no way the world could ever actually get THAT bad.

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😔

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president peppermint petty

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I think it should be made clear at this point: If you're a federal employee, you should consider your work devices bugged. If you've logged into personal stuff on those devices, you should consider suspending or deleting the accounts you accessed.

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Re-upping this. We need experts in media literacy & stewards of the freedom to read now more than ever.

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SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

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Great job by Ruben (@rubenbolling.bsky.social).

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I'm a reporter at NBC News and I'm interested in speaking with people who are familiar with the specific technical details of onboarding DOGE staff at the federal agency level — USAID or CFPB or wherever. You can reach me on Signal at: davidingram.77. I can honor requests for anonymity.

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Dark Conspiracy Redux? lestersmith.com/2024/12/dark...

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An Israeli government minister criticized Pope Francis for suggesting the international community should study whether Israel's military offensive in Gaza constitutes a genocide of the Palestinian people reut.rs/3P5HNjz

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Was reminded of one of my favorite TTRPG tales today, so I looked it up and realized it was told by the @owenkcstephens.bsky.social. Never connected those dots before. If you haven’t yet seen it, this story of a Star Wars game with a lieutenant is well worth watching. youtu.be/2ylzrfaDdxk

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It is my VERY best game story!

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September 12 is the most common birthday in America because it is the peak of the baby season but also people would rather not schedule c-sections or inducements for September 11th.

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Behind a record surge in cocoa prices this year, a corner of financial markets that drives the cost of chocolate underwent a seismic shift: the hedge funds that oiled its workings headed for the exit reut.rs/403tHFE

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eyes in space 👁️🌌

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French President Emmanuel Macron was due to visit shantytowns in Mayotte ravaged by Cyclone Chido on the second day of a visit where he has faced calls to speed up relief to the Indian Ocean archipelago reut.rs/4gLmW0Q

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The Eye of Horus NGC-1097 Photo credit ESO-VLT Distance 45 million light years Diameter 120,000 light years Constellation Fornax Discovered 1790 Willian Herschel The center of the eye contains a black hole 140 million times the mass of our sun.

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SDNY wants the lawyer Eric Adams happens to share with Elon Musk, Alex Spiro, to stop misrepresenting the case against the NYC Mayor. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.

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The billionaires want you all to be divided to keep the heat off of them. This nightmare will all be over on the day that working people unite and realize that’s it’s YOU vs. THEM.

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Thailand has told Myanmar's junta that ASEAN members would want all stakeholders included in an election the military government plans to hold next year, even as the regional bloc seeks a common position on the polls, Thai officials said reut.rs/4goQlOy

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Billionaires have more money than they could ever need but never enough to fill the holes in their souls. They would send every last one of you into an early grave if it meant paying one cent less in taxes.

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The cops really show the quickest response and strongest force when it involves CEOs or corporations

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The Pentagon has issued a reminder that without a government funding deal in place by a Friday deadline, U.S. troops won’t get paid over the holidays. Even if they don’t get paid, those troops will be required to report for duty both overseas and at home. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 19,1952

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Luigi Mansion wouldn't be in so much trouble if he'd just shot up a school like everyone else

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A bunch of cry baby billionaires who never served in the military want to force millions of our troops to go without pay at Christmas. But do go on about the price of eggs won’t you.

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Democratic House Rep. Shri Thanedar calling it like he sees it. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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if 90% of the population still got its news from 3 tv stations "the president elect got congress to cut child cancer research" would lead his political party into at least 8 years of darkness but unfortunately the internet has a few downsides

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I think everyone should get to know the west African term “wahala”. It generally means “chaos”, “confusion”, or “drama”. A clusterfuck. I’ve been on a mission for years to use it more regularly in my work. Because—- gestures at everything See wahala?!???

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"Windmill escucha estamos en la lucha!" Human billboard line at Windmill mushroom boycott kickoff in Seattle Washington. #WeFeedYou #SolidaritySeason

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This is literally the dude that tried to do in Nick Fuentez you can't convince me otherwise

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This week, my office joined VIA and the FTA to announce a $268 million grant we secured to support the VIA Green Line project – the first rapid transit corridor in our region! This is one of the biggest public transit grants for our region and I was proud to make the case for the funding.

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It's very funny that Grok is basically the only free AI image generator that lets you use the words "Donald Trump" in the prompt

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A group of Republican senators is demanding that the Biden administration revoke a science and technology agreement with China, barely a week after the two countries renewed cooperation for five more years to keep ties from deteriorating.

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People paying attention to the drone stuff, am I missing something or is there no actual evidence of large drones?

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Big shout out to @westlake.bsky.social who made the music in Lower Decks so special. Glad he does the same in Solar Opposites and Golden Axe…

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Amazon workers in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union are striking across the country. Workers at an Amazon warehouse in San Francisco, California, and six delivery stations in southern California, New York City; Atlanta, Georgia, and Skokie, Illinois have walked out. Eff Bezos.

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Did you ever do that thing where you put a game on your Steam wishlist and then watch it go on sale year after year, event after event, sale after sale, and never buy it, and eventually it dawns on you that you never actually wanted it

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