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This is so fucking bad you guys

Here's a very thoughtful thread

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...🧵

Trump's DC attorney, Ed Martin, refuses to sign an arrest warrant.

If you haven't read @dansinker.com's essay about newspaper editor George Dale's battle against the KKK in Muncie, IN, you should take the time: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0... If you only have a couple minutes, you can watch the version he did at #20x2chi last month: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYok...

The so-called "Fix Our Forests" Act would strip environmental laws, fast-track clear-cut logging, silence local communities, and put endangered species at even greater risk—all while failing to protect people from wildfires. Take action now: bit.ly/FoFact

this is how #Idaho treats dissent. They are incapable of not embarrassing themselves. #MississippiOfTheNW #KootenaiCountySheriff www.khq.com/news/attende...

Read this, then read it again, then share it. Humans are acting like a cancer upon the Earth. The good news is, we can also be the cure. Sustainability, biodiversity, eco-consciousness, green energy, environmental stewardship. Those must be the pillars upon which we build our future.

Starved Rock State Park in Illinois. I really loved the large tree roots coming out of the ground. #photography #nature #trees #treeroots #starvedrock #stateparks #Illinois

Our latest: The Resistance is alive and well and angry. Please consider reading and sharing. No paywall.

ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention? www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

#StopElon by blocking government contracts to his companies. Hit his bottom line. He is trying to destroy our government. Let’s get our government to ruin his companies by cutting off his money Use every procedural trick to stop him. theintercept.com/2025/02/17/e...

Here’s the thing about the White House banishing the AP that makes me crazy How does the rest of the White House press corps not understand that the AP is a proxy for *all the rest of them?

Town hall in Albany, Ny with congressman Paul Tomko. This constituent said everything we are thinking! #MakeThemOutlawYou www.reddit.com/r/Albany/com...

Totally agree. Also, a lot of these “savings”…aren’t. Government isn’t a business.

Send a life saving medical kit directly to Ukrainian soldiers support.whitestork.us/life-saving-...

Fun fact: Musk has billions of dollars of Pentagon contracts.

NPR's analysis found that, of its verifiable work completed so far, DOGE has cut just $2 billion in spending & NOT the $55 billion that Musk reported saving by ending federal contracts. Musk cannot be trusted to tell the truth & therefore cannot be trusted w/ personal info or the programs we need.

Is anyone listening? Congress, cancel his contracts!

Fuckin' A 😎

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

DOGE is a criminal enterprise to destroy the government to empower and enrich oligarchs. Any news org that uses the term "cost cutting" to describe DOGE is complicit and should be shunned.

I’m really glad I went up to McCall for this. In towns like that across the West, the Forest Service and other public land agencies are a major presence. That means these layoffs hit hard. www.boisestatepublicradio.org/politics-gov...

Arresting someone for calling you fascist seems an excellent approach to proving their point.

A thing I wish I could teach people is that the vast majority of very rich people are deeply stupid. They did not get where they are because of ingenuity or talent. They got there because of compound interest on hereditary wealth and being tax cheats.

Called my Senators Durbin and Duckworth to ask them to use a filibuster to stop Musk's contracts. Durbin: said to call back later and didn't let me leave a message.😑 Duckworth: got a nice live human who listened to my message and read it back to me.🙂

Hi Bill, you could have actually done something to reduce the exponential growth in vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks in the US in recent years. Instead you confirmed RFK Jr. Just to spell it out: that will have the literal opposite effect. Was selling your soul worth it?

AND ALSO THERE'S A COUP

This morning, Leonard Peltier was released from over 49 years of wrongful incarceration. Peltier is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and will reside on his Tribal homelands in North Dakota.

Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics.

May he live the rest of his life oblivious to the beauty of nature.

Too cold to go to a demonstration? Postcards to Voters @tovoters.bsky.social still has postcards that you can write for Judge Susan Crawford in Wisconsin!

Want Mush to go away? Stop funding his contracts.

Washington Post blocks ad against Musk open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

COBOL COBOL COBOL COBOL

FBI cancels outreach to seniors https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1irndwf/fbi_cancels_outreach_to_seniors/