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Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

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Terminated while working a fire: “I was actually down helping fill in engine crew for some prescribed fire down in Louisiana when I was terminated. I got a call from our Forest Supervisor. He told me I was terminated effective immediately. So I asked ‘great, how are you getting me home?’”

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Here come the “town hall no-show’s”. #Wisconsin wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/02/21/r...

submitted 2 hours ago • 87 comments

Another dataset I like is from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, which has maps of the US that show we fixed the acid rain problem by implementing stricter emission controls on power plants. nadp.slh.wisc.edu/maps-data/nt...

submitted 1 hour ago • 28 comments

Everyone is talking about the price of eggs, but I’m just here staring at Cafe Bustelo prices 🫠

submitted 23 hours ago • 19 comments

‘When Joyce asks about what has disappeared – “How might we remember, retain and preserve?” – he isn’t suggesting building a heritage park, but rather acknowledging the past in a way that makes it sharp, exact, almost real.’ Colm Tóibín on rural life: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

submitted 18 hours ago • 644 comments

I've always thought about this quote a lot, but I'm thinking about it several times a day now. The evidence of the ongoing bamboozle is plainly obvious, but the voters can't admit it.

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I guess it's the bears' turn to govern now. First new ordinance in our parks: no lids on garbage cans

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

Pleased to come across this Junonia orithya (Blue pansy) on a recent walk with the dogs. The colourful dry season (winter, for me) form. Winter finished a couple of days ago so more butterflies coming. #butterflies #insects #nature #MacroPhotography

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Liberals in 2023 won a 4-3 majority over conservatives on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. But control of the court is on the line once more because a longtime liberal justice, Ann Walsh Bradley, is retiring this year. The election is on April 1. boltsmag.org/wiscons...

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POLITICO: Judge Abelson said “longstanding court precedent bars the federal government from ‘leveraging its funding to restrict federal contractors and grantees from otherwise exercising their First Amendment rights.’” @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

Turkey was not always an autocracy. It had a democracy. It still has elections. But its real democracy has gone away through shock and awe. It can happen everywhere if you're not vigilant and have shared agreement in the democratic project. One day it's just....gone.

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I just got the 5 calls app and highly recommend it- it shows you topics, gives you names, phone numbers & scripts, very detailed and organized. I’ll be making some calls about a number of issues! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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NEW: One of Trump’s most damaging strikes against U.S. climate policy is buried in an executive order that would obliterate a critically important calculation the government uses to gauge the real-world costs that climate change imposes on the economy. By @abrahm.bsky.social

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The DOJ directed its prosecutors to investigate state and local officials who don’t comply with ICE directives in order to potentially bring criminal charges. “There is no such crime as failing to help ICE do its job,” said a constitutional law scholar. boltsmag.org/new-yor...

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“.. wiping out almost all of its gains since President Trump took office last month ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/b...

submitted 18 hours ago • 21 comments

I’m encouraged by these town halls but I also remember very clearly how this happened in 2017 as well. Instead of responding to the complaints, they stopped doing them. www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpo...

submitted 21 hours ago • 370 comments

Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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The Battle of Verdun began #OTD in 1916. To discover more about the longest battle of #WW1 have a listen to this episode of Old Front Line #podcast: oldfrontline.co.uk/2023/08/05/v...

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PANTHEON MACRO: “.. Uncertainty over the severity of federal spending cuts and tariffs has led to a sudden stop in decision-making, likely weighing materially on GDP growth in Q1.” 🇺🇸

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US Forest Service, National Park Service employees fired by DOGE speak out search.app/jsUT

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Downed and rotted trees on trails littered with debris are not uncommon in the HT. The backlog of deferred maintenance is considerable and will only get worse overtime.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

📢 ProPublica is looking for 5 newsrooms to join our Local Reporting Network! These newsrooms will be part of our 50 State Initiative. Newsrooms in 40 states (in blue) are eligible to apply: https://propub.li/41270AQ Here's what this would mean for your newsroom 👇

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(Guardian) - French far-right leader Jordan Bardella has cancelled his speech at the US Conservative Political Action Conference conference after former Trump aide Steve Bannon appeared to make a Nazi salute at the end of his speech last night .. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Warning: Secrecy mission creep at USAID to intimidate public officials from releasing information. Could this extend to other agencies DOGE is embedded with? Absolutely. The public should know this isn't a valid reason to withhold information.

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Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the Trump administration's devastating cuts for decades to come: www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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Trump's National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said President Volodymyr Zelensky will sign a critical minerals deal with the US in “the very short term” and that the war in Ukraine will end “soon”, although Kyiv says several key points must still be agreed. www.ft.com/content/f4e1...

submitted 23 hours ago • 13 comments

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

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The subject of our 2021 story on protecting the world's rarest stork has been named a TIME woman of the year! Congratulations, Purnima Devi Barman! www.biographic.com/from-reviled...

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“.. Protesters descended on Tesla dealerships and charging stations in Portland, Seattle, Austin, Cleveland, Atlanta, Madison, Washington, D.C., Kansas City, Ann Arbor, and Burlington, Vermont, to name just a few.” @froomkin.bsky.social $TSLA www.headsupnews.org/p/elon-musks...

submitted 22 hours ago • 16 comments

The stock market is clearing its throat.

submitted 22 hours ago • 41 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post

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George Hyde Chambers (1803-1840) was an accomplished marine painter born in a poor working-class area of Whitby, the second son of a seaman; his mother took in lodgers. By the age of eight he was working on the coal sloops and

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President Trump says he wants to make IVF more accessible, but his administration’s other actions are putting reproductive freedom at risk.

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50 days of 2025 so far, and fossil gas use is down 27% versus same period in 2024 in CA Wind-Water-Solar is up 18%; battery output is up 79% 6 straight days now and 22 of 50 (44%) in 2025 that WWS supply exceeds 100% of demand for part of the day In '24, only 4 days>100% by Feb 19

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WE DID IT www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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