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“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 7 hours ago • 346 comments

Infuriating! 😡 Don’t Cut My Medicaid! The majority of my son’s medical team are in Austin (1.5 hr drive), some in Houston (3 hrs), one in Dallas (5 hrs). Telehealth appts are needed & necessary! My son has extreme car anxiety, not to mention wear and tear on our car, gas! 🤬 And we’re not alone!

submitted 17 hours ago • 563 comments

On 22 February 1943, three young Germans, members of the White Rose Society -- Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst -- were guillotined by the Nazis for distributing leaflets speaking out against the crimes of the Third Reich. Their bravery, and their cause, will not be forgotten.

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Trump Targets USPS Thus throwing the 250-year-old independant service delivering your mail, and trillions of dollars of e-commerce transactions into turmoil. He wants to privatize it, but the big delivery services don't want it. Call Your MOC Now! www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and other climate impacts are throttling cocoa production and driving up chocolate prices.

submitted 22 hours ago • 17 comments

If it's about saving government money why are they firing people who make money for the government? DOGE is a lie, start to finish.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Finally, Americans will be liberated from the bureaucratic shackles of having a nice park in San Francisco

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Normalize calling Republicans Nazis.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

My art Green Sahara: attracted “Back to Africa” migrations and culminated in the dispersals of “New” African cultures, including Ancient Egypt www.academia.edu/122692197/Gr...

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USA Today: FDA staff were reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink. DOGE fired them. I wouldn't let Elon pierce my ear, much less implant something in my brain. His stuff has a way of catching on fire. #ProudBlue #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice Hell No

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

Well, thats a first, even my own camera caugh this Falcon 9 upperstage re-entry, also featuring my @satnogs.bsky.social antenna :)

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Such a stupid move by President Musk. People are once again going to die needlessly.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This is how it starts.

submitted 4 days ago • 62 comments

Los Angeles peeps—spread the word about ICE. We won’t know for sure until it happens, but better safe than sorry. Be prepared.

submitted 4 days ago • 223 comments

NATIONAL ARCHIVES UNDER ASSAULT: They’re coming for our history. The US archivist & staff resigned after Trump officials pushed to replace them w/loyalists. Not just records you’d expect—slave records, immigration records, Native American treaties—all at risk. Will they rewrite or destroy history?

submitted 5 days ago • 304 comments

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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"The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration"—who had worked at Social Security since 1994—quit this weekend "after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over their attempts to access sensitive government records." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Musk and his army of dipshits on Twitter keep pointing to Bill Clinton’s federal worker reduction in the 1990s to defend Trump. The difference? Congress passed a law that Clinton signed, he didn’t just get the nearest billionaire to illegally start dismantling the government based on his whims.

submitted 6 days ago • 160 comments

If a woman had 13 kids by four different men, used ketamine and spent all her time running a shadow presidency, I’m not sure our society would celebrate her.

submitted 7 days ago • 326 comments

As usual, I have nothing to say. @briandunning.bsky.social for including my delusional ranting & in this episode with so many other brilliant contributors.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s a view of the Windows XP hill today for those who remember.

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For decades, the U.S. has funded science, then left scientists to direct their own work. Science has flourished, and the country has benefited. Now the government is testing just how much it can renegotiate that relationship, @katherinejwu.com writes:

submitted 7 days ago • 33 comments

📌I guarantee you these stupid-shit Trump/Musk hyenas are the ones who are blowing their fingers off on the 4th of July ...

submitted 7 days ago • 103 comments

Not good. As former Texas Governor Ann Richards once said, "If you're not at the table, you're on the menu."

submitted 7 days ago • 112 comments

Crazy that they would stop covering something that is such a savings.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Your circle of control exists. It’s real. Not as a motivational concept or a bullshit management framework but as the basic building block of action. You control more than you think: - How you spend the next hour - Where you direct your energy+ www.joanwestenberg.com/your-world-i...

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

25 years ago measles was declared eliminated in the United States due to the success of vaccination. In 2024, there were outbreaks in 33 states, 90% of which were in the unvaccinated.

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

submitted 8 days ago • 231 comments

Jonathan McDowell has painstakingly amassed one of the world's largest collections on the space industry 🚀 @planet4589.bsky.social is now retiring, after four decades, and considering the future of his collection. We spoke all things space for @newscientist www.newscientist.com/article/2468...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Heck yeah: Researchers at Tufts University have made a liquid silk solution that grabs objects like Spider-Man’s web.

submitted 9 days ago • 77 comments

We were told this was, like, the most dangerous app in the world and a national security threat like no other. And now everyone is like "eh, it's fine"

submitted 9 days ago • 144 comments

"tRump's seasonal hiring freeze and total elimination of the visitor reservation system will spell disaster for Yosemite National Park (and other NPS units) -- "efforts to protect the park’s ecosystems for future generations are being derailed." 🌏

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Did you know? American taxpayers would be saved $8 MILLION PER DAY if we simply canceled Elon Musk’s defense contracts.

submitted 9 days ago • 206 comments

What could go wrong? www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 1160 comments

Heartbreaking news… Tonight, many of our friends were let go, and tomorrow, even more will follow. Word is that all probationary employees at NPS will be let go. 😭

submitted 9 days ago • 1962 comments

Just in time to have all their grant money Frozen and RFK Jr to shit can the entire project. #FuckTrump scitechdaily.com/scientists-d...

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"If Republicans want to do away with CFPB, they can repeal Dodd-Frank — they control both houses of Congress and the White House! But until they do, the law imposes affirmative obligations on the agency to do specific things." -- @lizdye.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

Conflict of interest? The State Department’s procurement forecast lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to purchase $400 million worth of “Armored Tesla” vehicles.

submitted 10 days ago • 844 comments

NY State AG Letitia James ought to issue a warrant for Elon Musk and his incel clown posse for wire fraud and grand larceny. They took $80 million of federally allocated funds from a bank account that wasn't theirs. Indict them, issue warrants, and arrest them now. End this madness.

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

i do not understand what elon and trump would be doing differently if there weren’t themselves actual agents of beijing and moscow

submitted 10 days ago • 216 comments

In my country, homes lie empty because they're 'investments'. And children freeze to death.

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