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Sometimes a stock just locks the doors and sets itself on fire.

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The most deadly hurricane in US history was the one they had no warning of - the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. So this is good news from @drjeffmasters.bsky.social. Warnings save lives!

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We've had anti-intellectualism in the US forever, but our elites didn't back it up with serious policy. This assault on science and knowledge is unprecedented, and it's not really sinking in. This isn't a bureaucratic spat over contract details or DEI, it's war. The silence of universities is bad.

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Some sound advice:

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The point of sudden mass layoffs isn't just to shrink the federal budget. It's to create a climate of fear that makes workers across the economy too scared to speak out.

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Imagine being on vacay in Mexico and getting a call informing you that while you were out of town your asshole bosses wrote your name in as the head of their Doing Crimes Department.

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You asked, we listened... Now you can share ProPublica stories directly to Bluesky! 🦋

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#flowerreport (I try to stick to native wildflowers for my flower reports, but I do really love magnolia season.)

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1/2 I've become a volunteer at our town's community orchard... it is a project started some time ago but has been neglected for the last few years. Today I was asked to demonstrate what a 'dead hedge' looks like to a group of teenagers from a local school... not too bad for 2 hours work I think...

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This is also what we are hearing inside NIH. The top leadership of each institute, and the NIH Director's office have all been fighting to retain probationary employees — and re-hire those terminated due to the renewal ban. It's the HHS/DOGE/Musk people who are saying no. 🧪

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"After a brief presentation about the anti-DEI proposal, Apple announced shareholders had rejected it. In a regulatory filing submitted Tuesday evening, Apple disclosed that 97% of the ballots cast were votes against the measure." apnews.com/article/appl...

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btw one thing I learned at the training i went to this weekend is that bc ICE isn't allowed anywhere in a business that a customer wouldn't be allowed, an employees only sign on a door is enough to cause them to need a warrant. "closed for a private event" guarantees the same

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This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

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House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

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It’s said that we live in a post-fact society. We disagree. Now, more than ever, facts matter, and ProPublica is going to continue to track how and when patently false statements are injected into conversations about the country’s future. By @sengelberg.bsky.social

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Governor Janet Mills of Maine should be a model to every Democratic governor and lawmaker out there, right now. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

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Regular White House reporters would never do anything this courageous.

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Inexplicably, US administration has launched an unprecedented assault on science, on research institutions & on vital international organizations & initiatives. An assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere; the global community must unite 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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@senatedemocrats.bsky.social We will replace all of you. STOP GIVING THEM UNANIMOUS CONSENT FOR ANYTHING UNTIL THEY REINSTATE THE JAGS AND THE JOINT CHIEFS. NOT NEW ONES, THE ONES THEY JUST FIRED. DO SOMETHING, FFS.

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I love how tech keeps going back to humanoid robots even though literally any other design would be safer, more useful, and more stable for personal use. "no it has to be a SERVANT," screams the reptile hindbrain

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The core of these people’s belief system is that we need to kill off The Weak, and The Weak is anyone who ends up dying as a result of the dismantling of a functioning society. That’s called a tautology and it’s a very convincing argument if you’re stupid.

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Cancelling @joyannreid.bsky.social means the door she held open for the next generation of Black voices will slam shut. Without her, the next her, won't get platformed by white media. That, of course, is why white media pushed her out. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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"The Black mentor class is being fired, not just on television but throughout America." And that's why it will never be enough to "express sympathies" and send "thoughts and prayers". If you want to make a difference, hire, platform, support, and put on Black folks. Anything less is cheap talk.

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Last November I pre-ordered this yarn set from @lolabeanyarnco.com This is The Black Power Mixtape, and all the colorway names are in the alt text. As I’m typing this, preorders are still available for full skeins of each color. 🧶 #lolabeanyarnco #blueskyknitters #showmeyourknits

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What drives me crazy about the anti-DEI rhetoric is everyone wants to be judged on merit. But you can't be judged on merit if you can't even get in the door because you don't fit some prejudiced definition of who is capable and who isn't

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Isn't A.I. just mansplaining software?

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The other thing I hate about this moment is how much I hate being forced to regress and live in my hind brain Like dog I don’t WANT to be mad all the time ! Like god damn it I actually LIKE THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO DO THAT SOMETIMES

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i think we should replace “how are you?” with “hey things are generally bad, how are you personally?” just to make things easier on everyone trying to answer in a way that doesn’t initially seem like you’re either delusional or complicit

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“Two sources familiar with the matter, including a Trump administration official, tell Rolling Stone that the replies to the recent Musk OPM email have been flooded with pranks and, in the words of the Trump official, “very rude” emails listing fake, vulgar “accomplishments,”…

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Krugman has a great piece on how DOGE is failing bigtime (that was going to my piece for the day) paulkrugman.substack.com/p/doge-is-th...

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5 things i did last week: -i talk to the customer -i take specifications from the customer and give them to the engineers -i deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers dont have to -i have people skills damnit -what the hell is wrong with you people

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It's Black History Month! Every day for Black History Month, I'm highlighting one of my favorite Black writers or authors. Today, I'm highlighting Lucien Arthur Headen, an inventor and aviator who was very much the Nikola Tesla of his day. My brilliant wife @mistymotors.net wrote about him here!

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Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.

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i often think about how eons before cookie monster was conceived, or indeed before there were minds capable of conceiving, cookie monster was already there, waiting

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THE KENDRICK SUPER BOWL CURRICULUM!! 🔥 by Linda J.M. Holloway, Ed.D., NCC & April T. Berry, Ph.D. Legit great stuff here, teachers / professors:

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Almost every column I’ve written over the last four years has basically said: “Destroy the GOP; restore popular sovereignty; imagine big answers for big problems; respect the diverse Democratic base” and absolutely none of it was heard by anyone

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spending 7-8 hours a day out in nature doing physical activity continues to be the best method I've found for capping my anxiety at a rolling simmer and I'm just not sure this is going to be sustainable

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Dear artists, comedians, and satirists: None of us can do the work we're doing without y'all helping to keep us sane. Please keep bringing the laughter amidst the pain. I am so grateful to you.

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I've been screaming this for years.

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Hey, when random guys with no badges and no authority try to grab a protester and drag her away, that's when you put down the phone, get out of your seat, and fucking help her.

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My author copy of my book, How to Talk to Your Son about Fascism, is here! Get yours at: www.routledge.com/How-to-Talk-...

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The great bilking. If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then its tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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Spotted in Oaxaca, Mexico. #3E #EndOligarchy

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