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It’s worth stating this simply: For literally anyone in the US Govt from 1945 to 2025, Signalgate would require an instant resignation—and a criminal investigation. It would be a matter of personal honor to resign. The fact Mike Waltz & Pete Hegseth are choosing to fight it out is a terrible omen.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed war plans in an encrypted group chat that included a journalist two hours before U.S. troops launched attacks against the Houthi militia in Yemen, the White House said on Monday, confirming an account in the magazine The Atlantic. Read more: nyti.ms/4c4CueW

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American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY

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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

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Beginning in late 2023, overdose deaths began to drop. It’s a stunning reversal after years of grow death tolls, and a rare bright spot in the news.

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some more congestion pricing Ws: Broadway attendance: up 21% Restaurant reservations: up 7% Pedestrian traffic: up 4% Retail sales: up $900M Commercial leasing: up 61% Subway crime: down 37% Car crashes: down 50% Honking complaints: down 69%

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Journalists are trying to understand Trump’s irrational behavior, and are generally unwilling to consider the possibility that it's not some grand strategy, but a madman with increasingly diminished mental faculties.

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Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.

submitted 8 days ago • 382 comments

they’re arresting people for performing abortions, they’re deporting people for liking pro-palestine posts on social media, they’re sending immigrants to forced labor camps in south america, we are living under fascism right now

submitted 8 days ago • 330 comments

U.S multifam codes have no concern for cost or efficiency – at just 4 stories, this has two enclosed, separately discharging stairs and THREE technical rooms – elevator (despite now being “machine room less”), sprinklers (none at all abroad), and electrical www.chicagocityscape.com/documents.ph...

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Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

submitted 13 days ago • 1216 comments

It would all be very unpopular if you could convince people it was happening

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Poll Finds Most Americans Would Swap Democracy For $100 Best Buy Gift Card theonion.com/poll-fi...

submitted 17 days ago • 300 comments

this is the culmination of a 50 year right wing war on journalism, education, science, facts, and informed consensus

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This nails down well my unease with (what my academic friends tell me is) the ubiquity of AI cheating in schools. It's not just that lots of students don't have a problem cheating, but that they've apparently bought into a very sad, anemic idea of what education is for. thewalrus.ca/i-used-to-te...

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(Bloomberg) - Car owners are missing their monthly payments at the highest rate in more than 30 years. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 19 days ago • 306 comments

Former Houston Mayor and U.S. Congressman Sylvester Turner has died, according to U.S. representatives and a Houston council member. Turner was 70. trib.al/clWY6Vd

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week. "...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"

submitted 21 days ago • 34 comments

A massive dust storm charging across Texas today. Spectacular view.

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Here comes the dust. Not sure if it qualifies as a haboob but I imagine it’s close.

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The future of special education is bleak. Without the Department of Education, schools may struggle (even more than they already do) to provide necessary support for students. And without the DoE's Office of Civil Rights, students and families will find it even harder to access that support.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Think your money is safe in US banks? Swiss pension funds just banned US financial institutions from managing their resources owing to the “total lunacy” of US economic stewardship since the beginning of the year. Should be a pretty big red flag.

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SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:

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Freeland: "If these tariffs are put in place, it is going to hurt Americans ... your grocery prices are gonna go up, bc you know what you need to grow food in the US? You need fertilizer. 80% of it comes from Canada and you're gonna be a 25% tax on it? ... the WSJ is right. This is dumb."

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Check out the external affairs page at NOAA right now. That's right. Everyone at NOAA external affairs was fired. www.noaa.gov/external-aff...

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Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine.

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ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about? VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media

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"How a compact metro area of 37 million people manages to feel this relaxed isn’t really a mystery: the city declared war on cars, and then won that war. Citywide, there are 0.32 cars per household, half the level in New York or London."

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The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

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Yeah he likes the attention but the main goal was to get out from under the various prosecutions, which he has managed and now will just play golf while whoever the fuck dismantles the country

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It is perfectly possible for very young children to cycle through a city to primary school together, as long as you ensure that city has cycle infrastructure that makes it safe for them to do so. This also frees up their parents to be elsewhere and avoid the stresses of fitting the school run in

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they think russia is big and powerful because it occupies a lot of space on a map

submitted 27 days ago • 242 comments

Something that’s very clear is that Trump is old and checked out. He wants to play the role of president but has zero interest in doing the job and is happy to outsource the real work to Musk, Vought and a crew of feral zealots.

submitted 27 days ago • 1516 comments

BREAKING: White House kicked HuffPost, Reuters and foreign press out of first Trump cabinet mtg. Emboldened by its actions to remove the AP from accessing WH happenings, the administration is playing a dangerous game with the First Amendment and aligning more every day with authoritarianism.

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Congestion pricing raised $48.6 million in its first month -- exceeding the $40m goal they had set, even with starting 5 days into January. Cars + buses are zooming thru without sitting in traffic. I am genuinely moved by seeing policy work the way its supposed to. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/n...

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One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.

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Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

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Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

submitted 33 days ago • 274 comments

AOC speaking to a thousand NYC federal workers and allies about the urgency of resisting Musk 🔥🔥🔥

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The US switching sides in the world, from pro-democracy and rule of law to anti-both — most immediately seen in helping Europe against Russia to helping Russia against Europe — is the biggest, most profound change to the international system since the USSR collapsed. Immense implications, long tail.

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On the heels of multiple airplane disasters, including one less than a month ago that killed 67 people, and after years of warnings about our understaffed air traffic control system, Trump has begun firing hundreds of FAA air traffic control workers. apnews.com/article/doge...

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from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump are mass firing veterans. apnews.com/live/trump-p...

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