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Since I am 1 week away from unemployment, if you or someone you know needs a music video this year... please ask me. I enjoy it and I want to do more of it. Also I need to prove to the bluesky libs that I'm not a radical leftist TV writer... I also make films

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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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"The structural dependency on U.S. funding and leadership is a fundamental barrier to achieving a truly global vision for global health." Our new blog for @plosglobalpublichealth.org speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/02/14/s...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

i’m glad that we are starting to see experts in fields that did not adequately Understand the risk in 2020 fully understanding the risk we are in now. Its good and should be sobering that we are in this space.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Is anyone a lawyer who can provide expertise about NIH funding freeze attempts, or can you recommend one? This is for a story I'm writing for The Guardian. 🧪

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

This is literally all of Medicaid btw

submitted 13 days ago • 91 comments

Getting private word that a few hospitals that have paused care for trans youth are starting that care back up. If your hospital is one of them, please message me privately. Good to see the initial capitulation is receiving strong pushback.

submitted 13 days ago • 37 comments

this is literally the entire budget for Medicaid btw. this is a literal death sentence for millions of people

submitted 13 days ago • 98 comments

Top tip. Don’t have insomnia in the middle of a coup. An executive order has now given DOGE oversight of all government departments. It’s a complete takeover of the federal government by Musk. A Musk ‘team lead’ will now make all hiring decisions according to a ‘data-driven’ model

submitted 14 days ago • 84 comments

I wrote about the thing I am looking for to make sense of the moment so that I can stop posting about it. (First post on my personal site in some time.) erinkissane.com/against-entr...

submitted 14 days ago • 12 comments

💌 AWS Valentines Thread 💌 (1/?)

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

🚨 HELLO #STARTREK FANS! 🚨 It is Hugo Awards season again! If you enjoyed #StarTrekProdigy, please consider nominating our second season for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) and help spread the word! It would aid our show tremendously. 🖖 www.thehugoawards.org/2025/02/2025...

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

submitted 15 days ago • 170 comments

Here's the acting head of FEMA just unliterally deciding that Article I is fake earlier today. The Constitution is not in effect.

submitted 15 days ago • 94 comments

They're dismantling the Institute for Education Sciences to create the illusion of meritocracy. Because no data means no evidence of systemic inequities.

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵

submitted 15 days ago • 70 comments

I had some hill meetings today and this is one of the things I heard: it would help defend Medicaid if the AMA engaged So, if you're connected to the AMA, please reach out and let them know that now is the time to defend Medicaid.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

They hate women. That’s it.

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

"The budget slated for 2025 for CFPB was $823 million. Since its creation in 2011, the CFPB has handled millions of consumer complaints and returned $20.7 billion back to consumers." It is clear why CFPB became a target, and it has nothing to do with so-called "efficiency".

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, “Anatomy of an AI Coup.” With the takeover of the US government by tech elites underway, we must examine its goals and next steps — and how we will know if it has succeeded. www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...

submitted 17 days ago • 20 comments

“It is a coup, executed not with guns, but with backend migrations and database wipes.” We face “a dangerous alignment of anti-democratic thought with immense technological and financial resources.”

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

This is the nicest thing ever. Thank you @parkermolloy.com! www.readtpa.com/p/when-it-co...

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

lunar calendar? buddy, we're on earth

submitted 17 days ago • 55 comments

Russell Vought just told CFPB to shut down @rmac.bsky.social & @stacycowley.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

submitted 17 days ago • 61 comments

Webinar FOR CLINICIANS on how to advocate for Medicaid with the legislative staff of a Member of Congress or U.S. Senator, Saturday, February 15th, at 4PM ET MAGA and MAHA are planning massive cuts to Medicaid that would result in catastrophic coverage loss

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

submitted 18 days ago • 738 comments

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

submitted 19 days ago • 146 comments

NCMEC isn't just about missing kids, they run a hash sharing platform so social media companies can share hashes of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) and do proactive take downs of content once it's been identified. Defunding NCMEC will encourage the spread of CSAM online. Evil, evil shit.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

submitted 19 days ago • 644 comments

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

submitted 19 days ago • 45 comments

“The Federal Communications Commission is investigating San Francisco-based KCBS for its coverage of immigration enforcement actions in San José last month, sparking concerns from press freedom advocates and drawing right-wing backlash to the radio station.”

submitted 19 days ago • 33 comments

They are careless people. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 19 days ago • 46 comments

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

submitted 19 days ago • 168 comments

I am happy to say the "Followers only" reply setting is getting implemented. We're also adding a way to set default reply settings If you want your posts to default to "Followers only," that'll become an option

submitted 19 days ago • 868 comments

ArchiveBox is pretty cool, but I'm gonna need a bigger boat* *filesystem.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

I know everyone loves this article right now and people absolutely should get off the internet and into the streets, if they can. But ALSO writing about and documenting fascism in an accessible way is vital work that is materially different from BlueAnon doombait.

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

There IS something YOU can do, so... ‘Despair is not an option’ — how scientists can help protect federal research 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... Government scientists in the US must be clear-eyed and continue to serve the public.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday, a bankruptcy judge blew up the Alex Jones settlement with Sandy Hook families. That judge, Christopher Lopez, runs the country's true deep state: a bankruptcy court where corporations routinely wriggle free of accountability. Incredible report from Moe Tkacik: prospect.org/justice/2025...

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Was reading George Orwell on the Spanish civil war last night and this part stuck out.

submitted 20 days ago • 80 comments

I am excited to announce that my third book will be an ocean conservation science and policy textbook! If you're an ocean scientist, a frontline conservation practitioner, or an educator, we'd sure love your input on how to make this book as useful for everyone as possible! See next post 🧪🦑🌎🦈🐟

submitted 20 days ago • 10 comments

Hey, we identitified a few of the researchers responsible for creating this DEI Watch List thing. This website still doesnt allow images to be uploaded through Tor tho, so here's the link to a consolidated version of our ID thread on Twitter: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18873...

submitted 20 days ago • 39 comments

If you are having problems with uploading images, this is why: From status.bsky.app Issue with our image & video hosting provider Our image & video hosting provider is currently experiencing an outage impacting our ability to host images. February 6, 2025, 08:00 GMT — February 6, 2025, 17:00 GMT

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments