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NSF changed my life for the better. I was working as an engineer in NY and got a call from my potential advisor that his grant on climate decision-making just was awarded, could I start the doctoral program in a month? Three weeks later I was there. Everyone deserves these types of opportunities.

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They are endlessly stupid....

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CISA controls the .gov domain registrar and the national public key infrastructure (PKI). This means Elon Musk has the ability to shut down any federal, state, or city government using a .gov domain. Musk can also now prevent .gov agencies and officials from registering their .gov BlueSky handles

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

the line about how trump is just trolling or joking about the “king” thing is belied somewhat by the fact that his administration’s explicit position is he can do whatever he wants and that everyone in every branch of government needs to bow to his demands or be banished

submitted 3 days ago • 109 comments

It's a shame the Article I branch abdicated its powers to the Article II branch. Of course, the Article I branch could move to reclaim those powers at any time, but that's hard work so 🤷‍♂️ The key flaw in the Founders' design laid bare in the present moment: bsky.app/profile/davi...

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The Verge is willing to explain this stuff without fear or favour. Not having to worry about burning White House and Capitol Hill relationships by speaking the truth really does help these days.

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Spotlight these folks, and the work that won’t be done, and the people who will get screwed, now that they’re fired for no gd reason but greed and malice. Former USDA worker fired by Trump administration shares her story: youtu.be/d-KLZg2CH7E?...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

"DOGE wanted access to SSA’s sensitive files — the same way they’re trying to do at Labor and Treasury — and the acting commissioner wouldn’t give it, and she was replaced,” said Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works. “There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is."

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

For those wondering if it's real, you can confirm it on the Geauga YMCA schedule for this month.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 118 comments

“The reason we face the worst is because it helps us imagine the best.” What a fantastic, hopeful read. Treat yourself to this, and then spread it around.

submitted 6 days ago • 226 comments

A popular dumbass Republican (I know, redundant) saying is "the problem is eventually you run out of other people's money". A good rejoinder, "Eventually, you run out of other people to blame for all your fuck ups".

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

the richest man in the world decided that you don't deserve safe drinking water

submitted 6 days ago • 60 comments

Shorter and more truthful version of #MurdochJournal Führer-fluffing headline: She, too, lies.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

I do think we will see a lot of people leaving America over this. Our country is going back to factory settings.

submitted 6 days ago • 102 comments

One nice thing about being a free person, or the operator of a free press, is you don’t have to consult—much less “obey”—a goddam book of presidential proclamations to learn what words, geographic or otherwise, are permissible to use. Any government encroachment on that freedom ought to be fought.

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator

submitted 7 days ago • 1168 comments

Is he self identifying as the threat from within?

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Russia literally bombed a nuclear facility on European soil. Last night.

submitted 8 days ago • 58 comments

There has been a massive uptick of scam texts & phone calls being received amongst my friends & family. Scam artists, charlatans, & philistines are running the country. In my best old-man-get-off-my-front porch-voice I propose a new name for the USA: "United Scams of America"

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Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

submitted 8 days ago • 678 comments

NEW: Elon Musk and his team have posted classified data on DOGE's new website www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

submitted 8 days ago • 543 comments

As DOGE began infiltrating government agencies and targeting federal staff for termination, I started interviewing tech workers on the front lines. With the mass layoffs unfolding today, and with their permission, I'm sharing their stories. This is what it's been like to endure Musk's campaign.

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

And you better believe this is as much a letter to both Kavanaugh and Roberts as it is a letter to Bove.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Looks like Elon Musk needs that yearly reminder that The Matrix is a trans allegory written by two closeted trans women. “You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.”

submitted 9 days ago • 63 comments

Good morning unsubtle authoritarianism. Good morning loss of all credibility.

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

"Do I need to call Elon?” one DOGE member barked at a federal security official while demanding access to sensitive information at one agency this month, a source familiar with the exchange tells Rolling Stone." Come on, man, you’re being bullied by twerps.

submitted 8 days ago • 213 comments

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 9 days ago • 439 comments

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

submitted 9 days ago • 537 comments

This also includes veterans, including, I am told, at least some fully qualified wildland firefighters with actual fire experience. Per a source with knowledge: “I want everyone to know that they are firing veterans, fully qualified and trying to serve their country again in civil service.”

submitted 9 days ago • 55 comments

So stop covering events he blocks yr colleagues from in solidarity.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

"'A federal job means more than just a federal job. On average, for every job in the federal government, you explain two to three jobs in the regional economy.' Forty percent of the local economy is based in one way or another on the federal government" via @51st.news 51st.news/trump-is-raz...

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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

submitted 10 days ago • 596 comments

Authoritarians ask Musk to turn over lists of USAID staff The prime minister of Slovakia asked Musk to share information about NGOs and reporters who worked there. In Russia, the state duma speaker said, if USAID is an enemy organization, Russia wants a list, "and we’ll hand it over to the FSB.”

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

Policy realism or appeasement of Russia?

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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 11 days ago • 424 comments

“I have come to wonder whether these expressions of despair and surrender are really masking an irrational longing for a magical way out of this nightmare - a hope that some deus ex machina will swoop down and spare us what we are facing.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 12 days ago • 76 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 17 days ago • 2838 comments