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This type of coercion of a nation under attack is offensive, wrong, and won’t make the US or Ukraine more secure. And I suspect most US critical mineral experts would agree.

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Take time to listen to this interview with my extraordinary friend @edyong209.bsky.social. We use the word humanitarian too loosely. But Ed is truly this—one who reminds us about our inextricable connection to everyone and everything around us, with hope and outrage. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

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SCOOP: New Social Security chief was being investigated for leaking data to DOGE when Musk team tapped him. Sr officials placed him on paid leave while probing whether he may have violated privacy & tax laws, WaPo's Lisa Rein reports. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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Meanwhile, on X, The Everything App

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F.D.A.’s Food Safety Chief Resigns "The chief said the loss of critical employees overseeing the nation’s food supply made his work impossible. RFK, the nation’s new health secretary, has pledged to gut the division." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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Ugh. I know it feels like we are on a runaway train, but we can still make decisions as a society to shape and constrain technology towards positive-sum, pro-human use cases... and we are actively choosing not to do so

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Here is my Federal Employment Termination story:

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SCOOP: Naval Academy leaders sent an email to faculty this week that teaching about “divisive concepts” such as systemic racism + sexism is no longer permitted. Faculty also can’t talk about environmental justice or gender ideology. Our exclusive: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

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oops!

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Trump’s cuts to the Bonneville Power Administration are threatening the Pacific Northwest with blackouts — the very thing the administration vowed the solve. Great @maeveallsup.bsky.social scoop. www.latitudemedia.com/news/trump-a...

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Departures starting to pile up at DOE in a way that seems completely counter productive to the Admin's professed goals of "energy dominance", reliable electricity, and rebuilding defense nuclear capabilities. -325 from NNSA including Defense Programs (what happened to the natsec exemption?) (1/x)

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To the scientists and attorneys and inventors who signed up to join DOE in the past year, taking on the risk of a new administration that does not appreciate you — we salute you www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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The Infrastructure & Inflation Reduction laws are often talked about in abstract terms: billions of dollars, the biggest climate legislation in US history, etc. But how exactly did this funding reshape—or hoped to reshape—your communities? New from @gristnews.bsky.social grist.org/accountabili...

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Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, has been advising President Trump on how to cut government spending, is likely to receive a lucrative contract to supply armored versions of its Cybertruck pickup to the State Department, according to public documents.

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The circumstances are “we’re not sure if there is a Federal Trade Commission anymore and we’d like to try something”

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BREAKING: The Trump administration has instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing HIV medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

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NEW: President Trump's hiring freeze has stopped the onboarding of seasonal federal firefighters, including those who work for agencies called on to help battle the devastating L.A. fires, creating a potential shortfall ahead of the next fire season. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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DOE's general counsel and IT offices told DOE Sec. Chris Wright that giving DOGE rep Luke Farritor IT access was a "bad idea" bc he hadn’t had a standard background investigation needed to access the department’s system, per a source. Wright granted him access anyways. www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/c...

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Entire USAID agency worldwide was deleted by a consulting government employee with no authority to do so. It’s a constitutional crisis that puts US national security at risk and normies won’t get this until legacy media says this clearly and loudly.

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There are signs in Utah grocery stores to ration $5.99 cartons of eggs — surely chyrons are scrolling across all major outlets for 4-5 hours a day

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“The wreckers' suspicion of that work and those workers reflects and is amplified by their incuriosity; for ideological and personal reasons, they can't even imagine it.”

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To state the obvious, when you undermine public access and trust in government weather forecasts (and the science behind them), people die

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World leaders are just saying nice words to convince an economic terrorist to put the gun down. There are no master deals or concessions being extracted here.

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seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions

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It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

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I ran $100 billion in Infrastructure and IRA programs at EPA. We obligated over $70 billion onto signed awards and contracts to protect public health and the environment. All that funding is currently frozen. Here are the facts… 🔌💡 1/X

submitted 23 days ago • 44 comments

Beginning to think the “DEI ate my homework” energy might not go over too well

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this is against the law

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President fires NLRB member. He's not allowed to do that, unless the Supreme Court changes the law.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

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BREAKING: The Trump Administration has dropped charges against Dr. Eithan Haim, a former resident at Texas Children's Hospital who allegedly accessed and shared private, protected information about children receiving gender-affirming care. www.chron.com/news/article...

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Jennifer Granholm: Trump is Making China Great —> www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/o...

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Here’s an idea — if you work for the media and you’re saying it wasn’t necessarily a nazi salute, you gotta say what you think it actually was and then find one other non-nazi example of someone doing that

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ICYMI last night trump ordered the government to completely stop all permits to wind projects its a worst case scenario for the wind industry heatmap.news/sparks/wind-...

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Shout out to Federal workers in this moment. To those who chose to use their time and talents to put the nation on the best trajectory towards a clean energy future, a more just society, and a safer environment. To those who took a leap of faith and went into Federal service at this critical moment.

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Every podcast is plastered with BP and Exxon commercials talking about American jobs from coast to coast, but they are just squeezing more oil out of a shrinking workforce. Which, fine, but the 2010s are over

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Fascinating early data from NYC's congestion pricing experiment. Overall traffic is down by 8%. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

submitted 38 days ago • 34 comments