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From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

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A Department of Homeland Security unit eliminated policies prohibiting personnel from conducting intelligence activities based solely on a person’s gender identity or sexual orientation. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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I will repost this every day I am on here b/c this is a grave threat to long term economic stability! GDP data, unemployment data, census data, etc. have to be unimpeachable. We cannot run macroeconomic policy, including the Federal Reserve functions, without it!

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This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

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Bluesky just passed 32 million accounts 🥳

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And now the Trump administration has opened an investigation of the Maine Department of Education

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⚡️63% of Ukrainians approve Zelensky as president, poll shows.

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BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

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Unfortunately this is one I’m not able to archive for STAT because it’s not available to the public and is subject to strict data use agreements to protect people’s privacy.

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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first Apple account on Bluesky

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#Breaking - Federal judge extends restraining order on Trump administration’s cap on NIH indirect costs

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TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

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Today, after the SEC dropped its suit against Coinbase, the exchange's Chief Legal Officer said "We believe we will eventually get to a point where the majority of global GDP runs on crypto rails." Also today:

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Over $1.4 billion taken from Bybit crypto exchange February 21, 2025 https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=bybit-hack

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Oh wow, what a crazy random happenstance.

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Me in 2011 trying to explain this to a class of Korean middle schoolers

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For the record, it is not common for journalists to use AI to draft articles. Certainly not at reputable outlets. I helped draft STAT’s AI policy and we specifically forbid that. www.statnews.com/stat-policy-...

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Boosting this! Please re-skeet! Any intrepid (or highly skeptical) scientists out there using Google's AI co-scientist tool? Would love to talk to you about your experience. ✉️ [email protected] Signal: btrang.01 🧪⚗️⚛️🧬🔭🧫👩‍🔬 #science #chemsky #AcademicSky #AI #journorequest

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Absolutely shocking and very worrying from NOAA www.newscientist.com/article/2469...

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Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

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someone has added a banner to the FCC Complaints page so that anyone going to file a complaint first gets asked if they want to join in a complaint re: “investigating news distortion at 60 Minutes” consumercomplaints.fcc.gov

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crazy how this keeps happening!!

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SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

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NEW: The Justice Department now says Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 rioters covers unrelated gun charges some faced after the FBI searched their homes. It’s moving to drop felony charges against Daniel Ball and Elias Costianes. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Breaking WaPo: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Someone should alert Andrew Ferguson at the FTC since he announced he's so very interested in learning about shadowbanning.

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elon appears to be going through his timeline and manually hiding posts from the mother of his child instead of responding to her urgent requests for help?

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This is a perfect encapsulation of something I keep saying: adapting content moderation interventions based on what is politically expedient is naive and reckless. As soon as an intervention is powerful enough to upset a political actor, that actor will attack it as biased.

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25% of U.S. adults say the "Department" of Government Efficiency (DOGE) should be eliminated, the highest percentage for any department d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

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So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

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buckle up

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This is why I really have no time for the "behind the scenes, Republicans say yadda yadda yadda." This is a public-facing business. If you tell a reporter you don't want to vote "aye" then you vote "aye," who cares?

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Patel has been confirmed 51-49, with Murkowski and Collins joining the Democrats to vote no.

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Ziff Davis, owner of sites including IGN and CNET, quietly removed DEI language from its website. 🔗 www.404media.co/ziff-davis-d...

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Despite everything he's tried, the vast majority of Americans, including six in ten Republicans, still really don't like Mark Zuckerberg www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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and park where??

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The bird flu we're dealing with has "mortality up to 90% to 100% in chickens, often within 48 hours" according to the CDC. It is extremely lethal to birds (and cats!) www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/vir...

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