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The shareholders at Tesla would probably like to ask a similar question: "Elon, what did you get done for us last week, other than further alienating our most likely customers with your obnoxious fascist stunts?

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Breaking News: Elon Musk said federal workers must summarize their accomplishments for the week in an email or be forced to leave, a tactic he used after buying Twitter. Follow live updates.

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If you ask most self-described Oregon conservatives if they consider themselves to be racists they will be offended that you’d even suggest that. Then if you showed them this blatantly racist post from a leading Oregon gun rights group, they’d think it’s fine. www.oregonfirearms.org/imbeciles-in...

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Das Lied von der Erde This is one of my favourite works but I've only ever heard it on the radio or on a recording so I was delighted to see it was coming up at the National Concert Hall. I enjoyed last night's performance enormously.

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‘It’s straight up extortion’: Elon Musk allegedly threatened advertisers to spend more money on X or face government retaliation www.themarysue.com/its-straight...

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Well, this took off! Lots of replies focus on whether the jobs report will be honestly reported. A mini-thread on that. 1/

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OMB director Russ Vought has officially begun carrying out his section of Project 2025. Technical thread to follow, but it’s really important - this is a major path through which the Trump administration will illegally impound funding, refusing to carry out some of our spending laws.

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It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

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Ensuring all our spies are monolingual white guys is a terrific idea. If you want to destroy our global intelligence gathering abilities. Who would want to do that? Oh, right.

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RFK Jr. promptly cancels vaccine advisory meeting, pulls flu shot campaign arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

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US stops sharing flu data with WHO amidst one of its worst flu seasons www.newscientist.com/article/2469...

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Years ago I wrote an article for Slate detailing why RFK Jr. is an anti-vaxxer, and he was so pissed he called my editor and gave her a spittle-flecked rant for an hour. Yet here we are.

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Leave it to the Guardian to state it more plainly than most U.S. outlets. Good stuff here.

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I wrote a book on venoms, and yet it never occurred to me to ask if fungi, bacteria, or even viruses(!) could be venomous. An exploration of the true diversity of venomous life and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

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Go to town hall meetings. When they get a reception like this, it absolutely scares the hell out of them.

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There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

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Brevity is always telling - fascinating to me re: this tech playbook and its posturing on speed, it always emphasizes acting with very little information. Same as the myth that the genius will walk into the room and make a snap decision in two minutes and anything else is a waste of time

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Over the years, mathematicians have struggled to connect their most ambitious project, a Rosetta Stone of math, to geometry. After 30 years and an 800-page proof, the bridge is finally built. youtu.be/xuLCPv6smwo?...

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So the media could do a better job, but also the people we're talking about are not reading news stories, watching the news, or even documentaries. They get their "news" from Facebook posts or message boards. They believe every urban legend because they don't trust anything that challenges them

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When the wreckage and dust of what these people are doing to our country has settled and the people have finally had enough to throw these jackals out of office, we will never forget the people who enabled it, despite their protestations they weren’t willing accomplices. Never.

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NASW chiming in: "The more people who are trained to become scientists and science communicators, the more minds are available to tackle the many global challenges we face. We are redoubling our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility..." 🧪 🩺 #ScienceSky #MedSky

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This article about scientists switching from Twitter to Bluesky quotes me (and @trevorabranch.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com ) 🧪 #SciComm www.dailyuw.com/science/scie...

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I don't think people really get how these employee purges are just going to break the culture of public organizations for a very long time.

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Words fail.

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A little too much "if we feed the leopard, it will love us and not eat our faces" going on for my taste

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Fwiw anecdotally the calls to elected are still at "very high volume" but slowing down. That's not good.

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Come ON

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Here's @bluestein.bsky.social's uncensored thread of the town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA), in which an unhappy audience pushes back against DOGE cuts: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18927...

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The Trump Administration deletes the nationwide database for reporting police misconduct, an effort that started after the murder of George Floyd. (Under Trump in 2020). It helped prevent bad cops from jumping to new agencies and start over with clean records.

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I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

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And there it is: JD Vance saying the quiet part out loud, that the MAGA extremists are going after a national abortion ban. For those in the back, WE TOLD YOU!😡😡😡 #MyBodyMyVote

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People who complain about restricted replies handily illustrate why this moderation option is so valuable.

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they voted for harris, because rural voters are not a bigoted monolith despite what you've been led to believe. but even if they didn't? they'd still deserve fucking mail service

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This is who Republicans just made FBI Director. Kash Patel calls for “offensive operations” to jail Americans who they consider “the enemy.” “We will go out and find the conspirators... Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media”

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The Trump-Vance-Musk regime is not only undermining democracy in the United States. It is also laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world. And the oligarchy is cheering them on. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/paying-off-putin

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Quite the gall to stand there and compare people sitting down at a town hall meeting to January 6th insurrectionists, too.

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I have two of his three cookbooks, and this is the one I don't yet have!

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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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I think there’s this tendency to assume Musk enters each agency with some kind of plan. But his office is 30 people, largely children, and the federal government employs millions. He spends half his time on drugs, tweeting, doing interviews. It’s all random noise www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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"The United States Postal Service shall be operated as a basic and fundamental service provided to the people by the Government of the United States, authorized by the Constitution, created by Act of Congress, and supported by the people"

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Sadly, it wouldn't make them think. There is a very good article in the current issue of @newhumanist.bsky.social about why the Christian right sees Trump as sent by God.

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Doctors find worms squirming through teen’s neck: A cautionary tale arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

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Did a Rock Hit Your Windshield, or Did Your Windshield Hit a Rock? Either way, it sucks. But at least there’s some fun physics to ponder while you’re sitting in the repair shop. www.wired.com/story/did-yo...

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In War Against DEI in Science, Researchers See Collateral Damage undark.org/2025/02/21/a...

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Trump Is Now Threatening Trans Voting Rights slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Musk’s Plan to Kill the ISS Early Is a Selfish, Shortsighted Move gizmodo.com/musks-plan-t...

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