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Vance is now waaaaaay to close to my house. We will join our Vermont friends tomorrow to share our disgust with him and the rest of the administration and our support for those they have been and will surely be harming.

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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

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Remember when Trump was just embarrassing?

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Trump banned the Associated Press from the White House.

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The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach. www.tsunami.gov

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I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

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On my agenda today: FB or Instagram today (sorry all of my pottery friends) so as not to generate add revenue for Meta…

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The U.S. government has put up a submission form for reporting schools who teach kids about “DEI.” It accepts file uploads. Internet, you know what to do enddei.ed.gov

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Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating. This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens. (Even better: Tesla will hate this)

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Watch at least the first statements from @sanders.senate.gov , @balint.house.gov and Sen. Peter Welch to get a full picture of the horror we are facing. Especially my friends outside the U.S., you'll understand how this is happening. Affects the whole world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkfV...

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Attended the virtual town hall with Vermonts reps last night and it was shocking to hear how deep this is all going.

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Just reminded my guy at Morgan-Stanley (and btw DEI remains one of their core principals) that Bezos, Zuckerberg and Google are not get any of my money. He will do the research to filter out all the other companies that struck DEI from their websites etc

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Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country." The first will be in Phoenix March 5.

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Read the room, Jeopardy! I know the shows are recorded three months in advance, but a Fascism category?

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So Trump never really had an issue with criminals entering the country; he just wanted to skim a little off the top when they did. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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JFC… who could imagine this extent of abuse?

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Rather than violate their oath or comply with Musk’s illegal requests, 21 civil service employees resigned today from Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (formerly the United States Digital Service), stating they would not use their technical expertise to dismantle critical public services.

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Moving my Wordpress site to Hostingee. Tired of paying extra for insane # of “visits” from crawlers

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BREAKING: france wants their statue back

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the abandoning is working, the nerds thirst 🙏

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Jane Fonda Says ‘Woke Just Means You Give a Damn About Other People,’ Calls on Hollywood to Fight With Empathy in SAG Awards Speech variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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Every day, the goals become clearer: The point of DOGE is not efficiency, but regime change www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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360 Montana-based federal employees received job termination notices. Just three full-time employees remain in both the Yellowstone and Bozeman ranger districts to manage 19 rental cabins, 60 bathrooms, 21 campgrounds and other infrastructure spread across 1 million acres. www.bozemandailychro...

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what the actual fuck

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Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

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This sounds amazing and given that it’s created by @erikej.bsky.social , I’d trust my DB with it blindfolded!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Keep your eye on the ball. JD Vance is laying the groundwork for Trump to defy court orders, weaken the courts, and dismantle checks and balances on the presidency.

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This has always been Elon's plan: 1. Spend over $250M on Trump's campaign so he wins 2. Advise Trump on how to cut government spending 3. Win a $400M contract with the State Department buying Tesla Cybertrucks Big win for Elon and Trump. Big loss for everyone else.

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Cut the budget then spend the savings on me.Nope, no conflicts here…. or surprises. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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We’ve recorded the first episode of our new vodcast, Satisfying Software. We’ll be interviewing people in technology about software design, strategy, and architecture in complex environments. Here’s a teaser from ep one with Barry O'Reilly and @gienverschatse.com Who else should we speak to?

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I thought it would be the other way around..: keep 💖ADS💖 and retire the extension! Bummer. Sometimes one-stop-shopping is not FTW. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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This house is in a lovely small neighborhood in my town in Vermont. Just sayin’ … www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

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Explicit Includes: The Art of Fetching Just Enough Data in EF Core from Chris Woodruf:

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FromSql: Writing SQL Like a Boss in EF Core from Chris Woodruf:

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