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A Polish acquaintance went to British Museum specifically to see this tablet only to be cheated by Ea-nasir from beyond the grave

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

submitted 3 days ago • 90 comments

NEW: Pretty revealing look into what's going on inside the federal government tonight. On one Veterans Affairs department email, recipients are instructed to not reply to the DOGE/Musk threat email "until leadership can validate the authenticity and intent" of the email.

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

Twice as much funding goes to diseases that disproportionally affect men compared to those that mainly impact women. So … no?

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments

In an ideal world the President of the United States, the world's richest man, and the two worst humans alive would be four different people.

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 8 days ago • 1066 comments

Biomedical research is... 1. high-return 2. a minuscule part of the budget 3. an American strength, redounding to firms and to individuals 4. not a major source of graft 5. a source of some bloat, sure, but how does this address it? grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 18 days ago • 82 comments

Civil Servants Are Not America’s Enemies. “Washington created the modern civil service to make the government efficient in the first place, ending a patronage system wracked with graft and incompetence.” [theatlantic.com]

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

If your argument is "sure, a terrible modern event has a parallel in the 1920s and 30s but don't worry we turned out just fine", might I suggest reading about the 1940s.

submitted 13 days ago • 393 comments

You're always on call, the hours suck, your work environment is hellish, and it typically gets worse over time.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

We're wrapping snow coverage as flakes are easing & most places will see 1" or less more. We'll analyze amounts tomorrow but seems 4.5-6.5" near Beltway, 6.5-9+" south, 1.5-4.5" north. More info at cwg.live Photo by Tom Mockler in Arlington Thx for following!!!

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Why would you make your narrator unreliable. I trusted you and purchased this book and this is how you repay me

submitted 14 days ago • 226 comments

Same, Bus. Same.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone's a revolutionary until it's time to do revolution shit (meetings, logistics, laundry and dishes, actual work).

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

I think it's important to remember that nothing DOGE is doing is legal but that isn't preventing them from doing it.

submitted 21 days ago • 81 comments

“i’d like to be running deep investigations on how each of these orders are impacting the estimated 1.6 million trans people in the US, but doing all of them at once is too much for just one person.”

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

You are MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. If they threaten you with arrest for trying to access a site you are lawfully entitled to access, YOU MAKE THEM FUCKING ARREST YOU. YOU MAKE THEM SLAP THE CUFFS ON A CONGRESSMAN LIVE ON TV, YOU MAKE THEM FUCKING DO IT.

submitted 22 days ago • 202 comments

I was on my 5mi walk today and suddenly someone was beside me talking to me, so I pulled out my earbud to see someone maybe 12 yo? "How tall are you?" He said. "6'9"" I said. "WHAT" he said "THAT IS TOO MUCH" and then bent down, picked up a very small twig like branch, threw it at me, and ran away.

submitted 25 days ago • 13 comments

President Trump issued an executive order to find out what education funds he can legally rescind based on curriculum he doesn’t like. Existing law already answers that question —nothing.

submitted 27 days ago • 19 comments

Meals on Wheels America spox on OMB pause: "the uncertainty right now is creating chaos for local Meals on Wheels providers not knowing whether they should be serving meals today. Which unfortunately means seniors will panic not knowing where their next meals will come from."

submitted 29 days ago • 338 comments

One of the Congressional leaders I most respect is @rep-rosa-delauro.bsky.social. Tonight, along with her Senate counterpart, Sen Murray, she's put out this letter to OMB democrats-appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

What privilege is: If you’re incompetent, people don’t use that against others who share your identity. I.E. nobody thinks all white men are incompetent because some are. But every marginalized person knows any negative thing people see about them is seen as reflective of others w/ their identity.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 33 days ago • 52 comments

Looking into this.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Me: Oh no that trolley is going to run us over! Guy tied up on the track next to me who somehow thinks he's actually the guy holding the lever: Lol cry more 😂

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submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Everything happening with TikTok this weekend is a show and happening outside the legal system. I’m looking at it this way: TikTok shut down to send the message to users that Trump wanted to fix it; TikTok is coming back up before the inauguration because Trump wants it up for his inauguration.

submitted 37 days ago • 73 comments

I think all the time about the interviewer who asked Meryl Streep “how did you not know about Weinstein” and she was like “I didn’t know because he NEEDED me not to know” it isn’t a character flaw to have been deceived by someone who is a deceit expert cultivating the cover of your faith & goodwill

submitted 230 days ago • 25 comments

What millions need to hear is that tomorrow it could be your home

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments

This plus “noncompliance” because deaf people can’t necessarily hear/understand police instructions.

submitted 44 days ago • 8 comments

Don’t want to talk about how now we know that there are absolutely people who the law doesn’t apply to.

submitted 53 days ago • 4 comments

Whatever we make.

submitted 55 days ago • 29 comments

Philosophers: A runaway trolley will hit and kill 5 people, you can pull a lever and divert it to kill just 1, what would you do? CDC: <panics, yanks lever violently, freezes, trolley flips on side and takes out both groups of people and multiple bystanders and entire CDC>

submitted 64 days ago • 6 comments

Imagine a trolley car, and it's hurtling out of control, and there are two tracks it can head down, and your family are standing on track, and you're standing on the other, and Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg are arguing about control of the trolley.

submitted 61 days ago • 5 comments

every new restaurant in every major city is either called Thistle+Thorn and thinks adding turmeric to brussel sprouts makes them worth $30 or is called Burger Bitch and has a neon sign in the window that says “im gonna fuck a hamburger”

submitted 59 days ago • 607 comments

The thing abt Jimmy Carter is that he reminds us we can have a redemption arc. Changing one's mind towards empathy is what we should encourage more of. Shutting people down after they've done that type of arc is detrimental. We should celebrate progress towards justice & liberation.

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

By this definition, "this fascist era" started, at latest, June 2015, which... yeah. At the latest. I wrote about what I call "joy policing" in 2016, based on a FB post I wrote to my students in 2015. substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment