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Is this how it's going to work? They sell GOES to Starlink so AccuWeather pays Musk for the data (to feed into what forecasting model - will they sell those too?) then AccuWeather charges us for the forecast? Only those who can pay get the tornado warning? Truly what is the end game here.

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What's happening is insane. I truly can't. even.

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Oh no!

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Hi, it's me again. THIS IS A COUP. AN ACTUAL COUP. Not a drill, not a test, just a COUP. We are experiencing a coup in the United States, and the fact that we're not acting like that's an emergency is a problem. IT IS DAY 38 OF THIS COUP.

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So glad we're getting rid of the agency that required my bank to send me this helpful brochure. Can't wait for the next financial crisis! ❤️ /s

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Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

submitted 2 days ago • 711 comments

Oh god

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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...

submitted 6 days ago • 83 comments

So interesting!

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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Last time he was President, Trump used a Sharpie to alter a hurricane forecast map to save face. Now he's using an eraser. Those who lived through Helene, Milton, Ian, or Beryl in recent years knows why this is a dumb & deadly move by a reckless administration. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Subscribe to @thebulwark.bsky.social !

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 14 days ago • 165 comments

An amazing thread about everything just one meteorologist has worked on at the Storm Prediction Center. We cannot let these people go.

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#NWS #NOAA #WeatherTalk #SpeakUp #Protest FEB 13, 2025. Why Private Forecasting Companies Can’t Replace the National Weather Service. www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

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I think we should all do this. Really jam up the works for someone at Google.😉

submitted 16 days ago • 147 comments

I love how tiny Jimmy looks against the OL 😂

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

This is a really nice, simple distillation of the vital role NOAA and the NWS play and how private companies cannot replace what they do.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

The AMS joins over 230 organizations and 2,600 individuals in submitting the following letter to Congress, expressing concern and strong opposition to the selective removal of public data from federal websites: bit.ly/42RqXwR

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

nike didn’t have to go this hard with the eagles sb commercials goddamn 🔥

submitted 16 days ago • 25 comments

INFURIATING

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This is what makes me want to scream? cry? wail to the heavens about our utter inability to stop complete dumbasses from upending everything? Helpless doesn't begin to describe it.

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anyway, go birds, well done everyone

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"Musk's inability or refusal to believe that any other thing could be more important than him getting exactly what he wants would make him an existential threat to a system built around the idea of public good." Had to re-read the whole thing again this morning. From @davidjroth.bsky.social:

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The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

submitted 21 days ago • 1214 comments

Thank you for standing up for NWS employees, @mattlanza.bsky.social!

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"The reality is brutally simple: What’s happening is illegal. Not in some technical way, but in the same way that two plus two equals four. We’re watching private interests seize control of government functions while pretending the laws designed to prevent exactly this don’t exist or don’t apply."

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

And just when a family member is about to fly more frequently for work 😱

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The panic keeps coming up inside me like a bitter acid reflux. DT is a charming empathetic grandpa compared to that utter sociopath EM.

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To take a reprieve from the madness in DC right now, an introspective look at Groundhog Day. (updated from a column I wrote 3 years ago) seansublette.substack.com/p/why-we-lov...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

This is seriously scary, especially after seeing what he did to Xitter

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RFK Jr even getting a hearing for this job is failed state shit

submitted 29 days ago • 312 comments

Nooooooooo

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It's good that there's a 25% tarriff on imported coffee now. This will incentivize people to purchase American coffee, grown in the New Jersey coffee forests

submitted 32 days ago • 1706 comments

This is neat

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

This is the thing! I refuse to let them make me feel crazy about things I can plainly read.

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... [A]n angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph, saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and ONCE YOU HAVE OBTAINED PERMISSION FROM THE EGYPTIAN BORDER PATROL AND APPLIED FOR LAWFUL REFUGEE STATUS, stay there until I tell you.” Matthew 2:13 (Updated MAGA Edition)

submitted 36 days ago • 96 comments

I try not to doompost but right now I'm really feeling like the last off-ramp was fifteen miles ago and we're going wherever we're going at this point

submitted 38 days ago • 66 comments

This take by @jamellebouie.net is spot on. Praiseworthy masculine virtues for a large part of Donald Trump's America are now misogyny, exploitation, dominance and aggression. Depressing, but we've been heading this direction for a while now, I just didn't see it.

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