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A pro-Russia content aggregation network is churning out at least 3 MILLION pieces of propaganda per year, all on sites that are virtually unusable by humans. So what's the goal? We explore the idea that it might be to flood LLMs with pro-Russia content: static1.squarespace.com/static/6612c... 1/

submitted 6 hours ago • 22 comments

As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.

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The Free Market is when rich people get money for free. True of the railroads too. bsky.app/profile/larr...

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1/2 An important victory for federal probationary workers. This one not in the courts. Office of Special Counsel: "The probationary terminations at issue in this matter appear to have been effectuated in a manner inconsistent with federal personnel laws."

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Heard that someone in the federal government wanted to know about five things that happened last week. Here's our list. Whether you want a weekly or a daily rundown of the top democracy and voting rights news, our free newsletters have got you covered: newsletters.democracydocket.com/bluesky

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Breaking news: The UN General Assembly has passed a resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The resolution was co-sponsored by Kyiv and EU nations, despite the US voting against it and urging other states to do so. www.ft.com/content/d0f3...

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Actual headline right now:

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“The bells that have rung now at the FBI cannot be unrung. And we will rue the day we didn’t hear them as dire warnings for the country’s future.” A must read from FBI expert @vermontgmg.bsky.social on what the coming of Patel and Bongino means www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/an-obituar...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

This passage is a perfect example of how the genteel, rules-bound NYT can't find the proper words to describe America's descent into dictatorship. It's still a vital source of information but a terrible place to find out what's going on

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In light of the news that Dan Bongino will be the Kash Patel's Deputy FBI Director, I am reposting what I wrote a few weeks ago. "Donald Trump will insist on using the powers of the state to attack his political opponents." www.democracydocket.com/opinion/ther...

submitted 3 days ago • 259 comments

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 6 days ago • 62 comments

One thing DOGE has gutted is an effort to REFORM how the US divvies up donated organs. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

@beyer.house.gov caught OPM/NSF arbitrarily reclassifying non-probationary NSF employees as probationary so they could be fired more easily. beyer.house.gov/uploadedfile... See also Reuters (which didn't link letter): www.reuters.com/world/us/us-... I hope the satire writers are watching.

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

Despite a very high-profile push to crack down on illegal immigration under President Trump, the pace of deportations is so far down sharply from last year. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

He’s baaaaaaaaack

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Rarely has so much ignorance & ahistorical BS been crammed into a single tweet. I know JD Vance & Donald Trump are busy surrendering to a KGB butcher, abandoning the cause of freedom, & destroying the security of America & her allies, but they'd do well to spend some time actually studying history.

submitted 6 days ago • 122 comments

This is an excellent and timely factsheet on Ukraine, U.S. v. European security assistance, and other misunderstood or lied about aspects of the war, by our friends at @thestudyofwar.bsky.social. I'll summarize a few main points below, with additional sources of my own:

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Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

submitted 6 days ago • 2594 comments

NEW: A regional FEMA chief of staff took Elon Musk's Fork in the Road offer. He has proof of receipt. But they didn't honor it. Instead, they fired him 13 days later. Now, this retired Navy captain is speaking out. www.thebulwark.com/p/musk-doge-...

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"The New York Times has been caught, once again, passing off Republican operatives as “regular” Republican voters in an article intended to show how effectively Trump is maintaining his support." presswatchers.org/2020/10/how-... by @froomkin.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

A sliver of truth appears in the New York Post. Happy to see it.

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Here's @oliverdarcy.bsky.social describing how the big national newsrooms characterized Kash Patel as they reported on his appointment. www.status.news/p/cbs-evenin... "Conspiracy theorist" and "Trump loyalist" are both factually correct. So it becomes a question, not of accuracy, but of truth.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

As Trump makes concessions to Russia, he is showing weakness on a level unprecedented in modern US history. His position is so weak that it is unlikely to convince anyone. Trump is a sheep in wolf’s clothing. The wolves can tell the difference "The Weak Strongman" snyder.substack.com/p/the-weak-s...

submitted 7 days ago • 132 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w...

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This was just 233 days ago:

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Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

submitted 7 days ago • 1381 comments

So many threads to pull here; the atrocious grasp of history & geopolitik, the glib lie about how the war in Ukraine began, the disgraceful abandonment of European allies. But it’s the alignment with the war criminal Putin, no friend of ours, that sticks out. What won’t Trump do to harm us?

submitted 8 days ago • 327 comments

Here’s the full video of our report so you can watch here — my conversation with the federal firefighting captain who invited me to Washington State to learn about what he sees as the potentially deadly consequences of Trump’s hiring freeze on federal firefighter readiness. youtu.be/_bIZhsLAUZA

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The best dark sky in the world - the Atacama Desert in Chile, which hosts many @eso.org telescopes - is under threat from an industrial project. 🔭 Astronomers can sign a petition in favour of moving the planned industrial project: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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New BBC research: 51% of all AI answers to questions about the news were judged to have significant issues of some form 19% of AI answers which cited BBC content introduced factual errors – incorrect factual statements, numbers and dates And more… www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 9 days ago • 8255 comments

The greatest political scandal today is not what Trump is doing. It is the fact that congressional Republicans have given up their role in the constitutional system as a check on the executive branch. If we are in a constitutional crisis, it is as much on Mike Johnson and John Thune as anyone else.

submitted 11 days ago • 786 comments

It takes over 25 ¶¶ before WaPo explains why Trump is failing to meet the deportation numbers he promised: Stephen Miller lied about the number of criminal aliens in the US to fearmonger and get Trump elected. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 11 days ago • 71 comments

For those outside of metro Philly, the Inquirer is one of the few remaining major city papers owned by a nonprofit foundation, not by a billionaire.

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SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

submitted 12 days ago • 263 comments

Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades. Envy of the world. Poof! www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 12 days ago • 545 comments

Kash Patel atop the FBI is a recipe for a failure akin to 9/11 and unchecked corruption at all levels of government. I laid how his tenure might unfold: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/your-title...

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NEW: Zelenskyy shares video of the Chernobyl nuclear shelter being attacked by a Russian drone last night. The shelter protects all nations from radiation. The attack came mins after Trump told reporters he trusts Putin’s commitment to peace. Zelenskyy: “Putin is preparing to deceive the world.”

submitted 13 days ago • 38 comments

genuinely jarring to read one of these emails that has actual useful information instead of a fundraising pitch

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

Why DOGE is Unconstitutional by Alan Charles Raul Fmr Assoc White House counsel under Pres Ronald Reagan and GC of the Office of Mngmnt & Budget under Reagan and Pres George HW Bush. He is board secretary of the Society for the Rule of Law and a lecturer at Harvard Law School wapo.st/3ECuUvk

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8 Inspectors General Fired by Trump File Lawsuit Seeking Reinstatement The case is the latest to challenge a wave of actions by President Trump that brazenly violated legal limits on his power. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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Nine years ago we announced to the world that we have detected #GravitationalWaves we did it! youtu.be/lslUF9gdYI8

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“These stories should concern all Americans because they are our family members, neighbors and friends. No American can be proud of a government that carries out change in this way.” The American Bar Association speaks out. Please read and share. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 16 days ago • 247 comments

This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!

submitted 16 days ago • 252 comments