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Having a hard time understanding why Elon Musk thinks its a good odea to degrade NOAA’s ability to give us lifesaving early warnings for Hurricanes & Tornadoes. www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...

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1. The Trump administration has crippled cancer and Alzheimer's research by imposing a freeze on all government credit cards at NIH. An NIH source with direct knowledge tell Popular Information that scientific research has ground to halt because necessary supplies can no longer be purchased.

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Shoutout to the IRS workers reviewing and approving tax refunds right now. You’re doing amazing, and we thank you!!!

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Road to the VRA: 60 years ago today, more than 4000 attend funerals for Jimmie Lee Jackson first in Selma and then in his hometown of Marion. After the Marion service, more than 1000 then walk three miles in rain from the church to his burial place.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

Great news for money launderers!

submitted 17 hours ago • 871 comments

In case you’re wondering, this is how the neo-Nazis feel about X. They see what Musk has done and they love it. “Our app”.

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Can anyone explain to me 1) whether (besides the SDNY lawsuit over climate data removed) anyone is suing on behalf of farmers 2) if not why not? Trump is bankrupting farmers. www.hppr.org/hppr-news/20...

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For every one man whose career is derailed because of a false accusation of sexual harassment, sexual assault, or rape there are 100s (1000s?) of women whose careers are derailed because they were harassed, assaulted, or raped. If only the punditry cared as much about the latter as the former.

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NEW: When the Trump Admin abruptly cancelled almost all USAID programs, it also refused to pay $2bln the U.S. govt owes for work that’s been done. One of the cut-off programs in Syria couldn’t afford security and was robbed by masked men. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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After Trump & Vance’s utterly disgraceful performance it’s good to see European leaders step up. It’s profoundly American to criticize our leaders when they stray from democratic principles let alone what we are seeing in Trump’s administration. As a proud American I intend to fight for our country.

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For those who don't know a K01 is a training grant for early career researchers. Typically 4-5years to help them launch their research careers. It protects up to 75% time for research. Rescinding awarded K level grants is throwing a grenade into an already tenuous research pipeline.

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I’m pretty sure this is what voters want from their elected officials www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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The Reign released a new app today which includes push notifications of news and lineups, and lets you link your Ticketmaster account for a more seamless matchday experience. It's a rebrand of the Sounders app to now feature both teams equally #HereForTheCrown www.reignfc.com/news/seattle...

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Unbelievable. NIH's websites are get >1 billion hits a year from people all over the globe looking for reliable health information.

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First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

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Judge Alsup has issued a TRO in the case regarding OPM's memo ordering the removal of probationary employees. Will post my thoughts in this thread as I read and drink my coffee. 1/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Uganda recorded a second death in its ongoing #Ebola outbreak. A 4 year old boy in the capital city Kampala. I had hoped that we were confidently in containment territory. Unfortunately ebola outbreaks tend to smolder due to a long incubation period. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/h...

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18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

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An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.

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The Trump administration is demanding the home addresses of 700,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally from the IRS. The IRS is resisting this request, as complying would directly violate federal tax privacy laws.

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Hell freezing over. WSJ, centrists, progressives, and Democrats all agree Trump and Vance are kowtowing to Putin, a tyrannical thug, and undermining the US.

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Timeline cleanse: How to catch a kangaroo. youtube.com/watch?v=6P1v...

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I appreciate the deep reporting here but would add one thing: This isn’t just an attack on the federal workforce. It’s an assault on the entire country. We ALL rely on government services that Musk is paralyzing. The impact of his cuts will only grow more horrific. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

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It's 65 in Portland today, officially marking the first day of False Spring. Expect snow in two to four weeks.

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Just reminding the world the SSA starts the path abysmally under resourced and understaffed.

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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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Donald Trump just helped free Andrew Tate from his rape and human trafficking charges. Tate has bragged about grabbing women by their necks, breaking their jaws, and said “I am absolutely a misogynist.”

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People are gonna stop getting their checks and it will happen soon. We are being robbed in broad daylight.

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Bears repeating that social security is incredibly INCREDIBLY efficient to run. Its overhead costs are basically zero when you consider the size of the undertaking and the genuine benefits delivered. If anyone was interested in improving govt efficiency, the SSA would be their model not their target

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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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This declaration from Clara “Doe,” supporting the TRO against the freeze on USAID foreign aid (now before SCOTUS), is worth reading. It’s from a USAID contracting officer with more than 10 years experience there. ... 1/6 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita ran an entirely fictitious campaign, promoting a version of Trump that will never exist, shamelessly fabricating lies about his agenda based on what swing voters wanted to hear. Now the people who believed the lies are suffering. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Just heard from a friend who is a true hero veteran. His company was destroyed in 30 days by the VA when they canceled 5 contracts without notice. 23 Americans mostly veterans out of work and a veteran owned small business destroyed. For nothing. They're dismantling the VA not "reforming" it.

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It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.

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People’s reactions to these stories tend to be of the leopards-eating-faces variety but this is a great piece of reporting in part about how voters very disconnected from politics make their choices. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Oh, ick.

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It's sad to see her gone so young. tvline.com/lists/michel...

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Again, folks seem not to grasp how much this is a total collapse of the Constitutional order. A random private citizen is running the "Cabinet" meeting of POTUS & the Principal Officers of the Executive Departments, & going around unplugging large portions of the government. And we're all just 🤷‍♂️

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Stromatolites xkcd.com/3046

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Incoming Asteroid xkcd.com/3049

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RNA xkcd.com/3056

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More signs of things going off the rails: Erdogan defending liberal democracy www.aa.com.tr/en/turkiye/o...

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This is a hard but necessary read: ending USAID means children starve to death.

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Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

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