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Looking forward to learning which country bought which surveillance mercenary software to spy on its political opponents: arstechnica.com/security/202...

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

"Top officials of our oldest allies say privately they fear that we are becoming not just unstable, but actually their enemy. The only person who gets treated with kid gloves is Putin..." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/o...

submitted 9 hours ago • 292 comments

here's the incredible interview that @chrislhayes.bsky.social did tonight with the woman who was just fired as the pardon attorney at DOJ, liz oyer. really, really, really worth watching: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnqv...

submitted 8 hours ago • 441 comments

LA County confirms first measles case in resident

submitted 8 hours ago • 12 comments

While the White House claims that a mass deportation is ongoing, “the results of the actual deportation push appear to be more modest,” writes Nick Miroff. “The administration is churning through ICE leaders, blaming them for failing to deliver results”:

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

Answer i've gotten from about half a dozen employees 1. the requests are still happening (even this week) 2. the agencies, not OPM or DOGE are running it 3. no one, NO ONE is getting a response once they send in their list. It's a "black hole," said one official

submitted 18 hours ago • 10 comments

In an interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, outlined a strategy for containing the measles outbreak in West Texas that strayed far from mainstream science, relying heavily on fringe theories about prevention and treatments.

submitted 1 day ago • 429 comments

This is exactly what they're trying to achieve by destroying government services that benefit the public. A VC-backed startup intervenes to gather data that the National Weather Service was previously collecting, and before we know it, we will be paying them for what was once funded by our taxes.

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

“The fire battalion chief says someone was trying to launch a jet ski when the Cybertruck sank.”

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

This is a BFD on its own right, but there's been a great deal of evidence that DOGE has been assuming it could evade FOIA and so sloppy about following obligations that FOIA may now give cause to enforce.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to a Colorado law banning “conversion therapy” aimed at young people questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity. More than 20 states have these bans, so the eventual ruling will have nationwide implications. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

We shld view Tesla as the equivalent of a company that held down babies and poured radioactive waste down their throats or probably something worse. I don't support violence. But normal Americans are right to stand agst this company which threatens their liberty. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/b...

submitted 3 days ago • 152 comments

This CNN piece today is really good clear succinct. In plain language with examples of impacts. Musk and his DOGE team at Social Security are driving the agency to total system collapse. www.cnn.com/2025/03/08/p...

submitted 3 days ago • 49 comments

Weird. Did anybody catch how big Newsom’s Make Trans Kids Lives Harder rally was?

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 The European Federation of Journalists representing 300,000+ journalists have announced they are leaving Elon Musk's X and will no longer be posting.

submitted 3 days ago • 545 comments

As a news organization, we have deep concerns about Earth’s richest man controlling the flow of information while presiding over the dismemberment of core parts of the government in ways that often appear to benefit him. Here's why @mississippifreepress.org has left X:

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

Might save a life.

submitted 4 days ago • 249 comments

NEW: The Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversees billions in aid and insures more than a trillion dollars in mortgages, is pondering using the blockchain and a stablecoin. One HUD official derided it as “monopoly money.” By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 91 comments

I've always liked WIRED. But I did not have on my 2025 notes - WIRED becomes THE source for the most important investigative journalism of our time (with respect for ProPublica and a few others)

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments

cutting childhood cancer research… www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

submitted 7 days ago • 133 comments

here it is: it got a police escort out of the parade

submitted 8 days ago • 91 comments

Full page in today’s Anchorage Daily News:

submitted 9 days ago • 219 comments

Complete constitutional crisis. Total failure of both Article I and Article III.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

I will, for a brief moment, put my work hat on. This is absolutely horrifying and undermines the foundation of the educational goals we've carried for decades. It is truly violent in the sense that it will undermine our democracy. Make workers, keep them hateful and ignorant. We will not comply.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

SCOOP: The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to a whistle-blower from USAID. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...

submitted 9 days ago • 50 comments

3.9 in NoHo

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

#Earthquake Update: A magnitude 3.92 earthquake took place 2 km ESE of North Hollywood, CA at 10:13:45 PM. #minor For details from the USGS and to report shaking:

submitted 9 days ago • 44 comments

✅Measles was declared eliminated in U.S. in 2000 due to the measles vaccine. 📍Today, Mexico has issued a warning to avoid traveling to the U.S. because of measles outbreaks in Texas and 7 other U.S. states.

submitted 10 days ago • 191 comments

It’s a fucking coup.

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

“The move is an ‘underlying signal of increased reticence by the Trump administration to move forward with vaccines based on historical plans, particularly mRNA shots,’ Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Sam Fazeli wrote in a note on Thursday.”

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Think about this for a hot second

submitted 12 days ago • 116 comments

EXCLUSIVE One report warns aid cuts threaten the Israel-Hamas ceasefire. Another finds security dangers, disease risks and tens of millions in new costs. Amid fears of White House retaliation, USAID’s watchdog is sitting on both Lisa Rein and @johnphudson.bsky.social report wapo.st/4ieQ69h

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

Happy 29th annual pocket monster day.

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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 13 days ago • 480 comments

When you take a step back, it’s genuinely stunning how far any of this is from anything Trump campaigned on. It aligns perfectly w Project 2025 of course, but in terms of Trump’s public rhetoric, this was totally absent.

submitted 13 days ago • 461 comments

FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

submitted 13 days ago • 423 comments

The @washingtonpost.com has just broken the story about my cancelled art show that was three-plus years in the making and due to open in three weeks. A press statement is being prepared, and further responses will be announced. For those of you who have already expressed support, thank you.

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 14 days ago • 1236 comments

I just want to say thank you to everyone who has reached out with kindness and encouragement, both personally and in these social media streets. So very proud of The Reidout @joy.msnbc.com team, who are truly family, and all of our supporters & friends. See you tomorrow night at 7, one more time ‼️

submitted 16 days ago • 11181 comments

Nice.

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

BREAKING: Nearly all USAID direct hires are being placed on leave tonight at midnight. My latest with Fatma Tanis at @npr.org: www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 16 days ago • 32 comments

Lol. Apparently I'm on John Oliver's show tonight. I haven't seen it yet. Had no idea this was happening. But, um, gonna go watch now.

submitted 16 days ago • 39 comments

I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 20 days ago • 269 comments

A calendar of key US elections in 2025 | AP News

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The FDA's alert for norovirus in oysters has expanded Tuesday to cover new states: MN, NJ, NY, PA, VT, VA The alert already covered: AL, AR, DE, FL, GA, KY, LA, MD, MS, NC, SC, TN, TX

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Just one thousandth of what they said! No big deal.

submitted 21 days ago • 320 comments

People do not understand how much damage Reagan's cuts to education have caused over the last forty years.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

The Trump administration has been evaluating the costs of destroying or disposing of tens of millions of coronavirus tests that would otherwise be provided free to Americans.

submitted 21 days ago • 153 comments

Hey all, I need some feedback here and I am thinking of opening up this repo to some collaborators, but I started a doc to try to track the activities of DOGE across various agencies on their "IT modernization" crusade github.com/harrisj/trum... Feedback wanted on what is useful/would be better

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments