mbbckp.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Beta Technologies’ bet on electric flight and Hyundai’s new Tesla charging port comes up short

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

About 7,000 employees are expected to lose their jobs at the tax agency, according to a person familiar with the decision.

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

French President Emmanuel Macron said he will travel to Washington to try to convince President Trump that his interests were in line with European allies and that showing any weakness to Russia's Putin would make it harder to deal with China and Iran reut.rs/4iahYeS

submitted 2 days ago • 138 comments

Walmart forecast sales and profit for the current year below Wall Street estimates, citing the need for caution in navigating an uncertain geopolitical landscape reut.rs/3QtxFly

submitted 2 days ago • 96 comments

$39M+ has been earmarked to DOGE in Trump admin’s first month. For perspective, in recent years Congress had allocated around $50M a year for the IT modernization initiative that DOGE supplanted. Unclear what time frame DOGE's $39M is meant to cover www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

A federal judge ordered Trump administration officials to comply with his earlier order that they lift a freeze of nearly all foreign aid, though he stopped short of holding them in contempt of court reut.rs/3EHlT47

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

As Governors Meet in D.C., Possible Federal Medicaid Cuts Loom as Big State Funding Issue (via @kff.org) www.kff.org/quick-take/a...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Very Interesting. I guess we need the Yellow Line and Blue lines to be close to each other.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Trump administration drops work on stronger building codes for natural disasters www.npr.org/2025/02/20/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 50 comments

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Ukraine and Europe would be part of any 'real negotiations' to end Moscow's war, signaling that US talks with Russia this week were a chance to see how serious Russian President Vladimir Putin is about peace reut.rs/4i0ODDl

submitted 5 days ago • 56 comments

A Florida man was arrested and charged with two counts of attempted murder after shooting at a vehicle with two men who he thought were Palestinians but turned out to be Israeli visitors, local authorities said reut.rs/419TqMa

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

Elon Musk's role in the Trump administration is as a White House employee and senior adviser to the president, and is not an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency and has no decision-making authority, the White House said in a court filing reut.rs/431Y6WO

submitted 4 days ago • 143 comments

Sri Lanka expects a 5 % growth in 2025 — by improving productivity, boosting exports and attracting foreign investments — President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said, presenting his maiden Budget that signalled his government’s firm adherence to an ongoing IMF programme. www.thehindu.com/news/interna...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

submitted 5 days ago • 609 comments

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

submitted 5 days ago • 2642 comments

🚨🚨🚨🚨DOGE is breaking into Social Security records too now www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 5 days ago • 85 comments

chatgpt.com/share/67b3c6...

submitted 5 days ago • 161 comments

When I talk to kids today and they ask me what I would do if I were 12 today, my answer is always the same, read books and learn how to use AI in every way shape and form you can. It is a living library that gives you responses and can help no matter who you are or where you live.

submitted 5 days ago • 2406 comments

Two days after 18 people lost their lives in a stampede at the New Delhi Railway Station on their way to the #MahaKumbh in #UttarPradesh’s Prayagraj, dozens of paramilitary personnel have been posted as a measure to control crowd surges. www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

The Federal Aviation Administration fired fewer than 400 employees out of its workforce of 45,000, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said, as questions rise around air traffic safety amid a spate of recent plane accidents reut.rs/41nNS1W

submitted 4 days ago • 84 comments

Those who uphold the rule of law save their country.

submitted 6 days ago • 182 comments

A powerful storm is battering parts of the eastern United States this weekend, prompting flash flood warnings in West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee.

submitted 6 days ago • 33 comments

The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency led by billionaire Elon Musk has announced a series of expenditure cuts, including $21 million allocated for "voter turnout in India." www.thehindu.com/news/interna...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Existing foods or inventory can be a) Sent existing food to intended destination, gain good will and then stop if deemed unnecessary. (OR) b) Immediately dispatch to food banks or soup kitchen within USA. Some things, cannot be in limbo indefinitely. They should take action one way or the other.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I know I should not be laughing at this but www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 7 days ago • 142 comments

Pushpa Success meet, Tirupathi , Kumbh Mela and now this. People have to understand basics of pushing/shoving...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The greatest business battle EVER to be fought will come when President Elon starts trying to implement AI for federal processes. The battle will be fought over which company’s AI will be used by the feds. This is a zero sum battle that will create more chaos than this country has ever seen

submitted 7 days ago • 2582 comments

Musk accused Reuters of ‘social deception.’ The deception was his. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments

Thomson Reuters said its business with the Department of Defense was 'inaccurately represented,' in response to accusations on social media by Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump that the company played a role in 'large scale social deception' for the government reut.rs/3WYivYQ

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

The interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and two officials with the federal public integrity unit all quit after the DOJ ordered the charges against Mayor Eric Adams to be dropped. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

Billionaire #ElonMusk's bid to buy OpenAI, which wants to be a for-profit entity, clashes with his lawsuit arguing that assets of the #ChatGPT maker should not be for private gain, #OpenAI wrote in a letter it submitted to a federal court on Wednesday. www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/tec...

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

i don’t think we realize just how MASSIVE things in space are

submitted 9 days ago • 288 comments

The Trump administration has directed agency heads to fire most trial period and probationary staff within two days, taking aim at many of the roughly 200,000 people hired by the federal government within the last two years www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 68 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 9 days ago • 1781 comments