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“800 federal workers fired at NOAA, which impacts weather forecasts, Great Lakes science” www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

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DOGE Cuts Midwest Climate Monitors

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Genesis, Chapter Two Adam:

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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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WSJ: Trump planning to sign executive order making English the official language of the U.S., according to White House officials. The order would rescind a federal mandate issued by Clinton that agencies are required to provide language assistance to non-English speakers

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Just gonna copy & paste the message I sent to a friend/colleague yesterday when this came up: “I mean, these folks are evil but we have got to stop forgetting they’re also really, really stupid.”

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Already seeing some of it this morning: “One day won’t change it.” We just want a f*cking quick fix for everything, don’t we? Another byproduct of online culture. The urge to find something determinative is strong — but no single act is going to make all of this better, y’all. Do what you can. 📣

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The economic black out is today

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My fury for these folks is limitless.

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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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It’s just so goddamned pointless. There’s no policy justification on which to fall back — it’s just about the cruelty…the abject, senseless, flippant cruelty.

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Fealty to Donald Trump will not spare you from his cruelty. It's strength — not weakness — that curbs his baser instincts. Now is the time for us to be strong.

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One of my favorite ongoing traditions, officially confirmed for me again this year: DC trip in April, just after an election. 🗳️

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🎶 “A stark naked light bulb / hangs over my head / there’s one lonely pillow / on my double bed / Yeah, I’ve got a ceiling / a floor, and four walls / Ahh, who says / you can’t have it all? / “ 🎶 Modern country music could never.

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After the FDA canceled its vaccine committee meeting, should we be worried about next season’s flu shot supply? If strain selection happens later, it’ll be tight, but manufacturers will scramble to make it work, said Litjen Tan — though not any later than March. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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I'm stepping on the theme of Chris' book here but, we have an extremely toxic information environment controlled by wealthy oligarchs who have aligned themselves with Trump, the whole point is to manipulate people into making poor decisions. bsky.app/profile/chri...

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🚨🚨🚨 Among the cuts from USAID last night: PEPFAR programs in South Africa. “Though PEPFAR funding support makes up around 17% of South Africa’s HIV budget, the entire program is at risk" www.thebulwark.com/p/a-midnight...

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USDA still hasn't hired back all the avian flu researchers that they need, and some that were re-hired still haven't been given their laptops back, so can't work. Not a good sign for this ongoing outbreak. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

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This from @jamellebouie.net nicely sums it up www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

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Frankly, I couldn’t care less about where they might differ on issues — I’m curious as to how they’ll respond when they inevitably get ignored. And make no mistake, it’ll happen. If you’re trying to truly consolidate power, you have to neuter those responsible for sharing and/or checking it. TBD.

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Update on scramble to rehire federal bird flu researchers: "The dismissals have already helped trigger a partial shutdown at one of the department’s research facilities...Some of those who were rehired this week still don’t have their laptops." Great reporting from @politico.com

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Glad to see USDA is listening to my calls to bring Avian flu under control by starting to vaccinate laying hens. Wish RFK wasn’t simultaneously disbanding the effort to vaccinate people from the seasonal flu…. 🐓💉🤧

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So many legendary performances by Gene Hackman — and, yes, I’m stereotypically a sucker for 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙞𝙧𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙜𝙚 — but may I submit an underrated performance, a favorite of mine, with top-tier character name too? Rankin Fitch, 𝙍𝙪𝙣𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙅𝙪𝙧𝙮 (2003)

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Iconic actor Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife were found dead in their home outside Santa Fe, authorities say.

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Among many brilliant performances in Gene Hackman’s career is his turn as a conservative Senator stuck in a drag bar in The Birdcage (1996). The Birdcage was a rare LGBTQ-centred Hollywood studio movie, made at a time of far greater and widespread homophobia. It topped the US Box Office for 4 weeks.

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Correction. ALL millennials love the Bridcage unless you are a psychopath.

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🦇 or 🐈‍⬛

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Y’all ever just sit & think about the First Amendment?

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i genuinely think the pro-vaccine republicans who voted to confirm RFK are more evil than the anti-vaxxers anti-vaxxers genuinely (but incorrectly) think they are helping people the pro-vaccine republicans made a calculated decision to kill thousands to marginally boost their hopes in a primary

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There’s A LOT happening on the ground & behind the scenes that doesn’t get the media coverage of, say, a dysfunctional cabinet meeting so — while I vehemently disagree with the framing that “we’re all just 🤷🏻‍♂️” — I do agree that folks need to better understand the system is already destabilized.

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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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Sedition next?

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