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There is a reason we have kept all this personal data about YOU compartmentalized, and run by extremely boring and fastidious bureaucrats who seek neither fame nor fortune. Because you are not going to enjoy the alternative.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

NOAA is reportedly on the DOGE chopping block. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

submitted 8 days ago • 545 comments

The most realistic depiction of an encounter with a ghost:

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Exclusive: President Trump's nominee as Air Force Secretary, currently a top official at the national spy satellite agency, arranged a multibillion-dollar contract solicitation in a way that favored Elon Musk's SpaceX, according to seven people familiar with the contract reut.rs/4b7MUKt

submitted 15 days ago • 169 comments

What happened to CDC's bird flu studies and why did they publish about wildfires instead? Sources tell us Trump officials are now wielding unprecedented control over agency's flagship scientific journal "The MMWR has lost its autonomy" www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

SCOOP: Kash Patel—whom Donald Trump has nominated to head the FBI—took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries.

submitted 15 days ago • 100 comments

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

submitted 15 days ago • 739 comments

There is a simple solution to the CBS/Trump lawsuit. The Harris campaign should sue Fox and insist Fox release the unedited versions of all their many edited interviews with Trump.

submitted 15 days ago • 401 comments

Trials abandoned due to the stop-work order on USAID-funded research:

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

"Come up with proposals for criminal investigations" sounds a lot different from "faithfully execute the laws of the United States." But what do I know. 🤷‍♂️

submitted 16 days ago • 21 comments

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

submitted 17 days ago • 807 comments

Capitol Hill reporters: Please ask congressional Republicans if they believe the Trump administration should follow federal court orders. If they say yes, ask them what Congress should do if Trump refuses.

submitted 18 days ago • 40 comments