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NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (sound 🎵) DAY 21 FRIDAY 2025 Another horrible week for all of you and me and our country Over 70 executive orders & not one to help America Tonight, I hope this brings you some serenity and a little peace This is home The Sonoran Desert 🏜 Sending love your way

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Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

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musk's private security deputized by u.s. marshals service -- potentially clearing the way for his personal bodyguards to be carrying weapons on federal grounds. um... www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 730 comments

Regardless of how much coverage it gets, Trump aiming to install a military command that places loyalty to him above loyalty to the constitution needs to be a much bigger story.

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

Just asked Grok to compare the military experience of current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. CQ Brown, and Trump's pick for the position, Lt. Gen. Dan Caine. You can read the full comparison, but here’s the final takeaway and it's pretty much what I figured:

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

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BREAKING: Supreme Court rules that government watchdog fired by Trump may remain on the job www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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Over 72 million Americans rely on Medicaid for life-saving healthcare. That’s 72 million people—children, seniors, people with disabilities—who would suffer without it. Don’t cut my Medicaid.

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 1 day ago • 1857 comments

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) was established by Benjamin Franklin in 1775 when the Second Continental Congress appointed him as the first Postmaster General.

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The President has zero authority to "take control of the USPS", and zero control over getting rid of the postal board or their members. If that were the case Biden would have kicked DeJoy the fuck out of there years ago. He has as much authority here as he does to make Canada a state - fucking ZERO.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Trump plans to seize control of USPS and fire the postal board. Yet another executive order, this time to take control of the independent mail agency, then place the Commerce Department in charge of it. Placing USPS under the control of the Commerce Department is viewed as “a regal approach” —

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Taps 🎤 Is this thing on? Trump wants control of the USPS so he can fuck with mail in voting. TRUMP WANTS CONTROL OF THE USPS SO HE CAN FUCK WITH MAIL IN VOTING.

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

This.

submitted 2 days ago • 369 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 853 comments

When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.

submitted 2 days ago • 1016 comments

Planes didn't crash when this guy ran things.

submitted 5 days ago • 555 comments

Yep, DOGE is as incompetent as everyone thought. An $8 million "saving" has been listed as an $8 BILLION saving. That is 14.5% of their total claimed $55 billion in "savings" having been completely made up.

submitted 4 days ago • 278 comments

Tom Homan can’t find enough illegal immigrants to deport because they fabricated the ‘crisis,’ so now he’s just gonna spend all his time attacking AOC.

submitted 5 days ago • 961 comments

Headline: Exploding rocket company to oversee changes to airplane safety. buff.ly/3X86gt4

submitted 4 days ago • 1223 comments

Marco Rubio's collaboration with Russia's Sergei Lavrov and Putin is one of the most disgusting acts of betrayal to democracy and our nation. Rubio has secured his place in history of infamy.

submitted 4 days ago • 1363 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 4 days ago • 1926 comments

The United States of America is now actively working to become a formal member of the Axis of Evil.

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RFK Jr: “Gardasil is probably the single worst, mass vaccine that we've ever seen.” @drneilstone.bsky.social: “The HPV vaccine (Gardasil) is safe, effective, and on the way to ELIMINATING cervical cancer! RFK Jr is an anti-vaccine fanatic who would rather your daughter got cancer than a vaccine.”

submitted 6 days ago • 685 comments

Can't believe I'm just supposed to clean my apt and whatever while we wait to be forced into handmaidens

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

Captures it perfectly.

submitted 6 days ago • 459 comments

Trying to shame a eugenicist for having multiple babies with multiple women won’t work. Just FYI.

submitted 6 days ago • 343 comments

RED STATES: Remember this when you’re on your own… Trump said: “If it was up to me … I’d end (FEMA) right now.” He wants your state to handle disasters alone—no federal help.

submitted 6 days ago • 412 comments

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

submitted 6 days ago • 2110 comments

Oh my fucking God.

submitted 6 days ago • 473 comments

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

submitted 6 days ago • 2242 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/w...

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My Attorney General is suing Starbucks because he argues that, “Starbucks diversity initiatives have caused higher prices and longer lines,” and that, “Starbucks workforce is more female and less white.” Yes, you read that right. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

submitted 8 days ago • 190 comments

They’re doing project 2025, just like we said they would

submitted 8 days ago • 1245 comments

Allegory alert!

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Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

submitted 8 days ago • 1089 comments

So let’s all be very clear. ALL THIS alleged fraud is being deemed FRAUD because ELON SAYS SO. He shows no evidence that it’s actual fraud, provides NO context. ANd just wants us to believe it’s FRAUD because the FRAUDSTER SAYS SO? NOT HAPPENING I NEED HARD PROOF

submitted 9 days ago • 30 comments

📌TIP FROM A DAMN GOOD SOURCE: The Forest Service is going to layoff 5,000 workers by day's end. An email to staff will be going out shortly. Other agencies are also said to be doing this.

submitted 9 days ago • 539 comments

I am fresh out of smart ass statements. I’ll just share…

submitted 9 days ago • 178 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 9 days ago • 418 comments

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk to the EU: “Our future is in our hands, not of the Chinese or Americans, and we should not be afraid.”

submitted 9 days ago • 138 comments

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

submitted 11 days ago • 935 comments

The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that: youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...

submitted 12 days ago • 223 comments