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This is a nice idea!

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I'm waiting for the deeply reported piece on how General Dynamics and Lockheed feel about their international sales being jeopardized by Trump treating planes like a Kindle membership. [fixed]

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"The Roberts Court has systematically rewritten the rules of American politics...most of the long-standing guardrails against excessive corporate power and theocratic influence have been dismantled." @mikepod.bsky.social breaks down SCOTUS' new status as an instrument of minority rule.

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Grab the popcorn, this is gonna be a fun shitstorm to watch. No word if SecDef is exempt from the new travel rules (he is a civilian).

submitted 8 hours ago • 35 comments

With most male actors at war, a small Ukrainian theater reinvents itself with an all-female cast apnews.com/article/russ...

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US Coast Guard Academy Censors ‘Climate Change’ From Its Curriculum insideclimatenews.org/news/0703202...

submitted 10 hours ago • 87 comments

Emails sent out late last night—The Department of Health and Human Services is offering employees up to $25,000 to voluntarily leave the agency.

submitted 10 hours ago • 571 comments

“Given the First Amendment’s protection of a university’s freedom to determine its own curriculum and how to deliver it, the constitutional violation behind this threat is clear, as is the attack on the University’s mission as a Jesuit and Catholic institution,” Treanor wrote.

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"Part of the intent of Musk’s playbook is to create confusion. These takeovers are meant to be very dramatic. Part of that is to filter out the workers he doesn’t want and to attract ones he does. He wants to scare away people." — @kateconger.com

submitted 4 hours ago • 90 comments

Firefly Aerospace just released their Blue Ghost Moon landing video, this view is rather special... Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpHh... #BGM1

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NEW: this new lawsuit piggybacks on the good work done by Hampton Dellinger before he left his job, and the folks at the MSPB. LFG!!! www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

Paying taxes, same. (To be clear -- I'm paying my taxes.)

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Please read this thread

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Hey White House press pool -- what up?

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A federal judge signaled that he will require Elon Musk’s team to begin preserving any documents that could potentially be subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. This move is part of an effort to overturn a

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www.justsecurity.org/108295/us-fe...

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for our town hall tonight! Our next town hall is tomorrow at 11AM in Bremerton at Olympic College (Building 7). Hope to see you there!

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

538-style poll collection has now been recreated by a small group of fans and former staff. all fully transparent and public now. return of live public aggregation is imminent docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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‘I lost my job, my housing and health insurance all in one day’: Federal workers say cuts go deep www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/open-spaces/...

submitted 23 hours ago • 23 comments

CONGRATS YOOPERS! You held a town hall. Bergman was a no-show, and you PACKED it! Thanks to @maddow.msnbc.com for covering it!

submitted 20 hours ago • 417 comments

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says House Republicans can't meet their budget targets to pass Trump's agenda without making significant cuts to Medicare or Medicaid.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

lol. Lmao, even. www.wired.com/story/gsa-sa...

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

I know everyone hates TSA. But this is union busting full-stop. This hurts all unions and the working class.

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The Trump Administration’s decision to nuke its contract with TSA agents is a direct attack on unions and all democratic institutions. In response, our union stands ready to boycott air travel and honor any work stoppages initiated by our siblings in the TSA. ufcw3000.org/news/2025/3/...

submitted 22 hours ago • 18 comments

“Our union stands ready to support any actions initiated by our union siblings in the TSA, including a boycott on air travel and work stoppages of any kind.” -- 50,000-member UFCW Local 3000. Hope to see more of this around the labor movement.

submitted 22 hours ago • 20 comments

Homeland Security ends collective bargaining agreement with TSA staffers. Unilaterally ending a collective bargaining agreement sounds illegal to me. Isn’t it like union busting? abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

submitted 18 hours ago • 22 comments

Which is to say: putting the future of NASA and American space exploration/science in the hands of poorly led startups and sociopathic billionaires is not a strategy for lasting success. NASA has always relied on public-private partnerships but adults are not running these companies anymore.

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YouTube’s Content ID was borne out of “wanting big media companies to like them & leave them alone,” EFF’s @ktrendacosta.bsky.social told @variety.com. “It’s more profitable for them to be partners with these big companies rather than with smaller individual creators.”

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Bear with me: Anthony Weiner --> laptop --> Jim Comey --> Comey's letter ---> Trump's razor thin win in key states in 2016 --> Everything since. We're living in the world Anthony Weiner's indiscretions created.

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An infected chicken in every pot!

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More fallout from the indiscriminate NWS firings: "Effective immediately, and until further notice, the [NWS] is temporarily suspending some weather balloon launches in Albany, New York, and Gray, Maine, due to a lack of Weather Forecast Office (WFO) staffing." www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

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Federal workers’ salaries represent less than 5% of federal spending and 1% of GDP www.marketplace.org/2025/03/06/f...

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Musk’s DOGE to eliminate Fish and Wildlife’s tribal Lander office, USGS’ Cheyenne water science station wyofile.com/musks-doge-t...

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Magic 8 Ball says…reply hazy. Ask again.

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IRS Chief Vows Revenge After Being Ousted by Elon Musk’s DOGE “I’m just trying to do my goddamn job. They have no idea who they picked a f—king fight with.” newrepublic.com/post/192478/...

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Not good enough for government work www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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SCOOP: Elon Musk's DOGE team is automating tasks as it continues its purge of the federal workforce, WIRED has learned. How? By deploying a new custom chatbot to 1,500 federal workers.

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Subscribe to @wired.com for its badass work

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RFK Jr. is poised to begin a catastrophic brain drain at NIH www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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NYT: “.. Rubio had been privately furious with Mr. Musk for weeks, ever since his DOGE team effectively shuttered an entire agency that was supposedly under Mr. Rubio’s control: the [USAID] .. But, in the extraordinary cabinet meeting .. Mr. Rubio got his grievances off his chest.” @nytimes.com

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In Minnesota, we value the people who care for our veterans, even if DOGE doesn’t. If Trump fired you, come work for the State of Minnesota and help take care of our vets.

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Stop scrolling and read this please. Thank you.

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What a change. For so many political generations --- promoting cuts to the US Dept of Veterans Affairs was viewed as political kryptonite

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He legit ran on this. But the story was buried under Joe Biden old.

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YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME

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Waiting for Georgetown Law students to respond with a letter of their own, saying they have no intention of working for him. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 104 comments

Because Gov Mills told him something he didn’t want to hear

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Email list for all DOGE employees Please ReSkeet!

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Fascinating piece about TSMC's investment announcements by Chris Miller gift link: on.ft.com/3Fb1cOi

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