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there are so many things happening right now to federal employees that are illegal under current employment laws

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If you considered posting something critical of the Trump regime but then decided against due to fear for retaliation, then you are no longer living in a democracy.

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

This is quite the thread...

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ICPSR at University of Michigan has been one of the longest-running secure data archives in the world and is stepping up to the challenges being presented in the current U.S. environment to keep government data as a resource for researchers and policymakers. isr.umich.edu/giving/suppo...

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Is this accountability reporting @ericlipton.nytimes.com?

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An excellent piece by @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social outlining the devastating effects of Trump's cuts to USAID around the world and a reminder again that it's not too late to save USAID and its mission.

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submitted 21 hours ago • 41 comments

The office of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was created with a fixed four-year term that does not coincide with a presidential term. In the 75 years the office has existed, no chairman has been removed. Removing a chairman without cause is as authoritarian as it gets.

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the stock market is now below where it was when Joe Biden left office

submitted 1 day ago • 250 comments

Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery

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Wow… this is ALL PhD admissions, not just those funded by NIH grants. This would imply a massive contraction in teaching resources.

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I really want to emphasize that the degree of pressure being placed on private companies about their own decisions here is unusual.

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This is a very important point. In fact, my impression is that the base doesn’t care about traditional “policy” at all right now. We want them to act like we are on the verge of losing our democracy irrevocably, because we are. We can talk about egg prices when our democracy is saved.

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”Silicon Valley’s shift from blue to red is a mirage… In seven of the most affluent Silicon Valley cities — Palo Alto, Los Altos Hills, Los Altos, Los Gatos, Portola Valley, Woodside and Atherton — combined, Kamala Harris won 76.2% of the vote, compared with 20.1% for Trump.”

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You cannot recover from this with future investments The data uncollected are lost forever

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trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Emergency Food, TB Tests and H.I.V. Drugs: Vital Health Aid Remains Frozen Despite Court Ruling www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...

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Again I am begging people in the media to note the legality of these actions in their headlines or blurbs. A post office is literally written into the constitution.

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Democracy does not mean that a bare majority—or in 2025 America’s case, a plurality—can break any law they feel like and no one else has any rights. There are dozens of democracies in the world, and none operate that way. It wouldn’t make sense, and no one actually thinks of democracy like that.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Lets put this in "business" terms. If you have an arm of your firms that costs $50k to operate, but it produces $500k in profits, and you cut it, you don't save $50k, you lose $450k. By cutting billions, they have the potential to reduce future growth by the trillions.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Rhetoric should match the moment and "lol, good job bringing down egg prices" does not match a moment in which our system of representative government is being dismantled.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Every member of Congress — Republican and Democrat, House and Senate — should hold a live, in-person town hall in their district this week.

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

Would encourage everyone to start cooking their food and washing their raw vegetables with soap. Lmk if you want tips from someone who’s lived in a place without food safety infrastructure 😩

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It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

submitted 3 days ago • 1052 comments

I’m begging Democrats to stop talking about tax breaks for billionaires and the price of eggs! They are firing Air Traffic Controllers, stranding Americans in hostile countries, and getting ready to download our data from the IRS. No one is sitting around thinking “I’m worried about the deficit!”

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