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Tariffs. Tariffs everywhere.

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If you are concerned about the proposed 50% cut to #NASA's science budget, then write your representative in congress. The #PlanetarySociety provides on online form that will only take 2 minutes of your time: https://www.planetary.org/advocacy-action-center#/50

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Trump doesn't understand that annexing Canada would actually give us something like the 51st through 60th states, and they'd all hate him.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Where does the name The Scientific Republic come from? From the Enlightenment Era "Republic of Letters" to the works of Michael Polanyi, science is a means to freely share knowledge across national boundaries. With the rise of nationalism and authoritarianism, this is needed now more than ever.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Inside the DOGE Threat to Social Security A day in the life of a claims rep for America’s largest government program. www.newyorker.com/news/deep-st...

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

Just to be clear, a big reason @altssa.altgov.info and I are here is because it's painfully obvious to employees that SSA is being sabotaged. They want it to break so they can kill it and blame us. We need all your help to spread the word far and wide so these people can't escape responsibility.

submitted 13 hours ago • 76 comments

If this isn't setting off alarms in your head, then it absolutely needs to be. Social Security and private equity should NEVER be in the same sentence. PE make its wealth by being an economic vampire of the highest order. MAGA's endgame for Social Security is abundantly obvious.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

I sincerely hope Sean enjoys his new Tesla. MAGA has discovered EVs the same way a picky child discovers that broccoli isn't so bad. But there's a problem. MAGA's populist base doesn't all see Teslas as aspirational, they see them as elitist.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

MAGA Republicans calling the Tesla boycott "illegal" shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. These are the same people who would have had an issue with a certain boycott 70 years ago involving public transit in Montgomery.

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Linda McMahon doesn't know anything about education, let alone care about your children being prepared to live life or be productive members of society. She is the bureaucratic equivalent of a hitman.

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Leaving children to the mercy of a crazy patchwork of state and local education standards will not make America great again. Dismantling the Department of Education is insane. Is China or India cutting their education funding or shuttering their programs? No? Didn't think so.

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Does anyone else remember when politics was boring and the worst thing in the world was pork barrel spending?

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Mike Johnson is a non-entity as far as credible leadership. MAGA continues to blame "the government" despite now being the government. Letting the shutdown happen really shouldn't bother him. This is what Republicans want. A government that doesn't work.

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Wow—this is the first in-depth public account from a Social Security exec about the DOGE takeover at SSA. It’s scary. It’s a must-read if SSA has your most sensitive data…yes, that means you. wapo.st/3DsqvLj

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Their job is to identify American soldiers killed in combat and Trump has told them to stand down and stop their work. "Forensic genealogists who help identify U.S. soldiers killed in combat were told to pause their efforts..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 620 comments

How does anyone still think Musk is smart, let alone a genius. His entire thing now is to alienate the kind of people who would buy an electric car, in favor of the kind of people who see the darkness of their exhaust as a status symbol. Tesla's been doomed since he bought the gimmick.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Jesus, this testimony from Tiffany Flick, who has since resigned from her position at SSA, about what happened when DOGE arrived, is hard to read. But everybody should read it. Because this is the reality of what’s happening.

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

You need to understand something about why people like Mahmoud Khalil trigger MAGA Republicans so badly. Radical Evangelical Christians want to bring about the End Times. They want to trigger war in the Middle East, centered on Jerusalem, to fulfil biblical prophecy.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

The thing that makes me the most angry about all this? This has nothing to do with a failure of fundamentals or some outside danger to the market, this was totally and completely 100% self-inflicted. THIS DID NOT NEED TO HAPPEN.

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SSA's former Acting Chief of Staff gave a detailed declaration describing the events leading up to DOGE's takeover of SSA. When I have time, I'll try to write a summary of the key points. Pretty much everyone with a Social Security Number has a case to sue DOGE for violating their privacy rights.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

"Every right we have, every principle we uphold, has been fought tooth and nail for against some of the most venal, corrupt, paranoid and evil people a civilisation can breed. They are never to be taken for granted." - Nancy Hedford.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Not enough has been said about Trump using an official speech to tell the country that he believes God spared his life because God's word is MAGA. Personally, I don't like that.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

I'd like to bring this video to your attention. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco... It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.

submitted 4 days ago • 111 comments

You will find fElon's email included in the DOGE contact list below. Feel free to send him an email requesting he send you a list of the 5 things he did last week to prevent products from his companies from any further explosions by Monday morning.

submitted 5 days ago • 423 comments

You need to talk to the people in your life about what LLMs can and cannot do.

submitted 4 days ago • 116 comments

Elon Musk's plan to cut the Social Security Administration's staff by 50% would cause 37,000 more Americans to die each year waiting to receive their disability benefits while the average wait time to collect these benefits would jump to 412 days. That is beyond unacceptable.

submitted 4 days ago • 462 comments

If someone told me this morning that we were now in the timeline where Poland became a nuclear power, I would have been very skeptical.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

In many ways, NASA's science directorate is the crown jewel of the space agency—nearly all of the most significant achievements over the last 25 years have been delivered by the science programs.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

There are reports The White House is considering a 50% cut to NASA’s science programs, and 25% of its overall budget, which would be catastrophic for both current and planned missions. But, there is still time for the administration to reconsider. Read our full statement ⬇️

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments