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NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

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@unesco.org and @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social will probably claim they're not in danger, because they like playing pretend for political convenience. But science and the truth will inevitably cut through 🐂 💩 in the end. www.abc.net.au/news/science...

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Barrie Cassidy teams up with Tony Barry to analyse the 2025 election in a fantastic podcast for #GuardianAustralia Introducing Back to Back Barries – a new politics podcast from Guardian Australia www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Yep

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Just caught this ad. @elliesmith4dickson.bsky.social is right. This is a battle between the DEEP POCKETS of Dutton’s mining mates, and the T-SHIRTS of Ellie’s volunteers. She needs 200-300 new shirts for new volunteers who’ll have 30,000 extra voter convos by polling day. Winning it vote-by-vote

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This is worth sharing. @australianlabor.bsky.social needs to watch it too, then #CancelAUKUS.

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NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

submitted 2 days ago • 5075 comments

everything about Musk's DOGE reminds me of that Oceangate Titan submarine expedition

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKBM...

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-K7... - the USA, the world's leading nuclear power, is descending into lawlessness

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hypothesis: that the tech elite (Musk in particular) are obsessively consulting AI like an oracle, and mindlessly following whatever output their queries generate, in making important decisions impacting on everyone (and I mean everyone - think, 'How can AI help to make our nuclear arsenal safer?')

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‘Labor's $10 billion social housing fund has made twice its benchmark rate of return in its first year in operation, bolstering future rounds of grants for social and affordable homes.’ Well that’s inconvenient, Mr Dutton. #auspol #AusVotes25 #DontRiskDutton www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

submitted 6 days ago • 386 comments

Fascism is not on its way. It has arrived.

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‘There is less and less water in the US and Australia – and more and more people want it. Emulating Australia’s failing water market won’t help the US manage this precious resource’ #water #WaterMarkets #ClimateCrisis #PURSUIT pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/aus...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools clarksvillenow.com/local/books-...

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"Shutting off their devices whether done intentionally or not marked an alarming new step, 2 people said.The US attorneys are responsible for the fedl response to threats, including coordinating with state & local law enforcement & signing off on court filings." news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...

submitted 6 days ago • 150 comments

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

submitted 7 days ago • 302 comments

"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man." - Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC

submitted 7 days ago • 290 comments

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

submitted 6 days ago • 272 comments

The community note 🤌😘

submitted 7 days ago • 2976 comments

Yikes. I hadn't seen this video yet, only read about it. It's legitimately the two of them laughing on the most watched cable TV news channel as Homan directly calls out the "agreement" they came to, even as the DOJ is inisting there's no agreement. This should be filed in court...

submitted 8 days ago • 30 comments

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

submitted 8 days ago • 537 comments

Worth it for the description of you-know-who as "a twice-impeached psychopath with the impulse control of Cocaine Bear" open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...

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after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans: www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...

submitted 8 days ago • 1312 comments

the whole point of changing the Gulf of Mexico's name was to monitor and enforce performative compliance - it is a way of getting rid of or reducing the power of non-compliant media

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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

submitted 10 days ago • 596 comments

#Antarctic sea ice has been declining unusually fast for the last week or so. Some of this is due to lower concentration ice melting out from last month. Data from @nsidc.bsky.social: nsidc.org/data/g02202/... with the anomalies using a 1981-2010 reference period.

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The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 12 days ago • 180 comments

I’ve just been introduced to a new term for the DOGE boys- the Nerd Reich

submitted 12 days ago • 28 comments

JD Vance was owned hard over his excusing of the anti-Indian racist on DOGE, Marko Elez.

submitted 14 days ago • 382 comments

I think the tech oligarchy know full well the climate change situation and are taking measures as we speak...

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A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.

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