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Giving this place a try. I don’t like muskrats or their social media hell sites. I do like cats
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🚨 Trump’s DOGE purge just made Veterans’ data a massive target. They fired key cybersecurity staff protecting VA.gov —leaving millions of Veterans’ medical & personal records exposed. This isn’t efficiency. It’s reckless and dangerous.

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

NEW: Not only is DOGE's man in the Treasury Department keeping his day job as CEO of Cloud Software Group, his company currently has millions of dollars in government contracts. Including with the Treasury Department. More from @peard33.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/krause...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

My heart aches đź’” this morning for all of the dedicated US federal workers suddenly fired yesterday. Hydrologists managing our world class stream gage network, forest service employees stewarding our extensive federal lands, and so much more. thehill.com/policy/energ...

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

NOAA staff have been told to stop all contact with foreign nationals, which threatens the nature of the agency’s work; international cooperation is crucial to both weather and fisheries because the atmosphere and ocean aren’t limited to US borders. www.fastcompany.com/91274927/tru...

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 17 days ago • 617 comments

this is the development that most fills me with dread www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

submitted 14 days ago • 174 comments

Suspension Bridge xkcd.com/3048

submitted 15 days ago • 549 comments

PSA: They’re killing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because it protects you from them.

submitted 15 days ago • 171 comments

"Our Vision for Golden Age in Arts and Culture" He sounds more and more 3rd Reichy every day. How long before he demands a Degenerate Art show?

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

Guess Which Top Trump Adviser Took USAID Money? - The New Republic

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Trump moves to fire Archivist of the United States - Reuters

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Today, Trump signed an Executive Order to “prioritize … admission & resettlement through the United States Refugee Admissions Program, for Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination.” (Afrikaners are white.) 2/7/25 1/ www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 15 days ago • 111 comments

For a photo op & a bragging media post, Trump minions at the USACoE have thrown away millions of gals of #water farmers were relying on for later this year. This water will not be captured, will not be useful for cities or farms or firefighting. It is now lost. www.latimes.com/environment/...

submitted 22 days ago • 360 comments

"DOGE does not have power over established government agencies, and Musk has no role in government. It does not matter that he is an ally of the President. Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."

submitted 22 days ago • 135 comments

ALARM ALARM. 🚨 While the media was busy groveling, Donald Trump quietly signed an executive order “relating to holding former government officials accountable for unlawful disclosure of sensitive information.” He just silenced anyone he fires.

submitted 25 days ago • 505 comments

Just the <checks notes> Chair of the House Appropriations Committee going on the record to say that appropriations statutes “are not a law.” The United States Congress, ladies and gentlemen.

submitted 25 days ago • 964 comments

I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it. Irony is dead. I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated. #LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust

submitted 25 days ago • 157 comments

Trump picks Stephen Miller & Russ Vought are from AFL, which supports the “disincorporation” of the Establishment clause, an implied reference to the 1947 Everson case, which held that the clause requires a “wall of separation btwn church & state” & applies to the states via “incorporation”. 1/

submitted 25 days ago • 20 comments

New in PN: The MAGA terror has begun "Democracies are democracies because they forswear violence; political conflicts are supposed to be settled at the ballot box. Authoritarians, by contrast, address disagreement through terror."

submitted 25 days ago • 76 comments

Donald Trump stopped the Violence Against Women’s Act grant funding which pays for women’s shelters and district attorneys’ salaries to prosecute rapists and abusers.

submitted 25 days ago • 16 comments

Read, share, act.

submitted 25 days ago • 38 comments

In a functioning democracy, a president who -tries to seize Congress's constitutional spending powers -attempts to rewrite the Constitution unilaterally -pardons violent insurrectionists who attacked the government -fires the Inspectors General and DOJ prosecutors would face immediate impeachment

submitted 25 days ago • 78 comments