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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 23 hours ago • 1255 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 1455 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 1 day ago • 2427 comments

With news floating around about a plan to move USPS into the Commerce Department, we seem to have found my lane. So let’s talk about the #PostOffice. /1

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Fecking cowards

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

Editorial cartoon of the day — and because I keep getting blank stares when I make historical references, even if they’re from only the previous century, I provide enough context so you can “get” the cartoon. www.joeydevilla.com/2025/02/19/e...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Alternative Sources for Archived Government Data 📚 libguides.butler.edu/archiveddata...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

If you are a cis person please take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Hey @theonion.com, how y'all doing over there?

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The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Would you believe that the Social Security Administration has an Inspector General? And that the IG runs a variety investigations about SSA data? And that they released a report in 2023 about the people in the database with ages 100+ who didn't have death information in the database? 1/

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Another great approach for scientist opeds, writing for your hometown paper about the importance of science funding. (Ungated copy in the original thread)

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

A proposal: Academic researchers and folks in similar positions, consider writing an op-Ed, or at least a letter to the editor, in your local paper about what these horrific decisions will do to jobs and services in your local community. I train scientists to write op-Ed’s and I can help.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

BREAKING WAPO: Elon Musk's DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country — sparking alarm within the tax agency. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 346 comments

oh god. if DOGE comes after Amtrak, we riot I mean, we should be rioting anyway

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“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.

submitted 8 days ago • 291 comments

Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

submitted 8 days ago • 678 comments

Veterans have, by law, preferential hiring in the federal government. Disabled veterans get higher preference. Among other things, it's a pipeline to help them adjust post-service. So if you're roasting all the new hires, you're roasting a lot of veterans, with a lean towards disabled vets.

submitted 9 days ago • 43 comments

In response to headline “Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database” I want to re-emphasize that all these grants were public record and written in response to public solicitations supporting DEI content. No “uncovering” or “releasing” was done here

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

This thread is incredible.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

I think an American flag created entirely by black men at the Superbowl is one of the best pieces of art I've seen in my lifetime. I hope it actually killed some folks. And I hope it finally closes the fucking book on the argument that we shouldn't use the flag to fight the God damned fascists.

submitted 13 days ago • 84 comments

A sizeable part of America isn't going to get Kendrick's show but they wouldn't like it if they did. They don't like it anyway.

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BREAKING: The court has granted our request for a temporary restraining order to stop the federal government from unlawfully sharing personal financial data with DOGE. This must now stop, pending a full hearing, and any downloaded data must be deleted.

submitted 15 days ago • 65 comments

247am. thank god for 2x speed and closed captions #criticalrole

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

If you're wondering why congressional Democrats spent 3 months after the election rolling over and playing dead, it's because they were listening to these guys.

submitted 17 days ago • 135 comments

This is an absolutely remarkable memo — and a betrayal of both the Constitution and the American political tradition. In the US, by explicit contrast with interwar fascist governments, the state is not supposed to be an extension of the personality of the chief executive.

submitted 17 days ago • 215 comments

Just had the thought that bluegrass and blues murder ballads are Americana Goth

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

can we coopt RINO to mean the members of the GOP who owe more loyalty to Trump than to America? they're Republican in Name Only, after all

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.

submitted 20 days ago • 1039 comments

West Point orders certain student groups to disband in compliance with Trump EO. The list includes Asian-Pacific Forum, National Society of Black Engineers, Native American Heritage Forum, and Society of Women Engineers. Reporters covering mil, defense, natsec beats... seems like a big deal.

submitted 18 days ago • 126 comments

Trump announced the success of his threat of tariffs on Canada and that he's delaying them for 30 days because checks notes Canada isn't doing anything that they hadn't already announced back in December.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Dead Kennedys, Crass, and Propagandhi have been the basis for my soundtrack for the past two weeks or so. Anyone else?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

with the tariffs on Mexico, millennials won't be able to afford their avocado toast, so I guess they'll finally be able buy houses now, right? ... right?

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“Disproportionately, the datasets that are no longer accessible through the portal come from the Department of Energy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of the Interior, NASA, and the Environmental Protection Agency.”

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

As a child of the 80s, I had penpals through partner schools around the world. I was bad about keeping up with it regularly, but I kept a trickle of letters going to Shanghai (Beijing?) until high school. Others briefly in Kostroma & St. Petersburg, Russia. Where were your penpals? Any fun stories?

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Just a note for everyone calling this guy a Catholic Nazi--he's definitely a Nazi, and there is a long history of far-right Catholicism, but this guy is a schismatic Anglican priest.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment