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REMEMBER KIDS when flooding a snitch form, DON’T use obvious troll responses that can be filtered out with a query Use PLAUSIBLE FAKE data that will take TIME and EFFORT to run down. This poisons the entire data pool and makes it useless

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Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.

submitted 1 day ago • 165 comments

Tesla stock is down 14% since close of markets last Friday. What happened during that time? One answer: mass protests. I describe what it was like at one such protest. What I saw fulfills what I describe as neuroscience-based requirements for effective action. samwang.substack.com/p/the-effect...

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

My businesses depend on government contracts. Here’s why my newspaper will only publish editorials supporting free markets. by Jeff Bezos

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

I worked for Social Security during the 2013 govt shutdown. Checks still went out and claims were accepted during the 2+ week shutdown. A 50% reduction in SSA’s workforce is unthinkable. Retirement and disability claims require PEOPLE to take claims and independently assess each.

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Over the weekend, video of unidentified men in black zip-tying and dragging a woman out of an auditorium at a Republican Town Hall in CDA, Idaho went viral. We're a little late to the frenzy, but here's a local extremism reporter’s guide to what happened in the video from the now-infamous meeting.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

We all agree Bezos is our home-grown Murdoch, right?

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The fed govt drums protecting personally identifiable information (PII) into workers heads. When I experienced a life threatening medical emergency (code blue), the first thing I told my then-husband when he rushed to me was that I had PII in my car and to help. I lived and the PII was secure.

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Note here that Musk is now literally assigning himself new contracts based on the use of his DOGE wrecking crew and the associated micro-bros. this isn't a "conflict of interest". it's just handing yourself federal money www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...

submitted 2 days ago • 298 comments

You first.

submitted 2 days ago • 5811 comments

Some news: Media for Informed Communties, led by @moharrell.bsky.social and me, has acquired KVRU 105.7 FM. Connecting within community is the way forward, and @kvru.bsky.social, an independent, non-profit community radio station, will be a hub for that connection. Build with us!👇🏾

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

As I left therapy today, I apologized to my therapist for talking all about myself. I engaged in classic missing the point.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The US is literally for sale for mega rich people. Trump is selling gold immigration cards for $5 million each.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I worked for the Social Security Administration for over a decade protecting the trust fund. I am proud of my work and my public service. Solidarity to federal government workers and than you for your service!

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The Social Security Administration, run by a Musk acolyte who was under misconduct investigation for sharing confidential data with Doge, axed the Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity and put everyone on administrative leave today. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/soci...

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This is not a concern about a conflict of interest. This is, in fact, a conflict of interest and there are MANY laws and regulations that are supposed to block this kind of self dealing.

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DOGE has deleted the top five highest savings claims on its “wall of receipts” leaderboard after various news outlets pointed out multiple errors in its calculations.

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

The team's all here! We created a Starter Pack to help you connect with our regional, mountain passes, Ferries, Amtrak Cascades and tolling accounts here on Bluesky. Give them a follow! go.bsky.app/QQo1z13

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Let’s track what the Pike Place Market and Historic Commission are doing: cancelled Day of Remembrance less than 2 weeks before event, keeping water overlook park closed for nearly a year out of spite, and *historically pushing back on pedestrianizing the Market.

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Literal lives at stake: DOGE is choosing to not support combatting HIV/AIDS in the Congo. DOGE will not assure manufacturers of nutritional paste for severely malnourished children that US will pay. *53 people recently died and hundreds were sick in the Congo after children ate a bat. Cites ⬇️

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The headline that 21 DOGE staffers have resigned is a little misleading. These were employees of the United States Digital Service, which existed pre-administration and was absorbed into Musk’s team. These aren’t the young idiots; these are actual civil servants.

submitted 2 days ago • 92 comments

This unknown disease that killed 53 people, bird flu, and measles making a comeback makes for a very scary world right now. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

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More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

Two U.S. nonprofits that manufacture a treatment sent by USAID to help severely malnourished children abroad say the process is in chaos.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Grifters like Trump, Elon, and Billy McFarland partying and scamming like it’s 2017 again.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

NEW memo from OPM acting director Chuck Ezell saying that fed employees should respond to the 5 bullets email by the 11:59pm deadline tonight unless they had an excused absence today. Absolute madness. Full text:

submitted 3 days ago • 305 comments

Currently, the worst people you know are sometimes turning around and being surprisingly on the right side. Noting that is not suggesting that they are not still the worst people you know.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Seattle: good news! Two weeks from now, we will have post 7 pm sunsets in Seattle! 🌅

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Portland City Councilor Angelita Morillo: “Too many Democrats are guided only by feckless centrism and an allegiance to norms and bipartisanship that cannot withstand the rise of fascism.” 💯 @councilormorillo.bsky.social www.teenvogue.com/story/democrats-voting-for-trump-immigration-policy

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STUNNING: After turning the entire SSA upside over this Elon Threat Email, an email was just sent out within the hour basically saying 'nevermind'. "Pursuant to updated OPM guidance, responses to the email from sender “HR” dated Saturday, February 22, are voluntary."

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

NEW: The Social Security Admin 800 line is being directly impacted today because 800 line staffers are being forced to spend a significant portion of their day writing Elon's email. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-p...

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

Elon Musk's DOGE team is illegally firing federal workers & stopping the government from spending money that's been legally obligated by Congress. ⚠️ These sharp spending reductions can throttle economic activity and push the economy closer to crisis ⚠️ www.epi.org/blog/before-...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

this is what we're doing? soliciting non-binding petitions? that's what Democrats think is what ought to be done to prevent the illegal elimination of a federal department?

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

Seattle: good news! Two weeks from now, we will have post 7 pm sunsets in Seattle! 🌅

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Tuesday (3/4) at the Federal building 3PM

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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

submitted 4 days ago • 2157 comments

Apropos of nothing, I’m just playing Les Mis on repeat and remembering when I first saw it in March 1987. For a theatre kid from Oregon, it blew my mind.

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We did it! We’ve gotten over 400 forms, and nearly 600 donations! Endlessly grateful to every neighbor who stands with our campaign for working people.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Gee thanks, Feinstein for putting your worthless weight behind this joker Connolly. Exhibit Number whatever of why the Dems are toast unless the has-beens like Connolly sit the F down and allow actual leaders to take over.

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For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

submitted 4 days ago • 866 comments

Every day it’s like “we’re getting rid of a highly qualified woman or minority or disabled person and replacing them with a white guy who majored in skull measuring.”

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments