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mstdn.ca/@ingalls/114... Let the damage be tallied. DoGE fukt the weather forecast services they hope will take over for #NOAA’s authoritative weather data sources…by cutting NOAA. The stupid hurts.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 23 hours ago • 3157 comments

Again, there are literally not enough jobs to rapidly absorb all these displaced federal workers (who will also now be competing for non-government jobs with everyone else in the U.S.).

submitted 11 days ago • 61 comments

Great piece by Lauren Oakes in @emergencemagazine.bsky.social about how to replant after wildfire. emergencemagazine.org/op_ed/beginn...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

U.S Forest Service fires a Type 2 wildland firefighter after 9 years of exemplary service. These firings are going to leave the U.S. extremely vulnerable this summer and any devastating events will be able to be laid at the door of the White House and DOGE.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 12 days ago • 846 comments

When the dismantlists talk about "trimming the fat" or "bloated" whatever relating to the federal government, remind them that there have been about the same number of federal employees since the 1960s. Meanwhile US population has increased by ~70% and GDP has increased 29-fold.

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

Glassy beads created by the American atom bomb have been washing up in Hiroshima for years and people only noticed in 2015: vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/beaches...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades. Envy of the world. Poof! www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 16 days ago • 545 comments

Related to mass federal firings today: If anyone out there in private sector has a need for a highly-qualified PhD-level wildfire risk modeler (or MS/PHD-level meteorologist), available immediately, please do reach out via email or DM! (Not for me, but trying to help others out.)

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

New: The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter

submitted 15 days ago • 588 comments

Dismantling the death penalty is a responsibility that belongs to all of us. Inspiring to see how a group of nuns are trying to save women on death row in Texas: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 16 days ago • 416 comments

My heart goes out to all of the probationary federal workers who lost their jobs today in the largest layoff in US history. You all deserved so much better.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Half of EIS, the CDC's renowned "disease detectives," gone. These folks respond to emergencies in the US and around the globe, and are now in tatters.

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

Additional evacuation warnings issued in the #EatonFire area. 1/12/25 1829 https://protect.genasys.com/zones/US-CA-XLA-SMD-E019?z=12.217472530130998&latlon=34.07108084577807%2C-118.54507329919471

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

In the past weeks, the Trump administration has purged federal law enforcement agencies of prosecutors and investigators who’d been pursuing white supremacist groups that had been listed among the most dangerous threats to national security. By @hannahallam.bsky.social

submitted 17 days ago • 73 comments

Language is power. Three cheers for the AP and Julie Pace sticking with language rooted in reality and not Reality-TV authoritarianism. www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/m...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

So what has the Trump/Musk push on USAID achieved so far? I reached out to contacts, and here's the state of play: Children dying. Hospitals closing. Ebola at risk of spreading. US food aid rotting. Moms at risk in childbirth. China gaining soft power. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

This is a big deal. The DOJ will no longer defend for cause removal protections for commissioners of agencies like the FTC, removing a barrier to the President firing minority commissioners at will

submitted 17 days ago • 33 comments

NEW: @wired.com built a tool to monitor 1,300+ federal .gov websites, revealing that entire sites are going dark as we speak. @telliotter.bsky.social, @dmehro.bsky.social (who built the tool), and @dell.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/us-gov...

submitted 28 days ago • 83 comments

Xitter is state media, and has been since November.

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks: "We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."

submitted 28 days ago • 708 comments

This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information. This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 28 days ago • 407 comments

NEW for @latimes.com: “I was like, ‘Oh, Jesus. What's gonna happen?’” Jordan Chiles happened. Perfection — for 2nd time in 2025, the 10th time in her career — to write her name into more UCLA lore. Somehow, someway, No. 6 UCLA won: www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

hmm, where can i bet on the odds of a catastrophic economic collapse this year?

submitted 28 days ago • 211 comments

The National Association of Home Builders explains what happens if we make inputs for home construction, such as Canadian lumber, more expensive.

submitted 28 days ago • 1465 comments

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

submitted 28 days ago • 310 comments

What just happened here??? An advisory committee to the #CDC demands answers from acting director Susan Monarez about why parts of the agency's website went dark Friday & to specify when the missing pages & data will be returned. www.statnews.com/2025/02/01/c...

submitted 28 days ago • 8 comments

I must not be wording this right. Lemme try again. There is only one (1) office (not even an institute) at the NIH dedicated to women’s health research. That office is now being dismantled, with only a bland landing page remaining on their website. This is a five-alarm fire! orwh.od.nih.gov

submitted 29 days ago • 26 comments

🪓MASS DELETION UPDATE—More than 1,000 pages are now deleted from websites of CDC, National Institutes of Health, and other sites of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a new WSJ analysis—including many vaccine recommendation scientific pages!

submitted 29 days ago • 290 comments

If January ended today, it would tie for the longest January on record.

submitted 29 days ago • 12 comments

I shared my views with the @latimes.com on Paramount's plans to cave in to Trump Inc. on a frivolous lawsuit and what it means for press freedom in America.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

In case it didn’t make it here earlier: San Mateo County announced that a contract has been reached for air traffic controllers at San Carlos airport, in the flight path of SFO.

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

Free money or something! 😲 But seriously, help us find folks in news who need this support. I know they're out there looking to bring their brilliant, underappreciated selves to conferences and trainings happening soon. We might be able to help. 😉

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Tonight’s sunset over Livingston, Montana.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

submitted 30 days ago • 69 comments

Billy the Kid was 22 when he was shot by Pat Garrett. Most of his notoriety is based on his involvement in the Lincoln County War. He also stole cattle, but that was common. He wasn't even the only Billy the Kid at the time. He's the one that became infamous. His name was Henry McCarty. #history

submitted 30 days ago • 7 comments

um (article has paywall) www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 30 days ago • 157 comments

MastCam-Z mosaic of the Mars Perseverance Rover’s latest sample site at Witch Hazel Hill, taken on Sol 1403. The sample core was taken from the upper hole. flic.kr/p/2qJ85km

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments