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tellmeanother.bsky.social
A career in defense contracting and tech taught me how the world works. Now I learn languages and study how they are influenced by history and culture.
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When did Russia last thank us for our generousity? They aren't showing any gratitude at all!

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$15 billion. That’s how much NASA has funneled to Musk’s SpaceX—while he runs DOGE, shapes policy, and cashes checks. Democrats just launched an investigation. Because this isn’t space exploration. It’s self-dealing in orbit.

Breaking: Whirlpool announces they are laying off 651 American workers in Iowa, citing the economic conditions under Trump.

Thank you to whoever made this

I can’t believe this is real! It’s like the worst caricature of how the right says Soros does politics.

RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.

The situation at the NIH and for all biomedical and cancer cure research in the United States is MUCH MUCH WORSE than you realize.

😞 www.newsweek.com/doge-cuts-bo...

Exactly. Why?

When you erase the history of the code talkers, you are erasing the history of the Second World War. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Chinese state media hails Trump's cuts to Voice of America. This affects ~1,300 staff at VOA since Friday's executive order. This is a setback for democracy... but Beijing said it has "now been discarded by its own government like a dirty rag". How un-American.

This is disgraceful. These Native American veterans helped us defeat fascism and win WW2. Pure racism.

I love this move by @wired.com and hope other publications will follow. Public records (like public lands!) belong to all of us.

Trump and Musk are killing children and their families. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Where’s the uh, where’s the 1) Kennedy files 2) UFO proof 3) Epstein files 4) proof of chemtrails 5) and so on Also, why am i not in jail yet? So many people promised i would be. Hmm It’s like they were lied to

These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.

Natl Academy of Social Insurance just hosted a panel w/ former Social Security Commissioners Martin O'Malley (Biden) & Michael Astrue (Bush) along w/ experts from AARP, CBPP etc. I'll post a recording when available, but in the meantime here's a quick recap of the extreme dangers they warn of. 🧵

For every $1 spent on climate resilience and preparedness, communities save $13 in damages and cleanup costs. NOAA saves lives AND billions of dollars. Trump and Musk's dismantling of NOAA has nothing to do with "fraud" or "waste" — it's just mindless destruction that will make us all worse off.

Social security is a set of trust funds with a balance of about $2.7 trillion as of December 2024. We are the source of these funds. It belongs to us. These funds should be protected so we can protect each other. www.ssa.gov/oact/progdat...

Details about this are published in the Daily Beast. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-blasts...

Gift link to a good explanation of what matters in Khalil’s green-card case. DON’T make a hero of this man without knowing what he did. He may well have violated green card requirements. DO fight for the right to due process, without which no one is safe. www.wsj.com/opinion/mahm...

Kelly: When I was flying in combat over Iraq during the first Gulf War, I didn’t expect that there was a 10-year-old kid sitting in South Africa who would one day become the richest guy in the world and call me a traitor for doing my job. Now, he kind of acts like a 12-year-old kid

New data from the US Treasury reveals that federal spending was $603 billion in February, which is $36 billion HIGHER than February last year under Biden. This suggests that DOGE has done nothing to cut spending.

Free Link--- Solid reporting by NYT reporter David Fahrenthold on DOGE shenanigans to hide mistakes it has made in accounting for its cuts. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

Thank you, apnews.

Media isn’t sharing. Please share.

Independent pro-democracy media has never been more important. Support Democracy Docket today. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

It would be a real shame if y'all shared this online, printed out a few and hung up all around the Eastern Shore of Maryland. 😉

Per @rwpusa.bsky.social on another platform: "Attention DOGE: When you mess around in the Treasury Department's records and payment systems, remember that since 1789, self dealing and conflicts of interest at the Treasury Department have been a criminal offense. See Section 8."

The FAA approved another launch before the last crash investigation was completed — and it ended in another disaster. Why is SpaceX getting a free pass from DOGE cuts? 🤔