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I just got fired from NWS . This email is all I know. Read if you want.

submitted 12 hours ago • 281 comments

hard not to feel intensely irritated at people like this but on the other hand a big chunk of people, probably most, are just never going to become politics obsessives. even basic political literacy requires a healthy information environment www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 17 hours ago • 98 comments

low info Americans genuinely do not believe you when you tell them e.g. major government policy shifts are determined by which Presidential administration Supreme Court Justices die during. Why would they? It's not what the Constitution says and its an idiotic way for it to work.

submitted 12 hours ago • 9 comments

Democrats are showing up. Literally. Rep. Pettersen (CO-7) cut short her maternity leave and flew across the country — with her newborn baby — to vote no. Rep. Mullin (CA-15) went straight from the hospital where he was being treated for surgery complications to the airport so he could vote no.

submitted 8 hours ago • 27 comments

As Trump looks to fund tax cuts for the wealthy by gutting health care, we’re going to save Minnesotans money by making the insurance industry pay their fair share.

submitted 8 hours ago • 92 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge in California has ordered OPM to rescind memos calling for the mass termination of probationary employees, saying the agency overstepped its legal authority and must inform other agencies it lacked the authority to issue such a directive.

submitted 10 hours ago • 267 comments

I think there’s this tendency to assume Musk enters each agency with some kind of plan. But his office is 30 people, largely children, and the federal government employs millions. He spends half his time on drugs, tweeting, doing interviews. It’s all random noise www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

I am way less interested in "believed lies that would benefit them" than I am in "didn't care who else got hurt"

submitted 16 hours ago • 54 comments

Maybe instead of purging the Social Security workers who make sure seniors get their checks on time, we should be expanding benefits to make life a little easier for your parents and grandparents.

submitted 10 hours ago • 758 comments

We’re mapping the DOGE team. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 18 hours ago • 33 comments

5 former Secretaries of Defense call on Congress to exercise oversight responsibility on Trump-Hegseth firing of senior military leaders: The "dismissals raise troubling questions about the administration’s desire to politicize the military and to remove legal constraints on the President’s power."

submitted 9 hours ago • 104 comments

TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

submitted 12 hours ago • 1885 comments

110 of 363 Taxpayer Assistance Centers and 5 of 10 call centers are going to be shut down, per a meeting that just happened at the IRS. During tax season.

submitted 11 hours ago • 126 comments

We’ve got a friend in Wisconsin who said she wasn’t worried about potential cuts to Medicaid because she and her 3 kids don’t need it - they’re on BadgerCare. She was stunned when I told her they were all on Medicaid. Protecting people from shame by renaming MA has definite downsides.

submitted 8 hours ago • 60 comments

"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

submitted 12 hours ago • 344 comments

BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun. The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.

submitted 11 hours ago • 194 comments

The National Weather Service is THE ONLY source of weather data in the US. Every weather app, local broadcaster, and weather forecast map is based on NWS data from NOAA. This is a ridiculously stupid own goal for the US that will disrupt all kinds of social and economic activity, and endanger lives.

submitted 9 hours ago • 38 comments

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

submitted 9 hours ago • 1136 comments

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

submitted 11 hours ago • 779 comments

BREAKING The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.

submitted 8 hours ago • 345 comments

It's as important right now to affirm the positive as it is to sanction the negative. If someone or a group or an organization refuse to comply, let them know you appreciate them.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

It's very frustrating to me that "savvy" political coverage does not include the savviness required to point out that the lifelong misogynist who lies all the time might not have been serious about delivering on this proposal.

submitted 13 hours ago • 34 comments

the ongoing new lavender scare has been hard for me to grapple with. if you are transgender do not get caught doing anything illegal and do not say anything anywhere that the state would want to prosecute you over. genuinely, be careful and prepare however you can

submitted 14 hours ago • 39 comments

Children are dying of measles.

submitted 17 hours ago • 178 comments

Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating. This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens. (Even better: Tesla will hate this)

submitted 16 hours ago • 447 comments

1/ So everyone remembers this line of demeaning horse plop from Texas Rep. Ima Dingus, right? It was yesterday. Like many other Republicans right now, he's basically pulling the racist, Reagan-era "welfare queens" nonsense and giving it another run. So I looked at SNAP data for his district.

submitted 15 hours ago • 94 comments

“So, Secretary Rubio, can you explain to the American people why you accidentally cancelled Ebola prevention? Because you did that, right?”

submitted 13 hours ago • 25 comments

The absolute dickweasel causing the economic and environmental collapse of our country is posting this shit. Look in the fucking mirror, you loser. You are not Apocalypse ready. Your security team will eat you when money becomes worthless.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Essentially ALL TB programs funded by the U.S. Government were officially terminated last night. Horrifyingly, that includes the Global Drug Facility that coordinates the vast majority of TB treatment and tests purchased globally. Shuttering the GDF will stop TB treatment for the entire planet....

submitted 14 hours ago • 486 comments

There are now 955 cases & 60 deaths from an unknown illness in DRC (links below). As this outbreak is growing, CDC is not permitted to exchange information with WHO and USAID outbreak response support is banned. Yesterday the Supreme court “paused” a federal judge order for USAID payments to resume.

submitted 15 hours ago • 31 comments

Every second that these payments are frozen: Our national security is diminished. Infectious diseases around the world go untreated, leaving Americans at risk. China expands its footing at America's expense. What Trump and Musk are doing is clearly illegal and SCOTUS should say so.

submitted 15 hours ago • 12 comments

Elon Musk spends weeks gloating about firing 1000s of federal employees and now starts asking retirees to return to the federal government. A toxic boss, abusive partner & fucking idiot all in one.

submitted 15 hours ago • 51 comments

I was looking at the correlation between leaded gas and violent crime again today, because it gives me a weird amount of hope for the future, that maybe when people in government were no longer huffing lead fumes, we’ll be a little less shortsighted and awful again.*

submitted 16 hours ago • 30 comments

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1420 comments

NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

submitted 17 hours ago • 3113 comments

"It is no exaggeration to say this will kill people—mainly people who are elderly, disabled and/or poor. Society’s most vulnerable sit in the crosshairs of our nation’s wealthiest people who have absolutely everything, but somehow always want more."

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

Gee I wonder why there’s a shortage of air traffic controllers

submitted 17 hours ago • 527 comments

BREAKING: Representative Sam Liccardo to introduce a bill that would block the president, members of Congress and other senior officials, as well as their spouses and children, from issuing or sponsoring securities and cryptocurrencies like memecoins

submitted 15 hours ago • 15 comments

This should be required reading now

submitted 15 hours ago • 10 comments

I think that it's important to share examples of visible dissent. Normalcy bias is real. Sharing how people continue to dissent is helpful.

submitted 19 hours ago • 24 comments

People’s reactions to these stories tend to be of the leopards-eating-faces variety but this is a great piece of reporting in part about how voters very disconnected from politics make their choices. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1394 comments

it is pretty striking that despite a wholesale abandonment of Reagan foreign policy, aesthetics, etc, domestically the GOP is still doing the exact same 1980s routine of robbing the poor to give to the rich slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

Measles top Page One. @usatoday.com

submitted 21 hours ago • 404 comments

Trump pressured the government of Romania to release Andrew and Tristan Tate. This is a government by and for rapists. apnews.com/article/roma...

submitted 20 hours ago • 105 comments

You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.

submitted 21 hours ago • 664 comments

One of the core beliefs I've adopted in the last few years is that we generally underrate how goofy and stupid the American past was and that being attentive to that helps us see continuities with the present. It's actually not obvious we live in dumber times. Every day tests this belief anew.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments