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Journalism teachers, did you know the Freedom of the Press Foundation has a FREE digital security curriculum for J students? Get it get it get it. J Students, if your teachers won’t get it, self-organize and teach it to each other. freedom.press/digisec/g…

Rufo called me a groomer and sent his audience after my family because I said I was fine with my daughter going to therapy. CPS got called. It took months to get rid of them. My former colleagues thought it was hilarious and did nothing.

“Today he went on CNN saying he was willing to offer up some of his own staff on the DOGE altar.”

Elon Musk's first ex-wife (who is a novelist) wrote this harrowing account of his insane behavior back in 2010. Sadly, way too many people ignored it. www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a53...

I don't know how any American parent can ever again look their kid in the face and honestly tell them not to let the pigeon drive the bus

“The numerous mistakes, according to people familiar with the complex world of government contracting, suggest that Mr. Musk’s team of outsiders, charged by the president with cutting spending, don’t fully understand it.” 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

Underrated aspect of the Chris Kluwe video is him wearing a Tecmo Bowl hoodie

i had a dream last night that i went to a waffle house that was doing waffle house-indian fusion and now that’s all i want

More CFPB news: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's employees have been told that the bureau's Washington HQ lease is cancelled and the agency has 30 days to vacate the building www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

Title 10 lays out who is eligible to be CJCS: must’ve served as Vice Chair, a service chief, or a combatant commander. The president can waive this requirement in the interests of national security, but the message that sends to mil ldrship is: I don’t trust a single one of you to be chair

oh, i take those. yeah don’t love where this is going

I cannot confirm this independently but I am hearing the same thing from a source. If anyone can confirm or share info about the definitive shutdown of the 2024 PRAMS data collection can you contact me on Signal at joshtpm dot 99 or via encrypted mail at joshtpm at protonmail dot com

New analysis from KFF about hospital use and costs shows that *77%* of people with substantial medical debt (>$5k) got some of it from a bill from an emergency room. www.kff.org/key-facts-ab...

“Hegseth also criticized Franchetti suggesting she was selected for the leadership post because of her gender.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A must read story by @lomikriel.bsky.social "A top former government official who worked on refugee issues told ProPublica that another 100,000 refugees who had already been vetted by the Department of Homeland Security have also been blocked from entering the country." propub.li/3EI9X29

Eastern Oregon

FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

Trump met and was impressed with then-Brig. Gen. Caine (he kept talking about his name afterward) on his visit to al-Asad in Iraq during his first term, when Caine was the SOJTF-I deputy commander. Air National Guard SOF officer who rose to be become JSOC’s Air Force one-star assistant commander.

Breaking: Secretary of Defense removed Adm. Lisa Franchetti as chief of naval operations. Story to come for USNI News.

not to change the subject in a disorienting way, but I think I just met the final boss of junk web ads

““Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt — which on its face seems unfair to CQ. But since he has made the race card one of his biggest calling cards, it doesn’t really much matter,” Hegseth wrote.” — apnews.com/article/trum...

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this is like the duke-UNC of denominations i grew up adjacent to

“There is a feedback mechanism, and we are fielding that feedback. Sometimes you break something valuable and you have to fix it.” ah

Brilliant minds all around

i could have told them that conservatives like the national parks but doge and its orbit appears to consist mostly of elite kids from the coasts

In 1976, 10.98M students enrolled in US higher ed, of whom 9.08 were white. In 2000, 15.31M students enrolled in US higher education, of whom 10.52M were white. In 2020 19.03M students enrolled in US higher education, of whom were 9.82M were white. All growth is non-white.

telling my kids this was area x

Another scoop from @peard33.bsky.social: DOGE installed Tom Krause at the Treasury Department. He's keeping his job as the CEO of a software company that has millions of dollars in federal contracts, including with the Treasury Department www.wired.com/story/krause...