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The NASA program manager overseeing our research into functionally graded materials for rocket engine nozzles among other things was just fired by DOGE. He has worked at NASA for over 10 years.

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 4 days ago • 1219 comments

Blue states need to be doing the Idlib strategy of building up their own much larger administrative states to quickly reinstate actual existing bureaucracy once this government falls.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

The most violent of violent conflicts are 99.9% hiking for what it's worth. Not everyone is dealt the same hand, and I respect that, but can we please fetishize hiking and HAM radio instead of whatever argument is happening here?

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

i genuinely cannot believe they are messing with the national reconnaissance office, aka "the quietly competent people you've never heard of who make sure the spy satellites work" even nedry didn't deactivate the raptor fences, goddamn

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

DEVELOPING: As part of sweeping cuts, the Trump administration has terminated around 300 employees at the agency responsible for maintaining America's nuclear weapons arsenal and combating nuclear terrorism. More on today's mass firings here: www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

“Despite the demands of Trump, Leavitt, and Big Brother, the AP is not changing their style to suit the whims of a would-be tinpot dictator. And by defying Trump, the AP has created a rallying point for other organizations and individuals to find their spines and defy him as well.”

submitted 9 days ago • 317 comments

This is just sheer brazen criminality by DOJ. Adams gets federal corruption charges dropped not because there isn’t overwhelming evidence, but because he agrees to help Homan round up migrants. And Homan says the charges will be refiled if Adams doesn’t “come through.”

submitted 9 days ago • 2712 comments

hard to overemphasize how consistent it is that scifi can imagine the end of all physical constants more easily than it can imagine the end of patriarchy

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

These people hate you. Yes you there reading this. They want your kids sick and uneducated, your country defenseless while their rich pedo friends suck up to dictators around the world. You don't hate the current GOP enough. I understand you're making a valiant effort but it's simply not possible.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base. 📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.

submitted 10 days ago • 465 comments

Didn’t know this was unexpected.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

We must return to the way of the ancients.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵

submitted 12 days ago • 70 comments

Got me tearing up first thing in the morning.

submitted 25 days ago • 66 comments

There's a part of me that wants to run for a house seat purely so I can be a feral attack dog who shows up on MSNBC and CNN from time to time and uses "Republican" as a slur

submitted 45 days ago • 14 comments

Really needs to be underscored how the judges deciding the fate of congestion pricing are not experts on environmental review laws, the environment, transportation, pollution, or anything remotely relevant. The judge currently pontificating in chambers is a commercial and trade expert.

submitted 50 days ago • 7 comments

on a structural level, the american government has outsourced a shockingly large amount of its state capacity to a judicial system that is, as constituted, basically designed to avoid employing subject matter expertise to resolve problems

submitted 50 days ago • 17 comments

About 10 years ago the German army dissolved about a third of delta force equivalent because a lot of them had been stealing explosives and planning to do right wing terrorism shit.

submitted 64 days ago • 7 comments

Remember guys, if they kneecap the FDIC, all you need to do is pull out all your money before everyone else does

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

The good news for civ-mil scholarship is that there will be the best material for study in decades. The bad news is, there’s a 50-50 shot your paper lands you in jail.

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

The current information environment is similar to the one before WW2. Propaganda has taken the minds of many people. People must be appealed to on an emotional level before the truth has any chance of being heard. youtu.be/sgHHRVH0NFo?...

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Never forget that "Trump wriggling his way out of another dilemma" is almost always better described as "other people deciding not to impose that dilemma."

submitted 74 days ago • 33 comments

And since we are in the "making the DoD pay" stage, how about we talk a little about making lawmakers pay? Congress has forced many programs (wasteful ones at that) into existence because of jobs in certain states and the benefits to be reaped by having military bases in their states.

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

People always talk like the DoD is some unsanctioned organization that can spend however much it wants on whatever the fuck it wants and not a Department with a rigorous process where it has to justify in front of Congress where every penny goes. Get real, please.

submitted 74 days ago • 3 comments