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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

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It would be a shame to encourage folks to use banned book lists to do strange things like -check them out regularly at the library -request the library order them if they don’t have them -buy them -start or support banned book clubs -organize a banned book kids story time A real shame

submitted 2 days ago • 145 comments

@jenpsaki.msnbc.com: "Inspectors general are a headache for everyone. You know why? Because they're investigating every agency and they find stuff! Including waste and fraud and abuse! They wouldn't be firing them if they cared about waste, fraud, and abuse."

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The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by Trump — deleting a resource experts said improved public safety by helping prevent bad officers from jumping to new agencies and starting over with clean records. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

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Fearless Speech: What Are You Willing to Risk to Speak Out? open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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What it takes to regrow a community after wildfire. grist.org/wildfires/wh... #Altadena #CA #California #Climate #Greensky

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theintercept.com/2025/02/17/e...

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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 7 days ago • 510 comments

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

submitted 6 days ago • 2767 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 9 days ago • 466 comments

Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

submitted 9 days ago • 1457 comments

A must read, share, discuss, implement actionable strategies for democracy’s future www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Emphasis on looney. Emphasis on No medical or scientific experience whatsoever. The shitshow cabinet unites with the dumpster fire dictator to fracture not fix.

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As the military under Pete Hegseth rolls back recruiting for minority Americans remember that black women are the only reason the Army met its recruiting goals last year. Not enough white men qualify to even serve no matter volunteer. They'll learn when recruiting collapses and it ain't "wokeness."

submitted 11 days ago • 1288 comments

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

submitted 12 days ago • 487 comments

Over 100 ICE agents spent 5 hrs in Chicago last week, arresting only 2. In Denver & Aurora, CO, over 400 agents were dispatched for migrant violence linked to Tren de Aragua. After knocking on hundreds of doors, only 1 member was arrested. (NYP, ABC News)

submitted 14 days ago • 1847 comments

Does “Golden Age” refer to a time when planes keep crashing, eggs cost $10–15 a dozen, the U.S. is being booed and protested by all our allies, workers are losing their jobs, and Americans’ personal data is being rummaged through by unelected oligarchs and their strange crew of 20-something incels?

submitted 14 days ago • 3066 comments

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

submitted 14 days ago • 1489 comments

I kept this tweet from 2023 because I learned so much from it (still a sociologist at heart) and we all could stand to remember how all the bullshit we see day-in-day-out works!

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BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems! Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!

submitted 16 days ago • 2064 comments

No accountability, no training in ethics, no screening, no responsibility for outcomes, no worldview =them being purposefully and easily manipulated for a desired outcome.

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Birthright citizenship remains the law of the land. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 16 days ago • 295 comments

Beautiful!

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Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

submitted 16 days ago • 2294 comments

Useful and fitting words, words!

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You don’t fight fascism by shifting right. You go left. Now is the time for Democrats to embrace Universal Healthcare, Universal Education, Paid Vacation, Paid Family Leave, & a Living Wage. It’s time to join the rest of the civilized world. That’s the message. That’s progress.

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

Support indie bookstores too! When you are able, buy books to truly support authors and small business.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

So many things to learn! Common sense is usually uncommon. However, in some ways it can be taught.

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The most important thing I can tell everyone that I've learned from being a YouTuber who explains how stuff works is that each and every time I thought "this is common knowledge and doesn't need to be explained" I was wrong.

submitted 19 days ago • 458 comments

Don’t believe the hype about immigrants. Especially with all the flooded disinfo and misinfo permeating the waves of communications these days and all days (sadly for a long long time)

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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

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On the migration of the scientific community to Bluesky: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

submitted 26 days ago • 102 comments

SPEAKING OF GARDENS yall better have library cards. Some (most!!) public library systems have seed libraries and libraries of things where you can borrow things you may not need to own. Also libraries are revolutionary and librarians have always been on the front lines

submitted 26 days ago • 60 comments

This ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ is what we need to continue to focus on. In all the small ways and hard ways too. In every day life! #tuesdaythoughts

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

This makes my blood boil in ways I cannot describe.

submitted 32 days ago • 851 comments

And buy books 📚 from independent bookstores in your local community! #booksky

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📚reading is vital learning and growing

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