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Irish trad musician higher-ed IT director author of @www.irishtune.info climate crisis is priority #1 and suddenly relevant in 2025 is my PhD in the cultural history of communist East Germany. The Trump administration looks very familiar.
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Individual consumer decisions have consequences at scale. Join the #theresistance by mindfully using your money. Like not using it tomorrow at all.

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The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control and is awarding the work to Musk’s Starlink. Follow the money and see where it goes.

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I'm glad an establishment news outlet is covering this. Think of this particular Friday as just the first practice run of many to come, bigger and bigger, until the fascist oligarchy hears American citizens in the only language they understand (force and power). Join #theresistance this Friday.

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@aoc.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @sifill.bsky.social

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The Environmental Protection Agency is no longer in the business of protecting the environment or public health

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The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stone. Society has changed before at the scale we need it to today: but that change was never catalyzed by presidents, PMs, or CEOs of the richest companies of the time. The fossil fuel age won’t end until we ordinary people demand it does.

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This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

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Senator, welcome to Bluesky. Can you explain why you're sponsoring a bill to repeal Section 230, which would effectively make it impossible for Bluesky to do what it's doing today, creating this kind of space? Thanks. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

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Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid. So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.

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Some good news from #theresistance: "On February 21, a U.S. district judge issued a preliminary injunction against portions of two of the Trump administration’s executive orders regarding DEI programs." cupahr_nimble.informz.net/informzdatas...

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The 5 calls app made it easier for me too. I really don’t like making phone calls either.

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Have heard indirectly from sources inside HUD that this is real.

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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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Shutting down already installed infrastructure isn't "efficiency," it's sabotage electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

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Note the similarity between the Trump administration's actions and phishing emails. Messages crafted to look legitimate and demand urgent, high-stakes action. Step back and look at the sender details and the downstream next steps to recognize the illegitimacy of the message. Don't get phished.

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We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

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I doubt Bluesky is the place to reach the people who need this, but if you know a better place, share it there.

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Being trained in German history, the reference in Richardson's must-read analysis to the German antifascist phrase "Nie wieder!" (Never again!) is bone-chilling. See also this Handelsblatt (conservative German newspaper) to fact-check Richardson's quotation of Scholz.

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Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

submitted 11 days ago • 989 comments

Make America Glow Again

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"a word like “women” appearing will get the content flagged". Also "victim" "hispanic" "female" "disability" "historically" ... How about let's add Swasticar, fascism, dictator, unconstitutional. All the things we are not allowed to think.

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DOGE has access to highly classified information, but can't seem to keep its own website secure. www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

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See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

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A new study finds that with every degree global warming, the global mean area burned by fires each year will increase by 13.8% www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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From reddit: a letter from a postdoc who survived the Bolsonaro years. This is helpful framing for how to science in this administration. 🧪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/s/...

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"The more reports to Google the merrier"

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When the fox is put in charge of the chickens ...

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Tip for defense against the dark arts of the Trump blitzkrieg: ChatGPT actually does very well at helping scenario-plan around specific downstream impacts of current events. Does a nice job doing its own research to pull in specific evidence even from yesterday's news.

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Hot tip for how to check the political donation history of owners of companies you support. Join #theresistance with your economic power.

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"For the Army now, it's 'Blacks need not apply' and it breaks my heart." that's a quote from an ACTIVE DUTY U.S. ARMY GENERAL.

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Reality is exceeding dystopian science fiction. "19-year-old Edward Coristine and 23-year-old Luke Farritor [both given] an M-CIO label [...] Media reports link Coristine to a cybercrime syndicate"

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A little bit of German history from the 1930s might be alarmingly eye-opening right now: encyclopedia.ushmm.org/.../gleichsc.... Don't comply in advance like German citizens, companies, and institutions did. Be #theresistance instead.

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End-to-end encryption by default means “if you show up with a warrant or a subpoena (to Signal), they have almost nothing about you that they can hand over,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @cnn.com.

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See this Wisconsin press release about the 22-state lawsuit submitted today to stop #nih indirect costs cut and also the actual lawsuit text at www.mass.gov/doc/ecf-comp...

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Here’s some advice for those outside our coalition, as the administration is actively leading a witch hunt for resistance members. If you’re a government employee, avoid using government devices to coordinate. Do not use standard messaging apps on Android or Apple devices.

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Top Trump administration officials are openly questioning the judiciary’s authority to serve as a check on executive power as the new president’s sweeping agenda faces growing pushback from the courts.

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See www.fiftyfifty.one and www.reddit.com/r/50501/comm... for something you can do.

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"This proposed change to NIH funding – UW–Madison’s largest source of federal support – will significantly disrupt vital research activity and delay lifesaving discoveries and cures related to cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, and much more."

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On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."

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