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Musk's SpaceX calls off Starship megarocket test flight at last minute Last-minute problems forced a launch delay Monday for SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship, attempting a comeback following an explosion on the last test flight. The countdown began but it was halted because of issues with the […]

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'Give him an ovation': Mike Johnson warns Dems to 'respect' Trump's speech to Congress https://www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson-trump-speech/

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This is another blast from the past from a trip we did to New York. I really love street scenes but, boy, are they tricky. This was one of the more successful early ones #watercolor #watercolorpainting #cityscape #art #watercolorcityscape #newyorkpainting

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Sixty years ago, 600 activists marched in Selma, Alabama, to protest against Black voter suppression. Police attacked protestors, 58 of whom ended up in the hospital, and the episode came to be known as Bloody Sunday. Black women were not only among the crowds — they were also behind the scenes […]

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Paris' city council has passed a resolution requiring research into leaving billionaire social media, specifically, into setting up its own mastodon server. This is with an eye to the 2026 municipal elections, which they see under threat […]

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MAGA world won't stop until it's literally illegal to study how they spread propaganda on social media, falsely claiming that this is government-backed censorship.

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#Trump seeks plan to ease #Russia #sanctions The #US is drawing up a plan to potentially give Russia sanctions relief as Trump seeks to restore ties w/Moscow & stop the war in #Ukraine or pay [#Putin back for something?] The WH has asked #State & #Treasury to draft a list of sanctions that […]

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1. Today, Senate Democrats showed spine, and killed a national transgender sports ban bill via filibuster. Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture. S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Been so excited to see this enter the real world... This is such a good idea (though, YES, of course PACER should be totally free, but absent that... )

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Musk is lying. DOGE has caused death resulting from terminating USAID. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3ljipzowblc2h

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Reupping my Russia Russia Russia post where I show that Trump is quite simply picking up where he left off when Mike Flynn investigation held things up in 2017. It's the very same quid pro quo. www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/02/r...

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First they illegally rip away my job. Then, they want to completely eliminate the building that only barely houses all of my wonderful former colleagues. I just can’t even anymore 😫

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BC’ers aren't going to the USA. "Publicly available statistics from the cascadegatewaydata.com site show there was a peak of 142 vehicles in the lineup to cross into Lynden, just outside Bellingham, on Monday, Feb. 17, down from a peak of 204 the previous year, a drop of 31 per cent. On that […]

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according to bloomberg, trump “paused” (we all know what that means) _all_ military aid for ukraine, including in transit and already delivered to poland. this is a betrayal on the scale of yalta and potsdam; united states should never be trusted again.

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VOA - President Trump imposing new 25% tariffs at midnight on exports from America’s two biggest trading partners, Mexico and Canada, ignoring evidence the neighboring countries curtailed illegal migration and the flow of illicit drugs into the US as he demanded […]

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The sound you're about to hear is the economy seizing up, grinding people and companies into the ground as Trump-mandated uncertainty about...well, everything becomes the central reality. We'll be lucky if it's only a bad recession […]

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Great news from "Pioneering CERN" (the lab that has spawned so many great things including the World Wide Web): It's pushing open scientific research that doesn't enrich a few journal publishers and rip off everyone else. This enhances science and research for all of us […]

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Keep ‘em coming "They've radicalized me." “Federal workers are fighting back as #Trump dismantles their work: The totality of the effort is quite broad. Workers are filing lawsuits, joining protests and sharing internal documents with media outlets. And they've resigned, sometimes in large […]

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No one should attend. Or, get up and walk out in unison. He is illegitimate and a traitor. Nobody owes his version of "the presidency" any respect. Via Senator Patty Murray: The state of the union is that the President is spitting in the face of the law. He is letting an unelected […]

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"The explosive memos — which include summaries of email exchanges and top-level meetings inside USAID, as well as internal agency research — were sent by Nicholas Enrich, acting assistant administrator for global health. ProPublica also obtained detailed breakdowns of lifesaving programs […]

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Police in Massachusetts say seven #Tesla charging stations were intentionally set on fire and the incident is being investigated as suspicious. https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/littleton-massachusetts-tesla-station-fire/

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"The building cameras were not recording, and the Teslas’ cameras were inactive ... (since) the cars were off." https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/03/01/video-44-wheels-stolen-from-teslas-in-league-city-parking-lot/ _www.click2houston […]

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🤨“We had to dive a little bit.” “Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after several airliners on approach to land at Washington Reagan National Airport Saturday morning received what appear to be false alarms from their onboard Traffic Collision Avoidance System.” […]

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[PFAS] "Since 2016, more than 866,000 tonnes of sewage sludge has been applied to #US farmland, according to an analysis by the Environmental Working Group. The organisation estimates that 5% of all arable land in the US has had fertiliser applied to it that contains PFAS-contaminated […]

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ALERT: therapy dog and puppy are on campus this week to de-stress you during midterms! Check them out in FSM lobby!

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📬🗳️👋🏼 “NEW: #Trump plans to sign an executive order to overtake the “USPS by dissolving its leadership and placing it under his administration. This move would grant them immense power over mail-in ballots, a key target in Republican election fraud rhetoric.” - Democracy Docket […]

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Appsec Roundup Feb 2025 @defcon the Harris School of Public Policy (and yours truly) released The DEF CON 32 Hackers Almanack, reviewing some of the key policy lessons from DEF Con 32 talks and villages. (1/6, full post https://shostack.org/blog/appsec-roundup-feb-2025/ )

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One of the USAID lawsuit declarations I added to my page today is this one, from a person who did cybersecurity at USAID. It provides best technical description I know of what the DOGE boys did after they arrived. They lost access on Feb 4, a month ago. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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A study of mint plants. A device to stop bleeding. This is the scientific research that U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz calls "woke.” @ProPublica reports: "The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like 'female' and 'diversify.'” https://flip.it/SDVn1v #Woke […]

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A pathetic and humiliating walkback from the would-be destroyers of CFPB, who know they've lost in court and can't kill the agency. This email from Mark Paoletta went to employees today. It neglects Vought's Feb 10 "stop-work" email that superseded it, ending all activity with no exceptions.

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That Trump decided to bless three assets that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had previously designated as unregistered securities barely registered with post-Gary Gensler crypto investors. Indeed, since Trump’s inauguration, lawsuits initiated by Gensler’s SEC against Uniswap […]

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Morgan Stanley has money in Tesla stock so they're eager to keep the price inflated. Good luck with that! Keep it going! #TeslaTakedown

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FFS 🤦🏻‍♀️ Via Anna Bower: NEW: Judge McAfee has granted Kenneth Chesebro's request for early termination of his probation. Chesebro, the "architect" of the 2020 fake electors plot, pleaded guilty in Georgia to one count of conspiracy to file false documents. The Fulton County DA's […]

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Here is a letter I sent to my Oklahoma state senator (and few other state senators) about why I oppose SB 942 and 991. The vote is supposed to happen this afternoon, so if you have a moment please consider calling or emailing your state senator today. ======================= Dear Senator […]

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"I no longer need to drive a car that is associated with literal Nazism." We feel ya'! #TeslaTakedown

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Iowans! Your government is coming for mRNA vaccines today. You can submit a comment here to let them know why this is wrong and why these vaccines are critical.

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Bingo. Via Rupar: Wyden on why he's not attending Trump's speech tomorrow and instead is hosting a town hall: "We're not interested in hearing about the Donald #Trump alternate reality."

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Kroger's longtime CEO resigns abruptly after investigation https://www.npr.org/2025/03/03/nx-s1-5316236/kroger-ceo-rodney-mcmullen-resigns?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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New tariff just dropped.

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"Les universités contrôlent le savoir dans notre société (...) Nous devons attaquer agressivement les universités (...). Des mensonges fondamentaux selon lesquels le féminisme est libérateur son proférés (...) Nixon l'a dit, les professeurs sont l'ennemi". Voici le discours du vice-président de […]

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Soaring U.S. egg prices and millions of dead chickens signal the deep problems and risks in modern poultry production - #Trump cutting monitoring is “completely irrational” […]

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It’s not Dickens—it’s the MAGA agenda https://contrarian.substack.com/p/its-not-dickensits-the-maga-agenda #ArrestTrump #ArrestMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

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Upcoming webinar that looks awesome: "Dr. Michelle Wooten and Mr. Brian Templeton will delve into strategies to align lighting practices on their university campus with DarkSky recommended practices. Dr. Wooten will introduce the national Campus SHINE (Safe […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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