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Just a reminder: fascism always fails.

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Peaceful resistance and protest does work.

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Code comments that explain why you did it that way are good. Code comments that explain why you didn't do it a different way are GREAT.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Absolute power? Absolutely not! No kings! This is exactly why the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution to separate the powers of government in the first place. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

We will see many such incidents over the next few years.

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Citizens are the last line of defense against a tyrannical government. For now, contact your government representatives and senators to express your concerns. They may ignore some of us, but cannot ignore all of us.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. — especially at the state level, where local election officials rely on CISA resources to securely run elections — at risk. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 15 days ago • 915 comments

If your org has a design team, it has a design system—whether it’s documented or just a chaotic loop where the only rule is no rules. The real question isn’t if you need one, but when (or if) it’s worth the investment. (I think I’ll be attaching this gif to every design systems skeet. Thank you)

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

“It’s illegal. They know it’s illegal. But they’re doing it anyway.”

submitted 15 days ago • 387 comments

Sweeping up Puerto Ricans - automatic U.S. citizens - in immigration raids doesn't exactly back up the idea that it's all about making sure immigrants are following the law. ICYMI @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-depo...

submitted 17 days ago • 29 comments

I think my major take-away from this Superbowl is that the halftime show has a ton more cultural cachet than the game itself People are much more excited in celebrities and celeb drama than they are in the tides of an individual sports game It's pretty interesting to see it backed by real data

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

Harsh! Imagine working in the federal government under Musk—where loyalty is tested, cruelty is rewarded, and nobody is safe. A former Twitter exec, @ruchowdh.bsky.social , who lived through it speaks out.

submitted 17 days ago • 97 comments

In honor of black inventors. #BlackHistoryMonth

submitted 19 days ago • 312 comments

I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

submitted 19 days ago • 941 comments

Federally-funded community health centers, which serve 1 in 5 rural patients in America, are starting to shut down because they still can’t access their grant funding www.vpm.org/news/2025-02...

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Is Elon going to shut down hurricane monitoring?

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If there is any doubt that tariffs are passed through to consumers, the cost of propane to heat my house just went up by the amount of the tariff

submitted 24 days ago • 203 comments

When you censor research based on prejudicial bias, you get bad medicine.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

This is a constitutional crisis: the President doesn't have the power to cancel funds appropriated by Congress. Also, the math is insane; there is NO way to cut $4B/day by getting rid of "fraud". Cuts of that magnitude will dangerously undermine the core functions of government.

submitted 25 days ago • 946 comments

The NTSB says it will no longer email news outlets or reporters with notifications of upcoming press conferences, including those on plane crashes in Washington and Philadelphia. Instead, all notifications will be made on X. We're filing a FOIA to find out more about the change in policy.

submitted 25 days ago • 658 comments

Reminder: The Constitution says Congress regulates trade. The president imposing tariffs is an abuse of emergency powers. There is clearly no US national security emergency regarding Canada. Media might not care, weaklings in Congress might want to forfeit their authority, but still, facts matter.

submitted 25 days ago • 41 comments

The National Association of Home Builders explains what happens if we make inputs for home construction, such as Canadian lumber, more expensive.

submitted 25 days ago • 1466 comments

For all federal employees: Before you are locked out of your systems, ensure you have copies of unclassified performance appraisals, awards & other relevant personnel docs. If you have access to your office, grab your more important personal items sooner rather than later.

submitted 25 days ago • 329 comments

NEWS: Around 25-30 prosecutors who handled Jan. 6 cases were abruptly fired Friday afternoon. Acting US Attorney Ed Martin sent the email just before 5pm. Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

submitted 26 days ago • 64 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 26 days ago • 3624 comments

These billionaire owners of the press are placing their fingers on the scale of truth.

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A small thing people should understand: employees cost more than their salary due to health insurance, retirement plans, taxes, etc. You cannot simply divide a large amount of money by average salary and say you can hire that many people. It doesn't work that way.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Mark is correct. For a chance of removing Trump from office, we need help from Republicans. Focus on how Trump's behaviors hurt Republicans. When they admit they don't like something Trump is doing, we politely agree. Gather support. We're going to need it.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

We measured the distance between Earth and Moon to an accuracy of about a millimeter, using a LASER and a retroreflector. If we put a retroreflector on Mars, we could detect changes in its orbit to within a few centimeters.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

TheTrump administration has zero respect for government policy or law. This will continue until the people stop it.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This has real “The Front Fell Off” energy to it.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

i was gonna say something about ASL being a language with no writing component, but apparently they developed (not the first) one in the 00s, and it's 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘥

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

For federal employees (or anyone) who wants to speak to a reporter about what's unfolding about their agencies, the Associated Press investigative team can be reached here: [email protected] or www.ap.org/tips/ I am byrontau.01 on Signal.

submitted 28 days ago • 96 comments

Gosh, sounds like fair use to me. It's not like OpenAI / Microsoft cared one bit about licenses or copyright when they absorbed my entire legal blog into their LLMs via Common Crawl. Why should their probabilistic LLM outputs get better copyright protection than my original human work?

submitted 28 days ago • 72 comments

It IS possible to hold politicians accountable. We need more of this.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Ireland post codes are more precise.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

without vaccine mandates, every time an infant gets sick it could be a whole ordeal for parents slate.com/technology/2...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

The Keanu quote about not wanting to live in a world where kindness is a weakness hits pretty hard and does a lot of explaining about many feel now. I didn’t vote for this, yet we all still had this shitty new reality foisted on us. A reality where cruelty and inflicting suffering is the point.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Meals on Wheels America spox on OMB pause: "the uncertainty right now is creating chaos for local Meals on Wheels providers not knowing whether they should be serving meals today. Which unfortunately means seniors will panic not knowing where their next meals will come from."

submitted 29 days ago • 338 comments

For insurance companies, climate change is extremely serious.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

According to the U.S. Constitution, the President is not a king and does not control everything. Congress controls spending and writes laws. The job of the executive branch, including the President, is to implement what Congress decides. The Founding Fathers would be ready for another revolution.

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The US leadership position in the world depends on scientific research.

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