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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

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Today is Saturday. The perfect day to turn on Advanced Data Protection to protect yourself against increasingly authoritarian governments being seized by the worst people alive. Stay safe. Encrypt. 🙂 support.apple.com/en-us/108756

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Re-sharing – now without the editorializing! “On Friday, Penn notified department chairs that it will cut admissions across graduate programs, a decision faculty members say was made after programs had already accepted students.”

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I’m launching a sci-fi book club!

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The USPS—among many of their functions—is essential for library delivery and interlibrary loan services too, to get materials to readers who need them. Especially for those isolated, or have mobility issues. It is essential infrastructure for our democracy. Support #USPS #libraries

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The University of Pittsburgh has paused all of its PhD admissions because of Trump-Musk hammering research funding. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

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BREAKING: @pogo.org sued Trump and DOGE in federal court in D.C. today over the administration's efforts to treat DOGE records as presidential records not subject to FOIA for now. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Elon Musk is “exploiting vulnerabilities that are built into the nation’s technological systems, operating as what cybersecurity experts call an insider threat,” our columnist Zeynep Tufekci writes.

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In 2010, the Supreme Court paved the way for unlimited spending in U.S. elections. In a possibly related story, the richest man in the world is basically the president now ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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someone has added a banner to the FCC Complaints page so that anyone going to file a complaint first gets asked if they want to join in a complaint re: “investigating news distortion at 60 Minutes” consumercomplaints.fcc.gov

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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

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One more time for the people in the back: Trump does not give a f*ck about working folks!

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A must read on the Clarivate announcement to end perpetual access to print, e-books, & digital collections by end of year. Siobhan Haimé suggests this disaster for libraries could be “an opportunity to radically explore alternative models to protect equitable access.” www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...

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fantasizing about a world where an opposition congress responds to trump’s attempts to usurp legislative power by defunding the entire white house staff

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SCOOP: The director of data science and engineering for the United States Digital Service—which Elon Musk rebranded as the US DOGE Service—has resigned from her position. “I do not believe that DOGE can continue to deliver the work of USDS, based on their actions so far,” she said.

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Judge: “It’s actually kind of a really important point”

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Pretty much this “‘There is no strategy,’ a person close to Zelenskyy told What A Day, after the U.S.-Russia talks wrapped.” crooked.com/newsletters/...

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Regular reminder that they want a culture war so we don’t have a class war.

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The Planetary Society strongly opposes the sudden, indiscriminate dismissal of more than 1,000 scientists, engineers, and explorers at NASA — the largest involuntary workforce reduction since the end of the Apollo program. Read more on our stance. ⬇️

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

I worked on this story for a decade and he just said it out loud on Fox News

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www.doge-tracker.com Wtf?

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I think anyone who's been paying attention knows this. But it's worth stating clearly. The idea that any of Elon's wilding spree is being done in the name of efficiency is absurd on its face because the terminations are virtually all being done based on duration of service because that creates ...

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I quit Substack. My newsletter is now here, please read it and subscribe. THANKS. www.leahreich.com/technology-i...

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

Knowledge is power…

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🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨 Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

submitted 6 days ago • 289 comments

shop window, New Orleans

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As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 6 days ago • 275 comments

these are segregationists.

submitted 7 days ago • 192 comments

Surprise snow Sunday morning

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📢 Proposed property tax reform bills (SB1, SB443, SB518) could slash millions from Indiana schools over three years, threatening public education, libraries, fire departments, and more. Our kids deserve better. Contact legislators now! actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo... #INLegis #FundPublicEducation

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Numerous employees of Haskell Indian Nations University lost their jobs today as part of sweeping nationwide cuts ordered by President Donald Trump's administration. lawrenceks.news/4i132PN

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Trying to eliminate vaccines, cancer medicine and other life-saving drugs… is the end goal some kind of eugenicist Darwinist thing?

submitted 8 days ago • 132 comments

Must read by @alicesperi.bsky.social @theguardian.com about organized attacks on faculty research. @bletiecq.bsky.social quoted: “We are totally under attack...we’re like sitting ducks.” We need strength and solidarity. Keep doing the good work, and fight back. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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As DOGE began infiltrating government agencies and targeting federal staff for termination, I started interviewing tech workers on the front lines. With the mass layoffs unfolding today, and with their permission, I'm sharing their stories. This is what it's been like to endure Musk's campaign.

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“AI use in government generally hasn't worked well, particularly when there are no regulations or safeguards to ensure that this stuff isn't used for harmful ends,” @kevindeliban.bsky.social tells NPR. "And in the case of DOGE, it's actively being weaponized." www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...

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The Trump admin has posted stigmatizing notes at the top of CDC, HHS and FDA websites it's been forced by a judge to restore. These include websites for people struggling with mental health issues. www.404media.co/trump-admin-...

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Just in case this isn't already clear . . .

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So many horrifying things are happening, but as a historian, I find the blatant rewriting of our history to be particularly chilling.

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When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted. Yet somehow Musk isn't.

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They couldn’t do a VH1: I Love the 2020s because everyone interviewed would start crying.

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