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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 5h

"...the Trump administration has fired workers, stripped away rules, and removed oversight that has kept food from poisoning Americans for a century."

Remarkable look at every move since Jan 20th to make Salmonella & all that nasty stuff great again:

Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 5h

Before the Trump administration took office, our food safety system was mostly functional, but already under strain. Our explainer lays out how the moves since January 20, 2025, have worked together to threaten the under-resourced systems that keep our food safe:
unbreaking.org/issues/food-...

Food Safety: Explainer — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

unbreaking.org

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17h

Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 7h

This is a flat-out lie.

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ersatzGrace @ersatzgrace.bsky.social · 9h

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ersatzGrace @ersatzgrace.bsky.social · May 24

BB (Murder) bill is intending to build nuclear weapons

(1) $1,500,000,000 for risk reduction activities for the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program;
(2) $4,500,000,000 for acceleration of the B–21 long-range bomber aircraft;
(3) $500,000,000 for improvements to the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile system;
(4) $100,000,000 for capability enhancements to intercontinental ballistic missile reentry vehicles;
(5) $148,000,000 for the expansion of D5 missile motor production;
(6) $400,000,000 to accelerate the development
of Trident D5LE2 submarine-launched ballistic missiles;

(7) $2,000,000,000 to accelerate the develop-
ment, procurement, and integration of the nuclear- armed sea-launched cruise missile;
(8) $62,000,000 to convert Ohio-class sub- marine tubes to accept additional missiles;

(4) $400,000,000 to accelerate the develop- ment, procurement, and integration of the warhead for the nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile pursuant to section 3211 of the National Nuclear Security Administration Act (50 U.S.C. 2401);

(7) $100,000,000 to accelerate domestic ura- nium enrichment centrifuge deployment for defense purposes pursuant to section 3211 of the National Nuclear Security Administration Act (50 U.S.C.
2401).

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ersatzGrace @ersatzgrace.bsky.social · 9h

It's in HR1. $5,677,000,000 appropriated per the V1 (v3 passed).

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ersatzGrace @ersatzgrace.bsky.social · 9h

dig into my profile history if you want the "wtf, how, wha, NO!! NNNOOOOOOO!!!!!" reactions as I was going through the damned thing. I had to say it somewhere. 🤷

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ersatzGrace @ersatzgrace.bsky.social · 10h

If you're ever interested in seeing what's planned in HR1, I parsed it into a spreadsheet. Only v1 (v3 passed), skipped the last section, and didn't have the heart to gather all the original language like I intended. Everything they're doing is telegraphed in there.

Rollup [email protected] https://tinyurl.com/mwx3uab4 | Baserow

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11h

Here's a glimpse at some of the people who are about to lose SNAP funding, from @msnbc.com.

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ersatzGrace @ersatzgrace.bsky.social · 10h

We really need to highlight that this is a taste of the actual plan that was made into law with HR1. It's early, it's broader, but hunger is the plan.

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ersatzGrace @ersatzgrace.bsky.social · 10h

HR1 -- the bill that defunded SNAP, took away healthcare, funded ICE and military to the tune of trillions -- has lots to say about immigrant children. Mostly around how they should be charged fees (yep, before they ever earn a wage), and will be used as a reason to more closely monitor households.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 14h

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ersatzGrace @ersatzgrace.bsky.social · 18h

you mean...diversity instead of monoculture?

😂
(it's everywhere: biology, economy, society, business....)

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ersatzGrace @ersatzgrace.bsky.social · 18h

We make decisions where more people survive when we have good information -- like finding/accepting bacteria. Right now, we are dealing with masses of bad information, and often due to human behavior.

We need short term changes, and we need long term viability. They might be different constructs.

ersatzGrace @ersatzgrace.bsky.social · 18h

Our society has a deeply ingrained hierarchical order. Broaden scope (actively seek non-Western lenses), and it's not "natural", it's a choice.

People are fallible, but people create information; if not the document, then the substrate and 'automated' categories/labels. It spreads.

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ersatzGrace @ersatzgrace.bsky.social · 18h

I woke thinking about how I don't like it when people tell me "you belong". My past says that it will be used to try to press their expectations (often based on wishes and solipsistic goals) as being more important than anything I might think my way to. My priorities are not theirs, and so denied.

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ersatzGrace @ersatzgrace.bsky.social · 1d

You didn’t get too long. We need these stories about how information isn’t working to help us find balance. Surveillance is already on all of us with data brokers, information is in a manipulated mess, and defined-from-above is coming for us all.

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ersatzGrace @ersatzgrace.bsky.social · 1d

Community triangulation could be used to show bias and modify or even expunge the record. But that assumes not a top-down social structure, which has been an ongoing issue that this year exacerbated.

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ersatzGrace @ersatzgrace.bsky.social · 1d

*thank you* for clarifying. This is an important facet.

How do you see this balancing with media FOIA requests to gov? Like what are being denied and put under administrative burden on fed level right now, but places like 404media have used to good effect?

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 1d

These are prisons.

The criminalization of homelessness and push towards mandated, coerced medical interventions and civil commitment—a bipartisan project—was always going to lead us here.

This is why when we talk about, strategize and organize around abolition, we must include ALL carceral spaces.

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

www.nytimes.com

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ersatzGrace @ersatzgrace.bsky.social · 1d

How do you understand context without transparency? How do you trace a system?

Transparency doesn't have to be binary: all or nothing. It doesn't have to mean lack of privacy (which is lopsided right now and needs to be fixed). Do we have the will to smudge that binary? How could it be possible?

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Steve Bowen @stevebowen.bsky.social · 3d

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.

Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

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ersatzGrace @ersatzgrace.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile, startups are promoting 996.

www.wired.com/story/silico...

Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule

In an industry once known for cushy perks, some founders are now asking staff to commit to a 72-hour weekly schedule. You’re either in or you’re out.

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ersatzGrace @ersatzgrace.bsky.social · 2d

What I don't understand is why people aren't connecting the dots that all this is part of the long term plan, as built into HR1 that the CR rubber stamps. We're getting a taste of what 2027 and 2029 will be. The best time to derail it was by derailing HR1. The next best time is now.

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ersatzGrace @ersatzgrace.bsky.social · 3d

On my to-do list this week is to finish rewriting Riffpoints architecture for my new site.

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 3d

In huge positive news, the Australian government just ruled out handing the work of their country’s creatives to AI companies for free 🙌

They resisted the well-funded tech lobby & shut down proposals to upend copyright law.

Other governments should do the same!

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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