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sciencedjv.bsky.social
Think about that 60-some-year-old South Korean senator who was literally climbing over walls to vote for impeachment as martial law was imposed in the country and then looking at…. Chuck Schumer.
March 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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joshchafetz.bsky.social
I'll just repeat what I said yesterday: This is wildly illegal and anti-constitutional.
ddayen.bsky.social David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · Mar 11
How could you possibly vote for a funding bill that the Vice President is telling you will be overruled by the executive?
www.politico.com/live-updates...
March 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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karaswisher.bsky.social
Call it by its name: Trumpcession
March 4, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social
The Bay Area weather radar (KMUX) has been out of service for more than 24 hours now. An expensive broken part needs to be replaced and specially ordered, but that may not be possible due to ongoing freeze on government credit card spending, I’ve been told.
March 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This is the most chilling thing to date…
joshtpm.bsky.social Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Feb 22
So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.
February 22, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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aishiterutokyo.bsky.social
THEY’RE CLIMBING THE POLES IN TOKYO GO BIRDS🦅🦅🦅
February 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The headline!
February 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
NEW: President Trump's hiring freeze has stopped the onboarding of seasonal federal firefighters, including those who work for agencies called on to help battle the devastating L.A. fires, creating a potential shortfall ahead of the next fire season. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Trump's freeze stalls federal firefighter hiring
Crews helped battle the deadly Los Angeles-area wildfires, and now some worry a shortfall will weaken response capabilities as fire season approaches.
www.nbcnews.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
We know what’s going on here.
February 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
@schatz.bsky.social you are doing great at fighting for all of us!
taniel.bsky.social Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · Feb 6
Senator Schatz, @schatz.bsky.social, rejects idea that Dems should wait for Trump to touch 'most popular' programs to fight.

"I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess."

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
You are referring to them criticizing what you’ve done around U.S.A.I.D. by saying foreign aid is not good territory for Democrats to fight for? Yeah. And you think I don’t know that foreign aid is not as popular as Medicaid? Of course I know that. But there are going to be mass deaths from malaria and H.I.V./aids and other preventable diseases and conditions because of what the United States is doing. So do I have to be thoughtful and sometimes clever about how we go about communicating that? Yes. Am I going to wait for a more popular program? No, because what they are doing here is ignoring a federal law. Which federal law are you talking about? The Foreign Assistance Act, and then, of course, every appropriations bill that funds the State Department and foreign-ops budget. They’re ignoring multiple federal laws. And I’m just—excuse me for being quaint about this—but I’m not going to just gloss over that and wait until they touch the Affordable Care Act. That’s the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess. We are constantly being told that something isn’t polling well enough yet. And one of the things that Republicans do well is not allow their pollsters to tell them everything. They invent whole stories and then the polling follows.
February 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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dennisyedwab.bsky.social
This is a huge, huge "follow the money" tell. One of Rick Santorum's big issues when he was a Senator was privatizing NOAA - because Accuweather's CEO was a big donor.
February 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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darbysaxbe.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
God, what a gut punch. This is the thing that lets me know I don’t live in the 20th century framework anymore.
pgourevitch.bsky.social Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · Feb 2
USAID Wikipedia page is transitioning to the past tense.
February 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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debcha.bsky.social
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM