Eduardo Marti Kring
@eddiemarti.bsky.social
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First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.
NEW: The USDA acknowledged that over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak.
The agency adds it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.
The agency adds it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:28 AM
First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.
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FDA Food chief on his decision to leave FDA: “The secretary’s comments impugning the integrity of the food staff, asserting they are corrupt based on falsities, is a disservice to everyone."
Jim Jones had just hired food-chemical safety staff, who were laid off.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
Jim Jones had just hired food-chemical safety staff, who were laid off.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
FDA’s Food Safety Chief Resigns
The chief said the loss of critical employees overseeing the nation’s food supply made his work impossible. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s new health secretary, has pledged to gut the division.
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
FDA Food chief on his decision to leave FDA: “The secretary’s comments impugning the integrity of the food staff, asserting they are corrupt based on falsities, is a disservice to everyone."
Jim Jones had just hired food-chemical safety staff, who were laid off.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
Jim Jones had just hired food-chemical safety staff, who were laid off.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
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BREAKING; The Trump administration reversed plan to shut down govt website that ships free covid tests to households late Tuesday after we reported administration was preparing to end the program and was weighing costs of destroying or disposing of tens of millions of tests.
SCOOP: Trump administration has been evaluating the costs of destroying or disposing of tens of millions of coronavirus tests that would otherwise be provided free to Americans. My story w/ Carolyn Y. Johnson.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
U.S. weighs destroying $500 million in stockpiled covid tests
The government is reviewing proposals to shut down the program that ships free covid tests to American households and has been considering destroying 160 million tests.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:35 AM
BREAKING; The Trump administration reversed plan to shut down govt website that ships free covid tests to households late Tuesday after we reported administration was preparing to end the program and was weighing costs of destroying or disposing of tens of millions of tests.
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades.
Envy of the world. Poof!
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
Envy of the world. Poof!
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health
Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired
www.statnews.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades.
Envy of the world. Poof!
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
Envy of the world. Poof!
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
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European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy & freedom of speech from an Administration that denies the 2020 election results and is now suing & intimidating news outlets whose reporting they don’t like.
Stand tall against right-wing extremism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
Stand tall against right-wing extremism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
Vance and Musk Attack German Consensus on Nazis and Speech
Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk have challenged decades-long approaches to political extremism that were designed to prevent another Hitler.
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy & freedom of speech from an Administration that denies the 2020 election results and is now suing & intimidating news outlets whose reporting they don’t like.
Stand tall against right-wing extremism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
Stand tall against right-wing extremism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
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The Trump administration fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration. Sources told CNN the Trump admin didn’t seem to know the NNSA oversees nuclear weapons. The agency began rescinding the terminations Friday morning. www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...
Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN
Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.
www.cnn.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The Trump administration fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration. Sources told CNN the Trump admin didn’t seem to know the NNSA oversees nuclear weapons. The agency began rescinding the terminations Friday morning. www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...
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“A commitment to ‘never again’ is not reconcilable with support for the AfD,” Scholz said.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
German Chancellor Rebukes Vance for Supporting Party That Downplays Nazis
At the Munich Security Conference, Olaf Scholz accused the U.S. vice president of unacceptable interference in Germany’s coming elections.
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“A commitment to ‘never again’ is not reconcilable with support for the AfD,” Scholz said.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
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Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
www.404media.co
February 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
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Another, Hagan Scotten:
"If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him advice [not to use prosecutorial power to influence elected officials], I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool or a coward to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."
"If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him advice [not to use prosecutorial power to influence elected officials], I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool or a coward to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."
February 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Another, Hagan Scotten:
"If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him advice [not to use prosecutorial power to influence elected officials], I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool or a coward to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."
"If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him advice [not to use prosecutorial power to influence elected officials], I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool or a coward to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."
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Jose Barco, a decorated U.S. Army veteran once based out of Fort Carson who served 2 tours in Iraq, was taken into custody last month by ICE because his citizenship papers, which were supposed to be processed while he was in the Army, were lost.
Read his story:
Read his story:
Former Fort Carson Iraq war veteran gives up the fight to stay in the US
www.stripes.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Jose Barco, a decorated U.S. Army veteran once based out of Fort Carson who served 2 tours in Iraq, was taken into custody last month by ICE because his citizenship papers, which were supposed to be processed while he was in the Army, were lost.
Read his story:
Read his story:
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“Eventually, though, if the assault on the civil service is not blocked, the heroes and the patriots will disappear. They will be fired, or denied access to the tools they need to work, or frightened by the smear campaigns.”
— @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
— @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
www.theatlantic.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
“Eventually, though, if the assault on the civil service is not blocked, the heroes and the patriots will disappear. They will be fired, or denied access to the tools they need to work, or frightened by the smear campaigns.”
— @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
— @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Obedience is good. We like to see obedience to court orders. I'm perfectly fine with the trumpitistas criticizing the orders, calling for them to be overturned on appeal, and even accusing the judges of political bias, so long as they also damn well obey them.
www.theverge.com/news/610765/...
www.theverge.com/news/610765/...
The Trump administration restores federal webpages after court order
Doctors filed suit to restore access.
www.theverge.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Obedience is good. We like to see obedience to court orders. I'm perfectly fine with the trumpitistas criticizing the orders, calling for them to be overturned on appeal, and even accusing the judges of political bias, so long as they also damn well obey them.
www.theverge.com/news/610765/...
www.theverge.com/news/610765/...
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Yet another plane crash on Sean Duffy’s watch— and the *5th* since Trump “ended DEI madness and restored excellent and safety within the FAA.”
1 dead and 4 hurt after a plane crashes in Scottsdale.
1 dead and 4 hurt after a plane crashes in Scottsdale.
1 dead, 4 hurt after plane owned by Mötley Crüe member crashes at Scottsdale Airport
One person has died and four others were injured after an aircraft collision on the runway Monday afternoon at the Scottsdale Airport.
www.abc15.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Yet another plane crash on Sean Duffy’s watch— and the *5th* since Trump “ended DEI madness and restored excellent and safety within the FAA.”
1 dead and 4 hurt after a plane crashes in Scottsdale.
1 dead and 4 hurt after a plane crashes in Scottsdale.
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Destruction of evidence and obstruction are crimes...
Do your f-ing job, DOJ!
Do your f-ing job, DOJ!
A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.
Jan. 6 video evidence has 'disappeared' from public access, media coalition says
A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.
www.npr.org
February 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Destruction of evidence and obstruction are crimes...
Do your f-ing job, DOJ!
Do your f-ing job, DOJ!
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it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit
Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit
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Dems should propose a law that immediately requires every fed agency to post on @bsky.app account, every outlay with a detailed description, $, and a link to existing gov sites with in depth details
Rather than trying to keep Elon out, pre-empt him so he cant miss characterize spending.
Rather than trying to keep Elon out, pre-empt him so he cant miss characterize spending.
February 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Dems should propose a law that immediately requires every fed agency to post on @bsky.app account, every outlay with a detailed description, $, and a link to existing gov sites with in depth details
Rather than trying to keep Elon out, pre-empt him so he cant miss characterize spending.
Rather than trying to keep Elon out, pre-empt him so he cant miss characterize spending.
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Among other reasons, censorship is bad because a lot of these terms are used multiple ways. “Confirmation bias” is the most common logical fallacy, for example - I’d like the folks at NSA to be particularly attuned to it.
2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Among other reasons, censorship is bad because a lot of these terms are used multiple ways. “Confirmation bias” is the most common logical fallacy, for example - I’d like the folks at NSA to be particularly attuned to it.