Jazzthecat
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PSA: They’re killing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because it protects you from them.
February 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
PSA: They’re killing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because it protects you from them.
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So the only asylum seekers the US will now admit are White people from former apartheid South Africa.
February 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
So the only asylum seekers the US will now admit are White people from former apartheid South Africa.
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Veterans Benefits Administration getting into a little good trouble by honoring black history month in an agency-wide email.
February 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Veterans Benefits Administration getting into a little good trouble by honoring black history month in an agency-wide email.
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We need to call out the blatant lie being pushed by the Trump administration—that Elon’s staffers have only “read-only” access. It has been confirmed across departments that they have “administrative” access to computer systems.
February 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
We need to call out the blatant lie being pushed by the Trump administration—that Elon’s staffers have only “read-only” access. It has been confirmed across departments that they have “administrative” access to computer systems.
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Civil disobedience will not be enough.
February 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Civil disobedience will not be enough.
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This is a de facto massive budget cut to research universities. We are talking Great Recession size impacts.
⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants.
—> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you.
Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?
—> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you.
Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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February 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This is a de facto massive budget cut to research universities. We are talking Great Recession size impacts.
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👋🏽 here’s what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today!
February 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
👋🏽 here’s what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today!
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He seems to think he’s King
February 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
He seems to think he’s King
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I remember when right-wing media said that I wasn’t qualified to be a member of Congress because of my credit card debt. My debt was nowhere near $1.2 million.
Do they think the same of RFK Jr? Or does that standard only apply to young people? We know the answer.
Do they think the same of RFK Jr? Or does that standard only apply to young people? We know the answer.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is in the running to serve as health and human services secretary, revealed he was carrying up to $1.2 million in credit card debt in recent financial disclosures, per CNBC.
February 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I remember when right-wing media said that I wasn’t qualified to be a member of Congress because of my credit card debt. My debt was nowhere near $1.2 million.
Do they think the same of RFK Jr? Or does that standard only apply to young people? We know the answer.
Do they think the same of RFK Jr? Or does that standard only apply to young people? We know the answer.
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A non-government business that contracts with the federal government received notice today that in order to do business with the government they must certify that they don’t participate in DEI. So it’s not just the feds, it’s any private biz that contracts with the feds. Here’s the message they got:
February 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
A non-government business that contracts with the federal government received notice today that in order to do business with the government they must certify that they don’t participate in DEI. So it’s not just the feds, it’s any private biz that contracts with the feds. Here’s the message they got:
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The next Kennedy Center Honorees. Then, the Center and its awards will be renamed for a more recent president, the current one, and the woke rainbow ribbon design of the award will be replaced with bedazzled gold lamé.
February 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The next Kennedy Center Honorees. Then, the Center and its awards will be renamed for a more recent president, the current one, and the woke rainbow ribbon design of the award will be replaced with bedazzled gold lamé.
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Not a coincidence that the thing on the right happened right after the thing on the left came out.
February 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Not a coincidence that the thing on the right happened right after the thing on the left came out.
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6/ “A Tesla Cybertruck burned down at Tesla lot in Atlanta, battery fire suspected” 1/2/25 electrek.co/2025/01/02/a...
A Tesla Cybertruck burned down at Tesla lot in Atlanta, battery fire suspected
A Tesla Cybertruck caught on fire in the lot of a Tesla store in North Decatur, Georgia, near Atlanta. The...
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February 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
6/ “A Tesla Cybertruck burned down at Tesla lot in Atlanta, battery fire suspected” 1/2/25 electrek.co/2025/01/02/a...
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America is increasingly run by rich people who have a strong opinion about what the law *should be* and just act accordingly *by breaking the law.*
You can't impound appropriations or stop payments on contracts because you dislike the spending.
You can't impound appropriations or stop payments on contracts because you dislike the spending.
I cannot tell you fucking dumb these statements are.
The US govt spends a ton on contractors (including NGOs) to do stuff. Anything deemed not inherently governmental *by law* is legally required to be outsourced (see Circular A-76). This is how we have structured out govt forever!
The US govt spends a ton on contractors (including NGOs) to do stuff. Anything deemed not inherently governmental *by law* is legally required to be outsourced (see Circular A-76). This is how we have structured out govt forever!
February 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
America is increasingly run by rich people who have a strong opinion about what the law *should be* and just act accordingly *by breaking the law.*
You can't impound appropriations or stop payments on contracts because you dislike the spending.
You can't impound appropriations or stop payments on contracts because you dislike the spending.
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I cannot tell you fucking dumb these statements are.
The US govt spends a ton on contractors (including NGOs) to do stuff. Anything deemed not inherently governmental *by law* is legally required to be outsourced (see Circular A-76). This is how we have structured out govt forever!
The US govt spends a ton on contractors (including NGOs) to do stuff. Anything deemed not inherently governmental *by law* is legally required to be outsourced (see Circular A-76). This is how we have structured out govt forever!
February 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I cannot tell you fucking dumb these statements are.
The US govt spends a ton on contractors (including NGOs) to do stuff. Anything deemed not inherently governmental *by law* is legally required to be outsourced (see Circular A-76). This is how we have structured out govt forever!
The US govt spends a ton on contractors (including NGOs) to do stuff. Anything deemed not inherently governmental *by law* is legally required to be outsourced (see Circular A-76). This is how we have structured out govt forever!
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Our government is wasting no time telling us who matters…
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Intelligence Leaks
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
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February 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Our government is wasting no time telling us who matters…
youtube.com/shorts/J2svy...
youtube.com/shorts/J2svy...
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it is extremely important that we figure out how to get normies to understand that their car sauce got exponsive and toilet paper became a luxury good because trump unilaterally decided canada should be the 51st state, a thing no one asked for and that he cannot make happen even through trade war
February 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
it is extremely important that we figure out how to get normies to understand that their car sauce got exponsive and toilet paper became a luxury good because trump unilaterally decided canada should be the 51st state, a thing no one asked for and that he cannot make happen even through trade war
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This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
February 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Democrats aren’t powerless against Trump’s blitzkrieg power-grab.
Senate rules are designed to protect the rights of the minority and Democrats have tools at their disposal to grind Senate business to a halt if Republicans try to ram through Trump’s extremist agenda: indivisible.org/resource/how...
Senate rules are designed to protect the rights of the minority and Democrats have tools at their disposal to grind Senate business to a halt if Republicans try to ram through Trump’s extremist agenda: indivisible.org/resource/how...
February 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Democrats aren’t powerless against Trump’s blitzkrieg power-grab.
Senate rules are designed to protect the rights of the minority and Democrats have tools at their disposal to grind Senate business to a halt if Republicans try to ram through Trump’s extremist agenda: indivisible.org/resource/how...
Senate rules are designed to protect the rights of the minority and Democrats have tools at their disposal to grind Senate business to a halt if Republicans try to ram through Trump’s extremist agenda: indivisible.org/resource/how...
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This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility
We Have Rights: When Documenting ICE Arrests
This is "We Have Rights: When Documenting ICE Arrests" by MediaTank on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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February 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility
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I don't think people are really understanding that Elon Musk now controls the United States government.
February 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I don't think people are really understanding that Elon Musk now controls the United States government.