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When Elon Musk “donated” Starlink service to the White House, it immediately struck our reporters as the potential Trump-era iteration of a tried-and-true business maneuver they’d spent months reporting on last year.
By @reneedudley.bsky.social
By @reneedudley.bsky.social
Microsoft Hooked the Government on Its Products With Freebies. Could Elon Musk’s Starlink Be Doing the Same?
The tech billionaire and Trump adviser “donated” Starlink service to the White House. The move resembles a previous maneuver by Microsoft, which used “free” trials to lock in costly upgrades across…
www.propublica.org
April 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
When Elon Musk “donated” Starlink service to the White House, it immediately struck our reporters as the potential Trump-era iteration of a tried-and-true business maneuver they’d spent months reporting on last year.
By @reneedudley.bsky.social
By @reneedudley.bsky.social
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Trump has cut the part of the FDA that notifies doctors and the public when there is a safety problem with a drug or a medical device.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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April 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Trump has cut the part of the FDA that notifies doctors and the public when there is a safety problem with a drug or a medical device.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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April 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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A GOP electoral warning points to Elon Musk in the hot seat, and President Trump employed a third-term distraction. Also, a trade war rages, and there were mass firings at key scientific agencies.
A hot seat for Musk, the trade war and third-term talk: Takeaways from the week
A GOP electoral warning points to Elon Musk in the hot seat, and President Trump employed a third-term distraction. Also, a trade war rages, and there were mass firings at key scientific agencies.
www.npr.org
April 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
A GOP electoral warning points to Elon Musk in the hot seat, and President Trump employed a third-term distraction. Also, a trade war rages, and there were mass firings at key scientific agencies.
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This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
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March 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
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Apparently Pete Hegseth's team has told the Naval Academy Library that a biography of Martin Luther King Jr. is DEI and must be removed from the shelves? And definitely don't want them reading Albert Einstein...
There is no bottom to these people
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
There is no bottom to these people
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
March 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Apparently Pete Hegseth's team has told the Naval Academy Library that a biography of Martin Luther King Jr. is DEI and must be removed from the shelves? And definitely don't want them reading Albert Einstein...
There is no bottom to these people
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
There is no bottom to these people
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
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If only Republicans cared as much about protecting kids in school as they do about protecting Teslas.
March 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If only Republicans cared as much about protecting kids in school as they do about protecting Teslas.
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Trump revokes security clearances for Biden, Harris and other political enemies
Trump revokes security clearances for Biden, Harris and other political enemies
In a memo on Friday, president also revoked clearances for Antony Blinken, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and Letitia James
Donald Trump moved to revoke security clearances for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and a string of other top Democrats and political enemies in a presidential memo issued late on Friday.
The security clearance revocations include former secretary of state Antony Blinken, former Wyoming representative Liz Cheney, former Illinois representative Adam Kinzinger and the New York attorney general, Letitia James, who prosecuted Trump for fraud, as well as Biden’s entire family. They will no longer have access to classified information – a courtesy typically offered to former presidents and some officials after they have left public service. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Trump revokes security clearances for Biden, Harris and other political enemies
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Withholding federal tax dollars because the Governor of Maine gave him a sad. Unfuckingbelievable.
Trump says he will withhold federal tax dollars to Maine colleges unless the Gov of Maine personally apologizes to him.
March 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Withholding federal tax dollars because the Governor of Maine gave him a sad. Unfuckingbelievable.
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While Musk was making a fool of himself politically, the Chinese were making a fool of him technologically--five minute charging for EVs!
billmckibben.substack.com/p/tesla-big-...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/tesla-big-...
Tesla, Big Oil have a weakness in common
They're way behind the technological curve
billmckibben.substack.com
March 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
While Musk was making a fool of himself politically, the Chinese were making a fool of him technologically--five minute charging for EVs!
billmckibben.substack.com/p/tesla-big-...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/tesla-big-...
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March 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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US blocks Canadian access to cross-border library, sparking outcry
US blocks Canadian access to cross-border library, sparking outcry
US officials claim move was to curb drug trafficking while Quebec town says it ‘weakens collaboration’ among nations
The US has blocked Canadian access to a library straddling the Canada-US border, drawing criticism from a Quebec town where people have long enjoyed easy entry to the space.
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House is located between Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont. It was built deliberately to straddle the frontier between the two countries – a symbol of cooperation and friendship between Canada and the US. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
US blocks Canadian access to cross-border library, sparking outcry
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The amazing twist here is that 21st century fascism is using concerns about anti-semitism as its excuse to shut down protest, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and academic freedom. Trump is himself an antisemite, as repeated statements have shown. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202....
March 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The amazing twist here is that 21st century fascism is using concerns about anti-semitism as its excuse to shut down protest, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and academic freedom. Trump is himself an antisemite, as repeated statements have shown. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202....
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Here's a major source of microplastics in soils.
Other sources, astonishingly, include the *deliberate application* of microplastics, to make soils more friable, and the plastic pellets in which many fertilisers are encased.
It is simply crazy and must stop now.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Other sources, astonishingly, include the *deliberate application* of microplastics, to make soils more friable, and the plastic pellets in which many fertilisers are encased.
It is simply crazy and must stop now.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
March 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Here's a major source of microplastics in soils.
Other sources, astonishingly, include the *deliberate application* of microplastics, to make soils more friable, and the plastic pellets in which many fertilisers are encased.
It is simply crazy and must stop now.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Other sources, astonishingly, include the *deliberate application* of microplastics, to make soils more friable, and the plastic pellets in which many fertilisers are encased.
It is simply crazy and must stop now.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Threaten campuses, shut down debate: that’s what free speech looks like under Trump | Owen Jones
Threaten campuses, shut down debate: that’s what free speech looks like under Trump | Owen Jones
The president has slashed $400m in funding from Columbia University. He wants to stifle criticism of Israel – but the real target is dissent, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Threaten campuses, shut down debate: that’s what free speech looks like under Trump | Owen Jones
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Donald Trump, hard at work honoring America's veterans by cracking down on waste, like for example the **sterilization of medical instruments** at the VA:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
March 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Donald Trump, hard at work honoring America's veterans by cracking down on waste, like for example the **sterilization of medical instruments** at the VA:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
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Much bigger protests this weekend than last, which were bigger than the week before. This and the town halls and all the other protests and acts of defiance singular or collective should not be dismissed or ignored. By either party or the media.
1/ The nascent Tesla boycott movement got me thinking back to the 80s anti-apartheid movement. How it took off and literally changed the world.
If the South African apartheid regime could be brought down, perhaps one South African oligarch could be? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
If the South African apartheid regime could be brought down, perhaps one South African oligarch could be? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Elon Musk, apartheid, and America's new boycott movement
If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.
www.motherjones.com
March 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Much bigger protests this weekend than last, which were bigger than the week before. This and the town halls and all the other protests and acts of defiance singular or collective should not be dismissed or ignored. By either party or the media.
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Trump said Zelenskyy ‘does not have the cards’. But how well is he playing his own hand? | Olga Chyzh
Trump said Zelenskyy ‘does not have the cards’. But how well is he playing his own hand? | Olga Chyzh
The US president has no interest in countering aggressors. His short-termist game plan will cost America dear, says political researcher Olga Chyzh
www.theguardian.com
March 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Trump said Zelenskyy ‘does not have the cards’. But how well is he playing his own hand? | Olga Chyzh
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NEW: Speaker Mike Johnson is living in a D.C. townhouse that is the center of an evangelical pastor’s secretive influence campaign — and the home is owned by a major GOP donor.
www.propublica.org/article/mike...
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www.propublica.org/article/mike...
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Speaker Mike Johnson Is Living in a D.C. House That Is the Center of a Pastor’s Secretive Influence Campaign
The Capitol Hill townhouse is owned by a major Republican donor. It’s the headquarters of a little-known political influence project that has reached a number of powerful Republican politicians.
www.propublica.org
February 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
NEW: Speaker Mike Johnson is living in a D.C. townhouse that is the center of an evangelical pastor’s secretive influence campaign — and the home is owned by a major GOP donor.
www.propublica.org/article/mike...
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www.propublica.org/article/mike...
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Elon Musk’s penis rocket and exploding car companies have been given $38 billion in government funding, but he’s cutting funding for children’s cancer research, gutting the VA’s suicide prevention hotline and letting palettes of desperately needed food expire because it’s “wasteful spending.”
February 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Elon Musk’s penis rocket and exploding car companies have been given $38 billion in government funding, but he’s cutting funding for children’s cancer research, gutting the VA’s suicide prevention hotline and letting palettes of desperately needed food expire because it’s “wasteful spending.”
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New: A federal judge in Seattle blocked Trump's executive order suspending refugee admissions into the U.S.
Judge blocks Trump’s executive order suspending refugee admissions to the US
The Seattle-based judge's injunction blocks key components of one of Trump’s Day One executive orders.
www.politico.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
New: A federal judge in Seattle blocked Trump's executive order suspending refugee admissions into the U.S.
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UN general assembly backs resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine war
UN general assembly backs resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine war
US, Russia, Belarus and North Korea vote against resolution as 93 countries vote in favor, spurning rival US resolution
The United Nations general assembly has backed a resolution drafted by Ukraine and the European Union condemning Russia on the third…
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
UN general assembly backs resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine war
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SCOOP: In an email circulated today by the federal Department of the Interior, the Trump administration has issued a stop-work order for organizations providing legal services, funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, to unaccompanied minors entering the United States.
Trump administration cuts off legal aid for youth facing deportation
The order will end legal support for at least 100,000 unaccompanied minors.
www.motherjones.com
February 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
SCOOP: In an email circulated today by the federal Department of the Interior, the Trump administration has issued a stop-work order for organizations providing legal services, funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, to unaccompanied minors entering the United States.
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In an email circulated today by the federal Department of the Interior, the Trump administration has issued a stop-work order for organizations providing legal services to unaccompanied minors entering the United States.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
In an email circulated today by the federal Department of the Interior, the Trump administration has issued a stop-work order for organizations providing legal services to unaccompanied minors entering the United States.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump administration cuts off legal aid for youth facing deportation
The order will end legal support for at least 100,000 unaccompanied minors.
www.motherjones.com
February 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
For @motherjones.com
In an email circulated today by the federal Department of the Interior, the Trump administration has issued a stop-work order for organizations providing legal services to unaccompanied minors entering the United States.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
In an email circulated today by the federal Department of the Interior, the Trump administration has issued a stop-work order for organizations providing legal services to unaccompanied minors entering the United States.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Several DOE staffers told @propublica.org that they've been told not to communicate with students, families & schools involved in civil rights cases launched in previous administrations.
“We’ve been essentially muzzled,” one attorney said.
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“We’ve been essentially muzzled,” one attorney said.
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“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and ...
www.propublica.org
February 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Several DOE staffers told @propublica.org that they've been told not to communicate with students, families & schools involved in civil rights cases launched in previous administrations.
“We’ve been essentially muzzled,” one attorney said.
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“We’ve been essentially muzzled,” one attorney said.
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