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Kyle Cheney

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JUST IN: Judge Immergut renews her block on President Trump’s National Guard deployment to Portland, saying her three-day trial showed there was no credible evidence justify Trump/Hegseth’s incursion on Oregon’s sovereignty. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

November 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM

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Michele ✌️💙

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November 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM

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November 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM

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Jon Cooper

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This is an excellent idea!!!

November 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM

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DanaKay 🇺🇦

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Our f'ing government better not bail them out. They'll turn around & vote for Republicans & more of the same.

They voted for this shit. They can suffer like the rest of us.

F them!!

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Sep 7

After stupid vote against their interests, anti-socialism MAGA farmers ask for socialism.

September 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM

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Christopher Webb

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Not a huge deal, but I’m curious where folks stand on tipping these days.

I’m all for tipping well when there’s actual service—key word: “server”.
But for takeout or counter pickup, I keep it small. Lately, though, it’s starting to feel out of control.

July 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM

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Raw Story

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A right-wing legal advocacy group known for filing lawsuits against the regulatory state is once again targeting President Donald Trump's powers to unilaterally enact tariffs on imported goods.

'Strike them down!' Right-wing group takes Trump to court — again

A right-wing legal advocacy group known for filing lawsuits against the regulatory state is once again targeting President Donald Trump's powers to unilaterally enact tariffs on imported goods.In a new statement released on Monday, the New Civil Liberties Alliance unveiled its new legal complaint ag...

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July 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM

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Brian Tyler Cohen

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This is what fear looks like.

July 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM

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Truth Social(ist)

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Fixed it

July 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only)

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At this point, these NASA employees fully understand that signing a letter like this means the Trump administration will likely fire them and even perhaps go after them personally

Yet rather than remain silent, they chose to speak up

They are heroes, one and all

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jul 21

NEW: Hundreds of NASA employees have filed a letter of formal dissent.

"We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement, and efficient use of public resources. The consequences for the agency and the country alike are dire."

The Voyager Declaration
Dear Interim Administrator Duffy,

In light of your recent appointment as Interim NASA Administrator, we bring to your attention recent policies that have or threaten to waste public resources, compromise human safety, weaken national security, and undermine the core NASA mission. We, the signatories of this letter, dissent from these policies, and raise these concerns because we believe strongly in the importance of NASA's mission, which we are dedicated to uphold.

Major programmatic shifts at NASA must be implemented strategically so that risks are managed carefully. Instead, the last six months have seen rapid and wasteful changes which have undermined our mission and caused catastrophic impacts on NASA's workforce. We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement, and efficient use of public resources. These cuts are arbitrary and have been enacted in defiance of congressional appropriations law The consequences for the agency and the country alike are dire.
Our Shared Commitment to Dissentin� Opinions

We share a commitment to dissenting views in accordance with NASA Policy Directive 1000.0C,

NASA supports full and open discussion of issues of any nature (e.g., programmatic, institutional), including alternative and divergent views. Diverse views are to be fostered and respected in an environment of integrity and trust with no suppression or retribution. (NPD 1000.0C, Section 3.5.5)
Employees across the agency have raised concerns about recent actions to NASA leadership, yet we remain pressured to implement harmful measures. We choose to write to you directly because: (I) as Interim Administrator, you are the final step in the chain of Technical Authority, and (2) the issues we raise are agency-wide, rather than project-specific.
As defined in NASA Procedural Requirement 7120 5F, Formal Dissent is "a substantive disagreement with a decision or action that an indiv…

• We dissent to changes to NASA's Technical Authority capacities that are driven by anything other than safety and mission assurance. The culture of organizational silence promoted at NASA over the last six months already represents a dangerous tum away from the lessons learned following the Columbia disaster. Changes to the system of Technical Authority, as suggested would be made in the June 25th NASA Town Hall, should be made only in the interests of improving safety, not in anticipation of future budget cuts.
• We dissent to the closing out of missions for which Congress has appropriated funding because it represents a permanent loss of capability to the United States both in space and on Eatlh. Once operational spacecraft are decommissioned, they cannot be turned back on. Additionally, cancelling missions in development threatens to end the next generation of crucial
observations.
• We dissent to implementing indiscriminate cuts to NASA science and aeronautics research because this will leave the American people without the unique public good that NASA provides. Basic research in space science, aeronautics, and the stewardship of the Earth are inherently governmental functions that cannot and will not be taken up by the private sector. Furthermore, NASA has a nearly threefold return on investment in economic activity, and supports national security by ensuring the United States maintains its lead in science and technology.
• We dissent to NASA's non-strategic staffing reductions because they will jeopardize NASA's core mission. Thousands of NASA civil servant employees have already been terminated, resigned or retired early, taking with them highly specialized, irreplaceable knowledge crucial to carrying out NASA's mission.
• We dissent to canceling NASA participation in international missions because in doing so, NASA is abandoning America's allies. To date, 55 nations have signed on to the Artemis Accords, and withdrawing support from missions with our long-s…

We stand in solidarity with our colleagues at the NIH and EPA who have released similar statements concerning the administration's actions at their respective agencies.

We dedicate this letter to Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee, Dick Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, Rick Husband, Willie McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon. Their legacies underpin every conversation about our shared commitment to safety and dissenting opinions at NASA.

July 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM

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July 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM

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My brother is a psychiatrist and he says the insane don’t know they’re insane.

July 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸

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“Trump neither listens to anyone but himself nor gives a fuck about anyone but himself.” - Malcolm-Jamal Warner

July 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM

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Sam Bellamy

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Trump's authoritarian support group: He's ready to impose a 50% tariff and other sanctions to help his despicable buddy Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. fightthefire.substack.com/p/trumps-aut...

Trump's authoritarian support group

He's ready to impose a 50% tariff and other sanctions to help his despicable buddy in Brazil

fightthefire.substack.com

July 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM

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Catherine Rampell

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Head of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue branch resigns.
He told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle the agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network
www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...