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Along with decades of sabotaging public education.

07.04.2025 19:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I also kept the helmet that saved me, and it always bothers me to see people riding without them. I give helmets to neighborhood kids whose parents can't afford them.

22.03.2025 19:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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20.03.2025 01:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Stop whining Elon. No one is physically hurting you.

19.03.2025 02:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm sure this didn't cause any more diversions of air traffic. Such a horrible person.

07.03.2025 00:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

'Hey MAGA, get mad at the shiny thing over there and stop paying attention to selling out America's legacy."

03.03.2025 03:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"We're about to do damaging stuff that rational people would want to stop."

23.02.2025 20:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is devastating.

21.02.2025 12:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It sounds like this guy would still believe in Trump if he still had his job. Only learning the hard way is how we got to this place.

Not sorry.

21.02.2025 04:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Attributed to Napoleon and an ideology cited by such infamous persons as Hitler, Mousolini, and terrorist Anders Breivik.

Not that his sycophants will ever hear. Instead, I wonder how many of his followers will assume the phrasing means it's a Bible verse without ever cracking open the Bible?

16.02.2025 17:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We all know money talks. Want to quit the tech bros?

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16.02.2025 17:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing about gutting biomedical research is great for anyone.

15.02.2025 01:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Haven't been to the Kennedy Center in a while. Definitely not going back any time soon.

13.02.2025 03:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is why expertise matters. It gives you the ability to critically evaluate publications in a meaningful way. Not being stupidly biased helps, too.

13.02.2025 03:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

See that gap between the United States of America and those other countries?

That gap… that gulf…

That’s profit.

Profit at the expense of health.

03.02.2025 16:28 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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Links to archived versions of every CDC.gov page available pre-purge (Part 14 of 15) Note: All 15 pages can be found here. As horrific as it is that the Trump/Musk Administration is purging data from federal websites, it's good to know that the Internet Archive has been archiving much...

UPDATE: 14th batch now up.

Everything from a Spanish page on people with disabilities to information about lab testing for patients with viral hemorrhagic fevers.

acasignups.net/25/02/03/lin...

03.02.2025 21:36 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3

Unfortunately, I agree. I hope the rest of the world sees that many Americans oppose these reckless and dangerous policies.

01.02.2025 18:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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White House revokes spending freeze in face of legal challenges Move come after federal judge blocked freeze that disrupted payments to medical and childcare providers

A perfect demonstration of the importance of being qualified for a job. (Also a pathetic demonstration of how unqualified they are.)

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

29.01.2025 18:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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January 6 rioter pardoned by Trump is killed by police in traffic stop Indiana state police say Matthew Huttle, who was given six months in prison, was shot after allegedly resisting arrest

The officers involved in this were probably in unnecessary danger just because of the pardons. Not to mention the toll of taking a life in the line of duty.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

28.01.2025 16:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Banking regulator rescinds more than 200 job offers for examiners it needs A government-wide hiring freeze is adding to a staffing shortage at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., complicating the agency’s efforts to oversee thousands of banks across the country.

do you enjoy knowing that when you deposit money in a US bank, you won't lose that money? nice, right?

it's because bank deposits are insured by FDIC.

i don't know what FDIC ever did to these people, but apparently it too is now on their blow-it-up list:

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

27.01.2025 22:54 πŸ‘ 26766 πŸ” 9945 πŸ’¬ 1932 πŸ“Œ 716

Our system allows uninformed peer reviewers to publish lab leak agitprop for H5N1 and furthering anti-science animus. The person who wrote the manuscript is a known bad faith entity. This is obvious.

We desperately need to reform peer review in so many ways.

28.01.2025 02:24 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump's Early Actions Mirror Project 2025 A TIME analysis found that nearly two-thirds of the executive actions Trump has issued mirror or partially mirror proposals from Project 2025.

You aren't wrong.

time.com/7209901/dona...

28.01.2025 03:29 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly. They aren't here to serve the people.

28.01.2025 03:25 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One horrible decision after another.

28.01.2025 03:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Byline Podcast: Trump and the Tech Bros This time, the chance for a long listen, with Byline Times editor Hardeep Matharu and Byline times co-founder Peter Jukes, reflecting on the inauguration of Donald Trump and the farewell address of...


"This has never been seen before...the fusion of the state and tech power and business elites."

The rise of the tech oligarchs in new #Trump government with @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social

From @bylinetimes.bsky.social

pod.fo/e/2a34f9

26.01.2025 11:18 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜This Is a Dangerous Virus’ A bird-flu pandemic is far from inevitable. But health experts are closely monitoring an outbreak that could quickly escalate among people.

β€œThat a second bout of infections would produce milder symptoms in cattle is unsurprising, experts said, &could be welcome news to farmers. But reinfections suggest that the virus, called H5N1, could circulate on farms indefinitely, creating opportunities for it to evolve into a more dangerous form”

27.01.2025 12:27 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub πŸ‘©πŸ½β€πŸ’»

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