The Department of Education will begin sweeping layoffs tonight with about half of its 4,400 employees expected to be let go, sources tell CNN.

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Really good piece. Other Democrats in power need to look at what AOC is doing right now and follow her example. One of the worst and most frightening aspects of this moment is seeing how many Dems in leadership roles seem resigned to defeat.

That's odd. I am glad to be reading this.

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts Secret order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users.

Wow. There have been fears of the UK government using a technical capability notice to demand encryption backdoors for years.

Now it’s happened. UK is demanding Apple provide access to encrypted cloud backups

Great @joemenn.bsky.social scoop

When he declared dictatorship in 1925 [Mussolini] pardoned all the quote political criminals and thugs who had helped him to power .. [he removed] non loyalist officials from civil service .. Purges, privatisations and pardons all .. create a client base for the autocrat"

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Experience: I heard back about a job application 48 years later I remembered anxiously waiting for a reply, the disappointment when it never came – and all the adventures I went on after that letdown I’ve always been a daredevil, but fear completely lost its grip on me when I was 15. A ­horseback riding accident…

Experience: I heard back about a job application 48 years later

Best news so far.

This place needs more King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Where are all the Gila girls?

It's nice to be here.