A headline reads: U.S. Attorney General Suggests Signal Chat Episode Is Unlikely To Be Criminally Investigated. A sentence reads: Pam Bondi said the focus should be on the success of the U.S. military strike in Yemen, not that military information was shared in advance in a group text among top officials.

Dating back to at least the Reagan administration, the government has considered the details of military operations to be classified. On Thursday, Attorney General Pam Bondi suggested that a criminal inquiry into the sharing of military plans in an unsecured chat was unlikely. nyti.ms/4lnyhr9

What an excellent visualization of a excellent point that many have become numb to

If Columbia complies, then and only then will the Trump admin “open a conversation about immediate and long-term structural reforms” at the university. To be clear: Even if Columbia submits to this extortion, it doesn’t get federal funding back. It just sets itself up for more extortion later.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skyline

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some fired federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their job loss.

This one hits home.

“She has somehow been convinced that public servants are a parasite and unproductive even though she was a public servant,”

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Tesla Cybertrucks exit Orpheus parade route after revelers pummel the EVs with beads and barbs The Krewe of Orpheus bills itself as the most diverse in Mardi Gras, a “consciously nonexclusive” superkrewe that rolled on Lundi Gras with famed drag artist Bianca Del Rio as

I suspect it was less about chaos and more about Musk.

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The Army deleted my “Why I served” video where I talked about how I decided I wanted to attend West Point/join the Army after one of the cadets my family used to sponsor died in combat. Probably deleted because she was the first black woman to be CSM at West Point.

Courage is contagious My short guide for finding the courage to speak out. Here’s how you can catch it and pass it on.

Courage is contagious: My short guide for finding the courage to speak out. Here’s how you can catch it and pass it on. open.substack.com/pub/robertma...

Senior Leaders Are Leaving FEMA Along with about 1,000 rank-and-file workers, FEMA is losing some of the managers most experienced in handling emergency efforts.

More than a dozen senior leaders at FEMA have been fired or have quit under President Trump, weeks ahead of hurricane season.

Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities.

#50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #March4thForDemocracy #ImpeachTrump #NoKings #PoliticalRevolution #BuildTheResistance #EconomicBlackout @polrev.bsky.social

Opinion | The Department of Education’s D.E.I. Letter Just Threatened the Existence of Many Colleges The government offers an implausible interpretation of the law.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

A recent Department of Education letter regarding DEI policy is "a brazen attempt to bully schools into making policy changes that the law does not require," the law professor Sonja B. Starr writes.

Headline: Musk's business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Elon Musk's wealth. Graph shows aid to SpaceX and Tesla from 2003 to 2023.

Of course. Subsidies for me, not for thee.

I miss DEI

GovWayback Access historical versions of U.S. government websites from before January 20, 2025 via the Wayback Machine

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US government websites archived prior to Jan 20, 2025

🚨 We are mobilizing for a NEW national day of protest— March 4th Against Monarchy!

Find organizing resources and more at linktr.ee/fiftyfiftyon....

@polrev.bsky.social @altnps.bsky.social #NoKings #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne

FANTASTIC

ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)

You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have

www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

This thread.

“don’t just put your trust in the university lobbyists and ‘DC people.’”

And yet that is exactly why my uni leadership is telling us to do. They are “working on it.” Sigh.

This is extraordinarily dangerous. Tomorrow, the legacy media will ask Republican officials about this. Those officials will lie and obfuscate. And the legacy media will move on.

That is part of the crisis we face.

When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies.

Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.

Funny how that works, huh?

DOGE Is Failing on Its Own Terms The Trump administration’s cuts to university research grants will make America sicker and poorer in the long run.

The Trump administration’s cuts to university research grants will make America sicker and poorer in the long run, David Deming writes. DOGE should stop "confusing efficiency with ill-conceived budget cuts."

imagine being so bad at understanding your chosen religion that the head of that religion of 1.4 billion people personally subtweets you

Robber baron Elon Musk squandered approx $40 million on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful!

🏈USAID would’ve spent $40M on purchasing life-saving HIV treatment from USA pharmaceutical companies to keep 1,060,000 million people alive for 1 year!

Tell Congress #saveforeignaid & #standwithUSAID!

RESIST!

‘Accidental’ F.B.I. Chief Builds a Following as Agency’s Defender Brian Driscoll was accidentally catapulted into the acting director’s chair on Jan. 20 and has defended the bureau from the potential of mass firings, inspiring memes and satirical clips.

Brian Driscoll was accidentally catapulted into the FBI acting director’s chair on Jan. 20 and has defended the bureau from the potential of mass firings, inspiring memes and clips celebrating him.

The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.

On the German press baron who "calculated that by hollowing out the political center, political consensus would become impossible and the democratic system would collapse"
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NSA museum covered plaques honoring women and people of color, provoking an uproar Following a White House anti-DEI order, the National Cryptologic Museum covered up exhibits of women and people of color in its Hall of Honor. The NSA reversed course after former employees mobilized.

Following a White House anti-DEI order, the National Cryptologic Museum covered up exhibits of women and people of color in its Hall of Honor. The NSA reversed course after former employees mobilized.

What a time to gut the CDC and install a raw milk bro as the top health official