Nic

They're already using DoD to go around obstacles. Let's not make it easier.

"Why did he legal carry?" Is the new "Why was she dressed like that?"

I don't know what to say. Minnesotans are reporting abandoned cars all over the place. At gas stations with the nozzle still attached. On the sides of the roads. In parking lots. Doors opened, abandoned, the driver taken. Comment We're not lying. I don't think yall understand they are just detaining and abducting anyone they feel like. They get bonuses just for detaining people. So they just take people. They ram cars and then take the drivers and passengers off those cars and leave the cars on the roads, wrecked and empty of their drivers.

This is your regular reminder that authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large.

#WomenInSTEM 🧪👇

220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency New data offers the first clear view of the impact of the buyouts and firings.

220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Vance spokesperson: “Gavin Newsom wants people to think this exercise is dangerous.”

<shrapnel hits Vance’s motorcade>

Vance spokesperson: No comment.

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Thirty-six Children Are Dead. Whose Fault Is It? The blame game in Texas

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The Spotlight Is on Medicaid Cuts, But the ACA Marketplaces Could See a One-Third Cut in Enrollment In his latest column, President and CEO Drew Altman shows how proposals contained in the House reconciliation bill could result in a one-third reduction in ACA Marketplace enrollment. “While all eyes ...

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Unless your deductible is very high, you should challenge that. It's showing insurance covering 0. Frequently they say no at first because 1. It was Coded wrong, 2. They require a 'justification ' 3. They expect you to give up

In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.

Look at that, we carved it in stone.

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:

—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.

Read it.
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🚨NEW: The NC Supreme Court's GOP majority will retroactively nullify 2,000 to 7,000 ballots from military and overseas voters unless they quickly prove their identity—but only those who voted in a few Democratic counties.

Could overturn Justice Riggs' victory.
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This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.

#TrumpTariffs #TrumpMarketCrash

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Really feeling Rilke today

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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Just saw my book, “White Too Long” was purged from the US Naval Academy library.
Listed along w/ 380 other books from @antheabutler.bsky.social , @michaelericdyson.bsky.social , @revjimwallis.bsky.social , Bryan Massingale, and others.

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US Weather Agency Websites to Vanish Under Planned Contract Cuts The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could s...

Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects.

Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

Musk Announces All 340 Million Americans Must Strip And Take Turn Pushing The Wheel Of Pain WASHINGTON—In a controversial move that has outraged those critical of President Trump’s agenda, Elon Musk announced Friday that all 340 million Americans must strip and take a turn pushing the Wheel ...

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We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

Freshman, the Verve

I can't add anything to this.

He ran on stage with a chainsaw while he was casually taking the livelihoods of thousands of Federal workers.