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"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs

Tariffs are about to hit lifesaving medical equipment "It's really the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable...who need technologies to live."

The tariff saga and its impact on disabled people cannot be separated from the administration’s brutal cuts to Medicaid.

“It’s really the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable…who need technologies to live.”

Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners

Tomorrow El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukeke will visit the White House - no doubt to advance plans to imprison incarcerated U.S. citizens in El Salvador.We need to stop this before it happens.

Call both your Senators and your Rep. & tell them NO!
202-224-3121

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Trump officials renew opposition to ruling on Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador The Justice Department’s latest legal filing asserted that courts cannot direct President Trump’s foreign policy by forcing the return of a man unlawfully sent to a Salvadoran prison.

Why won’t they fix their mistake? Maybe they didn’t consider it a mistake. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

@booker.senate.gov: "Are we a nation that is going to tolerate this, or a nation that's going to stand up? As the great Frederick Douglass said, 'the limits of tyrants are prescribed by the people that they seek to oppress.' How much will we endure before we say enough is enough?"

An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail.

Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.

Top FDA Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’ Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.

Breaking News: The top vaccine official at the FDA abruptly resigned, saying that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “misinformation and lies” were irresponsible.

Jessica Aber, former U.S. attorney found dead, had epilepsy and died in her sleep, family says Authorities had said they had no evidence suggesting Aber's death was caused by anything other than natural causes.

The former top federal prosecutor in Virginia’s Eastern District suffered from epilepsy and died in her sleep last weekend, her family says.

Mark Cuban: Don't rely on ChatGPT to do all your work for you—'AI is never the answer; AI is the tool' Billionaire investor Mark Cuban says using AI can help you get ahead of your competition—but only if you use it to amplify skills you already have.

Artificial intelligence is the most essential tool young people need to be successful, says billionaire investor Mark Cuban — but don’t expect it to do your work for you.

Update: I posted this abt Aber's focus on child predators bc it never got attention.

Ken Dilanian now reports on Xitter there's NO reason to suspect anything but natural cause of death.

This is more important than you realize. Bluesky doesn’t downgrade links. Which means news sites will get more traffic from here than other sites.

Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.

‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.

WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works — and how DOGE is doing the opposite.

Trump demands unprecedented control at Columbia, alarming scholars and speech groups The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the school unless it cedes control of an international studi...

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DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts Firings and buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Security Administration amid a major effort to upgrade America’s nuclear arsenal. Critics say it shows the consequences of heedlessly cutting th...

"The director of the program to enrich uranium took a job with NATO...

"Also gone is the director of the program to modernize production of spheres of radioactive plutonium that are fitted into warheads...

"The office that oversees the Los Alamos lab lost 9 staff...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

NEWS: The MeidasTouch Podcast has expanded its lead as the top podcast in the U.S. per the newly released Podscribe industry rankings, with 121.1M downloads and views in the past month—a 141% increase.

Altruism is actually a fantastic survival strategy Primate and neuroscience studies tell us a lot about how evolution rewards kindness and cooperation

BOOK EXCERPT
Altruism is actually a fantastic survival strategy
Primate and neuroscience studies tell us a lot about how evolution rewards kindness and cooperation

By NICOLE KARLIS
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED MARCH 16, 2025 9:00AM (EDT)

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I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle “Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money.

He was not dead.

Science, folks. Science. This is wonderful news.

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

We Can’t Give In to Fear From Marc | No one wants to speak up. Everyone wants to hide or lay low.

If I could speak to billionaires quivering in fear, I would ask: Is the risk of losing some money worth sacrificing your dignity?

If I could speak to Republican politicians, I would ask: Is the risk of losing an election worth being remembered as a coward?

JOB: Democracy Docket is seeking a Reporter with strong news-gathering and writing skills and a passion for voting rights and democracy to join our News Team. ats.rippling.com/democracy-do...

How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would…

“By firing us, you’re going to cut down on how much revenue the country brings in,” said an axed IRS specialist who’d been brought in to audit complex tax returns filed by large corporations and wealthy individuals. “This was not about saving money.”

By @andykroll.bsky.social

Why Editors At Scientific Journals Are Resigning En Masse Publishers want to put out more papers with less editorial staff, all while charging scientists more to publish. Editors have had enough.

There have been at least 20 mass resignations from scientific journals since 2023. What’s going on?

NASA and NSF layoffs raise alarm about future of U.S. science The cuts "will hinder innovation and threaten our nation's global competitiveness," Rep. Bill Foster said.

If you look at how fascism takes hold, this is one of them. Dictators go after scientists and journalists and engineers first, they attack their credibility & do whatever they can to eliminate their reach to the public-remain vigilant. #BlueEarth
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue

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GOP voucher plan would divert billions in taxes to private schools Donations to scholarship programs would be fully reimbursed through a new tax credit, creating the largest federal tax incentive for charitable giving.

Apparently, one way or another, the gqp wants to kill public education. When they talk about merit, the only merit you need is $$$.

#ProtectOurPublicSchools
#USDemocray
#DemVoice1

Gifted article
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Call Congress. Tell them #HandsOffOurSchools

Russia Is Not Winning At the current rate, Russia will control all of Ukraine in about 118 years.

2022 analysts assumed that Putin and Russia would be better equipped to weather a long-term, protracted war against a smaller Ukraine.

That assumption has been invalidated. Protracting the conflict now actually hurts the Russians more than the Ukrainians.
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Federal Protections Board Orders USDA to Reinstate 5k Workers Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: "A board that protects the rights of federal employees ordered the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to reinstate over 5,000 probationary workers fired by the Trump administration." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This reality show premise of finding the dumbest MFer in the country and making him president isn’t going well. Season 1 sucked. Season 2 is much worse.