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America Chose the Monster We all make mistakes.

America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here.
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BREAKING: 34,000 people have showed up in Denver, Colorado this evening to see Bernie Sanders and AOC fight oligarchy and authoritarianism.

Pritzker: The question I ask is: if you’re willing to hand the keys to Europe over to Putin, what’s next? How does the US retain its leadership in the world when he’s essentially retreating to our own borders? He’s even made enemies of the Canadians—I can’t imagine anything more telling than that.

‘The Right to Vote Is Not Absolute’: GOP Bid to Steal North Carolina Supreme Court Election Heard by Court of Appeals Read more here.

On Friday, lawyers for Griffin laid out their case for retroactively disqualifying 65,000 ballots, disenfranchising tens of thousands of registered voters and overturning the election results and Riggs’s victory. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Protect NOAA: Our Safety in a Climate-Changed World Depends on It As part of the Project 2025 assault on basic and essential government functions, President Trump and Elon Musk are dismantling the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). With recent f...

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The Daily Reid: American apartheid MAGA isn't just a political system. It's a modern chapter in the long and ugly history of global apartheid movements.

Exactement

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YouTube video by Jim Acosta Pentagon removes web references to Colin Powell and others as part of DEI purge. Have you no shame?

Pentagon has been ordering the removal of web site references to General Colin Powell and the Tuskegee Airmen and one of the flag-raisers at Iwo Jima as part of a crackdown on DEI. Have you no shame Pete Hegseth?(hat tip to Task and Purpose, WaPo for reporting) youtube.com/shorts/0HJpe...

MEUSER: You've got Trudeau saying how the president is making a dumb move. That's bad diplomacy.

SANCHEZ: I'm not sure how it's good diplomacy to say that a neighboring country should be the 51st state and that you're gonna impose economic hardship to achieve that goal.

The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim— oh.

Thirty-Five Years of Service Protecting Seabirds, Wildlife, and Wild Places - US Fish and Wildlife Service While growing up, Shawn Stephensen spent hours in the wilds of Utah with his father, a biologist with USDA-APHIS Wildlife Services, and later the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service). The time spent riding in his father’s pick-up truck led...

Thirty-Five Years of Service Protecting Seabirds, Wildlife, and Wild Places - US Fish and Wildlife Service
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Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

BASH: You voted to approve Marco Rubio's nomination to be secretary of state. Did you make the right choice?


CHRIS MURPHY: Nope. It was a mistake. It was a mistake. I think a lot of us thought Marco Rubio was going to stand up to Trump on an issue like this.

Tulsi Gabbard, sounding very much like a Kremlin spokesperson on Fox News Sunday, accuses Zelenskyy of an “escalation”

Marcel Dirsus on the rise and fall of tyrants "The tyrant usually tries to destroy as many institutions as possible because they’re constraints on his power."

New in PN: @marceldirsus.bsky.social on the rise and fall of tyrants

"Democracies can survive a lot, but they collapse when soldiers, police officers, and intelligence agents no longer serve the state ... that's sort of the absolute worst-case scenario."

One Word Describes Trump A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.

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EPA head urges Trump to reconsider scientific finding that underpins climate action, AP sources say The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has privately urged the Trump administration to reconsider a scientific finding that's long been the central basis for U.S. action against climate chang...

“EPA head urges Trump to reconsider scientific finding that underpins climate action, AP sources say” by @matthewdalyap.bsky.social and @borenbears.bsky.social for @apnews.com. Read more here:

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Protect NOAA: Our Safety in a Climate-Changed World Depend on It President Trump and Elon Musk want to dismantle the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). That would eliminate free public access to weather forecasts, hurricane tracking, wildfire a...

We’re mobilizing scientists to protect NOAA and we need you too. Get involved:

FDA meeting to choose flu vaccine composition canceled without explanation | CNN A March meeting of outside advisers to the United States Food and Drug Administration to discuss the composition of flu vaccines for this fall’s flu season has been canceled, a member of the advisory ...

Maybe because we have no eggs to make the damn vaccine.

Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.

Home - NOAA Ocean Acidification Program NOAA's Ocean Acidification Program prepares us for the impacts of ocean acidification through research and interdisciplinary partnerships.

One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.

This is a nightmare.

In addition to what Gavin said, the thing about probationary government workers is that some of them have worked for the government for years as contractors, and then they get hired as federal employees. We're losing not just the newest and brightest but also the most experienced people. 🤬

Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution — we need to change the narrative Drastically reduce emissions first, or carbon dioxide removal will be next to useless.

In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically.

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Ukraine, Russia and Trump's Betrayal The recording from my conversation with Alexander Vindman

“We continue to deceive ourselves about Russia and we continue to betray Ukraine,” @avindman.bsky.social says.
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