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We’re giving $40 billion to Argentina.

This is $5 billion MORE that the entire USAID budget that DOGE cut.

27.10.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5596    πŸ” 2061    πŸ’¬ 201    πŸ“Œ 72
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Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

18.10.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 7310    πŸ” 1574    πŸ’¬ 168    πŸ“Œ 104
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Help ProPublica Report on Education ProPublica needs your help to track how the upheaval of public education is affecting schools and colleges in your community. Take a few minutes to join our source network and help guide our coverage.

Current and former Department of Education employees: We want to hear from you.

Use Signal to contact our reporters @jsmithrichards.bsky.social at jsmithrichards.93, @jodiscohen.bsky.social at jodireporter.88 or @megomatz.bsky.social at 414-207-6225.

12.10.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 343    πŸ” 206    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
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Trump just used the shutdown to wipe out the special ed department. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

12.10.2025 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2131    πŸ” 1202    πŸ’¬ 186    πŸ“Œ 118
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The Senate Just Voted To Break Public Lands Every permit written on public lands since 1996 may have be rendered invalid

The Senate just voted to invalidate every permit written on public land since 1996. wessiler.substack.com/p/the-senate...

08.10.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 245    πŸ” 168    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 20
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Once they wanted to dismantle the Dept of Education.

Now these activists want to use it for their own goals.

One of those? Eliminating public schooling.

@megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/educ...

08.10.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Benediction for Chicago on the Eve of Occupation | dansinker.com

My friend @dansinker.com wrote a wonder piece on the eve of the occupation of Chicago.

dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

06.09.2025 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 111    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4
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02.09.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1314    πŸ” 106    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 8
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β€˜Big, beautiful bill’ scraps conservation projects in northwest Michigan | Bridge Michigan Congress withdrew $20 million that was earmarked for stream restoration and farmland preservation across northwest Michigan after groups already spent $450,000 getting ready for the projects.

www.bridgemi.com/michigan-env...

22.07.2025 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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FCC blocks ban on prison phone price gouging, benefiting top Trump donors The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will no longer enforce a rule capping the price of prison phone calls, according to an announcement made Monday by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

1. The FCC has suspended a rule, schedule to go in effect this year, that would have banned prisons from price gouging on phone calls.

Right now, at some jails, a 15-minute phone call can cost over $11.

The decision benefits some of Trump's top donors.

03.07.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1083    πŸ” 511    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 39
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June 30, 2025 "This is the most deeply immoral piece of legislation I have ever voted on in my entire time in Congress,” said Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT).

June 30, 2025

01.07.2025 05:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1452    πŸ” 455    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 72

Dude, you are hilarious. Keep on keeping on.

24.06.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Top Trump allies hold secret talks with Zelenskyy’s Ukrainian opponents As Washington ramps up its pressure on Zelenskyy to step aside, his rivals are talking to Trump’s team.

β€œFour senior members of Donald Trump’s entourage have held secret discussions with some of Kyiv’s top political opponents to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, just as Washington aligns with Moscow in seeking to lever the Ukrainian president out of his job.” www.politico.eu/article/dona...

06.03.2025 07:30 β€” πŸ‘ 405    πŸ” 222    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 58
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Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere β€œDemocrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…

Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog).

This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.

www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

04.03.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4049    πŸ” 1296    πŸ’¬ 112    πŸ“Œ 249
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The American Weather Forecast Is in Trouble β€” The Atlantic Planet Layoffs at NOAA will only make weather reports less reliable. February 28, 2025 If you have tips about the remaking of American climate science, environmental policy, or disaster response, you ...

This isn’t going to help. apple.news/A2fs7T25eSSq...

01.03.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The American Weather Forecast Is in Trouble β€” The Atlantic Planet Layoffs at NOAA will only make weather reports less reliable. February 28, 2025 If you have tips about the remaking of American climate science, environmental policy, or disaster response, you ...

β€œIt costs the public roughly $4 per year per person to keep the National Weather Service functioning.”

I’ll totally pay $4 a year so I can take care of my gardens and be safe in severe weather.

apple.news/A2fs7T25eSSq...

01.03.2025 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Federal firings could wreak havoc on Great Lakes fishery β€” Ars Technica Populations of sea lampreys likely to run amok with US Fish and Wildlife Service cuts.

apple.news/At6Y0acXVRHG...

01.03.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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RFK Jr. moves to eliminate public comment in HHS decisions HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved to rescind the longtime practice of giving the public a chance to comment on the health agency’s plans.

Breaking: RFK Jr. moves to quietly eliminate public comment from HHS's decision making: www.statnews.com/2025/02/28/r...

28.02.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2489    πŸ” 1432    πŸ’¬ 180    πŸ“Œ 295
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USDA Layoffs Derail Projects Benefiting American Farmers The blanket firing of Department of Agriculture scientists has thrown a host of climate science and crop projects into chaos.

The blanket firing of Department of Agriculture scientists has thrown a host of climate science and crop projects into chaos.

20.02.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 459    πŸ” 159    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 12

Yep, project manager for #NSF Small Business Innovation Research grants was let go. These grants are the gap between founding and #venturecapital so vital to #innovation and US competitiveness

18.02.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
AP statement on Oval Office access | The Associated Press The Associated Press issued this statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace: As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs

"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office."
www.ap.org/the-definiti...

11.02.2025 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2293    πŸ” 974    πŸ’¬ 410    πŸ“Œ 320

How about this? @scholten.house.gov

11.02.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Crucial research halted as DOGE abruptly terminates Education Department contracts β€” Chalkbeat Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative has terminated Education Department contracts worth $881 million. Many were for research efforts schools rely on to help students.

These are the guys that study education best practices...which helps govt/schools know what’s worth spending money on. They also are researching the impact of the pandemic on students.

11.02.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Courts Blocked Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze. Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway. Agencies continue to suspend funding, despite multiple court orders blocking the federal freeze. Experts say the Trump administration’s actions set the stage for challenges to Congress’ authority β€” an...

Courts *ordered* the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze

Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen

-hot meals for elderly and disabled
-groceries for those in need
-maternal & child health services
-a clinic that serves the poor

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

10.02.2025 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 6139    πŸ” 2726    πŸ’¬ 161    πŸ“Œ 162
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NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With β€˜Foreign Nationals’ An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all β€œALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”

Our latest scoop: An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all work with 'foreign nationals.'

06.02.2025 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1962    πŸ” 931    πŸ’¬ 145    πŸ“Œ 172

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05.02.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 735    πŸ” 167    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0

WTF

02.02.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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February 1, 2025 Throughout now-president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, it was clear that his support was coming from three very different factions whose only shared ideology was a determination to destroy the federal...

If you have been unable to keep up with Trump's destruction of democracy and the US government in the last two weeks, here is a summary (with citations) by @hcrichardson.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

02.02.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 318    πŸ” 120    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 5

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