Shelley Powers

In related news, the Trump administration has stopped co-operating with GAO and Trumpies are trying to cut its budget in half. This won't work, but Trump will get to have the final say on who the new head of GAO will be, further reducing the ability of one institution to hold him accountable.

Treating the Texas gerrymander as shots fired is right and necessary.

Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon This is the first major agency effort by the interim NASA administrator, who is also the Transportation secretary and a former Fox News host.

How about high-speed rail on earth?

How to Start Researching as a Hobby Trust me, I'm an alcoholic. I really am just doing this for fun.

I enjoyed this paean to research - I am also someone who loves going down research rabbit holes. open.substack.com/pub/sarahsch...

‘They Want to Have a Police State’: Trump’s Rio Grande Military Zone With Strykers and soldiers the Trump administration implemented its fourth National Defense Area in the Rio Grande Valley in June, alarming local groups.

The money for this unnecessary effort could have been used to flood proof EVERY vulnerable community in the United States

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New and damning school voucher data confirm worst fears Ever since North Carolina legislators established the so-called “Opportunity Scholarships” school voucher program, sponsors and proponents have pitched it as a means of helping low-income students escape struggling public schools. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, a new report from the Department of Public Instruction shows that this was all baloney. The DPI researchers found that […]

"In other words, the vast majority of voucher money is going to parents – most of them well-off – who never had any intention of sending their kids to public schools."

New and damning school voucher data confirm worst fears www.yahoo.com/news/a... #SchoolVoucherScam

The American people, by a 28-point margin, overwhelmingly oppose Netanyahu’s barbaric war against the Palestinian people.

When will their members of Congress listen?

Darren Beattie, Who Voiced Support for Sterilization of ‘Low-IQ’ Populations, Is Climbing the Trump Administration Ladder “Wow!” responded a senior House Republican when told of Beattie’s recent appointment to the Institute of Peace.

Darren Beattie...to promote sterilizations of “feral” and “low-IQ” Americans by offering free Air Jordans and said in 2024 that “competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work,” is rising through the ranks of the Trump administration.

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reflecting this morning on the fact that Trump's campaign message last year was quite literally "migrants are taking Black jobs" -- and he won!

On the roof of the White House?

Trump on undocumented farm workers: "People that live in the inner city are not doing that work. They've tried, we've tried, everybody tried. They don't do it. These people do it naturally. Naturally ... they don't get a bad back, because if they get a bad back, they die."

had Biden randomly wandered on the White House roof shouting at reporters about nuclear weapons, Jake Tapper would drop everything to pitch a new series of books and Hannity would anchor ongoing special coverage until 2029

but when Trump does it it's just Trump being Trump!

"Tung is a self-described originalist: At a Federalist Society event just a few weeks ago, he said that the originalist answer to the question of “whether there’s a constitutional right to abortion, same-sex marriage, or sodomy” is “simple: No.”"

tired: elf on a shelf
wired: louse on a house

State Department may require some visa applicants to post bond of up to $15,000 The State Department said it would start a pilot program that will require cash deposits to tourist and business visas for people from countries with high overstay rates.

I hope this effectively kills the Olympics and World Cup

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JB Pritzker calls out Texas Republicans: "when Donald Trump calls they say yes, sir. Right away, sir. Happy to lick your boots, sir."

Your call to a local Social Security office may be picked up by someone who can't help Phone calls to local Social Security offices are currently being rerouted to other field offices — often to staff who don't have jurisdiction over the caller's case, employees say.

Phone calls to local Social Security offices are currently being rerouted to other field offices — often to staff who don't have jurisdiction over the caller's case, employees say.

I really like your daughter

Why don't you try riding the subway without having a panic attack before you start blathering about the moon

These people always restrict attendance to proven district citizens only

Did he forget where his office is?

How many generations of natural born citizens is sufficient to own land? This is repugnant. The answer should’ve simply been “no.”

Incredible irony

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So... Trump says he's cutting drug prices by 1500% while adding tariffs of 250% on them if made outside the country. Someone help me figure out the math here.

Grassley Holds Up Trump Treasury Nominees to Protect Renewables Development Along with Senator John Curtis of Utah, the Iowa senator is aiming to preserve the definition of “begin construction” as it applies to tax credits.

Today's unexpected renewable-energy hero: Chuck Grassley

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#Seattle

Trump’s Big EPA Reversal Could Have a Strange Twist for California Without the endangerment finding on greenhouse gases, the state could have a case for re-imposing its own greenhouse limits on auto emissions.

A reader submitted a very good question to @heatmap.news' @emilypont.bsky.social that our Ann Carlson helped to grapple with: What would EPA's effort to overturn the endangerment finding mean for the fight over California’s pollution waivers? 🔦

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Trump didn't "break his campaign promise on IVF," he lied to get elected

Samuel Alito will release new book next year, publisher says | CNN Politics Justice Samuel Alito, a conservative member of the Supreme Court, will publish a book next year, joining several of his colleagues who have inked deals in recent months to publish.

Maybe this explains the lack of written opinions: too busy writing books

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Beta Tested on the Dead Tesla’s autopilot lies, the courtroom reckoning, and Elon Musk’s decade-long FSD fraud in the fast lane

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