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Trump’s Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday that the 20 U.S. Army soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor, for their participation in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, may keep them.

This is nothing more than a disgraceful celebration of the Native American Genocide.

What We're Losing If We Lose Public Media | Soonish Today we're bringing you an episode of our sister Hub & Spoke show Rumble Strip, from producer Erica Heilman. It's a conversation with Jay Allison about public media—what it's for, why it's important,...

What's public about public media, and why does that matter? Today I'm re-broadcasting a fantastic, inspiring, sobering conversation between Jay Allison
@jayall.bsky.social, founder of WCAI and @transom.bsky.social, and Erica Heilman, host of Rumble Strip soonish.simplecast.com/episodes/wha...

This seems bad

I see your point, just to say that positive work can occur at some moments within giant cultural production companies

Companies big like Disney can & should be held accountable for their pasts, but later generations—we hope—might create work there inspiring positive change

He’s not “appointing” experts, he’s staffing up

Hi, immunologist here:

(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)

RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”

That’s NOT how immunology works.

He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.

Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest

A personal note on a terrible day Hello everyone! It’s a terrible day!

Last night public radio lost federal funding. I encourage podcast producers to pull for public radio now. Reach out to your listeners. Encourage them to give. Shows like mine would not exist without public radio. www.rumblestripvermont.com/campaigns/vi...

LBJ Called It a “Miracle.” Trump’s GOP Just Voted to Kill It. Congress is gutting the last free information source for many rural Americans. The reason why is ridiculous.

wrote about the spirit of public good that birthed public media in the U.S., the Senate's vote to halt all federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and what this really means for your favorite NPR and PBS stations, both local and national: slate.com/technology/2...

And that’s the stations shutting down—many more will remain but with local reporting decimated

Amazing!

I know! I couldn’t believe this!

Policy Change: NYPD Will Write Criminal Summonses, Not Traffic Tickets, for Cyclists - Streetsblog New York City Quietly, the NYPD has changed policy and will now make criminal cases against cyclists who go through red lights, a change that will have predictable and unpredictable ramifications.

Eric Adams is trying to use e-bike enforcement to deliver immigrants to ICE, which is evil enough, but in the process is sending innocent regular bike riders to criminal court

Was speaking with a USAID person yesterday explaining how at any other time countless phone lines wld be buzzing, working groups stood up, go-teams and aid being dispatched to after the Myanmar quake. Now ... nothing.

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…

NEW: 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 you cut back on the revenue side?” one expert asks.

By @andykroll.bsky.social

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.

Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.

Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.

See how this works?

More Good News For Us That’s Bad For Trump Onward.

“The CFPB is there to make sure that Elon's new project can't scam you or steal your sensitive personal data...This is like a bank robber trying to fire the cops, and turn off the alarms just before he strolls into the lobby.” US Sen. Elizabeth Warren

More here:

Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk.

YouTube video by APM Reports The Outlier: Steubenville, Ohio

What if I told you that in a small, rust belt city, where abandoned buildings line the streets, kids are doing better in reading than in some of the richest school districts in America? www.youtube.com/shorts/KsBNf...

Trump's latest executive order puts independent agencies — including the FTC, SEC, and NLRB — under his direct control.

It's a blatant attempt to shield his corporate donors and his own business from agencies that hold the powerful accountable.

This is an alarming power-grab.

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

Today, shortly after being sworn in, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued an explicit threat via directive, indicating that Justice Department lawyers could be fired if they refuse to advance legal arguments on behalf of Trump's administration.

Bondi fired off a memo stating "any Justice…

YouTube video by APM Reports The end of the story has yet to be written

We have new episodes of Sold a Story coming on February 20. www.youtube.com/shorts/zJgsx...

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

OPM’s Top Lawyer Is A ‘Raging Misogynist’ With A Plan To Break The Civil Service The top lawyer at the Office of Personnel Management is a self-described...

The top lawyer at the Office of Personnel Management is a self-described “raging misogynist” who for years has talked up a “campaign” to purge the federal civil service and staff it with MAGA diehards.
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It’s not about believing DEIs great and wonderful it’s about understanding we’re living through an organized and deliberate effort to enforce hierarchy. This is being done by elites across the ideological spectrum and we do ourselves a disservice by hoping the fallout will somehow benefit our ideals

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl What The F***?!

THIS is 💯 how I feel.

We can’t wait until the midterms to DO SOMETHING!

The felon is destroying our country more and more each day, and our elected Dems need to speak up NOW.

Please watch this video from Politics Girl.

#Voices4Victory #LiveBlue

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