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Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.

I suppose it was only a matter of time until they came for diversity in yeast. I think cheese is next on the list. Any cheese with visible mold is now woke. Cheddar, jack, and mozzarella will be the only cheeses approved by the Committee for American Cultural Purity. Still debating on pepperjack.

RFK Jr. says HHS will determine the cause of autism by September

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

TS/SCI means the information must be transmitted over Text or Signal with Some Civilians Invited

The only dating advice I can offer is that if someone isn't using ISO 8601, that's 😬🚩🚩 and you are gonna regret every single second past the epoch you wasted on them.

-Lax inspections- FDA & multiple states let PCA keep operating filthy for decades.

-PCA undercuts higher-quality facilities, forcing them out of the market & acquiring market share.

-PCA finally makes a lot of people sick & shuts down.

A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly (Columbia Journalism Review)

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It is remarkable (compared to other backsliding regimes) how brazen and transparent Trump is in targeting his "enemies." In Turkey, it would take months and an enterprising journalist to uncover that a university had its funds cut off, a firm blacklisted, contracts rescinded, or thousands fired.

Being too impatient to understand how systems work is Trusk's greatest failing, don't fall into the same anti-intellectual trap.

this is the best pov i've seen on this so far tbh, i am v much seeing this thing today as opening the door to people who otherwise might not have realized how varied activism actually is and how many opportunities there are to participate

A movement is calling for an 'economic blackout' on Friday. Here's what to know The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.

The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.

Federal judge invalidates OPM’s directives to terminate federal probationary workers A federal court said OPM's directives on probationary firings have no legal effect, since the office has no authority to order firings in other agencies.

2/ The case is American Federation Of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. OPM (3:25-cv-01780)

Ruling applies directly to DoD, National Park Service, Dept of Veterans Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, National Science Foundation, Small Business Administration. But may be expanded.

(5/X) It's fun, it's self-sustaining. Is it cringe? Yes, but who cares. Liberals also have a problem of being too cool to approve of anything, of only liking the first album or the unreleased demos.

We need an army of cringe normies to save our country. And I think we've got one on tap.

Our editorial line is to support free markets. Here’s why we will never criticize Trump’s tariffs.

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Measles – NFID Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease that can result in severe, sometimes permanent, complications including pneumonia, seizures, brain damage, and even death

Sharing these numbers because I wasn't aware of them myself. In the US:

* 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized

* 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia

* 1 to 3 in 1000 die

If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time

🚨If YOU live in 1 of these REPUBLICAN districts, these are the MOST vulnerable R's whose seats will be FLIPPED next year if they vote YES to cut Medicaid. Please CALL your representative the vote is TOMORROW & help SAVE this program. YOUR voice does matter and does make a DIFFERENCE. 202-224-3121.🚨 - CBPP Reported. Social Security Works put together this list (thank you from the bottom of my heart) And thank you to all that make your voices heard and pick up the phone or send an email!

🚨If YOU live in 1 of these REPUBLICAN districts, these are the MOST vulnerable R's whose seats will be FLIPPED next year if they vote YES to cut Medicaid.

Please CALL your representative the vote is TOMORROW & help SAVE this program. YOUR voice does matter and does make a DIFFERENCE. 202-224-3121.🚨

Buy billboards/ads (just research the laws around political advertising.) Reach out to faith communities that haven't drunk MAGA kool-aid. Write catchy songs and release them on YouTube. (Hostile Government Takeover is a viral banger!) Hire a Taskrabbit to staple posters to telephone poles.

My foremothers won the right to vote by smuggling seditious pamphlets in their pockets. I've watched a handwritten postcard campaign sway a close election. There are _always_ ways to get a message out. Social media's greatest lie was convincing people that they needed it to talk to other people.

I deeply respect the way you had this arcane bit of knowledge on tap and ready to deploy like it was nothing, less than 15 minutes from OP. 🙌

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote.

There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP

Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

A snapshot of a quote that reads: In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it." This paradox rests on the most elementary common sense. The gate or fence did not grow there. It was not set up by somnambulists who built it in their sleep. It is highly improbable that it was put there by escaped lunatics who were for some reason loose in the street. Some person had some reason for thinking it would be a good thing for somebody. And until we know what the reason was, we really cannot judge whether the reason was reasonable. It is extremely probable that we have overlooked some whole aspect of the question, if something set up by human beings like ourselves seems to be entirely meaningless and mysterious.

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It was a joke, riffing on "promo-driven development". I am quite familiar with AWS's product release cycle.

Promo-driven documentation.

Trump et al got where they are, are doing what they're doing, by playing on the myth of "the corrupt inefficient government", when the reality is that the vast majority of the government is (was?) doing a great job and serving its country faithfully. In part by acting as a check on plutocracy.

I agree. It's more important than ever to distinguish between the good parts of the government (which Trump is trying to eradicate, and protect our food, water, health, etc., not to mention the rule of law), and the small set of GOP who are trying to destroy the government from the inside.

After angry town hall, McCormick urges caution as Trump pushes cuts at breakneck speed U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick said the Trump administration should slow the pace of its DOGE-inspired cuts and analyze their impact.

👏PRESSURE👏 WORKS👏
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“I don't think we have two years to plan and fight back. I think we have months.”

Senator Chris Murphy, Democratic Senator, Connecticut

Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid.

So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.

Is this...actual journalism? Amazing! About to go check who owns them and how their national coverage is. I may need a subscription.