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The Pentagon removing references to courageous Black people?

Corporations being encouraged to stop trying to hire people who are not white?

Schools banned from telling the truth about slavery?

Trump likes to pretend he is a new Abraham Lincoln, but he is just an older, stupider George Wallace.

Homeland Security ends collective bargaining agreement with TSA staffers, an attack on worker rights The Department of Homeland Security says it's ending the collective bargaining agreement with the tens of thousands of frontline employees at the Transportation Security Administration responsible for protecting air travel.

BREAKING: Homeland Security is ending a collective bargaining agreement with tens of thousands of TSA employees, marking a major attack on worker rights.

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Heads up feds, the chatter is that Doge is monitoring badge scans and using min. over to build a case for termination. It’s the best these dumb fuckers got🤣😂💀

Jessie A. Mahaffey, shown in an undated photo. He is a young man with short brown hair, a fair complexion and wears a sailor's uniform. He looks at the camera with a neutral expression. (Photo courtesy of Pacific Historic Parks)

Jessie A. Mahaffey, one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the USS Oklahoma during the 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, has died.

Mahaffey passed away March 1 in Alexandria, La., at the age of 102.

#Flashes

Of course they know. They don't care if people die. Until they get one of these diseases and then will rage about how behind we are in medical research. Awful people.

Is DOGE Sure It Wants to Fire These People? Elon Musk and his team are endangering Americans in many ways.

@juliettekayyem.bsky.social:

"The DOGE team shows no understanding of how much work and human expertise go into protecting Americans from infectious diseases, deadly accidents, natural disasters, and other catastrophes."

gift link 🎁: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Fact based vaccine information. Not the bullshit RFK Jr is feeding the world. vaxopedia.org

Judge rules mass firings of federal probationary employees is likely illegal U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered the Office of Personnel Management to inform certain federal agencies that it had no authority to order the firings of probationary employees, including the D...

NEW: A federal judge in CA just entered a TRO (temporary restraining order) against the Office of Personnel Management & its Acting Director, Charles Ezell, finding that OPM illegally terminated probationary federal employees because it had no authority to do so.

www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-r...

Train robbers swipe $2m worth of Nikes in heists across California and Arizona Many shoes haven’t hit market yet as authorities investigate at least 10 incidents targeting BNSF trains in remote areas Thieves have targeted freight trains running through the deserts of California and Arizona in a string of audacious heists resulting…

Train robbers swipe $2m worth of Nikes in heists across California and Arizona

DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved.

DOGE quietly deleted the 5 biggest spending cuts it celebrated last week www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

Fresh doubt cast on authenticity of Rubens painting in National Gallery Exclusive: Art historian points to ‘bad craftsmanship’ in 17th-century work entitled Samson and Delilah Doubts about whether Peter Paul Rubens painted the Samson and Delilah picture in the National Gallery have been revived by new evidence. Forty-five…

Fresh doubt cast on authenticity of Rubens painting in National Gallery

EU spends more on Russian oil and gas than financial aid to Ukraine – report Europe estimated to have bought €22bn of fossil fuels from Russia in 2024 but gave €19bn to support Kyiv The EU is spending more money on Russian fossil fuels than on financial aid to Ukraine, a report marking the third anniversary of the invasion has…

EU spends more on Russian oil and gas than financial aid to Ukraine – report

Sag awards 2025: Timothée Chalamet, Demi Moore, Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldaña win major categories Screen Actors Guild awards go to Shōgun and Conclave ensembles, while Jane Fonda gives a rousing political speech while accepting a life achievement award Timothée Chalamet has won best actor in a surprise upset at the 2025 Screen Actors Guild awards for…

Sag awards 2025: Timothée Chalamet, Demi Moore, Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldaña win major categories

Measles outbreak in Texas balloons to 90 cases The outbreak began in late January and has grown significantly this week, with 32 new cases reported just since Tuesday.

LATEST: In a rapidly growing measles outbreak in northwest Texas, 90 cases have been confirmed as of Friday, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.

“The question that we all wondered is, how and why did the deep-sea anglerfish get so weird?” —Dr. Kory Evans

In today’s episode, we talk to an expert about the evolution of the gloriously creepy anglerfish, plus the first discovery of an Egyptian pharaoh tomb in over a century.

Listen here 🎧: https://buff.ly/3CYnpyv

New:

DOGE's spending has been secret.

No longer.

My colleagues have uncovered it.

www.propublica.org/article/doge...

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

Well the are some big pharma and medical research companies very happy right now.

Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend

The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs.
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

Black Hole Gambar

For further info: www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/resource...

Chair of Board That Protects Rights of Federal Workers Sues Trump for Illegally Firing Her Read more here.

Cathy Harris – the chair of a board protecting government workers from unfair employment practices – sued the Trump administration for illegally firing her, arguing that her termination violated federal law and the U.S. Constitution.

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

More lawsuits to come.

I hope he finds a new job quickly.

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

Glacier national park, Montana
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#Photography #Landscape #lake

Book covers for: Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this.

Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.

#medsky#pedsky#idsky#immunosky 🧪
In the midst of all of the scary headlines recently, I thought I could take a moment to share a bit of good news: for the first time in history, a malaria vaccine with >90% efficacy seems to be within reach!

Here’s why that’s a really big deal for EVERYONE 🧵

A leading pediatrician was already worried about the future of vaccines. Then RFK Jr. came along In a new book, pediatric infectious disease specialist Dr. Adam Ratner details the history of measles, a virus that’s often a bellwether for public health disasters.

"The best and the worst thing about vaccination is that it 'makes nothing happen.'

A child successfully inoculated against measles doesn’t fall sick with that condition, doesn’t miss school, doesn’t go to the hospital. They don’t suffer life-changing complications. They don’t die prematurely."