White House fires entire commission that reviews designs for federal buildings The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings.

The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings.

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The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
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@jjleftshoe.bsky.social look who came to work with me today!

Transportation Department Quietly Disbands Advisory Committees Labor groups representing railroaders worry the move could muzzle frontline worker voices and make it easier for industry to shape regulation.

🚨 Dozens of labor representatives were recently terminated from the Rail Safety Advisory Committee. Federal agencies use advisory committees to help draft safety rules in rail & other industries.

We urge the Federal Railroad Administration to restore their membership. prospect.org/infrastructu...

A Black women, elected by her constituents is literally being held hostage for refusing to be policed by an opponents. Let that sink in. @angelarye.bsky.social interview with Rep Collier: m.youtube.com/watch?v=hFrD...

11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.

As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

CNN is reporting the FEMA response was delayed 3 days because of Noem’s cost controls, and FEMA officials were “taken aback” by how limited the agency’s response was.

Just an act of hate, nothing less.

1. He didn’t work for Walz. Deliberate disinformation.
2. It’s not at all surprising that right wing cultists would try and spread misinformation and disinformation about this horrific assassination.
3. Report those who do.

In case you haven’t read the report, here are the headings of the report’s conclusions into Andrew Cuomo’s behavior.

Hey @kaine.senate.gov and @markwarner.bsky.social, you expect me to vote for you after you keep doing this shit over and over again?

ACTION ALERT: A threat to one is a threat to all. On May 22 at 5 p.m., SMART General President Coleman, union leaders and workers will rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, to demand due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia and workers nationwide. Join us: www.mobilize.us/aflcio/event...

Wow! Congress is actually attempting to do something! In a rare bipartisan stand to defend its own authority, lawmakers are quietly pushing back against Trump’s attempt to take control of the Library of Congress.

SCOOP: ICE tried to raid Chang Chang restaurant in Dupont (Washington, D.C.) but the manager ran then off.

Wow crazy you guys must be giving her a big raise, right?

National Institutes of Health lays off hundreds more staff, including at cancer research institute The cuts at the National Institutes of Health blindsided staff, after reassurances that no further layoffs were planned.

More firings at the National Cancer Institute, including the Cancer Information Service, “which provides answers to doctors and patients about cancer, and updates to databases summarizing cancer information for healthcare providers”.

I mean who needs it, right?

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Trump Proposes Elimination of NEA and NEH The administration’s 2026 budget comes at a time when the future of NEA staff and grant programs remains in doubt.

BREAKING: Trump Proposes Elimination of NEA and NEH. This administration wants a country without art and without humanity. Call your local Senators and Reps and tell them not to allow it.
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On the way to New York!!

TODAY in Los Angeles: Demand justice for Kilmar and his right to due process!

And it’s finally available in the States in September!!

Because such separation cannot disadvantage either sex, the Athletics Regulation requires that if an educational program separates teams by sex, the teams that the program designates as female teams must be completely separated by sex. See 34 C.F.R. § 106.41(b); accord 45 C.F.R. § 86.41(b)

Separate teams. Notwithstanding the requirements of paragraph (a) of this section, a recipient may operate or sponsor separate teams for members of each sex where selection for such teams is based upon competitive skill or the activity involved is a contact sport. However, where a recipient operates or sponsors a team in a particular sport for members of one sex but operates or sponsors no such team for members of the other sex, and athletic opportunities for members of that sex have previously been limited, members of the excluded sex must be allowed to try-out for the team offered unless the sport involved is a contact sport. For the purposes of this part, contact sports include boxing, wrestling, rugby, ice hockey, football, basketball and other sports the purpose or major activity of which involves bodily contact.

Reading the DOJ civil suit against Maine for being too nice to trans kids and this is some amazingly mendacious bullshit.

L: Complaint citing federal reg storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

R: Actual federal reg
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Faith leaders gathered in front of the White House today for a vigil and prayer for Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Bring him home!

The List Keepers The AIDS crisis shattered Broadway, and the scope of the loss has never been fully accounted for. Some kept their own records.

This was a painful but rewarding story to work on. For New York Magazine, I wrote about the devastating effect of AIDS on the city's theater community, and what has become a decades-long effort to create a full list of those we lost. www.vulture.com/article/hiv-....

They are cutting off his medical care, too. This is murder.

ORDER Upon consideration of the submissions relative to Appellants' motion for stay pending appeal and immediate administrative stay, the court denies the motion. Entered at the direction of Judge Thacker with the concurrence of Judge Wilkinson and Judge King. For the Court Is/ Nwamaka Anowi, Clerk

NEW: The Fourth Circuit UPHOLDS Judge Xinis’s order to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US by midnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Early voting in the 2025 #Virginia general election begins 24 weeks from today: Sept. 19.

Election Day is 7 months from today: Nov. 4.

(Early voting in the primaries begins 4 weeks from today on May 2. Primary day is June 17.) #valeg

one of my favorite days on twitter, as the entire slumbering giant of the Discworld fandom rose as one to back @rhi.bsky.social and tell these people to go directly to hell

Raskin, Colleagues Statement on Maryland Immigrant Deported in ‘Error’ by Trump White House

Snatched, shackled, and shipped off to a Salvadoran prison, Marylander Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an immigrant with no criminal record, was deported in what the Trump White House is calling an ‘error.’ Our full statement on this miscarriage of justice: raskin.house.gov/2025/4/raski...

DOGE is now attacking the Mine Safety and Heath Administration

Musk's men are closing 34 of agency's offices, including biggest one

“Without the federal inspections, coal operations will just run rampant,” said one expert .“There won’t be any accountability”

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