Increasing wildfire area burned amid a fire deficit in North American forests Even in years with record-breaking fire seasons, overall fire occurrence remains below historical levels, but fire severity has increased, contributing to greater forest loss and heightened risk.

Even in years with record-breaking fire seasons, overall fire occurrence in North American forests remains below historical levels, but fire severity has increased, contributing to greater forest loss and heightened risk. www.climate.gov/news-feature...

ok who's gonna tell him

The real president always keeps watch over his puppet

@elonmusk on X: Should all federal employees be required to send a short email with some basic bullet points about what they accomplished last week? Poll: Yes or No

This is so clearly not how government works but I'm pretty sure he thinks it is.

UPDATE on town hall chaos: Woman who was dragged out speaks, police chief condemns security, name of security firm confirmed A legislative town hall organized by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee devolved into chaos Saturday when unidentified, plainclothes security personnel dragged a Post Falls woman from th...

For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Subject: Proposed Response to HHS Employees HHS Employees - On Saturday, you received an email from OPM entitled "What did you do last week." The directive stated employees were to submit five bullets detailing their accomplishments in the past week. In discussions with OPM Officials yesterday and today OPM has now rescinded that mandatory requirement. There is no HHS expectation that HHS employees respond to OPM and there is no impact to your employment with the agency if you choose not to respond. That said, if you choose to respond, here are the guidelines you should follow: Respond to the email by the deadline established (today @ 11:59 P.M.). Keep your response at a high level of generality and describe your work in a manner to protect sensitive data, personally identifiable information, and applicable privileges to the extent possible. Do not (1) identify, by name or title, any other HHS employees with whom you have been working; (2) identify, by case name or otherwise, matters you are working on, or (3) identify any specific grants or contracts, or any specific grantees or contractors. If you are engaged in scientific research or reviews, do not identify by name any drugs, devices, biologics, therapeutics, or similar items in your response. If you are engaged in any scientific experiments, research, or reviews, do not provide Information that could allow anyone to identify the precise nature of your work. Respond by replying to the OPM HR email as instructed, with a cc: to your supervisor. Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.

New — HHS just got another email with guidance stating that they aren’t required to respond to the 5 bullets email, but if they do they should follow specific guidelines including:

“Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.”

an unelected billionaire with no official job in the government thinks he can fire half the workforce for not replying to an email

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management ("OPM") recently sent the following email to all Executive Branch employees from hr@opm.gov: Subject: What did you do last week? Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager. Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments. Deadline is this Monday at 11:59 p.m. EST. Responses to this email should be directed to agency leadership, with a copy to OPM at hr@opm.gov. Agencies should review responses and evaluate nonresponses, considering such factors as whether the employee was on excused leave on Monday, February 24, 2025 or had access to email on that date. Employees on approved leave on February 24, or who lacked access to email, are not expected to respond by the deadline. Agency heads may exclude personnel from this expectation at their discretion and should inform OPM of the categories of the employees excluded and reasons for exclusion. Agencies should consider whether the expectation for employees to submit activity and/or accomplishment bullets should be integrated into the agency's Weekly Activity Report or future required organizational activity reporting in order provide an enterprise-wide view of workforce achievements and organizational trends. Furthermore, agencies should consider any appropriate actions regarding employees who fail to respond to activity/accomplishment requests. It is agency leadership's decision as to what actions are taken. At Counsel's direction, in order to comport with the Presidential Records Act, the Executive Office of the President is exempted from this exercise. cc: Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCOs), Deputy CHCOs, Human Resources Directors, and

NEW memo from OPM acting director Chuck Ezell saying that fed employees should respond to the 5 bullets email by the 11:59pm deadline tonight unless they had an excused absence today. Absolute madness.

Full text:

On her show just now, Rachel Maddow said of Joy Reid's show being cancelled: "I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door." She adds it is "unnerving" to see the network's decision to cancel shows hosted by nonwhite anchors: "That feels indefensible."

A tweet from Bari Weiss: "These stiff-armed salutes are not expressions of sincere Nazism but of an oppositional culture that, like a rebel band that keeps wearing fatigues after victory, has failed to realize it's no longer in the opposition." Read Richard Hanania in The FP.

The National Jewish Book Award winning author of HOW TO FIGHT ANTISEMITISM is now DEFENDING NAZI SALUTES

I FUCKING CANNOT

In 2024 Elections, Most Races Were Over Before They Started (Gift Article) A New York Times analysis shows new maps stifled partisan competition for seats in the House of Representatives and state legislatures.

Republicans won the House because they gerrymandered 3 times as many districts as Dems did, but instead the NY Times frames their story around a decline in swing districts fueling "polarization."

The GOP's national advantage should be the lead, not briefly noted halfway through & still downplayed

Who’s running this country: Donald Trump or Elon Musk? Since day one, Elon has created chaos and confusion and put our livelihoods at risk. And he is accountable to no one but himself. The Constitution only allows for one president at a time. Call Your Senators and tell them it’s time Donald Trump fire Elon Musk

The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk.

Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️

thehill.com/media/514849...

Trump's executive order claiming control over independent federal agencies is a Project 2025 priority.

Left: Project 2025
Right: Trump's EO

We have a website version of the Project 2025 tracker now

(Big thanks to u/mollynaquafina)

project2025-tracker.vercel.app

a lot of kids are gonna die in this texas measles outbreak and andrew wakefield is to blame.

What is RFK Jr, doing about the measles outbreak in Texas?
I'll wait..........................,...........................................................................................................................................................................................................

Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website “People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee.

Elon Musk’s DOGE just posted classified U.S. intelligence data on its website, and officials are scrambling, HuffPost reports.

ThankaDemocrat!

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.

Contact Us By Phone: 1-518-474-8390 | Office hours: 9:00am to 5:00pm Contact Us By Mail: The Honorable Kathy Hochul Governor of New York State NYS State Capitol Building Albany, NY 12224

If you live in New York State and think Gov. Kathy Hochul should remove the corrupt mayor of NYC, give her a call or send her a letter.

Dozens of CFPB Workers Fired in After-Hours Blitz Some affected employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were notified with an email that addressed them as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division].

I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people.

wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

Fascism arrived

Teachers vilified
Doctors arrested
Scientists shunned
Librarians threatened

Pregnancy kills
Disease welcome
Hatred grows
War approaches

Reality manipulated
Laws weaponized
Violence rewarded
Empathy demonized

Books burned
Schools closed
Innocents killed
Futures gone

DA Alvin Bragg should launch an investigation into this immediately.

Thank a Democrat!

What movie is this?

Two cartoon trolleys are talking while another trolley, called Kyle, is about to run people over behind them. One says, “I'm concerned about Kyle.” The title reads: “Problem Trolley.”

A cartoon by Amy Kurzweil. #NewYorkerCartoons

New Trump Order Pulls Funding From Schools With COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates The vast majority of schools do not require COVID-19 vaccinations.

The vast majority of schools do not require COVID-19 vaccinations.