TODAY! Join @lettercarriers.bsky.social and letter carriers across the country as they say HELL NO to dismantling the U.S. Postal Service.

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Yesterday's global sea-surface temperature of 21.05°C was about 4.62 standard deviations above the 1982-2011 mean (first 30 years of data), or about 1-in-520,000 just by chance.

I expect temperatures to reach their seasonal peak in roughly 2 weeks.

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USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.

Also this. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

American hunger and financial ruin, TB and AIDS around the world, measles here, Ukrainian deaths, etc. Someone should maybe start a Trump Regime Death Count kind of like the covid statistics from five years ago.

Exclusive | Draft of Trump Executive Order Aims to Eliminate Education Department Secretary Linda McMahon would be directed to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure” based on “the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law.”

Just restating the simple point: President lacks the constitutional authority to close a department created by Congress. Full stop. Both the creation and on-going funding of these Depts are LAWS not suggestions. This is criminal conduct. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ

DOGE presses to check federal benefits payments against IRS tax records Officials with Elon Musk’s group say they want to search for fraud. Privacy law bars the IRS from disclosing tax information to other parts of the government.

SCOOP

🚨 DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data from the IRS to search for fraud in federal benefits programs, specifically SNAP and student loans. 🚨

Democratic Rep. Al Green ejected from Trump address Rep. Al Green, a Texas Democrat, was ejected from President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday.

Trump's address to Congress is off to a chaotic start.

Dem Rep. Al Green was kicked out within the first five minutes after he stood in the aisle and shouted that Trump had “no mandate.”

NOAA is an absolute mess, and it’ll be worse tomorrow. Please help us. There have already been over 1,000 terminations. It’s not just layoffs—Elon Musk and his staffers are trying to completely dismantle us. Today, there were tons of firings, and more are coming tomorrow.

House Republicans unfazed by protests: ‘We’re moving forward with the cuts’ Many GOP lawmakers insisted their constituents back Musk’s moves.

House Republicans unfazed by protests in their districts: “We’re moving forward with the cuts”

For-Profit Companies Can’t Easily Replace NOAA’s Weather-Forecasting Prowess Replicating the abilities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s fleet of weather satellites would take time and a lot of money—and expose private companies to a large amount of…

Anytime a storm is brewing, your local forecasters are getting the latest data from NOAA. As the agency faces an uncertain future, one thing's for sure: for-profit companies would struggle to replicate NOAA's weather-forecasting prowess.

JD Vance Defends Russian Election Interference By Attacking European Intelligence Vice President JD Vance became a spokesperson for Russian President Putin by downplaying the disastrous effects Russian election interference has caused around the world, claiming it's just freedom of speech and that if Europeans are intelligent enough,…

JD Vance Defends Russian Election Interference By Attacking European Intelligence: Vice President JD Vance became a spokesperson for Russian President Putin by downplaying the disastrous effects Russian election interference has caused around the world, claiming it's just freedom of speech and that…

Elon Musk re-shared a tweet containing Judge John McConnell Jr.’s daughter’s job and financial records on X after the judge ruled against DOGE.

Trump’s Pardons and Purges Revive Old Question: Who Counts as a Terrorist? The president’s sweeping clemency for Capitol rioters and his administration’s ongoing removal of career national security specialists foretell a permissive new climate for extremist movements, say…

In the past weeks, the Trump administration has purged federal law enforcement agencies of prosecutors and investigators who’d been pursuing white supremacist groups that had been listed among the most dangerous threats to national security.

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Measles Outbreak Hits Town in Texas As of Tuesday, 22 children and two adults had been infected, all of whom were unvaccinated, local officials said.

A worsening measles outbreak has taken root in Texas, sickening two dozen and hospitalizing nine on the western edge of the state, where childhood vaccination rates have dwindled in recent years.

This is the issue. It’s not even about foreign aid! It’s about breaking the law.

it begins.

Treasury Warned of ‘Insider Threat Risk’ From Musk’s DOGE Access Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to the Treasury’s payment system poses an “unprecedented insider threat risk” and should be suspended immediately, according to an intelligence r...

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to the Treasury’s payment system poses an “unprecedented insider threat risk” and should be suspended immediately, according to an intelligence report prepared for the department by a contractor.

US Senate confirms Trump budget director pick Vought The Republican-led U.S. Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's nominee Russell Vought as budget director on Thursday, placing the reins of government funding in the hands of hardline conservative who has advocated for reducing Congress's power over taxpayer dollars.

The Republican-led US Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's nominee Russell Vought as budget director, placing the reins of government funding in the hands of a hardline conservative who has advocated for reducing Congress' power over taxpayer dollars reut.rs/3ECNNOB

Trump Fires Head of Federal Election Panel, But She Won’t Leave The chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission posted a letter from President Donald Trump informing her that she’d been fired, but she’s refusing to leave.

Trump tells the head of the Federal Election Commission that she's been fired, but she's refusing to leave office.

Judge Halts Trump, Musk Federal Worker ‘Buyout’ Until Feb. 10 A federal judge has temporarily delayed the Feb. 6 deadline for millions of federal workers to decide whether to accept the Trump administration offer to resign with the promise of months of full pay,...

New: A federal judge has temporarily delayed the Feb. 6 deadline for millions of federal workers to decide whether to accept the Trump administration offer to resign with the promise of months of full pay

UPDATE: The "deferred resignation" scam Last week, Popular Information broke down the "offer" that the Trump administration was making to millions of federal employees to induce them to resign voluntarily.

Last week we broke down the "offer" that the Trump administration made to millions of federal employees to induce them to resign voluntarily.

On Monday, OPM released a memo providing more specificity about the terms of the deferred resignation agreement. It is even worse than it initially appeared.

Thousands across the U.S. protest Trump policies Demonstrators decried everything from the president's immigration crackdown to his rollback of transgender rights and a proposal to forcibly transfer Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in cities across the U.S. on Wednesday to protest the Trump administration’s early actions, decrying everything from the president’s immigration crackdown to his rollback of transgender rights and a proposal to forcibly transfer Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

Many lawmakers were more outraged by mask mandates than what’s happening now.