@jonfavs.bsky.social coined dogebags on PSA. Also seems fitting.

That’s why it’s so frightening that Trump and Musk are trying to destroy NOAA.

Opinion | I’m a Federal Employee. This Is What We Need Most in the Trump Era. (Gift Article) Practical support matters more than encouragement.

Gift article “One reason many federal employees are thinking of leaving government — often after decades of serving our country, under Republican and Democratic presidents — is that we’re afraid.” Stacey Young is a lawyer in the civil rights division of the DOJ

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/o...

5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.

It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

In 1979, Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House. In 1986, Ronald Reagan tore them down along w/Carter’s clean energy funding.

This sums up the difference between the two men & political parties. Investing in solutions for the future vs canceling progress to score political points.