Kathy from the ashes

Why would I give my money to Apple? I’d rather give it directly to the source.

I’m glad my pizzas don’t burst into flame like that

America must not surrender its Democratic values | Bernie Sanders

"This week ... the Trump administration voted against a United Nations resolution which clearly stated that Russia began the horrific war with Ukraine," writes senator Bernie Sanders.

"This was the president of the United States turning his back on 250 years of our history."

Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

Here’s what is going on. When you start firing the military’s top lawyers, that means you are getting ready to order the military to do unlawful things. Trump replaces those JAGs with men who will justify any future unlawful and unethical actions that he wants the military to do.

If there is voting

This is correct — and, in fact, typical. Opposition parties typically aren't the driving force behind movements against democratic backsliding.

To see what an alternative strategy looks like, read my new piece www.vox.com/politics/399...

Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging?

Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.

Crossing a line Borders between one kind of life and another

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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

GSA staff facing massive cuts and fears of 'nonstop' surveillance The remaining employees at the General Services Administration are being warned that their work will be heavily monitored, from their swipes into the office to what they type on their computers.

JUST IN: The remaining employees at the General Services Administration are being warned that their work will be heavily monitored, from their swipes into the office to what they type on their computers.

CISA Puts Election Staff on Administrative Leave Read more here.

The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. — especially at the state level, where local election officials rely on CISA resources to securely run elections — at risk. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

NIH Funding Cuts Appear to Draw on Heritage Foundation Report That Blasts ‘DEI Staff’ In its notice outlining the large cut in university funding, the US National Institutes of Health seems to draw on a report from a conservative think tank that denounces the “political left.”

An NIH notice announcing massive cuts in federal science funding appears to draw heavily on a 2022 report by the Heritage Foundation, which blasted “massive growth in DEI staff at US universities.”

www.wired.com/story/nih-in...

I’m less interested in whether we call it a constitutional crisis than in clearly describing what’s going on: reactionaries are trying to replace the most egalitarian, democratic parts of our Constitution with something smushed together from the most exclusionary, authoritarian parts of our history.

CFPB Is Suspended & We Are All at Risk What shutting down the CFPB means for working Americans and the billionaire class

Trump hopes Americans don’t realize what the CFPB does.

So I wrote this piece on why CFPB exists, the billions it has saved us, & why dismantling it devastates working people. This is class warfare & we cannot afford to lose.

No paywall. Please read & share:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/cfpb-is-su...

You wouldn't dismantle the agency that protects consumers for corporate abuse and scams unless you wanted your rich buddies to be able to abuse and scam consumers.

The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.

www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Opinion | Democrats, Trump has given you a mission. Accept all of it. The republic is under siege. What can be done?

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Resist and do it better than you’ve ever done it before.

What I've learned from Black people:

1) vote in every local and interim election, not just federal
2) from the available choices, always vote for harm reduction for minorities because that's in ALL our best interests
3)"protest votes" and vote abstention promote harm

The reckless decision to release billions of gallons of water from the Terminus and Schafer Dams is already hurting farms and farmers.

It’s a massive waste.

I'm demanding answers from the Army Corps of Engineers about what happened. And why.

General Assembly passes bill to end tax breaks for organizations that honor Confederacy The Virginia General Assembly has passed a bill that would end some tax exemptions for organizations that honor the Confederacy. With Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) having vetoed similar legislation last …

The bill will now be sent to the governor, who last year vetoed the same measure. Stay tuned. 🗃️ www.wric.com/news/politic...

i am 100% certain that they are weekend at bernie-ing trump and just handing him papers to sign, the content of which is determined by whoever happens to want something to happen

DOGE Is Now Inside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau DOGE staffers will get read-only access to CFPB data, systems, and equipment, according to an internal email reviewed by WIRED.

NEW: Yet another federal agency, this time the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is being told to hand the keys to its data over to DOGE operatives.

From @makenakelly.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/doge-a...

A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’ An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

NEW: An internal email, reviewed by WIRED, calls DOGE access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

www.wired.com/story/treasu...

A Little-Known Federal Agency Helps Secure Elections. Trump Wants to Gut It. Read more here.

Buried deep within Project 2025 is a proposal to completely gut the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency – a federal agency that helps protect the nation from cyber attacks and election threats.

Here's what you should know.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

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His name is FOWLer

It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break.

🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...

The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.

Four government IT employees tell Ian Bogost and Charlie Warzel that Elon Musk's incursion into the U.S. government may be worse than anyone realizes: “This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history."