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At GSA, in the Biden administration, we were determined to build as much federal EV infrastructure as quickly as possible: buy vehicles, run greater power capacity to facilities, install chargers. Because a Republican administration wouldn’t undo all of *that*.

Yet here we are:

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Tomorrow, Saturday, is the last day for early voting in the Virginia primary elections. Then it's the big day, Tuesday.

Republicans will claim Padilla — one of the kindest people I know — is a menacing man who stormed the briefing with smoke coming out of his ears.

But the video doesn't lie.

He didn’t lunge. He announced himself. He just wanted answers.

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

NEW: Hegseth is deploying Marines against U.S. citizens. Mayor Bass says to know your rights :

This gets to the heart of it.

NPR CEO Katherine Maher on plan to claw back funding from public broadcasting: “I want to be unequivocal about the significance and urgency of this threat.” Staff memo:

Fair warning, authors

We need an explainer about whether and how Americans can go to Canada or Mexico to get a Covid vaccine.

Today’s NY Post headline looking like it’s straight out of 2020 is something else. This may pour a little cold water on the whole “mild” part though.

Good luck out there.

FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness

In addition to healthy people who just, you know, DON'T WANT TO GET COVID with the attendant risk of long covid (which can happen to anyone, no matter how previously healthy) — this will hurt households where one person is at high risk and their loved ones can't get vaccinated to help protect them

so very sorry

No, you’re not crazy.

They are deporting brown people and importing white people.

Map of the U.S. showing voter support for Medicaid cuts by congressional district. Support for Medicaid cuts ranges from 5% to 11%. Created by Data for Progress and Caring Across Generations.

There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid.

About half of all births are covered by Medicaid.

Over a third of all kids have health care thanks to Medicaid.

More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid.

So understand this: when the GOP attacks Medicaid, they attack families in every community.

24-hour vigil to save Medicaid takes over National Mall "This is a matter of life and death for millions of people," said Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin.

At a 24-hour vigil to protect Medicaid on the National Mall in Washington, DC, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) was to the point: to protect democracy, Medicaid has to be protected, too.

How indeed?

Nothing says teacher appreciation like gutting the Department of Education and firing half of the people that make the agency run.

ICE promises bystanders who challenged Charlottesville raid will be prosecuted After ICE raided a downtown Charlottesville courthouse and arrested two men, the federal agency is promising to prosecute the bystanders who challenged their authority.

ICE says they will bring charges against the two Immigration Rapid Response Hotline volunteers who demanded that agents show their badges before seizing two men from the Charlottesville courthouse. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

I am recommending your series to people. Thanks so much for putting all this together, @janefriedman.com

Announcing the Winners of the 2025 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction Last summer, as our guest editor was reading through a hefty box of stories to select his 2025 O. Henry Prize winners, The New York Times announced their list of the one hundred best books of the t…

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Agreed. It'd be super helpful to know the rules. Not clear to me why they hide so much basic information.

Thanks for amplifying, @rozmorris.bsky.social

My latest for @janefriedman.com. Time was, you could step up and help an indie author with the tech sides of self-publishing. Nowadays, not so much.

You're right, @janefriedman.com, it's gotten ridiculous. Thanks for sharing ;) The commenters on your website are chiming in, too. We're not alone in thinking this.

LOL

It's 1984

Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one

Thanks, and congratulations, Senator Booker #coreybooker

He (waldo.net) knows whereof he speaks. Pay attention.