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A physicist by training, done a few things since. Horrified that we're still using fossil fuels in the 21st century. #climate #AI #dogs #politics #sustainability #science #language

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2025-02-22

Prominent DOGE Staffer Is Grandson Of Turncoat KGB Spy

Edward “Big Balls” Coristine happens to be the descendant of Valery Martynov, a KGB agent who spied for the US.

jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent

I wrote about Coristine's apparent connections to the cybercrime community earlier this month:

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/te

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Michael Emermanmemerman@mstdn.science
2025-02-22

In their further effort to choke off biomedical science in the US (and science, in general), the administration has found a way to further block NIH research grants despite being ordered to release funds appropriated by congress.
News in Nature nature.com/articles/d41586-025
#science #uspol

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2025-02-22

Pete Buttigieg talks about directions for Democrats.
youtube.com/watch?v=jKJisnaLP6

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Sue is Walking the Earth 🌱susankayequinn@wandering.shop
2025-02-21

One way to understand what's happening in America is these people(Trump/Musk/Rs)committing all these obvious crimes/power grabs do not expect to pay a price...ever. This is not the behavior of people who think you can jail them/vote them out of office.

They'll escalate the crimes to make that true.

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2025-02-21

Big respect for ex Vikings punter Chris Kluwe calling out MAGA for what it is 😎

youtu.be/D6k2xktUot4?si=9YaWGF

#chrisKluwe #uspol #politics #maga

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽georgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-02-21

He’s really good at this!

A tweet from Rep. Eric Swalwell (
@RepSwalwell
) featuring an image with an orange background. The image shows a cartoon of Homer Simpson from "The Simpsons," looking exasperated with his head in his hand, and a speech bubble above him reading "DOGE!" Below Homer, there is a screenshot of a USA TODAY article headline by Joey Garrison, published on February 17, 2025, and updated at 2:21 p.m. ET, which reads: "Trump admin scrambles to rehire hundreds of nuclear weapons workers." The article includes a photo of the author and publication details
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Derek Powazek 🐐fraying@xoxo.zone
2025-02-20

This is what a Democrat meeting the moment sounds like. We need more like this. A lot more.
youtu.be/G3_SLAzHMmc?si=WpBDMG

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2025-02-19

Whew! This thread from Illinois's Governor JB Pritzker: 🔥

#Via Governor JB Pritzker/ govpritzker.illinois.gov‬
Feb 19, 2025, 1:44 PM

"The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.

It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame."

1/5

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2025-02-18

Another one? Seriously??🤦🏻‍♀️

“US Dept of Agriculture on Tuesday said that, over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak.

In a statement, the agency said it is trying to quickly reverse the firings”
nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda

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2025-02-18

#JackSmith Among Federal Prosecutors Expressing 'Alarm' Over #Trump's #DOJ

Hundreds of fmr #Justice Dept lawyers signed an open letter to career federal prosecutors expressing "alarm" over the department's recent actions.

Among the signatories was Jack Smith, the fmr special counsel whose office charged Trump in connection to the #Jan6, 2021, Capitol insurrection & Trump's hoarding of #ClassifiedDocuments.

#law
newsweek.com/jack-smith-prosec

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Weaselweaselx86
2025-02-18

@mizblueprint @pluralistic

Wealth concentration is an inherent property of a capitalistic system.

The wealthier participant in a transaction has an inherent advantage in risk-tolerance and greater ability to hold out for a better deal. This leads to a positive feedback loop of wealth accumulation and concentration.

To make capitalism sustainable requires coupling it with sufficient downward wealth redistribution, such as progressive taxation and UBI.

scientificamerican.com/article

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2025-02-18
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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽georgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-02-18

The sledgehammer approach is madness. America is not a company you can strip for parts.

A tweet from Rep. Jason Crow. The tweet includes a photo of Rep. Jason Crow and text that reads: "Americans are going to die because of Trump's cuts to the National Institutes of Health research. There's a way to reform government and improve efficiency - but taking a hammer to life-saving Alzheimers, ALS, and cancer research is not it."
Below the tweet, there is an image of a news broadcast from MSNBC titled "PROBATIONARY PURGE" with the following text: "NOTICE GIVEN AT: Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Education, U.S. Forest Service, Energy Department, Office of Personnel Management, Small Business Administration, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, General Services Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Nuclear Security Administration." The broadcast is part of "TRUMP'S FIRST 100 DAYS" with the headline "FIRINGS OF FEDERAL WORKERS EXPANDS TO MORE AGENCIES."
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2025-02-18

"It is a fundamental error to believe that #DOGE is a government efficiency project. Cutting 1 in 4 federal employees would cut federal #government spending by 1%. Cost savings are incidental. DOGE is a #political control project. Firing and terrorizing public employees is a means to weakening state regulation of private interests and strengthening a personalist presidency."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dog

#Trump #ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Politics #USPol #News #US #USA

Text from article (edited for length):
Chris Hayes said: “They are just swinging sledgehammers in the dark.” That feels about right, except they are also in a china shop. By the time other people have to put it all back together (if that time ever comes) the Doge bros will be long gone, having extracted whatever value they were seeking from the federal government.

This is just the first wave. It will get worse. Way worse. The probationary employees were the easiest to fire. Now Trump has told federal agencies to prepare reduction in force (RIF) plans... The order promises that only one new employee will be allowed to join for every four that leave. It also specifies that DOGE approves any new agency hires, adding a new level of politicization to not just the firing process, but also hiring.

It is a fundamental error to believe that DOGE is a government efficiency project. Cutting 1 in 4 federal employees would cut federal government spending by 1%. Cost savings are incidental. DOGE is a political control project. Firing and terrorizing public employees is a means to weakening state regulation of private interests and strengthening a personalist presidency.

Sometime soon, some big stuff will start to break in observable ways. It will be important to trace those failures back to decisions being made now...

we will have to simply accept a long and slow decline of actual American greatness in the name of making America great again.
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2025-02-18

Trump 2.0: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
youtube.com/watch?v=cw0F8G4-dM

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2025-02-17

@pluralistic My favourite meme on that theme is this one

Tutor pointing to a blackboard on which it says "Every single person who confuses correlation and causation will die"
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2025-02-17

Trump&RFK wants to make the most common antidepressants illegal. search.app/Tasbyic9K3npBbGj6

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2025-02-17

There will be Not-My-President's Day protests tomorrow (Monday, Feb 17) in many places, including #pittsburgh
Details here: fiftyfifty.one/

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2025-02-17

@fmors @jbz Thanks. I'm glad it was just a typo instead of a screwed-up study.

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