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Aaron Stark

@6tark.bsky.social
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Special education teacher and dad. Appreciate what I’ve been given by family, friendships, frisbee, and futbol. Live in the Elm City but truly miss Oaktown. Real Oviedo. Crohn’s and Ostomy families.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/10/2025
“It’s weird.” “It seems messy.” That’s what experts had to say about the $1.3 billion contract handed to a tiny firm called Acquisition Logisitics to run a detention facility at Texas’ Fort Bliss Army base.
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How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal
To hold 5,000 human beings.
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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 11/10/2025
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
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Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/10/2025
The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina. Too bad it only benefits one American: a billionaire hedge fund manager, who has placed large bets on the future of the Argentine economy.
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Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire
A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 22/03/2025
Rubio says that El Salvador has agreed to accept deportations of American citizens www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept U.S. deportees of any nationality, including violent American criminals
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says “there are obviously legalities involved” in Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s offer to accept and jail violent American criminals.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
We are governed by a petty, thin-skinned, grievance-filled, insecure man-child.
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Kevin Erdmann @kevinerdmann.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I think we’re getting the answer to “How could someone have bankrupted a casino?”
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
NYT has a scan of the original Enrich memo www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the Memo
Nicholas Enrich, acting assistant administrator for global health at U.S.A.I.D., spelled out projections for human health following cuts to foreign aid. Mr. Enrich was placed on administrative leave o...
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
12.5–17.9 million cases of malaria with an additional 71,000–166,000 deaths annually
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
An additional 200,000 paralytic polio cases a year
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"The memo projected that nearly 17 million pregnant women would not be able to reach life-saving services if USAID programs were permanently halted"
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"more than 11 million newborns would not get critical postnatal care. An estimated 1 million children would not be treated annually for severe acute malnutrition"
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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
NEW: The Trump admin has informed NOAA that two buildings that are critical for weather forecasting will have their leases canceled. If this comes to pass, it's a really big deal. Includes weather fcst nerve center in College Park, Md.: www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...
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DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases at critical forecasting centers
NOAA's nerve center of national weather forecasting is on a lease cancellation list.
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Sandra Parks @sleeparks.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The national Archivist has important roles in other areas besides presidential documents… and we should be alarmed. action.everylibrary.org/we_should_al...?
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We Should All Be Paying Attention To What's Happening to the National Archives
Guest post from Dominic Byrd-McDevitt: Open knowledge advocate | Dedicated to building community and serving the public interest via data & tech.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
To mark "Trump will declare a national emergency for mass deportations" day: here is the initial spreadsheet of our crowd-sourced *local* immigration advocacy/support organizations. Please share widely, put to good use, and keep letting me know about more organizations folks can connect with.
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Local Public-Facing Immigrant Support/Advocacy Groups
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
New: Last night, hundreds of CDC post-doc fellows were fired, including all in the group who call themselves the "disease detectors," and are the future of public health lab leaders. One senior official told me, "It is going to cripple public health for decades." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
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CDC 'disease detectors' among hundreds fired as Trump administration ramps up agency cuts
Administration officials last week informed CDC leaders of plans to cut up to 10% of its workforce as it targeted federal probationary employees.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
LOUISIANA: “Half a billion dollars to send thousands of kids to private schools… voucher students fare worse on state tests than public school peers…” Same story everywhere. But @GovBillLee does not care. #LeesVoucherScam www.nola.com/news/educati...
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WIRED @wired.com · 15/02/2025
Last night, we broke the news that the top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. wrd.cm/3QkfGh3
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Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The @wired.com of DOGE.gov is superb, but misses a trend: we are no longer just seeing state power on social media, but the emergence of state social media on X that will superchange propaganda campaigns, crowd out journalism, & drown democracies in mistruths. civic-texts.ghost.io/the-truman-c...
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"It is promoting the X account as the main source, with the website secondary," Declan Chidlow, a web developer, tells WIRED. "This isn't usually how things are handled, and it indicates that the X account is taking priority over the actual website itself."
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All the other US government websites WIRED checked used their own homepage in their canonical tags, including the official White House website. Additionally, when sharing the DOGE website on mobile devices, the source code creates a link to the DOGE X account rather than the website itself.
"It seems that the DOGE website is secondary, and they are prodding people in the direction of the X account everywhere they can," Chidlow adds.• wired.com
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"It seems that the DOGE website is secondary, and they are prodding people in the direction of the X account everywhere they can," Chidlow adds.
Alongside the homepage feed of X posts, a section of Doge.gov labeled "Savings" now appears. So far the pagg is empty except for a single line that reads: "Receipts coming soon, no later than Valentine's day, followed by a heart emoji.
A section entitled "Workforce" features some bar charts showing how many people work in each government agency, with the
information coming from data gathered by the Office of Personnel Management in March 2024.lol - DOGE changed the page to hide that they missed their Valentine’s Day deadline
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...
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Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo
Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?
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