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Alex Tsiatas @atsiatas.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Basically taking the least trustworthy (not to mention least knowledgeable) people and proposing to give them all the decision making power, ceding a large part of what has made America great for decades

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White House Seeks to Impose Political Test on Billions in Federal Grants

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Rick Turoczy @turoczy.co · 06/10/2025

Portland or Chicago today is every US city tomorrow

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Alex Tsiatas @atsiatas.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

@walsh.bsky.social, I didn't know you were coming down to the Bay from Seattle!

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Alex Tsiatas @atsiatas.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Raising a baby in 2025, episode 2: while feeding, picking up the phone thinking it could be a daycare spot. But instead, it was someone inviting me to an AI webinar.

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Alex Tsiatas @atsiatas.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Raising a baby in 2025, episode 1: consoling the baby for 45 minutes while you partner explains to a new researcher just how difficult his path now will be after NIH funding changes.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 01/08/2025

"Before January 2025 there had been no—zero, zilch—interest in killing off USAID. It wasn't something Trump ran on. It wasn't envisioned in Project 2025. It was only once Elon Musk decided that USAID was evil that destroying the agency became a policy goal for the Republican party."

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The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People

What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

San Jose gathering for #NoKings #50501. Great turnout and energy for this peaceful and powerful crowd!

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Alex Tsiatas @atsiatas.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Can confirm; have lived in a large city for ~13 years, and it's been great and full of extremely positive memories, growth, and opportunities.

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Alex Tsiatas @atsiatas.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Guess I better plan a fall trip to Canada or Mexico. Among other tools, this has helped me stay healthy the last 3 years. What's next, the flu shot?

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F.D.A. Poised to Restrict Access to Covid Vaccines

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The Trump budget in one chart: Cut programs that help families and make America a leader of the world, pour money into kidnapping grad students and deporting toddlers.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 27/02/2025

"This change is just the nail in the coffin of a carefully calculated plan to turn the United States into the tin-pot dictatorship of my dreams. It’s definitely not because I’m scared of any investigations the DOJ’s antitrust division may or may not launch."

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“Democracy Dies in Darkness” Wasn’t a Warning; It Was Our End Goal

“Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, announced a major shift to the newspaper’s opinion section on Wednesday, saying it would now advocat...

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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 27/02/2025

the most surprising and disappointing aspect of becoming a global health philanthropist is the existence of an opposition team

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Alex Tsiatas @atsiatas.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Okay it may be time to go back to @mapquest.com now

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We as a country will save nothing. Federal employee salaries make up just 4% of the budget—roughly $271 billion. So even if every federal worker were fired, that’s the maximum you’d save. Meanwhile, the U.S. House GOP has released a budget that raises the debt limit by $4 trillion.

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Alex Tsiatas @atsiatas.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Reminder to do your civic duty and report Cybertrucks for parking violations

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Alex Tsiatas @atsiatas.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Elon Musk's circumvention of the US government and Constitution is concerning. It is also fooling his audience. He is supposedly tasked with cutting wasteful spending. He is doing a very bad job. He is ignoring the largest areas of spending and focusing on some of the smallest. (1/n)

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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Hoping this illegal move gets resolved quickly. Make no mistake - these cuts would destroy medical research in the US.

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Alex Tsiatas @atsiatas.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I worked on software for minor safety / reporting child sexual abuse material at a previous job. What this is saying is, we now have a government who would rather pretend the word "gay" does not exist than spend money on enforcing anti-child-abuse efforts.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Musk has as much legal authority to shut down USAID as I do to shut down Tesla, which is to say: none.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/11/2024

"The sun will still rise and set every day, even if the ACA no longer covers your chronic health conditions. President-elect Trump has concepts of a plan that will make it even better, so why are you panicking? "

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Sure, I Voted for Someone Whose Policies Might Kill You, but Now’s the Time to Put Aside Our Differences

It’s me, that woman you barely remember from your tenth-grade homeroom who keeps turning up on your Facebook page like a cold sore. Before the elec...

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