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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

This says it all. What more do you need to know about who Trump and the Republicans actually care about?

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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Sam ✨🌻🌳🍄🍂 @bluestocking.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Man I love living in a country where I have a spot that I'm pretty scared might be cancerous but since I work 2 part time jobs and have no insurance I can't do a goddamn thing about it :) hope I'm wrong I guess!

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

USDA has eliminated two food safety advisory committees for microbiological contamination and meat inspection. Most recently, they had been reviewing regulatory approaches in response to the fatal Listeria outbreak from Boar’s Head meats and fatal Cronobacter contamination in powdered infant formula

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USDA eliminates two food safety advisory committees

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has eliminated two committees that advise it on food safety, the agency said on Friday, raising concerns about government oversight of the food supply as the Trump administration seeks to downsize the federal bureaucracy and slash costs.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

James Baldwin wrote “if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.” The instinct to throw some group under the bus as protection is not only morally wrong but always politically stupid. This is what the center-facilitated assault on trans rights has wrought.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 03/03/2025

Super contagious, and also wipes out your prior immunities (viruses and vaxes) so it leaves you vulnerable even to things you’ve had before! You have to have all your shots again post-measles!

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Harmful Algal Blooms can destroy crops, ruin tourist seasons, and cause major respiratory problems. Without NOAA, you're on your own.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

NOAA also monitors sun spot activity. Those lucrative bailouts to Starlink aren't going to make a lick of difference if they can't track solar flares.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The microbiome paradigm, endosymbiosis, PCR, all of that came from exploratory deep-sea research. You have no idea how much of the modern world exists because Bob Ballard stuffed some tube worms into a bottle of vodka.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Do you like modern medicine? The last 50 years of medical advancement owes its existence to NOAA and NSF-funded exploratory research into the deep sea that fundamentally redefined our understanding of what it means to be alive on planet earth.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The NOAA teach-at-sea program is one of the best training opportunities for US primary school teachers in the country. Spend time on a research cruise, get first hand science experience, and bring it all back to the classroom. Amazing.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

No NOAA, No Seafood.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Vibrio is the number 1 cause of food poisoning related mortality. You think you're going to eat raw oysters in a warming world without NOAA climate data? I sure as hell ain't.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

In the town of Oxford, MD, NOAA is the largest employer. Without the Cooperative Oxford Lab, the town ceases to exist. NOAA installed a tide gauge for the town so they can better respond to nuisance flooding.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies. There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

To summarize: -They stopped almost all USAID work -Then they conceded that some programs actually saved lives & granted waivers for those -Then they promised a “careful” 90 day review of everything -Then they cancelled 90% anyway within just weeks, including many they had just deemed life-saving

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Everywhere I’ve ever been, you could always just walk in whatever bathrooms there were. It’s not like they card at the door. The social stigma against being a creepy pest is all that ever stopped you, and that doesn’t change because trans people exist and need to use the bathroom sometimes.

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Sam ✨🌻🌳🍄🍂 @bluestocking.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I love being so poor that I struggle to pay bills every month and frequently have to borrow money and literally eat less food than I need and I somehow owe the fucking government over $600 for my taxes. I am panicking. And it was such a good day, too.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Note here that Musk is now literally assigning himself new contracts based on the use of his DOGE wrecking crew and the associated micro-bros. this isn't a "conflict of interest". it's just handing yourself federal money www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...

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Musk’s Starlink gets FAA contract, raising new conflict of interest concerns | CNN Business

The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to use SpaceX’s Starlink internet system to upgrade the information technology networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns about conflic...

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Democrats are out with messaging that the Republicans didn’t play fair, which, first of all, grow the fuck up, and, second of all, Republicans just voted to kill Americans by stripping them of healthcare and food. Maybe talk about that. People will die because of the Medicaid and SNAP cuts.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

It is absolutely incredible to watch what Musk did to Twitter play out in the *EXACT SAME WAY* with the US government. Come in like you’re an expert when you don’t know a single fucking thing. Fire everyone, destroy the entire infrastructure, leave a burning pile of shit, pat yourself on the back.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I saw guidance saying "mask up if you're somewhere where people don't have a choice about being there... pharmacies, hospitals, etc" I hate to break it, but... baristas, janitors, customer service reps, retail workers, &t... none of them have a choice about being at work either.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Really irritating to see people assuming that because this caller is from West Virginia, he voted for Trump. In the call he states he’s a Democrat. I have family in WV and they’re all Democrats who are pretty scared right now

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

What are we really saving?

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

If you support any of this, you’re honestly just a terrible person. People’s lives are being upended and destroyed. For every 1% increase in unemployment, 40,000 people die—yet some are celebrating.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/02/2025

NNSA is the National Nuclear Security Administration. They are in charge of the bombs.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

🧑‍🌾 “post after post in the ag community social media channels of massive issues impacting U.S. farmers and the U.S. ag economy from Trump's DOGE efforts, tariff wars and the USAID shutdown…” farmergeorgiewrites.substack.com/p/the-devast...

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 12/02/2025

for every program you benefit from being slashed right now, you will never see a single dime back. all that money is going to tax cuts for the uber-rich. i guarantee, middle class taxes will go up to cover the loss.

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House Republicans release budget plan, with trillions in tax and spending cuts

House Republicans released a budget resolution on Wednesday, laying a foundation for approving President Trump's agenda.

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Sarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

News that wiki editors are facing threats from Musk and the Heritage Foundation because of “bias” should be raising alarm bells for platforms that rely on user moderation (basically all of them, but Reddit esp. since its mods have come under fire recently).

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kentuckycathy.bsky.social @kentuckycathy.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

As Heather Cox Richardson describes Musk’s catastrophic defunding of NSAID and NIH, I am struck by how much good our government does behind the scenes, and how we as a nation have come to take it for granted - even demonize it.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Just learned from NPR that the federal government is the largest employer in the great Kansas City area, for example. I found it helpful to be reminded that, of course, this isn’t just about people who work and live in DC. Federal employees are in all of our communities.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Elon Musk dismantled USAID as it was investigating Starlink for shutting down satellites over Ukraine to help Russia. Elon Musk shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as it was about to regulate big tech financial operations. Don’t be surprised. This is EXACTLY how oligarchies work.

Newsweek headline which reads:
Alleged USAID Probe Into Starlink Raises Elon Musk Conflict Concerns. It has a picture of Leavitt at the WH briefing lectern underneath

Headline in the American Prospect which reads:
Bessent Gives Musk a Present Stalling CFPB Oversight of Big Tech.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

PSA: They’re killing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because it protects you from them.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

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Ami Berger @amiberger.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 03/02/2025

An unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government. DOGE is not a real government agency. DOGE has no authority to make spending decisions. DOGE has no authority to shut programs down or to ignore federal law. DOGE’s conduct cannot be allowed to stand.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

it was bad enough when elon musk ruined my favorite website to have fun on. now he’s ruining the government and the entire concept of democracy??

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Beth Allison Barr, PhD @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Do something. This is a great first step. Check out the script to specifically fight against takeover by Elon Musk: 5calls.org

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David Lublin @davidlublin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

A friend in the neighborhood just sent me a picture from in front of Schumer’s building. (I’d join them if I didn’t have a soup to attend to right now!!)

Protesters in Park Slope, Brooklyn holding a sign that says “what the fuck Chuck”, in reference to Chuck Schumer.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

what kind of stock trades do you think your senator has lined up for tomorrow morning? is that what they're working on tonight instead of figuring out how to get those teenagers out of the servers at the treasury?

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now @benjanun.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Something people may not realize: a lot of the paper used to print books in the US are from China. In fact, a lot of the books are PRINTED in China, esp the ones from big publishers. Expect the price of paper books to really hike soon. If you want paper copies of your favorite books, get them now.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/02/2025

The US benefits massively from our free trade agreements with our allies, and it is just like us to have absolutely no idea how much it benefits us until it’s all gone.

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