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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades.

For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Congressional mission to build and sustain a trusted public media system that informs, educates, and serves communities across the country. Through partnerships with local stations and producers, CPB has supported educational content, locally relevant journalism, emergency communications, cultural programming, and essential services for Americans in every community.

“Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,” said CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison. “CPB remains committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities and supporting our partners through this transition with transparency and care.”

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs & the research that could save lives. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/03/2025

Huge news, a preliminary injunction was just granted in the PFLAG v Trump case enjoining the administration from enforcing the executive order ban on gender affirming care for trans youth. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A legal document titled "MEMORANDUM OPINION" from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland in the case PFLAG, Inc., et al. v. Donald J. Trump et al. (Civil No. 25-337-BAH). The document discusses the court's ruling on the Plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction (ECF 69), outlining the legal standard required for such relief, including likelihood of success on the merits, irreparable harm, balance of equities, and public interest. It references the prior granting of a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on February 13, 2025, which enjoined the enforcement of specific Executive Orders prohibiting federal funding for gender-affirming medical care for transgender patients under 19. The document cites relevant case law and procedural background. The page header indicates it is Document 115, filed on March 4, 2025, and is page 1 of 66.

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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What do Trump's aid cuts mean? "Millions of children who were fed in January will now go hungry. The sick who were receiving treatment will no longer. Peacebuilders and human rights defenders who sought the U.S. as a partner for their futures have been abandoned overnight."

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Foreign Aid Terminations Endanger Millions at Home and Abroad | Friends Committee On National Legislation

On February 26, the Trump administration announced that they were terminating thousands of foreign assistance grants and contracts. This move came just over a month after the administration issued a…

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 01/03/2025

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was just demolished by Musk’s team. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 million. A thread about 18F:

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Lindsay @not-young.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The administration got rid of 18F under the cover of night. People who own skyscrapers are afraid of 100 people who make websites. Not because of the latest tech fad, but because we proved the government can be fixed, the government can be made better and the government can work for the people.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 01/03/2025

18F did two things, both for agencies that hired them to help with projects: it built software and it taught agencies how to hire & oversee vendors to build software. The former raised the bar by showing agencies what “good” looks like, the latter allowed those practices to expand sustainably.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 01/03/2025

For any devs wondering what 18F does (did), here’s its GitHub org page, with 1,210 repos. A few were mine! All the work they did for all their agency partners was open source. Public money should produce public software, for public inspection. Those days are over, starting today.

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18F

18F builds effective, user-centric digital services focused on the interaction between government & the people it serves. Provided by GSA. - 18F

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 01/03/2025

18F is *precisely* what Musk and team claim should exist within government. But when his team found it, they destroyed it, because it is evidence that government works well (can’t have that!), and because like Zelensky, 18F didn’t bend the knee.

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

NEW—Despite pressure, GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will not relent on forcing steep Medicaid cuts. Medicaid pay for over 40% of all births in the US, and over 60% of all seniors in nursing homes. All to pay for multi-trillion $ tax cuts for billionaires. www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/02/2025

Breaking: Trump's full trans military ban has just dropped. Quickly reading it, it appears to be a full separation from the military for all transgender military members, and states being trans is inconsistent with "honesty, humility, uniformity, and integrity." A sad day for this nation.

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Exhibit 1 - 26 Feb 2025 OSD Policy – #63, Att. #1 in TALBOTT v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-00240) – CourtListener.com

NOTICE by TELITA CROSLAND, DEFENSE HEALTH AGENCY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PETER B. HEGSETH, MARK F. AVERILL, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, TERENCE EMMERT, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE NAV...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

“The Environmental Protection Agency will move to reverse its 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare” Listen someone needs to tell Lee Zeldin that the cat’s outta the bag on this one.

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EPA moves to ditch finding that greenhouse gases cause harm

The recommendation by Lee Zeldin, the agency's administrator, could upend existing and future regulations on climate change.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/02/2025

What does this mean? Jeremy Faust discussed this with panel member Paul Offit. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-fda-...

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Scoop: FDA vaccine meeting abruptly canceled. Meeting was to determine 2025-2026 influenza vaccine composition.

Hi everyone,

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Email sent to all CFPB staff this morning: "Please do not perform any work tasks."

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CNN @cnn.com · 08/02/2025

A federal judge has restricted the Elon Musk-led government efficiency team from accessing a critical Treasury Department payment system. The order, issued early Saturday, halts access temporarily and demands the destruction of any downloaded information, saying there is risk of “irreparable harm.”

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Federal judge blocks Elon Musk’s DOGE access to critical Treasury payment system | CNN Politics

A federal judge, citing a risk of “irreparable harm,” early Saturday temporarily restricted Elon Musk’s government efficiency team from accessing a critical Treasury Department payment system.

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

NIH funding and jobs by state, institution and year - for talking to your Reps 🧪 report.nih.gov/award/index....

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NIH Awards by Location and Organization - NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT)

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

🚨 Revised request for scientist friends who want to do something to help 🚨 Help me find scientific professional societies with significant numbers of US members so I can approach them about a sign-on letter. What societies are you a member of? Send me names, links, etc. DMs open. 🧪🌎🦑

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Trump just said he’s calling for the full forcible transfer of all 1.8 million Gazans out of the strip and says “The US will take over the Gaza Strip”

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Kristin Johnson @ksuzj.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.” Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing

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Allyson Kapin @womenwhotech.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The data.cdc.gov that provided the public with critical resources has been deleted!

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CDC Blogs | Blogs | CDChome

CDC - Blogs - CDC Blogs -

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Allyson Kapin @womenwhotech.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is the census.gov website right now. The Administration is deactivating government websites that people rely on.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/01/2025

again this is a full scale attack on constitutional government

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This is grossly irresponsible reporting by the AP. What’s being offered is not a buyout. The deal is if you agree to resign in September you can continue working remotely until then. There is no buyout or severance.

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Trump is a known liar who has repeatedly refused to pay his workers. Any federal employee who takes the buyout, even for the right reasons, should be concerned that they might not get the severance they were promised. Don't trust him.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2025

Murray to Vought as he refuses to commit to following the law: "If the law is that it's a 15 mile an hour speed limit, you can't just say, 'well I think that's irresponsible and I'm gonna challenge it, therefore I don't have to follow it. The impoundment law is the law"

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/01/2025

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2025

REPORTER: Why did you remove John Bolton's security clearance? TRUMP: Because I think that was enough time. I thought he was a very dumb person but I used him well.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2025

REPORTER: Do you intend to continue to sell products that benefit yourself personally while you're president? TRUMP: Well I don't know if it benefitted. I don't know where it is. I don't know much about it other than I launched it. I heard it was very successful. I haven't checked it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2025

REPORTER: You would agree it's never acceptable to assault police officers? TRUMP: Sure REPORTER: Among those you pardoned is a guy who used a stun gun on a police officer. Why does he deserve a pardon? TRUMP: Well, I don't know

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Trump sued by 18 states for his "flagrantly unlawful attempt to strip hundreds of thousands American-born children of their citizenship based on their parentage." oag.ca.gov/system/files...

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Allyson Kapin @womenwhotech.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Elon Musk just gave a nazi salute at #Trump’s inauguration rally. Don’t let Trump’s PR people and the media sweep this under the rug. This is despicable, dangerous, and antisemitic!

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Elon Musk is almost done building a lithium refinery that will need up to 8 million gallons of water per day. And it's twenty miles outside Corpus Christi, which is so dry the local water company distributes shower timers at high school football games. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Musk’s Massive Tesla Lithium Plant Hunts for Water in Drought-Hit Texas

A lithium factory in a dry Gulf Coast county epitomizes the EV maker’s build now, ask later ethos.

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Fair Fight Action @fairfightaction.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

BREAKING: The U.S. House just passed a bill that could devastate nonprofits, chill free speech, and hand Trump unchecked power. Why H.R. 9495 is a disaster waiting to happen and why the U.S. Senate must reject it. ⬇️

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 21/11/2024

And this is why you don't capitulate.

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Laurel is on parental leave @laurelpowell.net · 12/11/2024

Trans folks - now's a good time to make sure your documents reflect who you are, wherever that's possible. A4TE's ID Documents center remains one of the most thorough resources to help you get started:

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ID Documents Center | A4TE

Welcome to our one-stop hub for name and gender change information. Find out how to update your name and gender on state and federal IDs and records.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

In a couple weeks you're all going to meet the 16-year-old trans girl who's challenge to a ban on gender-affirming medical care is being heard at SCOTUS and I'm going to need you all to 1) be loud and thankful for how badass she's being and 2) fight for her like your life depends on it

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