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Katie Sandlin @kmsandlin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

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Nickelback’s Vanguard @novadam.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

fyi bezos owns Whole Foods as well. Not just Amazon.

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Nickelback’s Vanguard @novadam.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Someone needs to solve this with a gun.

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Nickelback’s Vanguard @novadam.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

my homeowners and car insurance just sent me a letter that I am cancelled. how much can one person take

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Nickelback’s Vanguard @novadam.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

my MAGA neighbors seem upset by me having bought a gun That’s a bitch sorry guys

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OneDishwasher @onedishwasher.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

G Fund (like in the TSP) is the safest place if you have access to it

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Nickelback’s Vanguard @novadam.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

just bought my first firearm. the other customer in the gun shop was a trans woman. she bought a desert eagle.

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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The power of stories and art. I’ve had this panel saved to my phone for years now.

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THEE FlowTherapist. @flowtherapy.blacksky.app · 14/02/2025

Lord, please let a wave of measles, mumps and rubella roll over the lives of anyone making over 1 billion american dollars in a a single, solitary year. Boils and locusts, Lord!

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14/02/2025

When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted. Yet somehow Musk isn't.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

One thing that I'm increasingly coming to believe is that stories are going to be central to what comes next. Stories of the harm done. Stories of the great things achieved by government in the past. Stories of valor kindness and quotidian simple resistance.

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 13/02/2025

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Like @schatz.bsky.social, you know I respect you a lot but people are just extremely cognizant of the things not being said and the ways you and your colleagues aren’t saying them. That’s why you’re all getting so much backlash

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Nickelback’s Vanguard @novadam.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

this is in every story, because free speech or something we are “governed” by fascists

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Nickelback’s Vanguard @novadam.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

kinda feels like living a game of Dungeons and Dragons with the world’s most psychotic dungeonmaster

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Nickelback’s Vanguard @novadam.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

so grateful I’ve been stockpiling albuterol inhalers

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/02/2025

NEW: Under the Trump administration, the Office for Civil Rights has shifted its focus to removing gender-neutral bathrooms, banning transgender athletes from women’s sports and prioritizing complaints alleging discrimination against white students.

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“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump

Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and ...

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Brian Fung @brianfung.me · 14/02/2025

The DOGE website is reportedly hosted on non-government servers, not secured against database attacks and can be easily defaced, 404 reports www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

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Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website

"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

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Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website

"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."

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Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Remember those technologists I hired using an authority designed to bring private sector tech talent to gov, legally? They were looking into big tech. Trump just fired them. All of them. consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/…

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

B of A: “.. Washington D.C. recession beginning (see spike in D.C. initial jobless claims.)” [Hartnett]

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 14/02/2025

There are a whole bunch of Senators who could learn a thing or two from Danielle Sassoon about putting the good of the country before their personal ambition.

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

People are getting pro-Hitler ads on Twitter

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Sir Charles Anthony @sircharlesanthony.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The racism and misogyny is just endless. I never want to hear the word “snowflake” come from a conservative ever again. gizmodo.com/nasa-ordered...

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NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' From Its Websites: Report

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Nickelback’s Vanguard @novadam.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

@canadaetaonline.bsky.social hello neighbor! is there a fact sheet for how to emigrate to Canada as a US citizen and how to get permanent Canadian citizenship?

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Nickelback’s Vanguard @novadam.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

does anyone know Hinckley’s BlueSky handle

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who killed so many children in Samoa they ran out of child-sized coffins, has been confirmed to lead Health and Human Services. The vote was 52-48. All Dems and Mitch McConnell, whose fault this is, voted no. All other Republicans voted yes. The blood will be on their hands.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

"they're drinking vodka straight out of the bottle tonight..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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Nickelback’s Vanguard @novadam.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

man … if we thought there were a lot of terrorists in ISIS or Al Qaeda, imagine the radicalization in just about every nation in which USAID operated

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@Straightgoods @straightgoods.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

How to spot Elon and Trump corruption? Tesla lost over $130b in market value in 2 days (Tuesday n Wednesday this week) Wednesday night...Trump announces the federal government is buying $400 million dollars worth of domestic Nazimobiles Thursday-Today-Tesla shares rise. It really isn't that hard

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Jennie Coughlin @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, resigned on Thursday rather than obey a Justice Department order that she drop a corruption case against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, that she had championed, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

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Manhattan’s Federal Prosecutor Quits After Adams Case Is Ordered Dropped (Gift Article)

Danielle R. Sassoon, the interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, quit after the Justice Department told her to withdraw corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

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ill-boo-mi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

[Watching the news] What do you mean something just happened? Something already just happened.

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kenny gesserit 🦝 @kennygesserit.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This is nuts lol

Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You
Stop
from the digital-billboards dept.
"In-dash advertising is here and Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, and Ram, beat everyone to further enshittification," writes longtime Slashdot reader sinij. "Ads can be seen in this video." From a report:
In a move that has left drivers both frustrated and bewildered, Stellantis has introduced full-screen pop-up ads on its infotainment systems. Specifically, Jeep owners have reported being bombarded with advertisements for Mopar's extended warranty

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 13/02/2025

You know things are bad when Psalm 109 is trending on the agnostic side of tiktok. Thoughts and prayers is taking on new meaning

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

JD Vance follows this account, which is the center of the small group of neo-Nazis that is currently the most influential group of voices driving Elon Musk and federal policy.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This is so incredibly, goofily stupid—a slapstick level of dumbass, self-defeating, wasteful procurement even if it’s somehow not as corrupt as it looks—but I suspect absolutely no one is going to prevent it from happening. What an embarrassment. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks

The department plans to buy armored Tesla vehicles. Elon Musk, who is leading efforts to cut government spending, has won more than $13 billion in government contracts in the past five years.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

At a US Military School in Germany: At Wiesbaden Elementary School, a portrait painted on glass of Michelle Obama was removed Thursday following the canceled observance of Black History Month, according to a person familiar with the school and a picture of the removal viewed by Stars and Stripes.

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DODEA adds lessons to ‘do not use’ list sent to schools worldwide

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

And if you call for an Uber or Lyft and get a Tesla, cancel it and tell them why.

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Serenity Now! @cpo10za.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

For all the criticism of our withdrawal from Afghanistan, far more should be aimed at the way Trump is ending USAID.

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Nickelback’s Vanguard @novadam.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Will no one rid us of this meddlesome South African?

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Nickelback’s Vanguard @novadam.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

there are lots of solutions to problems. someone tell me the solution to these problems that doesn’t involve violence. because I’m not seeing one.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

In Nigeria toddlers are starving because emergency feeding centers have run out of nutrient-rich paste used to save lives of severely malnourished children Ebola outbreak in Uganda has spread to 3 cities. @nickkristof.bsky.social on consequences of USAID chaos so far www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...

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Opinion | It’s America That Suffers When We Cut Foreign Aid

U.S.A.I.D. keeps children alive and us safe.

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