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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

"Losing this much money, this fast, has no precedence in NASA's history. It would force terrible decisions, including turning off scores of active, productive, irreplaceable missions, halting nearly all new mission development, and decimating the country's space science workforce." 🔭

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White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent

“It would be nothing short of an extinction-level event for space science.”…

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

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parry @parrostroika.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Talked to someone who worked for USAID until recently. Unsurprisingly, a passionate, kind and intelligent person.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Francis Collins led the mapping of the human genome, and chose to do big scientific to benefit the public. He is a a former NIH Director. He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

Dr. Collins noted that when he was recruited to the institutes, and through many of the years that followed, “investment in medical research was seen as a high priority and a nonpolitical bipartisan effort — saving countless lives, relieving human suffering and contributing substantially to the U.S. economy.”

“N.I.H. is the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world,” he wrote. “It is the main piston of a biomedical discovery engine that is the envy of the globe. Yet it is not a household name. It should be.”

He went on: “When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on N.I.H. research over many decades. When you hear about sickle-cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on many years of research supported by N.I.H.”

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WIRED @wired.com · 02/03/2025

This article might dampen your weekend mood, but it's a must read. The situation in the US government is already dire, but trying to comprehend what comes next is even more unsettling.

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The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think

What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 02/03/2025

"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

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$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that's over

The U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities plant trees.

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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This story is tough to summarize in a catchy way, but I'll try: The DHS asked the IRS to share the home addresses of 700,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally, and the IRS said no because that's not legal. Nixon was nearly impeached for a similar move. gift link: wapo.st/4bkjoAY

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IRS rejected request for addresses of people believed to be in U.S. illegally

Immigration enforcement officials sought home addresses for 700,000 people and also asked for skilled auditors to investigate businesses.

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Tom Di Liberto @tdiliberto.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Check out the external affairs page at NOAA right now. That's right. Everyone at NOAA external affairs was fired. www.noaa.gov/external-aff...

Webpage for NOAA's external affairs team. At top is pink salmon colored box with text that says all external affairs people were fired.

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parry @parrostroika.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This was my last post on ded twitter, I deleted my account several days later… after joining in 2016 to advocate for the survival of democracy following the election of a Kremlin Agent who I investigated for … there is only one way we survive now, and it isn’t through elections.

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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 28/02/2025

The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.

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parry @parrostroika.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

In the world conservative media’s crafted, they are the righteous ones…

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Bears repeating that social security is incredibly INCREDIBLY efficient to run. Its overhead costs are basically zero when you consider the size of the undertaking and the genuine benefits delivered. If anyone was interested in improving govt efficiency, the SSA would be their model not their target

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

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Opinion | Three Former E.P.A. Leaders: You’ll Miss It When It’s Gone

When the next environmental catastrophe arrives, who will be there to deal with the emergency and its aftermath?

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parry @parrostroika.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

i’m so so scared for all people and things.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Yeah. To put it into perspective, if Trump is permitted to rearrange the post office, he is also permitted to rearrange the lower federal courts however he likes. Both are spelled out as "The Congress shall have Power" in Art I, Sec 8. And there's more too, like armies and the militia, second pic.

To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

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parry @parrostroika.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

anti-government republicans do this to every element of government they dislike, want to privatize.

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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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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/02/2025

As courts issue orders that pause or restrict a number of Donald Trump’s actions, a more seismic conflict potentially lies ahead: Do judges have the power to enforce their rulings if the executive branch refuses to comply?

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What Happens if Trump Defies the Courts

Do judges have the power to enforce their rulings if the executive branch refuses to comply?

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parry @parrostroika.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This woman had a ‘Project 2021’ via her 100+ plans in 2020. Addressed lobbying, climate (land & sea), racial inequity writ large, trump’s usurpation of law, judicial impropriety, economic injustice, rational firearm regulation, and gathered experts to design a m4a implementation reality. Here we are

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Talib Kweli @talibkweli.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

When I left Twitter I had a 1M followers and 100K tweets. You know what happen to me when it was all gone? Nothing. To the Twitter refugees who I see fretting about losing contacts and content by deleting Twitter, trust, you'll be fine. They have convinced us that we need them. Nope. They need US.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/02/2025

The erasure of the Jan. 6 records comes while the administration is also seeking to whitewash the teaching of U.S. history, threatening to withhold funds from schools that teach about America’s troubled history of racial and gender discrimination. By @alecmac.bsky.social

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Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish?

The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own…

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 08/02/2025

Google is scamming us all 🥲

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." | www.wired.com/story/treasu...

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A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

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parry @parrostroika.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Easier to reason the election being stolen by elon and trump as elon brazenly shepherds the illegal dismantling of our government and compromise of our information. I was wary to believe before, but not now.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Voting against Trump < 50% Fetterman: 17% (partially due to high absence rate) Gallego: 39% Hassan: 42% Shaheen: 42% Kelly: 47% Ossoff: 47%(partially due to high absence rate) Voting against Trump > 90% Hirono: 94% Warren: 94% Markey: 92% docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Tracking Senate Votes 2025

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

“The Harvard Medical School physician received a stop-work order for a program designing treatment plans for people with the most drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis. Infectious diseases do not know borders, she pointed out. 'It’s terrifying'...” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.

Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that sca...

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parry @parrostroika.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The corrupt mf’ers on the Supreme Court bestowed on him immunity from all laws. There is really only one way out from this desolation of sovereignty and democracy… and it won’t be at the ballot box in four years.

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