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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/02/2025
The federal agency responsible for traffic safety, which has been investigating self-driving technology in Tesla vehicles, will fire a “modest” number of employees, an agency spokesman said Friday.
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Officials Are Fired at Traffic Safety Agency Investigating Musk’s Company
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has raised questions about crashes involving Tesla’s self-driving technology.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/02/2025
Outbreaks of measles in parts of Texas and New Mexico have sickened nearly 100 people, according to state health officials who warned that the number of cases was expected to rise.
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Measles Outbreak in Texas and New Mexico Sickens Nearly 100 People
Texas reported 90 cases this week, while New Mexico reported nine. A majority of the cases have been in a Texas county where vaccination rates have lagged behind the rest of the state.
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Martin Bracken - FRAS -CitySpaceAstro @cityspaceastro.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Two panel mosiac of the Rosette Nebula - Quick and dirty process of 90 mins of data. #astronomy #astrophotography
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I'm dumb. I can't figure out how to end world hunger. But I do promise that I will continue to change healthcare in this country and make it more affordable, possibly setting a path towards Universal Healthcare.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/02/2025
One person did benefit from the biotech company AquaBounty coming to Pioneer, Ohio: the town’s mayor. His company bought land for $600K before the deal was publicly announced, then flipped that property to AquaBounty for ~$2.1M. By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
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The One That Got Away: This Small Town Is Left in Limbo After Betting Big on GMO Salmon
AquaBounty GMO salmon was going to be the future of fish — and the future for one Ohio village that offered incentives to make a new facility happen. But years after breaking ground, there are no…
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 23/02/2025
Here’s my prediction for DOGE: Whatever minimal amount of money it may possibly save in the short term will be far exceeded by the ultimate cost of fixing all of the problems it creates. It’s already an epic failure.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 23/02/2025
Looking forward to the Trump Justice Department explaining how birth right citizenship is unconstitutional but a South Africa born oligarch has the legal authority to fire every single federal employee by tweet.
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Michele @funnymichele.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Amazing sunset tonight, Mineral, VA #photography
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/02/2025
To save his country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hopes to salvage his relationship with President Donald Trump after it blew up very publicly this week, Ukrainian lawmakers and experts say.
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Can Zelensky salvage his relationship with Trump and save Ukraine?
Three years into the war with Russia, President Zelensky appears to have become embroiled in a personal feud with the leader of Ukraine’s most powerful ally.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/02/2025
“This is someone who made his money by ripping off American taxpayers and who shouldn’t come anywhere near a position of authority over tax dollars,” said Sen. Ron Wyden about Schuler’s appointment. “He’ll fit right in with the Trump administration.” By @peterelkind.bsky.social
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Trump Vowed to Clean Up Washington, Then His Team Hired a Man Who Pushed a Scam the IRS Called the “Worst of the Worst”
Frank Schuler was a leading promoter of a tax deduction derided as a scam by prosecutors, senators and the IRS. Now he’s a senior adviser to the General Services Administration, which manages the…
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/02/2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that he was firing Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations, and would be looking for her replacement.
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Pete Hegseth Fires Adm. Lisa Franchetti, Navy’s Top Officer
Adm. Lisa Franchetti spent roughly half of her 40-year career at sea, commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups and the U.S. Sixth Fleet.
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
It's a great evening for astronomy. Starting with Jupiter and its 4 Gallilean Moons in a line. (l to r) Callisto, Ganymede, Io and Europa #astronomy #astrophotography
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 22/02/2025
This will go well.
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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Clearest image of Pluto
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/02/2025
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled against a group of Jewish Holocaust survivors, saying they could not sue Hungary in the U.S. to recover the proceeds of property stolen by its state-owned railway. The company robbed hundreds of thousands of Jews before sending them to Nazi death camps in 1944.
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Supreme Court Rejects Holocaust Survivors’ Suit Against Hungary
The justices unanimously ruled that the plaintiffs had not established a connection to the United States required by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 21/02/2025
Banned from school by the Taliban, Afghan women fear President Donald Trump’s suspension of foreign assistance will deny them a last chance at an education.
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Trump’s foreign aid pause imperils education programs for Afghan women
U.S.-backed initiatives that allowed thousands of Afghan women to study online or abroad are in jeopardy after Trump’s suspension of foreign aid.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/02/2025
Trump draws strong support from farm states. But his enthusiasm for increasing taxes on all imported products could ignite a global trade war that boomerangs on American farmers, the principal targets of foreign retaliation in Trump’s first term.
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With multiple tariffs looming, farmers who support Trump grow nervous
President Trump draws strong support from farm states. But the prospect of a trade war sequel has farmers who voted for him on edge.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.
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Politico @politico.com · 21/02/2025
The first wave of White House-ordered firings at the FAA included employees who play key roles in the safety of air travel — despite the Trump admin’s assurances that no “critical” staff was axed. “Air traffic controllers cannot do their work without us,” one former employee told us.
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‘Air traffic controllers cannot do their work without us’
The Trump administration has defended its cuts at the Federal Aviation Administration by saying safety-critical employees weren't affected. Experts disagree.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/02/2025
Breaking News: Stocks tumbled as investors reacted to concerns about the economy and tariffs, erasing almost all gains since President Trump’s inauguration.
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Stock Market Sees Biggest Declines of Trump’s Presidency So Far
Fueling a 1.7 percent decline on Friday was an unexpected drop in the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index, as Americans worried about stubborn inflation.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/02/2025
Republicans aim to extend a $684 billion tax break that benefits many of them
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Republicans aim to extend a $684 billion tax break that benefits many of them
Proponents claim "small businesses" rely on the pass-through deduction, but the benefits greatly favor the very rich.
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Politico @politico.com · 21/02/2025
The Associated Press has sued Trump officials after being barred from some White House events.
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AP sues Trump officials after being barred from some White House events
The lawsuit says First and Fifth Amendment rights were violated.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/02/2025
At CPAC, a new group pushed for Donald Trump to serve an unconstitutional third term. The effort, called the Third Term Project, is being led by Shane Trejo. He once co-hosted a neo-Nazi adjacent podcast called “Blood Soil and Liberty.”
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GOP activist who co-hosted podcast with white nationalist pushes third Trump term at CPAC
Shane Trejo once co-hosted a podcast called "Blood Soil and Liberty" that joked about a "Fuhrer." Now, he's at CPAC pushing for Trump to be Caesar.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/02/2025
Senate Republicans approved a plan in the wee hours Friday to spend $350 billion to pay for President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign, border security crackdown and military investments.
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Senate approves $350 billion plan for Trump border and defense spending
The legislation starts Republicans’ budget reconciliation process but intensifies an intraparty feud with the House GOP.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/02/2025
Breaking news: President Trump abruptly dismissed the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a social media post, delivering a blow to the military’s top brass as the Trump administration moves to align the Pentagon with its “America First” agenda.
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Trump says he is replacing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has vowed to purge the Pentagon of what he has called “woke” policies and personnel, and to reshape the military’s top ranks.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 21/02/2025
They keep showing us exactly who they are.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 22/02/2025
There are 72 Republican veterans currently serving in Congress. Maybe a couple of them could weigh in on this.
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Mass federal layoffs deliver a gutting one-two punch to America's veterans
Veterans who lost their government jobs say they also have to worry about the potential fallout from cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 22/02/2025
Regardless of how much coverage it gets, Trump aiming to install a military command that places loyalty to him above loyalty to the constitution needs to be a much bigger story.
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It's The Pleiades @itsthepleiades.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Supernova remnants (SNRs). Would you believe, both of these SNRs are roughly the same age and size. Only difference is distance! G179, top left - 11,000 lya Simeis 147, bottom right - 3,000 lya Gives you a cool perspective on distance in space! Image credit: Stephane Vetter 🔭 #Space #Astronomy
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Universal-Sci @universal-sci.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The sky you see at night is a window into the past... The stars you see shone thousands to billions of years ago, their light only now reaching your eyes.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/02/2025
The “unhumans,” Jack Posobiec argued alongside co-author Joshua Lisec, were behind the Black Lives Matter movement, in charge of academia, and in control of corporations, the media, and even churches. So, of course, Trump and his cabinet members have decided to cozy up with Posobiec.
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Trump cabinet officials embrace far-right influencer who has praised fascists
Jack Posobiec hailed Francisco Franco and Augusto Pinochet as role models for the MAGA right.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/02/2025
Many Israelis and others around the world have anguished over the fates of Shiri Bibas and her two sons who were captured during the Hamas-led assault on Oct. 7. Hopes dissipated on Tuesday that they would be returned alive when Hamas said it would hand over at least some of their bodies this week.
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Bibas Children, Symbols of Hostage Crisis, to Come Home Dead, Hamas Says
Hamas said it would turn over the bodies of the boys, Ariel Bibas and his baby brother, Kfir, and their mother. Israel was expected to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 18/02/2025
Incompetence and malevolence are a toxic combination.
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USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Whatever else emerges in time about the Delta crash in Canada, one thing is certain: the importance & amazing professionalism of flight attendants who safely evacuated the plane in a matter of seconds.
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Frosty and sunny Monday morning. There's a Sun Pillar. @stormhour.bsky.social @photohour.bsky.social @metoffice.bsky.social
A sun pillar is a vertical beam of light that appears to extend from the sun. It's caused by sunlight reflecting off of ice crystals in the airSun pillars are most common at sunrise and sunset.  They occur when the sun is low on the horizon and are best seen when cirrus clouds are present.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
"Attorneys, he said, 'don’t resign because you disagree with the policies, but because you are being asked to do something you believe is ethically, morally or legally improper'...” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Mass resignation marks a new kind of defiance in the second Trump era
The Trump team has rarely if ever faced such resistance from within the government, a move that may pave the way for further defiance.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/02/2025
There is simply no legal architecture that would allow Musk, the richest man in the world, to remake the entire federal government without running afoul of criminal conflict of interest laws.
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There's no way Elon Musk’s job is legal
"Checks and balances, at the moment, seem to be neutralized.”
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