@ben429.bsky.social
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Every time I hear Xiye speak, I learn something new. Now, more than ever, we need voices like hers - original, compelling, and grounded. If you care about climate, watch this! ⬇️
February 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Every time I hear Xiye speak, I learn something new. Now, more than ever, we need voices like hers - original, compelling, and grounded. If you care about climate, watch this! ⬇️
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Why does this work? I couldn’t even get past NOAA security to make my meeting on time.
“They apparently just sort of walked past security and said: ‘Get out of my way,’ and they’re looking for access for the IT systems, as they have in other agencies,” said a former Noaa official. “They will have access to the entire computer system, a lot of which is confidential information.”
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Why does this work? I couldn’t even get past NOAA security to make my meeting on time.
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BREAKING: Representatives of Elon Musk’s “DOGE” have gotten into the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where they have accessed key payment and contracting systems.
February 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
BREAKING: Representatives of Elon Musk’s “DOGE” have gotten into the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where they have accessed key payment and contracting systems.
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'A confident Democratic Party would ask, “Who elected Elon Musk?” It seems an act of will not to make that a rallying cry. When life gives you a Bond villain, make Bond-villain lemonade.' My column. on.ft.com/3WK5gLe
While Democrats sleep
[FREE TO READ] As Donald Trump tears up America’s rule book, the minority party can’t work out how to respond
on.ft.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
'A confident Democratic Party would ask, “Who elected Elon Musk?” It seems an act of will not to make that a rallying cry. When life gives you a Bond villain, make Bond-villain lemonade.' My column. on.ft.com/3WK5gLe
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🚨JOURNALISM JOB ALERT🚨
Ever looked at one of @propublica.org's news apps, like Nonprofit Explorer, and think "I wanna make things like this for a living"?
Cool, because we're hiring for a Deputy News Apps Editor!
Details, including salary range and application, here 👇👇
Ever looked at one of @propublica.org's news apps, like Nonprofit Explorer, and think "I wanna make things like this for a living"?
Cool, because we're hiring for a Deputy News Apps Editor!
Details, including salary range and application, here 👇👇
Deputy News Applications Editor
New York, New York, United States
boards.greenhouse.io
February 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
🚨JOURNALISM JOB ALERT🚨
Ever looked at one of @propublica.org's news apps, like Nonprofit Explorer, and think "I wanna make things like this for a living"?
Cool, because we're hiring for a Deputy News Apps Editor!
Details, including salary range and application, here 👇👇
Ever looked at one of @propublica.org's news apps, like Nonprofit Explorer, and think "I wanna make things like this for a living"?
Cool, because we're hiring for a Deputy News Apps Editor!
Details, including salary range and application, here 👇👇
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Elon Musk bought the United States of America—the most powerful nation in the world—for $200M. For scale, Steve Ballmer bought the LA Clippers for $2B. The fucking Clippers.
February 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Elon Musk bought the United States of America—the most powerful nation in the world—for $200M. For scale, Steve Ballmer bought the LA Clippers for $2B. The fucking Clippers.
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"Everyone thinks of solar like the Whole Foods of energy - better for you, but pricey. In fact, it's now the Costco of energy, and everyone needs to know that." - yet another unforgettable thought from @billmckibben.bsky.social
TODAY at 1PM E / 10AM P!
Join @revyearwood.bsky.social, @billmckibben.bsky.social, and many more as we team up with the Music Sustainability Alliance to address the link between the wildfires and climate change, and explore what lies ahead. Free watch link here: teamhappily.zoom.us/j/85635428469
Join @revyearwood.bsky.social, @billmckibben.bsky.social, and many more as we team up with the Music Sustainability Alliance to address the link between the wildfires and climate change, and explore what lies ahead. Free watch link here: teamhappily.zoom.us/j/85635428469
February 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"Everyone thinks of solar like the Whole Foods of energy - better for you, but pricey. In fact, it's now the Costco of energy, and everyone needs to know that." - yet another unforgettable thought from @billmckibben.bsky.social
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you've radicalized me | patreon.com/lubchansky
February 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
you've radicalized me | patreon.com/lubchansky
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i know a lot of gov employees are watching my feed at the moment 👇
Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly
February 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
i know a lot of gov employees are watching my feed at the moment 👇
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last night was my first time experiencing TRUE dark skies.
it was such an emotional experience and it made me hate light pollution even more.
it was such an emotional experience and it made me hate light pollution even more.
February 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
last night was my first time experiencing TRUE dark skies.
it was such an emotional experience and it made me hate light pollution even more.
it was such an emotional experience and it made me hate light pollution even more.
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There's such a tone of sadness to the CBC reporting right now. Adrienne Arsenault says, “I feel like the whole country, all of us, are getting both a history lesson and a politics lesson and an economics lesson and a lesson in heartache.”
February 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
There's such a tone of sadness to the CBC reporting right now. Adrienne Arsenault says, “I feel like the whole country, all of us, are getting both a history lesson and a politics lesson and an economics lesson and a lesson in heartache.”
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President Donald Trump’s new trade levies against China, Canada and Mexico include a broadside against e-commerce, with apparent plans to extinguish a long-held tariff exemption for packages worth less than $800.
Trump Tariffs Target Loophole Used by Chinese Online Retailers
President Donald Trump’s new trade levies against China, Canada and Mexico include a broadside against e-commerce, with apparent plans to extinguish a long-held tariff exemption for packages worth les...
www.bloomberg.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:17 AM
President Donald Trump’s new trade levies against China, Canada and Mexico include a broadside against e-commerce, with apparent plans to extinguish a long-held tariff exemption for packages worth less than $800.
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USAID provides lifesaving humanitarian aid around the globe.
Musk, the world's wealthiest man, is calling for its closure, describing it as a "criminal organization."
And it looks like Musk will get his way.
This is America.
Musk, the world's wealthiest man, is calling for its closure, describing it as a "criminal organization."
And it looks like Musk will get his way.
This is America.
February 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
USAID provides lifesaving humanitarian aid around the globe.
Musk, the world's wealthiest man, is calling for its closure, describing it as a "criminal organization."
And it looks like Musk will get his way.
This is America.
Musk, the world's wealthiest man, is calling for its closure, describing it as a "criminal organization."
And it looks like Musk will get his way.
This is America.
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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
www.finance.senate.gov
February 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
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AMAZING! A GROUNDBREAKING sickle cell disease treatment has been APPROVED for NHS use. Exagamglogene (exa-cel) SUCCESSFULLY edits the faulty gene in a patient’s OWN stem cells. Researchers concluded there was a functional cure in 97% of trial participants that received it! Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️
February 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
AMAZING! A GROUNDBREAKING sickle cell disease treatment has been APPROVED for NHS use. Exagamglogene (exa-cel) SUCCESSFULLY edits the faulty gene in a patient’s OWN stem cells. Researchers concluded there was a functional cure in 97% of trial participants that received it! Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️
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American media organizations have constitutional rights that are the envy of journalists around the world, but it seems they are just not brave enough to assert them. As we can now see, when press freedom dies in this country, it will die not with a bang but a whimper. www.wsj.com/business/med...
FCC Requests ‘60 Minutes’ Harris Interview Material as it Reviews Paramount-Skydance Merger
The government has asked for the footage and transcript from the segment, which is the subject of a lawsuit against CBS by President Trump, according to people familiar with the situation.
www.wsj.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:39 PM
American media organizations have constitutional rights that are the envy of journalists around the world, but it seems they are just not brave enough to assert them. As we can now see, when press freedom dies in this country, it will die not with a bang but a whimper. www.wsj.com/business/med...
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I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13
List of CDC information that appears to have been taken down so far:
1. CDC Atlas
2. CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
3. HRSA Target
4. Language removed for LGBT work
5. CDC Social Vulnerability Index
1. CDC Atlas
2. CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
3. HRSA Target
4. Language removed for LGBT work
5. CDC Social Vulnerability Index
January 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13
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Holy crap, check this book out!
Hi! My name is David Luján I’m an indigenous person of mixed race from Austin Texas. I draw comics n stuff for people. The image below is written by Irwin Tang a Chinese American also raised in Texas. The comic touches on ALL of that and more.
neridacomic.com
neridacomic.com
January 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Holy crap, check this book out!
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NEW: Vera Rubin was a pioneering female astronomer. The federal webpage for an observatory named for her now excludes mention of efforts to diversify science.
“I’m sure Vera would be absolutely furious,” said a co-author of a biography of Rubin.
By @lisalsong.bsky.social
“I’m sure Vera would be absolutely furious,” said a co-author of a biography of Rubin.
By @lisalsong.bsky.social
Vera Rubin Was a Pioneering Female Astronomer. Her Federal Bio Now Doesn’t Mention Efforts to Diversify Science.
The edits to the webpage offer a glimpse into how far the Trump administration will go in refusing to acknowledge today’s inequalities as it purges federal initiatives promoting diversity, equity and…
propub.li
January 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
NEW: Vera Rubin was a pioneering female astronomer. The federal webpage for an observatory named for her now excludes mention of efforts to diversify science.
“I’m sure Vera would be absolutely furious,” said a co-author of a biography of Rubin.
By @lisalsong.bsky.social
“I’m sure Vera would be absolutely furious,” said a co-author of a biography of Rubin.
By @lisalsong.bsky.social
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this is critical. lesson: organize, focus, make sure ordinary people understand the stakes
@velshi.bsky.social on the White House rescinding the Trump funding freeze memo: “Do not miss what happened here: a widespread backlash from politicians, but also from activists, from nonprofits, from lawyers, from everyday people forced this reversal.”
January 30, 2025 at 2:11 AM
this is critical. lesson: organize, focus, make sure ordinary people understand the stakes
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I am not trying to be cruel but I agree: it is an enormously bad time to be trying to break into games. It’s a bad time to be a senior+ in games even, & I don’t see it improving soon. By all means, keep making art you care about, but it’s so unlikely to be a “pay the bills” career at this point.
with the bioware layoffs that’s more narrative people looking for work. there are currently like three jobs in narrative design. if you’re just starting out you should definitely learn literally anything else
January 30, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I am not trying to be cruel but I agree: it is an enormously bad time to be trying to break into games. It’s a bad time to be a senior+ in games even, & I don’t see it improving soon. By all means, keep making art you care about, but it’s so unlikely to be a “pay the bills” career at this point.
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Some days you need the dragon, powerful and protective; some days you are the dragon, fierce and full of fire
January 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Some days you need the dragon, powerful and protective; some days you are the dragon, fierce and full of fire