ALERT!!!

Land transfer from Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge to create DOD lands. This is a 60’ wide strip that extends 39 miles through the refuge.

This is laden with with problems— given the nature of the Refuge, rugged terrain, and (in)-ability to use/access the area.

The only analogy I can come up with too, but instead of a 22 year old Heritage intern it's a 19 year old intern from a Musk company who goes by bigballs online* and instead of Iraq it's the most powerful country in the history of the world

*not a joke

This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information.

This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

An unelected, erratic, ketamine-addled billionaire with far right/white nationalist views has taken control of the personnel and payment systems of the United States government. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole.

hi, cis folks! meet S.9. it's the senate sports ban for trans athletes—a big step to something making trump’s executive order federal law, which is much harder to undo.

short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️.

if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time.🧵


legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

11/25/2024 "People involved in drafting the conservative Heritage Foundation blueprint Project 2025 have advocated for wholesale replacement of inspectors general" (via @politico.com )

01/24/2025: Trump Fires 17 Inspectors General in Late-Night Purge

Get ready. Trump is going to fire most of the VA workforce, 70% of which are Veterans, then to "fix" the problems he created, he's going to privatize the VA and send our veterans to expensive, shitty corporate health mills after he slashes health benefits so he and his buddies can get richer.

Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945.
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)

“It’s difficult to believe the degradation of our information systems is by accident. If we’re unable to accurately report how and why we’re in this disaster, the people responsible won’t be held accountable. Their net worth continues to increase exponentially at the same clip as public ignorance.”

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

Food has a huge climate problem.

But we can fix it. A thread.

For those who are not yet beaver believers. A a stop-motion story of how rewilding with beavers can be an asset to healthy forests and waterways and curbing wildfires.

Her core premise is that people should use data to make the decisions that are best for them individually. Which is: a) the antithesis of public health, and b) a recipe for increasing inequality, because it basically means that privileged people can do what they want at the expense of everyone else.

Undecided voters not beating the "dumbest motherfuckers alive" allegations
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I will not be calling her by her stripper name. This place is nice though.

NEW! "Cars Are Done" with Adam McKay."

The Oscar–winner talks about the existential anxiety that led him to write and direct "Don’t Look Up" and why comedy is good for tackling big problems. Plus, why the age of the car is over… even if people don’t know it yet.

thewaroncars.org/2024/11/12/1...