Dude Sweet
@dudesweet.bsky.social
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Get used to disappointment.
Get used to disappointment.
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The destruction of Goddard Space Flight Center by Secretary Sean "Road Rules" Duffy is unforgivable
NASA contributes to the advancement of science, stimulates the economy, develops technology & inspires humanity
There is no benefit to America if Goddard is shuttered
www.space.com/space-explor...
NASA contributes to the advancement of science, stimulates the economy, develops technology & inspires humanity
There is no benefit to America if Goddard is shuttered
www.space.com/space-explor...
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
www.space.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The destruction of Goddard Space Flight Center by Secretary Sean "Road Rules" Duffy is unforgivable
NASA contributes to the advancement of science, stimulates the economy, develops technology & inspires humanity
There is no benefit to America if Goddard is shuttered
www.space.com/space-explor...
NASA contributes to the advancement of science, stimulates the economy, develops technology & inspires humanity
There is no benefit to America if Goddard is shuttered
www.space.com/space-explor...
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A new senate report is full of *shocking* details about DOGE activities inside the federal government. Including, unfortunately, the disturbing access that DOGE affiliates had to our SSNs:
"One whistleblower noted the possibility that the agency may need to re-issue SSNs to all who possess one."
"One whistleblower noted the possibility that the agency may need to re-issue SSNs to all who possess one."
Armed Guards and Muscle Milk: Senate Investigation Reveals DOGE Takeover Details
A new Senate report claims DOGE put every American's Social Security number at risk—and that officials at federal agencies essentially obstructed an investigation, all but denying DOGE even exists.
www.wired.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A new senate report is full of *shocking* details about DOGE activities inside the federal government. Including, unfortunately, the disturbing access that DOGE affiliates had to our SSNs:
"One whistleblower noted the possibility that the agency may need to re-issue SSNs to all who possess one."
"One whistleblower noted the possibility that the agency may need to re-issue SSNs to all who possess one."
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Yam Tits' voice is only tolerable when channeled by Bransen Gates (1/2)
🎩 @amoneyresists.bsky.social
🎩 @amoneyresists.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Yam Tits' voice is only tolerable when channeled by Bransen Gates (1/2)
🎩 @amoneyresists.bsky.social
🎩 @amoneyresists.bsky.social
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By charging Americans 15% tax to buy Toyota, but charging GM 50+% tax to import their raw materials, Trump is *crushing US manufacturing*
July 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
By charging Americans 15% tax to buy Toyota, but charging GM 50+% tax to import their raw materials, Trump is *crushing US manufacturing*
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Yet another seismic decision fundamentally reshaping our system of government issued on the shadow docket with not even a single word of explanation.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
From Sotomayor's dissent:
July 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Yet another seismic decision fundamentally reshaping our system of government issued on the shadow docket with not even a single word of explanation.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
From Sotomayor's dissent:
July 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
From Sotomayor's dissent:
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there's a specific definition and rational for the measure – I too was skeptical but learnt about it from Joe Devine @uniofbath.bsky.social researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/j... But what's most convincing is this figure, again from @ourworldindata.org ourworldindata.org/the-history-...
July 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
there's a specific definition and rational for the measure – I too was skeptical but learnt about it from Joe Devine @uniofbath.bsky.social researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/j... But what's most convincing is this figure, again from @ourworldindata.org ourworldindata.org/the-history-...
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The new @lastweektonight.com piece on juvenile incarceration featured several @ProPublica stories.
First up was our 2021 investigation with @wpln.bsky.social about young Black kids in Tennessee jailed for a crime that doesn't exist:
www.propublica.org/article/blac...
First up was our 2021 investigation with @wpln.bsky.social about young Black kids in Tennessee jailed for a crime that doesn't exist:
www.propublica.org/article/blac...
June 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The new @lastweektonight.com piece on juvenile incarceration featured several @ProPublica stories.
First up was our 2021 investigation with @wpln.bsky.social about young Black kids in Tennessee jailed for a crime that doesn't exist:
www.propublica.org/article/blac...
First up was our 2021 investigation with @wpln.bsky.social about young Black kids in Tennessee jailed for a crime that doesn't exist:
www.propublica.org/article/blac...
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“Ninety-two percent of the targeted Medicaid recipients already work, are in school, have family caregiving responsibilities or have disabilities.” The proposed work requirements have nothing to do with waste, they are designed to cut enrollment through paperwork. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...
Opinion | We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
“Ninety-two percent of the targeted Medicaid recipients already work, are in school, have family caregiving responsibilities or have disabilities.” The proposed work requirements have nothing to do with waste, they are designed to cut enrollment through paperwork. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...
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If this is an accurate description of what is happening, the administration is unambiguously violating the law. The statute they’re citing does not allow the exec to ignore the governor like this.
June 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
If this is an accurate description of what is happening, the administration is unambiguously violating the law. The statute they’re citing does not allow the exec to ignore the governor like this.
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This guy is like one of 4 Americans who actually went and got their REAL ID and immediately they said it was a fake.
Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone
Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone
The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.
U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed and held in immigration raid before being released
The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.
nbcnews.to
May 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This guy is like one of 4 Americans who actually went and got their REAL ID and immediately they said it was a fake.
Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone
Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone
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Yes, 100%. Setting aside the sheer human impact, it's bad as a matter of public policy; it undermines the rule of law by discouraging compliance.
Once again, for the folks in back.
It is a bad idea to arrest people in courthouses. This discourages people, innocent and guilty alike, from coming to court to address their problems legally and peacefully -- which means they will instead solve their problems through other-than-legal methods.
It is a bad idea to arrest people in courthouses. This discourages people, innocent and guilty alike, from coming to court to address their problems legally and peacefully -- which means they will instead solve their problems through other-than-legal methods.
May 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Yes, 100%. Setting aside the sheer human impact, it's bad as a matter of public policy; it undermines the rule of law by discouraging compliance.
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Again, why do they dress like a band of highwaymen instead of a properly constituted police force? They’re inside the security envelope of a public courthouse.
Here's a picture that a @kuow.org photographer took in Seattle yesterday, showing the ICE officers masked up in the hallways as they waited to arrest people coming out of their hearings.
May 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Again, why do they dress like a band of highwaymen instead of a properly constituted police force? They’re inside the security envelope of a public courthouse.
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NEW — Kelvin Membreño will be deported to El Salvador by ICE tomorrow. He’s the birth father of three US citizen daughters and has become an important part of their lives.
Here their adoptive mother makes a last ditch plea to let him stay in the same country as the girls. A gutting guest essay:
Here their adoptive mother makes a last ditch plea to let him stay in the same country as the girls. A gutting guest essay:
A mother's urgent plea to stop ICE from deporting her daughters’ birth father tomorrow
He served his time in the US. He deserves to heal here, too.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
NEW — Kelvin Membreño will be deported to El Salvador by ICE tomorrow. He’s the birth father of three US citizen daughters and has become an important part of their lives.
Here their adoptive mother makes a last ditch plea to let him stay in the same country as the girls. A gutting guest essay:
Here their adoptive mother makes a last ditch plea to let him stay in the same country as the girls. A gutting guest essay:
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court’s conservatives allow Trump’s firing of members of multi-member boards to remain in effect during litigation, effectively overruling a 90-year-old precedent.
The liberal justices, in an opinion by Kagan, dissents.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
The liberal justices, in an opinion by Kagan, dissents.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 24A966
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL. U. GWYNNE A. WILCOX, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[May 22, 2025]
The Government has applied for a stay of orders from the District Court for the District of Columbia enjoining the President's removal of a member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), respectively. The President is prohibited by statute from removing these officers except for cause, and no qualifying cause was given.
See 29
U.S. C. §153(a); 5 U. S. C. §1202(d).
The application for stay presented to THE CHIEF JUSTICE and by him referred to the Court is granted. Because the Constitution vests the executive power in the President, see Art. I1, §1, cl. 1, he may remove without cause executive officers who exercise that power on his behalf, subject to narrow exceptions recognized by our precedents, see Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 591 U.S. 197, 215-218 (2020). The stay reflects our judgment that the Government is likely to show that both the NLRB and MSPB exercise considerable executive power. But we do not ultimately decide in this posture whether the NLRB or MSPB falls within such a recognized exception; that question is better left for resolution after full briefing and argu-ment. The stay also reflects our judgment that the Government faces greater risk of harm from an order allowing a removed officer to continue exercising the executive power than a wrongfully removed officer faces from being unable to perform her statutory duty. See Trump v. International](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreihpfprz3gcbibsuvscdqwzmycut2tseklgiqiug2vq7zg3b6suh7e@jpeg)
May 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court’s conservatives allow Trump’s firing of members of multi-member boards to remain in effect during litigation, effectively overruling a 90-year-old precedent.
The liberal justices, in an opinion by Kagan, dissents.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
The liberal justices, in an opinion by Kagan, dissents.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
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Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorologist on TV, most of the underlying information comes from the federal government.
By @rhersher.bsky.social
By @rhersher.bsky.social
Where does your weather forecast come from?
Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorologist on TV, most of the underlying information comes from the federal government.
www.npr.org
May 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorologist on TV, most of the underlying information comes from the federal government.
By @rhersher.bsky.social
By @rhersher.bsky.social
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Standing in awe of the @propublica.org team helmed by @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social that pulled off this journalistic feat: a stunning narrative that painstakingly captures Helene’s tragedies and NC’s missed opportunities. www.propublica.org/article/hurr.... www.propublica.org/article/hurr...
Helene’s Unheard Warnings
As Hurricane Helene barreled toward Yancey County in North Carolina, communities along the Cane River in the Black Mountains were particularly vulnerable. But there were no evacuation orders, and few ...
www.propublica.org
May 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Standing in awe of the @propublica.org team helmed by @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social that pulled off this journalistic feat: a stunning narrative that painstakingly captures Helene’s tragedies and NC’s missed opportunities. www.propublica.org/article/hurr.... www.propublica.org/article/hurr...
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Judge Howell's actual order is unusually long—she not only reinstates the true board members but also boots DOGE's imposter board members and nullifies all of the illegal actions they took during their illegitimate takeover of the Institute of Peace. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
May 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Judge Howell's actual order is unusually long—she not only reinstates the true board members but also boots DOGE's imposter board members and nullifies all of the illegal actions they took during their illegitimate takeover of the Institute of Peace. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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It's remarkable how much of this administration's agenda has been laser focused on simply making life worse for ordinary Americans.
Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.
CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.
wrd.cm
May 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It's remarkable how much of this administration's agenda has been laser focused on simply making life worse for ordinary Americans.
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wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
May 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
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My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books
May 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books