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☀️THE SUMMER FIGHT FOR SCIENCE☀️

🫵 WHO: You + all our friends

🧪 WHAT: Share science with your neighbors and tell them about the impact of proposed budget cuts.

🇺🇸 WHERE: Your local community

🏖️ WHEN: Now to Sept 30th

🔬 WHY: The 9/30 budget vote will determine the future of science in America.
May 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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ooo she sounds smart and hot wonder if she has a name!!!
May 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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After the RIF notices from tonight here is an Updated NIOSH Org chart for your convenience.
May 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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President Donald Trump signed another executive order on Monday directing federal officials to boost legal protections for local police officers and encourage them “to aggressively police communities.”
Trump administration focuses on immigration record ahead of 100-day mark
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Hey Paul Weiss associates—meet your new pro bono clients. It’s ok, the Skadden associates are getting the coal companies.
April 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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A disgraced former Milwaukee cop with credibility issues helped seal the fate of a gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to El Salvador's notorious prison. Cross was fired from his position as a Milwaukee Police Sergeant in 2012 after driving his car into a family’s home while intoxicated.
Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced Milwaukee cop's report
Now a contractor for ICE, the officer was on the Brady list of disgraced cops in Milwaukee. His report helped send a man to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
www.jsonline.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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NEW @motherjones.com: I spoke to the former director of the USAID mission in Myanmar about how the loss of humanitarian foreign aid under Trump is crippling the earthquake response.

“We have the capacity to save lives, and the choice has been not to use it." ⤵️
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Without USAID, Myanmar is struggling to recover from its massive earthquake
“We have the capacity to save lives, and the choice has been not to use it,” said the former head of the agency's Myanmar mission.
www.motherjones.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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NEW: DOGE is trying to gift itself a building worth $500 million, court filings show. It's the culmination of a dramatic battle between DOGE and the United States Institute of Peace, a Congressionally funded think tank. www.wired.com/story/doge-t...
DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show
The documents reveal a DOGE affiliate is attempting to transfer the headquarters of an independent think tank, the United States Institute of Peace, to the government at no cost.
www.wired.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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With the abrupt shutdown of USAID funding, many clinics, including those serving women in remote areas, have shuttered. Midwives are reporting that mothers and babies are dying as a result.
A midwife says of the aid cuts in Afghanistan: 'No one prioritizes women's lives.'
With the abrupt shutdown of USAID funding, many clinics, including those serving women in remote areas, have shuttered. Midwives are reporting that mothers and babies are dying as a result.
www.npr.org
April 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education.

I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”.

Here is a portion:
March 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns.

100% of his salary is paid by WA state.

Elon fired him. Share his story.
February 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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In 1999, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then an environmental lawyer, was named by Time magazine as a “hero of the planet” for his pioneering work to clean up America’s waterways. On his second day as secretary of the DHHS, he ended HHS funding for health and climate change.
RFK Jr., one-time environmentalist, kills NIH climate change programs
He pulled HHS support from projects that aim to protect Americans' health.
www.motherjones.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Kudos to the school administrator who wrote this letter for making it clear to families what happened and who they should blame. This is the way to build a coalition--with a shared adversary and a reason to fight.
the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
February 16, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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It’s been a busy few days in government. We reported today that the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has been put on a cease-work order, effectively putting Big Tech regulations ‘on ice’. https://wrd.cm/4hymHqL
The CFPB Work Freeze Is Putting Big Tech Regulations ‘On Ice’
The cease-work order at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau won’t just affect lawsuits and enforcement actions. It will stall regulation that could govern tech companies like Apple and Google.
wrd.cm
February 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Elon Musk keeps using his vast reach online to boost and help spread hateful far-right ideology. Details in this new reporting from @nlanard.bsky.social @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Elon Musk keeps boosting white nationalists on X
One user Musk amplified frequently attacks Black people and has said he is "impressed" by the Holocaust.
www.motherjones.com
February 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Because this is getting downplayed in some of the coverage, the racist staffer DOGE rehired isn’t a case of “stupid things he wrote years ago as a teen.” He posted about how we should “normalize Indian hate” IN SEPTEMBER.
February 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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I wonder why Musk is focused on the federal civilian workforce (4% of the budget) and not federal contractors, which account for 3x more annual spending and are more prone to waste, fraud, and abuse?
February 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Dickheads of Gargantuan Ego (DOGE) have now gained access to the IT servers at the NOAA.

They have taken down several department websites, including the website that stores global CO2 data from observations taken in Hawaii.

That data is still accessible here.
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
The Keeling Curve
The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
February 6, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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This is Nazi purge stuff. 40 years of service, only to be kicked to the curb like trash by fascists.
Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice
Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM