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Susan Monarez, the CDC director, was fired just shy of a month into her role. At least four other top CDC officials have also submitted their resignations, with one of them writing, “I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponizing of public health.”
CDC director pushed out; flood of top resignations follow
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and several top officials are departing in a massive shake-up at the embattled agency.
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August 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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I was the executive director of U.S. Open Data, a non-profit that I created at the behest of the Obama White House. I worked as one of the nation's leading experts in open data. Putting open data on the blockchain is a profoundly stupid idea that fails nearly every test of good open data.
The White House Is Going to Put Government Statistics on the Blockchain (Yeah, We Don't Know Why Either)
gizmodo.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Those who have the power to stop mass shootings can go to hell with their "thoughts and prayers."

Do something about it, you evil bastards.
August 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Finished Sweet Tooth tonight, which wasn’t very good. Would have been better off re-reading Atonement. Hopefully the next book I read will be better.
August 28, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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A leaked internal National Park Service report details the consequences of staffing shortages and contracting delays across the entire park system.

It does NOT look good...

#nationalparks #parkchat #nationalparkservice #NPS
National Parks Nationwide Are Suffering Significantly From Staffing Shortages, Leaked NPS Report Shows
This summer, Americans streaming into their national parks are being greeted not just by mountains, rivers, and wildlife but by unmanned entrance stations, shuttered doors, and “Reduced Hours” signs.
thenationalparksexperience.substack.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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They’re going to rebrand it as the Centers for Disease Creation
August 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH

The media who do this are heartless bastards
August 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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ah yes, vital that we have housing for cars and not people
Here’s the clip of CM Padilla bragging about reducing the size of a 100% affordable housing project in her district and increasing the amount of parking while arguing against the transit oriented upzoning bill SB 79.

(ED 1 is an affordable housing program in LA.)
August 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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The idea of gathering thousands of petition signatures doesn’t sound ~exciting~

which makes it all the more heartwarming to talk with some of the dozens of folks getting signatures for our campaign at our notarizing party tonight!!!
August 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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It’s almost as if appointing an anti-vax lunatic with zero qualifications to oversee America’s health was a numbskull idea and everybody with a functioning brain knew it.
August 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Always on the move 📚✨
From Paris to London, to online classes, learning never stops.
Whether it's business fundamentals, fashion management, or digitalization and sustainability, staying curious is the key to continuous growth. 🌍

#LifelongLearning #KeepGrowing
August 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning
August 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters.

Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Louisiana Will No Longer Defend Map in Supreme Court Case on Future of VRA
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Sleeping Bear Dunes. If you go down and can't get up....the rescue fee is $3,000! We...did not attempt.
August 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Psaki: I felt a mixture of anger—a lot of anger—and emotional exhaustion about this today, as I’m sure many of you have, because we have been here so many times.

And yet again, like clockwork, half the politicians in our country have little more to offer than thoughts and prayers.
August 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM