Khoward
@khoward1776.bsky.social
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It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.
April 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.
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Not only is this great analysis by @lizdye.bsky.social at #PublicNotice, but I find her brand of legal snark quite irresistible. A very good read.
www.publicnotice.co/p/bondi-croc...
www.publicnotice.co/p/bondi-croc...
Bondi demands Crockett apologize for aggravated mean to Elon
Hurting Musk's feefees is not a crime no matter how many Fox hits the AG does.
www.publicnotice.co
March 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Not only is this great analysis by @lizdye.bsky.social at #PublicNotice, but I find her brand of legal snark quite irresistible. A very good read.
www.publicnotice.co/p/bondi-croc...
www.publicnotice.co/p/bondi-croc...
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wait, so is this a *different* cybercrime ring that "big balls" was already found to have worked for?? www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
Exclusive: DOGE staffer, 'Big Balls', provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show
The best-known member of Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
wait, so is this a *different* cybercrime ring that "big balls" was already found to have worked for?? www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
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NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence."
The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."
The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."
Negligently disclosing national defense information is illegal — and it doesn't have to be classified
The Espionage Act, the law that often has been used in criminal cases involving leaks or mishandling of classified information, contains a provision making it
www.nbcnews.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence."
The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."
The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."
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Mississippi State University's Coastal Conservation and Restoration Lab taught students to grow salt marsh plants for shoreline reconstruction projects.
The Trump administration ended it as part of its crackdown on environmental spending.
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The Trump administration ended it as part of its crackdown on environmental spending.
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Trump Follows Project 2025 Blueprint on Environment, Climate
Mississippi is already feeling impacts as the Trump administration slashes environmental protection funding and ends efforts to fight climate change.
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March 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Mississippi State University's Coastal Conservation and Restoration Lab taught students to grow salt marsh plants for shoreline reconstruction projects.
The Trump administration ended it as part of its crackdown on environmental spending.
Read more:
The Trump administration ended it as part of its crackdown on environmental spending.
Read more:
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Perhaps the most insidious thing President Musk is doing is decimating the federal government's production of data. This will make it more difficult for his critics to show, objectively, how stupid his policies are. Stalin did the same thing and executed a great economist named Nikolai Kondratiev.
March 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Perhaps the most insidious thing President Musk is doing is decimating the federal government's production of data. This will make it more difficult for his critics to show, objectively, how stupid his policies are. Stalin did the same thing and executed a great economist named Nikolai Kondratiev.
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INBOX: @RepTimBurchett’s form response to voters concerned about his vote for the House GOP budget falsely claims it doesn’t cut Medicaid and SNAP (it does) and says it lowers inflation and the deficit (it doesn’t)
He better hope his voters don’t have Google! 😬
He better hope his voters don’t have Google! 😬
March 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
INBOX: @RepTimBurchett’s form response to voters concerned about his vote for the House GOP budget falsely claims it doesn’t cut Medicaid and SNAP (it does) and says it lowers inflation and the deficit (it doesn’t)
He better hope his voters don’t have Google! 😬
He better hope his voters don’t have Google! 😬
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The judge ordered OPM to immediately notify federal agencies of the ruling, including the Department of Defense. He stated: "The Office of Personnel Management does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe to hire and fire employees at another agency."
February 28, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The judge ordered OPM to immediately notify federal agencies of the ruling, including the Department of Defense. He stated: "The Office of Personnel Management does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe to hire and fire employees at another agency."
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Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.
February 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.
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Tommy Tuberville puts Jesus in his place
Tommy Tuberville: "We gotta get rid of this nonsense of social justice."
February 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Tommy Tuberville puts Jesus in his place
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Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
WASHINGTON—Saying his latest executive order was legal due to an “underutilized but totally feasible workaround,” President Trump claimed Tuesday that he could overrule the U.S. Constitution by means ...
theonion.com
February 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
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The person keeping you from dying from Listeria is a federal employee.
The person making sure your plane doesn’t fall out of the sky is a federal employee.
The person busting up drug rings is a federal employee.
The person prosecuting terrorists is a federal employee.
The person making sure your plane doesn’t fall out of the sky is a federal employee.
The person busting up drug rings is a federal employee.
The person prosecuting terrorists is a federal employee.
February 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The person keeping you from dying from Listeria is a federal employee.
The person making sure your plane doesn’t fall out of the sky is a federal employee.
The person busting up drug rings is a federal employee.
The person prosecuting terrorists is a federal employee.
The person making sure your plane doesn’t fall out of the sky is a federal employee.
The person busting up drug rings is a federal employee.
The person prosecuting terrorists is a federal employee.
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Presidents do not have security clearances. There is nothing revoke.
The next media person who says Trump “revoked Biden’s clearances” is going to get shoved through a window.
The next media person who says Trump “revoked Biden’s clearances” is going to get shoved through a window.
February 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Presidents do not have security clearances. There is nothing revoke.
The next media person who says Trump “revoked Biden’s clearances” is going to get shoved through a window.
The next media person who says Trump “revoked Biden’s clearances” is going to get shoved through a window.
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"Do you think gutting their budgets to enrich private schools is a sensible approach to helping these public schools improve? No? That is what the so-called “school choice” advocates are proposing," Erica Jones writes.
https://buff.ly/40nz6HL
https://buff.ly/40nz6HL
January 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"Do you think gutting their budgets to enrich private schools is a sensible approach to helping these public schools improve? No? That is what the so-called “school choice” advocates are proposing," Erica Jones writes.
https://buff.ly/40nz6HL
https://buff.ly/40nz6HL
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If you think only billionaires can control social media, You are absolutely wrong. Social media is completely dependent on its users. Think about why you do or did use FB, ThreadsTik tok or Twitter. It's because they have enough users. Take away all the "normies" and they all are worthless
January 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
If you think only billionaires can control social media, You are absolutely wrong. Social media is completely dependent on its users. Think about why you do or did use FB, ThreadsTik tok or Twitter. It's because they have enough users. Take away all the "normies" and they all are worthless
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The fruitless search for nonexistent common ground instantaneously normalizes Trump. Dems should not propound the dubious assertion that Trump operates in good faith. Mouthing this platitude makes Ds look weak, foolish and unprepared to stand up to fascism
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Democrats shouldn’t try to find ‘common ground’ with Trump
Unwise, premature and embarrassing outreach from what is supposed to be the opposition.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 23, 2024 at 2:08 PM
The fruitless search for nonexistent common ground instantaneously normalizes Trump. Dems should not propound the dubious assertion that Trump operates in good faith. Mouthing this platitude makes Ds look weak, foolish and unprepared to stand up to fascism
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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As President-elect Trump proposes US annexations vs Denmark, Panama, and Canada - and a US missile war inside Mexico - a relink to this: MAGA isn't isolationist. MAGA is predatory. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
America’s Lonely Future
What happens when the nation takes a zero-sum approach to the world?
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2024 at 1:14 PM
As President-elect Trump proposes US annexations vs Denmark, Panama, and Canada - and a US missile war inside Mexico - a relink to this: MAGA isn't isolationist. MAGA is predatory. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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BREAKING: Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin KILL Biden nominee for Nat'l Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which would've meant Dem majority till '26
Instead Trump gets to set labor rules
So when EVERYONE in America loses overtime - as Project 2025 promises - thank Sinema and Manchin
Instead Trump gets to set labor rules
So when EVERYONE in America loses overtime - as Project 2025 promises - thank Sinema and Manchin
December 11, 2024 at 11:38 PM
BREAKING: Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin KILL Biden nominee for Nat'l Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which would've meant Dem majority till '26
Instead Trump gets to set labor rules
So when EVERYONE in America loses overtime - as Project 2025 promises - thank Sinema and Manchin
Instead Trump gets to set labor rules
So when EVERYONE in America loses overtime - as Project 2025 promises - thank Sinema and Manchin
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Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines:
Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
November 17, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines:
Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
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Looking forward to learning how appointing an accused child-sex-trafficker as AG and a suspected Russian asset as DNI will lower the price of eggs
November 14, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Looking forward to learning how appointing an accused child-sex-trafficker as AG and a suspected Russian asset as DNI will lower the price of eggs
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They should still release it.
BREAKING NEWS:
Matt Gaetz resigned from Congress today, two days before the House Ethics Committee was set to vote on releasing a “highly damaging” report about sexual misconduct, illicit drug use, and improper gifts.
The Ethics Committee loses jurisdiction over Gaetz once he leaves Congress.
Matt Gaetz resigned from Congress today, two days before the House Ethics Committee was set to vote on releasing a “highly damaging” report about sexual misconduct, illicit drug use, and improper gifts.
The Ethics Committee loses jurisdiction over Gaetz once he leaves Congress.
November 14, 2024 at 2:16 AM
They should still release it.