Mel
madcowscientist.bsky.social
Mel
@madcowscientist.bsky.social
Mad, queer, Choctaw scientist. She/they. 🏳️‍🌈
Baltimore welcomes you, Chuck 🤡 i wish I could be part of the party, but unfortunately I'll be leaving my well appointed home office (that I've paid for for over a decade), to drive over an hour one way, to a shared office space to less efficiently,but ever as committedly serve the American people.
March 15, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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whether they’re retiring or not this should be the last term for each of them
The final tally to advance the CR is 62-38.

The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:

Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
March 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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A “digital book burning” is under way at federal agencies. Can volunteer archivists and data hoarders save the country’s files from DOGE?
The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?
www.newyorker.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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So Putin made the Trump envoy in Moscow wait 8 hours past the scheduled meeting time to meet with him, and this (below) is the length of the red carpet the Canadians put out for U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

This Administration is getting exactly the level of respect it deserves.
March 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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This is going to be important:

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
March 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.

Do not let anyone play games with you.
March 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.

Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters

Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
March 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Trump: "250 percent for dairy products, tariff"
Fact: That high tariff was negotiated by Trump in the USMCA and has never been used.
"as the U.S. dairy industry acknowledges, the U.S. is not hitting its allowed zero-tariff maximum in any category of dairy product."

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
Fact check: What Trump doesn’t mention about Canada’s dairy tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump correctly noted Friday, as he has before, that Canada has tariffs above 200 per cent on dairy products imported from the U.S.. But Trump again failed to mention a critical ...
www.ctvnews.ca
March 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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NEW: Institutions across the U.S. returned more than 10,300 Native American ancestors to tribes in 2024, making it the third-biggest year for repatriation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

By @maryhudetz.bsky.social
ProPublica Updates Its Database of Museums’ and Universities’ Compliance With Federal Repatriation Law
Institutions across the U.S. returned more than 10,300 Native American ancestors to tribes in 2024, making it the third-biggest year for repatriation under the Native American Graves Protection and…
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February 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM