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NEW: 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 grasped what was coming.
By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social and @cgaribay.bsky.social
But there were no evacuation orders, and few grasped what was coming.
By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social and @cgaribay.bsky.social
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 12:01 PM
NEW: 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 grasped what was coming.
By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social and @cgaribay.bsky.social
But there were no evacuation orders, and few grasped what was coming.
By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social and @cgaribay.bsky.social
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The government plans to call Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg to the witness stand. The trial is expected to run nearly two months in a federal courtroom in Washington.
The biggest trial in Meta's history starts today. Here's what to know
The government plans to call Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg to the witness stand. The trial is expected to run nearly two months in a federal courtroom in Washington.
www.npr.org
April 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The government plans to call Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg to the witness stand. The trial is expected to run nearly two months in a federal courtroom in Washington.
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Trump and DOGE are “trying to get around” privacy laws to gather everyone’s personal information and data, despite rules meant to ensure the president can’t “create an enemies list."
Read @justinglawe.bsky.social's coverage ⤵️
Read @justinglawe.bsky.social's coverage ⤵️
Trump and DOGE Are 'Trying to Get Around' Privacy Laws to Gather Your Personal Info
Donald Trump and DOGE want access to the personal data and information of nearly everyone in the country, including legal and undocumented immigrants.
www.rollingstone.com
April 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Trump and DOGE are “trying to get around” privacy laws to gather everyone’s personal information and data, despite rules meant to ensure the president can’t “create an enemies list."
Read @justinglawe.bsky.social's coverage ⤵️
Read @justinglawe.bsky.social's coverage ⤵️
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Something to think about
March 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Something to think about
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Foreign governments are trying to lure US scientists to move abroad as the Trump administration roils the research world with funding cuts and blacklists of some fields. Governor Maura Healey has raised the alarm in Massachusetts.
Healey sounds alarm over foreign recruiting of Mass. scientists - The Boston Globe
Countries in the Middle East and Europe, as well as China, are telling Massachusetts scientists, “We’ll give you a lab, we’ll give you staff,” Governor Healey said.
www.bostonglobe.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Foreign governments are trying to lure US scientists to move abroad as the Trump administration roils the research world with funding cuts and blacklists of some fields. Governor Maura Healey has raised the alarm in Massachusetts.
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In a recent appearance on Fox News, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ate French fries cooked in beef tallow and mused that 'food is medicine.' Nutrition scientists are scratching their heads.
Are beef tallow fries any healthier? These nutritionists say don't kid yourself
In a recent appearance on Fox News, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ate French fries cooked in beef tallow and mused that 'food is medicine.' Nutrition scientists are scratching their heads.
www.npr.org
March 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
In a recent appearance on Fox News, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ate French fries cooked in beef tallow and mused that 'food is medicine.' Nutrition scientists are scratching their heads.
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We covered this story 8 months ago when it first broke - awful case is finally getting some much needed sunlight: youtu.be/zM9wiqmOmbU?...
March 13, 2025 at 1:35 AM
We covered this story 8 months ago when it first broke - awful case is finally getting some much needed sunlight: youtu.be/zM9wiqmOmbU?...
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Pam Bondi says “national security” information will be redacted from Epstein files.
I can only think of one or two names that could be directly related to “national security” at this present point in time.
I can only think of one or two names that could be directly related to “national security” at this present point in time.
March 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Pam Bondi says “national security” information will be redacted from Epstein files.
I can only think of one or two names that could be directly related to “national security” at this present point in time.
I can only think of one or two names that could be directly related to “national security” at this present point in time.
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when Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE last November, he said the work would be “tedious” and “compensation is zero"
now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries
Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.
www.wired.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
when Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE last November, he said the work would be “tedious” and “compensation is zero"
now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
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Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.
March 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.
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Imagine that. 💰
March 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Imagine that. 💰
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Francis Collins led the mapping of the human genome, and chose to do big scientific to benefit the public. He is a a former NIH Director.
He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
March 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Francis Collins led the mapping of the human genome, and chose to do big scientific to benefit the public. He is a a former NIH Director.
He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
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The ostriches in “leadership” need a boot camp run by governors like this
March 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The ostriches in “leadership” need a boot camp run by governors like this
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Unbelievable. NIH's websites are get >1 billion hits a year from people all over the globe looking for reliable health information.
So all NIH websites appear to be down.
March 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Unbelievable. NIH's websites are get >1 billion hits a year from people all over the globe looking for reliable health information.
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Private companies that sell data that NOAA provides the public for free - as a public good/necessity - have been gunning for NOAA for decades.
The bloodbath at NOAA apparently included meteorologists with the National Weather Service; scientists inside what’s simply known as NOAA Research, or the office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) more formally; technicians that keep up the country’s weather instrumentation;
NOAA returns/produces so much more money to the American economy than it costs, no stories about any of this should allow them the absolutely bullshit "savings" framing
March 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Private companies that sell data that NOAA provides the public for free - as a public good/necessity - have been gunning for NOAA for decades.
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For those wondering why we have such high flu #s,we have a low % of people vaccinated. But in the hospitals,I have not been admitting patients who have had vaccine.
Get your flu vaccine,you still might get the flu,but you’ll help prevent others from getting it,and you will likely not get as sick.
Get your flu vaccine,you still might get the flu,but you’ll help prevent others from getting it,and you will likely not get as sick.
ICYMI: new MMWR has been published, showing that this year’s flu vaccine is decent at keeping people from needing to see the doctor… and pretty darn good at preventing kids’ (& to a lesser extent, adults’) flu hospitalization
Also: it’s safe. And it’s not too late to get it.
Also: it’s safe. And it’s not too late to get it.
March 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
For those wondering why we have such high flu #s,we have a low % of people vaccinated. But in the hospitals,I have not been admitting patients who have had vaccine.
Get your flu vaccine,you still might get the flu,but you’ll help prevent others from getting it,and you will likely not get as sick.
Get your flu vaccine,you still might get the flu,but you’ll help prevent others from getting it,and you will likely not get as sick.
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
February 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
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This is fucking incredible.
![REYES: [The order] calls an entire category of people dishonest, dishonorable, undisciplined, immodest, who lack integrity, people who have taken an oath to defend this country, people who have been under fire, people who have received medals for taking fire for this country. I want to know from the government whether that language expresses 'animus.' Does that express animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: Not in any constitutional- REYES: In a commonsense way. This is a policy from the President of the United States affecting thousands of people ... to call an entire group of people, lying dishonest people who are undisciplined, immodest and have no integrity. How is that anything other than showing animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: I don't have an answer for you. REYES: You do have an answer, you just don't want to give it... People can make solid arguments as to why some or even most transgender people shouldn't be in the military We're dealing with unadulterated animus. We are dealing with the president of the United States dealing with a group of people serving their country... calling them liars. (Reyes then said she changed her courtroom orders to bar people who graduated from UVA law school from appearing before her because "they're all liars and lack integrity and are undisciplined and can't possibly meet the high rigors of benign a lawyer for the government" She made the DOJ lawyer sit down on that basis, then after he did, she called him back up and asked whether that was a display of animus.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mmtjkssv6jeneahkgfdxuy7p/bafkreicmr3wybkn6acxmmdf4vuqnzxho2nk7kp3v7tx7vkclg2cjmwvixm@jpeg)
February 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is fucking incredible.
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Elon Musk is an idiot on an almost inconceivable scale. He had his high-school toadies pull a random list from a database he doesn’t understand, and on that basis alone decided that 60 MILLION SOCIAL SECURITY ENROLLEES, out of 72 million total, are fraudulent. 83% fraudulent!
February 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Elon Musk is an idiot on an almost inconceivable scale. He had his high-school toadies pull a random list from a database he doesn’t understand, and on that basis alone decided that 60 MILLION SOCIAL SECURITY ENROLLEES, out of 72 million total, are fraudulent. 83% fraudulent!
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This thread is great. Men only want to save their families if a gun is involved. Everyday, women are protecting your family, while you're playing with guns.
There's an article making the rounds about how men "just want to be heroes". And in response, I was asked to bring my God & Guns thread, about what it means to protect your family, over from the other place. So I did:
When I hear men worshipping guns and talking about how there’s nothing that will stop them from defending their family, my mind goes to Naaman in the Bible. Do you remember Naaman? He was a great military leader, and he also had leprosy.
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February 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This thread is great. Men only want to save their families if a gun is involved. Everyday, women are protecting your family, while you're playing with guns.
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Scoop: DOGE's Edward "Big Balls" Coristine launched a privacy-focused image-sharing site in 2021 that allowed users to create custom URLs. The URLs that redirected to Coristine's site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape
www.muskwatch.com/p/doge-teen-...
www.muskwatch.com/p/doge-teen-...
February 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Scoop: DOGE's Edward "Big Balls" Coristine launched a privacy-focused image-sharing site in 2021 that allowed users to create custom URLs. The URLs that redirected to Coristine's site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape
www.muskwatch.com/p/doge-teen-...
www.muskwatch.com/p/doge-teen-...
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The US does not have an offensive bioweapons program. Gain of function research did not lead to SARS-CoV-2. The scientific evidence points to a NATURAL zoonosis, ie a jump from infected animals to people. If there is evidence to the contrary it has not been presented.
February 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The US does not have an offensive bioweapons program. Gain of function research did not lead to SARS-CoV-2. The scientific evidence points to a NATURAL zoonosis, ie a jump from infected animals to people. If there is evidence to the contrary it has not been presented.
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If each Treasury payee is a separate record, and there are, say, 68,000,000 social security payees (as is estimated), then at $5000 per violation, it seems like Elon could be penalized $340 billion if he unlawfully accessed their Treasury records...
February 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
If each Treasury payee is a separate record, and there are, say, 68,000,000 social security payees (as is estimated), then at $5000 per violation, it seems like Elon could be penalized $340 billion if he unlawfully accessed their Treasury records...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent two days of confirmation hearings claiming not to hold positions he's held for years, reversing statements he previously made, and denying saying things he said. With @kieraevebutler.bsky.social, we examined some of the wilder ones: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to hide who he is
How Trump's HHS nominee spent two days of hearings obfuscating decades of scientific falsehoods.
www.motherjones.com
January 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent two days of confirmation hearings claiming not to hold positions he's held for years, reversing statements he previously made, and denying saying things he said. With @kieraevebutler.bsky.social, we examined some of the wilder ones: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...