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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Community health centers are now starting to shut down across the country because of Trump’s executive orders.

These centers serve 1-in-5 rural patients in America.
Virginia community health centers close over federal funding access
Despite pause on federal funding freeze, centers unable to access grants
www.vpm.org
February 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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xanindigo.bsky.social
i don't really know what a 5-alarm fire is. pretty sure that if a fire is bad, you should send more fire trucks instead of just using more alarms.
February 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com
We have got to steamroll this shit with stories about Trump firing the airline safety people
January 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
It's not "politicizing a tragedy" to point out the top levels of the federal government aren't functional—the three key leaders here are drunk rapist TV show host at DoD, reality TV star at DoT, and nobody at FAA—and they're doing squat except spreading the same dysfunction down the ladder.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 30
REPORTER: Is there an acting FAA director?

DUFFY: *walks away*

(The FAA director resigned on the day of Trump's inauguration under pressure from Elon Musk)
January 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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jamellebouie.net
this is truly despicable.
brandonfriedman.bsky.social Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Jan 30
J.D. Vance uses DEI to cover for a potentially white male pilot being at fault: "When you don't have the best standards in who you're hiring, it means, on the one hand, you're not getting the best people in government, but on the other hand, it puts stresses on the people who are already there."
adamjschwarz.bsky.social Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Jan 30
Hesgeth and Vance use the Washington D.C. airliner-helicopter crash to make anti-diversity, equity and inclusion points, suggesting it was to blame for the collision.

The Vice President didn't even open his remarks by referencing the victims or families - just straight into anti-DEI points.
January 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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kevincarson1.bsky.social
The primary need under capitalism is for new sinks to soak up endless amounts of surplus capital & keep the bubble going. When purchasing power is shifted from consumers to parasitic rentiers with more money than they can productively invest, enshittification is the only alternative to depression.
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Jan 29
The markets and AI industry are freaking out because this entire industry was built on the assumption that models had to be large, expensive and unprofitable, which justified endless funding rounds and data center expansions. Now there's little reason to continue.
www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/
You see, the pre-DeepSeek status quo was one where several truths allowed the party to keep going: These models were incredibly expensive to train — $100 million in the middle of 2024, and as high as $1 billion for future models — and that training future models would thus necessitate spending billions on both data centers and the GPUs necessary to keep training even bigger models. These models had to be large, because making them large — pumping them full of training data and throwing masses of compute about them — would unlock new features, such as "[an] AI that helps us accomplish much more than we ever could without AI," such as having "a personal AI team, full of virtual experts in different areas, working together to create almost anything we can imagine." These models were incredibly expensive to run, but it was worth it, because making these models powerful was more important than making them efficient, because "once the price of silicon came down" (a refrain I've heard from multiple different people as a defense of the ruinous cost of generative AI) we would have these powerful models that were, uh, cheaper, because of silicon. As a result of this need to make bigger, huger models, the most powerful ones, big, beautiful models, we would of course need to keep buying bigger, more powerful GPUs, which would continue American excellence™. By following this roadmap, "everybody" wins — the hyperscalers get the justification they needed to create more sprawling data centers and spend massive amounts of money, OpenAI and their ilk continue to do the work to "build powerful models," and NVIDIA continues to make money selling GPUs. It’s a kind of capitalist death cult that ran on plagiarism and hubris, the assumption being that at some point all of this would make sense.
January 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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theophite.bsky.social
the democrats must default on the national debt rather than fund this
nikkimcr.bsky.social Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · Jan 29
Trump announces an executive order authorizing a 30,000 capacity migrant detention center in Guantanamo.

"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."
January 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Guess what? The drones ‘story’ - which Trump helped push - was all BS, according to… the new Trump administration.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/lea...
Trump says NJ drones were 'authorized' after suggesting Biden kept public 'in suspense'
The White House said the mystery drones flown across New Jersey were "authorized to be flown by the FAA" in the first press briefing of the second Trump administration.
abcnews.go.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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jamellebouie.net
what the FUCK
asmith83.bsky.social Adam Smith @asmith83.bsky.social · Jan 28
The federal government's new top HR attorney has said "Consent is probably modern society’s most pernicious fetish" and "Slaves owe us reparations," according to a new report from @pogo.org. www.pogo.org/investigatio...
“Raging Misogynist” Now Federal Government H.R.’s Top Lawyer
The Office of Personnel Management’s new general counsel has a history of racist and sexist social media posts.
www.pogo.org
January 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
January 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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therockymountains.bsky.social
Afternoon, Bluesky!
Bear Lake blues
January 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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jimacosta.bsky.social
Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.
January 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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gwensnyder.bsky.social
Kind of sucks that we didn't at least get a Roaring Twenties before what's about to come
January 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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shannonrwatts.bsky.social
Last week, Matthew Huttle, a man who served six months in federal prison after participating in the Capitol riots, was pardoned by Donald Trump. This week, Huttle was shot and killed during an altercation with Indiana police. Huttle was armed.
Hobart man pardoned by President Trump shot, killed during traffic stop
JASPER COUNTY, Ind. -- The Jasper County Sheriff has requested Indiana State Police investigate an officer involved shooting after a traffic stop turned fatal on Sunday.
www.abc57.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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washingtonpost.com
Breaking news: Caroline Kennedy on Tuesday warned senators about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling her cousin — now Trump’s pick to lead HHS — a “predator” whose victims have ranged from family members to the parents of sick children.
Caroline Kennedy warns senators of ‘predator’ RFK Jr. in searing letter
In a letter to lawmakers, the former U.S. ambassador to Australia and cousin of Trump’s HHS nominee, questions Robert F. Kennedy’s ethics and views on vaccines.
wapo.st
January 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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thatphotoguy.bsky.social
When Mother Nature shows off. The Aurora Borealis and the Milky Way. This was taken half way up Cairngorm mountain in the Scottish Highlands. Such a wonderful thing to see. There were people in camper vans who slept through it all 😮

Hope you’re all having a great day, stay safe.
The northern lights and our home galaxy. Taken at Cairngorm mountain in the Scottish Highlands.
January 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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kevincarson1.bsky.social
Christianity, the Roman alphabet, and the very concept of a "Western civilization" that Germany belongs to are all forms of "multicultural dilution" from the influence of the Near East via southern Europe. I mean, we already knew Musk was a historical illiterate, but...
January 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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koorikdat.bsky.social
Rest in peace G̵͍͈̝̥̟̥̟̝̓́̕̕͜͜͜l̵̢̛̝̯̠̳͙͇̺͎̯͎̭͇͇̲̥͓̰̱͇̖͖͈̘͔͚̬̱̰̄̆̄̿͂̉̆͆̂̓̕͝͝͠ͅo̶̧̧͇͚͓̺͚̠̞͍̘͕̯̱̭̠̱̥̪̻̹͉͑̐̔̇̂̒̈́͂̈̓́̊̋́͌̇̑̌̂̋̓̋͆̓͗r̴̛̻̘̩̘͚͂̓̑̓̔̔͛́͐̏͆̀͂̍̑̈̓̈́͛́̈͌͒̓̅͒̚͝͝b̸̢̬̙̬̰̭̠̫̞͊̃̏̓̔͂́͛͆̀̒͘͝͝, fly high king 🙌
January 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
so many people warned about exactly this for years and major papers preferred to publish scare pieces about trans girls playing sports
January 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
If you thought Trump would make a big showing of targeting immigrants — you’d be correct. With Dr. Phil happily obliging. www.reuters.com/world/us/tv-...
January 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social
WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN MY STARBUCKS COFFEE JUST GOT 25% MORE EXPENSIVE
January 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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starshine.bsky.social
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president of colombia, gustavo petro's response to trump
Trump, I don't really like traveling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some meritorious things, I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, there I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should unite. I confess that l like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, in the history of the US, are memorable and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the US as well as within my country I don't like your oil, Trump, you are going to end the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a drink of whiskey that l accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I am not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, l'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand it, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of whom I am one, perhaps the last You will kill me, but I will survive in my town, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake the hands of the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and of the black and white peasant boys of the USA, before whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which ! reached, after They are the USA and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the civilization at that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resisters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take shelter in its African songs. My land is made of goldsmiths from the time of the Egyptian pharaohs, and of the first artists of the world in Chiribiquete. You will never dominate us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, and who is called Bolivar, opposes us. Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, now Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered. I raise a flag and as Gaitan said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA. Your blockade does not scare me; because Colombia, in addition to being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will offer it your sweetness. FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA OPENS TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY. I am informed that you put a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the US, I do the same. Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world
January 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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scalzi.com
The halo around the sun, on the drive back home today. We made it home just fine, incidentally.
The halo around the sun is caused by ice crystals in the clouds. It's quite pretty.
January 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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jeffsharlet.bsky.social
In a day of terrible news thing that scares me most--because even now I think it might have gone another way--was Stewart Rhodes of the Oathkeepers, just released from his 18-yr J6 sentence, on platform behind Trump at his Vegas rally. Not "just" commutation; full promotion of paramilitary force.
January 26, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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miafarrow.bsky.social
Cardinal McElroy: “we are called always to have a sense of the dignity of every human person. And thus, - a wider indiscriminate massive deportation across the country would be something that would be incompatible with Catholic doctrine.”

www.ncregister.com/news/cardina...
Mass Deportations ‘Incompatible With Catholic Doctrine,’ Cardinal McElroy Says at His DC Debut
The Vatican announced Monday that Pope Francis appointed Cardinal McElroy, 70, as archbishop of Washington, a high-profile see that includes about 667,000 Catholics in the District of Columbia and fiv...
www.ncregister.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM