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ANYWAY, did you know there's an extension you can put on Chrome that will connect with your local library system and when you go look at a book, say on AMZ, it will tell you if that book exists in the library system and if it's available?
It's literally called Library Extension.
It's literally called Library Extension.
February 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
ANYWAY, did you know there's an extension you can put on Chrome that will connect with your local library system and when you go look at a book, say on AMZ, it will tell you if that book exists in the library system and if it's available?
It's literally called Library Extension.
It's literally called Library Extension.
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New book by RFK Jr, a sequel to his first book, The Very Hungry Brain Caterpillar.
February 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
New book by RFK Jr, a sequel to his first book, The Very Hungry Brain Caterpillar.
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DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
February 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
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Members of the military are supposed to be loyal to the Constitution, not the president. Changing that seems to have been the point of the Friday Night Massacre. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Friday Night Massacre in the Military
Friday night, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (who is black) and the Navy's top admiral (who is female) were fired, along with the most senior Judge Advocates General (JAGS) for the Army, Navy, ...
open.substack.com
February 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Members of the military are supposed to be loyal to the Constitution, not the president. Changing that seems to have been the point of the Friday Night Massacre. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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If you read nothing else today, read these interviews by @birenbomb of two terminated NV federal workers. They show the human toll, the dedication of so many despite the “bureaucrat” caricature and provide an emblem of the capricious way DOGE is operating.
thenevadaindependent.com/article/fede...
thenevadaindependent.com/article/fede...
Federal workers in Nevada recount their sudden firings amid Trump government-cutting blitz - The Nevada Independent
Federal agencies have not released data on firings by state. But in a state where the federal government owns more than 80 percent of the land, job cuts coupled with the federal hiring freeze implemen...
thenevadaindependent.com
February 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
If you read nothing else today, read these interviews by @birenbomb of two terminated NV federal workers. They show the human toll, the dedication of so many despite the “bureaucrat” caricature and provide an emblem of the capricious way DOGE is operating.
thenevadaindependent.com/article/fede...
thenevadaindependent.com/article/fede...
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One analysis shows if the federal match for the expansion is stripped and the state can’t meet the gap, more than 300,000 people could be booted from Medicaid."
$1.9 billion.
Stunning stuff, via capital bureau chief
@tabithamueller.bsky.social.
thenevadaindependent.com/article/cong...
$1.9 billion.
Stunning stuff, via capital bureau chief
@tabithamueller.bsky.social.
thenevadaindependent.com/article/cong...
Congressional GOP’s proposed Medicaid cut could cost Nevada $1.9 billion - The Nevada Independent
One analysis shows if the federal match for the expansion is stripped and the state can’t meet the gap, more than 300,000 people could be booted from Medicaid.
thenevadaindependent.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
One analysis shows if the federal match for the expansion is stripped and the state can’t meet the gap, more than 300,000 people could be booted from Medicaid."
$1.9 billion.
Stunning stuff, via capital bureau chief
@tabithamueller.bsky.social.
thenevadaindependent.com/article/cong...
$1.9 billion.
Stunning stuff, via capital bureau chief
@tabithamueller.bsky.social.
thenevadaindependent.com/article/cong...
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If I were the richest man in the world, this would not be the play
The Richest Man in the World Says We Can't Afford Any More Cures for Cancer talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-a...
NIH and Its Agencies Are Being Smothered
In recent days I have been inundated by reports out of HHS...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
If I were the richest man in the world, this would not be the play
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BREAKING WAPO:
Elon Musk's DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country — sparking alarm within the tax agency. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Elon Musk's DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country — sparking alarm within the tax agency. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
www.washingtonpost.com
February 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
BREAKING WAPO:
Elon Musk's DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country — sparking alarm within the tax agency. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Elon Musk's DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country — sparking alarm within the tax agency. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
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“I’m not going to grovel my country for the privilege of living in it, a privilege I thought I earned in blood.”
www.stripes.com/branches/arm...
www.stripes.com/branches/arm...
Former Fort Carson Iraq war veteran gives up the fight to stay in the US
www.stripes.com
February 16, 2025 at 5:24 AM
“I’m not going to grovel my country for the privilege of living in it, a privilege I thought I earned in blood.”
www.stripes.com/branches/arm...
www.stripes.com/branches/arm...
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As of this morning, more than 19,000 people have signed up with @runforsomething.net to consider running for local office just since Election Day - 6000 of them just in the last three weeks.
People are ready to fight back.
People are ready to fight back.
February 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
As of this morning, more than 19,000 people have signed up with @runforsomething.net to consider running for local office just since Election Day - 6000 of them just in the last three weeks.
People are ready to fight back.
People are ready to fight back.
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February 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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This past weekend, Elon Musk called me cruel, mean and deceitful. Two and half years ago I called him a welfare queen. You decide. www.profgalloway.com/elon-musk-we...
Elon Musk, Welfare Queen | No Mercy / No Malice
This past weekend, Elon Musk called me cruel, mean and deceitful. Two and half years ago I called him a welfare queen. You decide. This post was published August 19, 2022. What’s the most successful...
www.profgalloway.com
February 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This past weekend, Elon Musk called me cruel, mean and deceitful. Two and half years ago I called him a welfare queen. You decide. www.profgalloway.com/elon-musk-we...
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we just published a list of more than 30 people working for (or closely with) DOGE. message me on signal @rachellerman.55 with tips on the office www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Who’s working for Elon Musk’s DOGE?
Here’s who is working with Elon Musk at the U.S. DOGE Service — also known as the Department of Government Efficiency — to makes changes across the federal government.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
we just published a list of more than 30 people working for (or closely with) DOGE. message me on signal @rachellerman.55 with tips on the office www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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"America is not a software company. And letting a thin-skinned, Ketamine-fueled, video-game cheating, Nazi apologist billionaire take over the machinery of the United States is not something that anyone voted for."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Nobody voted for Elon Musk
A self-interested, erratic megalomaniac has seized control of the US government.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
"America is not a software company. And letting a thin-skinned, Ketamine-fueled, video-game cheating, Nazi apologist billionaire take over the machinery of the United States is not something that anyone voted for."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Courts *ordered* the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze
Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen
-hot meals for elderly and disabled
-groceries for those in need
-maternal & child health services
-a clinic that serves the poor
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen
-hot meals for elderly and disabled
-groceries for those in need
-maternal & child health services
-a clinic that serves the poor
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The Courts Blocked Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze. Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway.
Agencies continue to suspend funding, despite multiple court orders blocking the federal freeze. Experts say the Trump administration’s actions set the stage for challenges to Congress’ authority — an...
www.propublica.org
February 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Courts *ordered* the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze
Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen
-hot meals for elderly and disabled
-groceries for those in need
-maternal & child health services
-a clinic that serves the poor
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen
-hot meals for elderly and disabled
-groceries for those in need
-maternal & child health services
-a clinic that serves the poor
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Murphy: "I continue to get reports from Connecticut that agencies there, like Head Start programs and community health centers, are actually not receiving the funding they are due. So I think there's a big question as to whether the administration actually is implementing the court order."
February 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Murphy: "I continue to get reports from Connecticut that agencies there, like Head Start programs and community health centers, are actually not receiving the funding they are due. So I think there's a big question as to whether the administration actually is implementing the court order."