Runa Holtet
@runaholtet.bsky.social
Since the passage of The Patriot Act, the government has frequently cited "national security issues" as a catch-all excuse to justify various indiscretions, acting as a universal "get out of jail free" card.
Sloppy sloppy but @fahrenthold.bsky.social is on the case
NEW: DOGE backtracks on promises of transparency, making its new errors harder to find.
(We found more anyway)
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
(We found more anyway)
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
March 14, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Since the passage of The Patriot Act, the government has frequently cited "national security issues" as a catch-all excuse to justify various indiscretions, acting as a universal "get out of jail free" card.
Klobuchar, Schumer, and others seem weak and intimidated, likely influenced by wealthy donors and interested in their own tax cuts. It's time for fresh leadership in the Senate.
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Klobuchar, Schumer, and others seem weak and intimidated, likely influenced by wealthy donors and interested in their own tax cuts. It's time for fresh leadership in the Senate.
Stay until the end and never give up!
“Somebody has to stay to help clean up the mess that they’re most likely going to make,” a public health advisor on infectious diseases at the CDC said. “If you want to get rid of me, you’re basically going to drag me kicking and screaming out of here.”
‘Health Security Is At Risk’: Inside the Purge of HHS
Employees are grappling with buyout offers as public health crises mount. “Somebody has to stay to help clean up the mess that they’re most likely going to make,” one said.
www.motherjones.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Stay until the end and never give up!
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@aoc.bsky.social: "Every time you see Tom Homan, every time you see Kristi Noem... understand that they are taking attention, focus, dollars, and real resources away from actual drug enforcement, trafficking enforcement, and actually going after and trying to investigate really harmful activity."
March 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
@aoc.bsky.social: "Every time you see Tom Homan, every time you see Kristi Noem... understand that they are taking attention, focus, dollars, and real resources away from actual drug enforcement, trafficking enforcement, and actually going after and trying to investigate really harmful activity."
Reposted by Runa Holtet
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Computational Journalist
New York, New York, United States
boards.greenhouse.io
March 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach."
Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅
Come join us!
Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅
Come join us!