thedouglane.bsky.social
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can’t wait for hurricane season to start and then we can collect almost all of the trophies for speedrunning the entire george w bush term in under a year
June 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
can’t wait for hurricane season to start and then we can collect almost all of the trophies for speedrunning the entire george w bush term in under a year
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boy if I was the editor of the NYT (Harvard class of 1987) I might be thinking twice about why I empowered a racist attack on the institution for weeks, laying the groundwork for the deranged policy attacks of today.
May 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
boy if I was the editor of the NYT (Harvard class of 1987) I might be thinking twice about why I empowered a racist attack on the institution for weeks, laying the groundwork for the deranged policy attacks of today.
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Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.
Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why?
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
May 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.
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we need to acknowledge the uncomfortable truth that the number one qualification for getting a top job in the Trump administration is defending Trump on Fox
May 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
we need to acknowledge the uncomfortable truth that the number one qualification for getting a top job in the Trump administration is defending Trump on Fox
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the right to defend your country is a *crazy* thing to take away from people.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Up to 1,000 openly identifying transgender troops will be moved out of the military immediately under new Pentagon order.
May 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
the right to defend your country is a *crazy* thing to take away from people.
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This dangerous psychopath is laying the groundwork to try to ban all vaccines.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles as the U.S. faces its largest outbreak in 25 years. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show the existing vaccine is 97% effective in preventing infection.
RFK Jr. Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination
Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for measles, but studies show the M.M.R. shot is 97 percent effective in preventing the disease.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This dangerous psychopath is laying the groundwork to try to ban all vaccines.
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This guy has just gotten a $1 billion increase, in a NASA budget slashed by $6 billion, for Mars projects
www.cnbc.com/2025/05/02/n...
Track record: Was "highly confident" in 2020 that his SpaceX would be *LANDING PEOPLE on Mars* by next year. (2026).
What a grifter
www.cnbc.com/2020/12/01/e...
www.cnbc.com/2025/05/02/n...
Track record: Was "highly confident" in 2020 that his SpaceX would be *LANDING PEOPLE on Mars* by next year. (2026).
What a grifter
www.cnbc.com/2020/12/01/e...
Elon Musk is 'highly confident' SpaceX will land humans on Mars by 2026
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he is "highly confident" that the company will land humans on Mars in "about six years from now."
www.cnbc.com
May 4, 2025 at 4:08 AM
This guy has just gotten a $1 billion increase, in a NASA budget slashed by $6 billion, for Mars projects
www.cnbc.com/2025/05/02/n...
Track record: Was "highly confident" in 2020 that his SpaceX would be *LANDING PEOPLE on Mars* by next year. (2026).
What a grifter
www.cnbc.com/2020/12/01/e...
www.cnbc.com/2025/05/02/n...
Track record: Was "highly confident" in 2020 that his SpaceX would be *LANDING PEOPLE on Mars* by next year. (2026).
What a grifter
www.cnbc.com/2020/12/01/e...
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Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise."
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.
www.reuters.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise."
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
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Biden, 52%: “low end approval”
Trump, 39%: proceeding “as expected”
Trump, 39%: proceeding “as expected”
At a hundred days into his presidency, Joe Biden had a 52% approval rating.
As we near the hundred days mark in his second term, Donald Trump has a 39% approval rating.
Here's how those numbers were framed by the media:
As we near the hundred days mark in his second term, Donald Trump has a 39% approval rating.
Here's how those numbers were framed by the media:
April 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Biden, 52%: “low end approval”
Trump, 39%: proceeding “as expected”
Trump, 39%: proceeding “as expected”
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Wow I said yesterday we probably weren't far from the first national poll where Trump's approval dipped into the 30s. And here we are: AP-NORC: 39% approve, 59% disapprove. Best wishes to all who celebrate. apnorc.org/projects/100...
100 days in and the public feels Trump’s presidency is proceeding mostly as expected - AP-NORC
Most partisans agree they are getting what they expected from Trump’s second term, but 84% of Democrats think Trump is doing a poor or terrible job as president so far and 68% of Republicans think he’...
apnorc.org
April 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Wow I said yesterday we probably weren't far from the first national poll where Trump's approval dipped into the 30s. And here we are: AP-NORC: 39% approve, 59% disapprove. Best wishes to all who celebrate. apnorc.org/projects/100...
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this guy is a world class asshole
Vance's Easter visit to Rome clogged its streets with a 40-vehicle entourage. He also demanded the Coliseum be closed so he and his family could tour it alone. Tourists who properly booked slots in advance got screwed.
He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.
He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.
JD Vance and his forty 4x4s visit the Vatican during trip to Rome
The US vice-president, a self-styled ‘baby Catholic’ who was baptised in 2019, and his family met senior officials from the Catholic Church
www.thetimes.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
this guy is a world class asshole
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At this point it's not even just that they're lying, it's that the lies are so insultingly obvious. This is up there with "no, the details of an imminent airstrike weren't classified" and "we have no way of getting abductees back from the guy we're paying to house them."
Tulsi Gabbard claims that intelligence professionals have told her that under Biden they were expected to spend half their day on "DEI work"
April 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
At this point it's not even just that they're lying, it's that the lies are so insultingly obvious. This is up there with "no, the details of an imminent airstrike weren't classified" and "we have no way of getting abductees back from the guy we're paying to house them."
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White House claims China is negotiating with them. China says, no, that's not true. Trump is planning to unilaterally roll back most of his China tariffs in exchange for nothing. So, in other words, a complete and humiliating failure.
The White House has no comment on Chinese denial that there are any ongoing trade talks with the US. Yesterday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said talks were happening at the staff level.
April 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
White House claims China is negotiating with them. China says, no, that's not true. Trump is planning to unilaterally roll back most of his China tariffs in exchange for nothing. So, in other words, a complete and humiliating failure.
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US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts reut.rs/42C4h1Z
April 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts reut.rs/42C4h1Z
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WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw
April 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw
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Destroy DOGE, undo every bit of its work, and render every DOGE employee unemployable in their professional field for life. End their careers and shame them in every way we can. And make them see that we fixed the government and everything they did was for naught.
Hearing the same from a direct source. People in Americorps being told they're done. It's over. No notice.
My bff’s son works for Americorps and received a decommissioning letter today. DOGE is gutting the program. I’m so angry and disappointed DOGE would go after a program that does such good work. @marisakabas.bsky.social @kairyssdal.bsky.social @katiephang.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Destroy DOGE, undo every bit of its work, and render every DOGE employee unemployable in their professional field for life. End their careers and shame them in every way we can. And make them see that we fixed the government and everything they did was for naught.
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Just got word from my college roommate - who is the state archivist for the state of South Dakota - that due to the DOGE shutdowns of IMLS, they can no longer fund InterLibrary Loan in SD.
This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.
This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.
April 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Just got word from my college roommate - who is the state archivist for the state of South Dakota - that due to the DOGE shutdowns of IMLS, they can no longer fund InterLibrary Loan in SD.
This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.
This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.
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We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower
There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:
April 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower
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When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US.
When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.
When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.
April 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US.
When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.
When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.
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God I miss the days when the only thing most people had to worry about was a beach making them old
April 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
God I miss the days when the only thing most people had to worry about was a beach making them old
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Lots of signs that tourism business in the US is absolutely cratering. International tourism is only part of that. But just remarkable that you see Secretary of State saying stuff like this.
April 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Lots of signs that tourism business in the US is absolutely cratering. International tourism is only part of that. But just remarkable that you see Secretary of State saying stuff like this.
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Elon Musk said he’d cut the federal budget by $2 trillion
Quickly lowered this to $1 trillion
Now he’s down to $150 billion
And even THAT appears to be an overestimate of $92 billion
So-after firing thousands of workers and destroying government services
This clown will cut $58 billion
Maybe
Quickly lowered this to $1 trillion
Now he’s down to $150 billion
And even THAT appears to be an overestimate of $92 billion
So-after firing thousands of workers and destroying government services
This clown will cut $58 billion
Maybe
April 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Elon Musk said he’d cut the federal budget by $2 trillion
Quickly lowered this to $1 trillion
Now he’s down to $150 billion
And even THAT appears to be an overestimate of $92 billion
So-after firing thousands of workers and destroying government services
This clown will cut $58 billion
Maybe
Quickly lowered this to $1 trillion
Now he’s down to $150 billion
And even THAT appears to be an overestimate of $92 billion
So-after firing thousands of workers and destroying government services
This clown will cut $58 billion
Maybe
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The US government has made an agreement to pay a foreign government to imprison people without any legal process for 12 months (pending the US government's decision as to what happens next) while putting in court testimony that it has no power to recover an individual from foreign custody
The AP could do a great public service by actually publishing these memos (if it’s able to do so)
April 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The US government has made an agreement to pay a foreign government to imprison people without any legal process for 12 months (pending the US government's decision as to what happens next) while putting in court testimony that it has no power to recover an individual from foreign custody