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We're screwing our beautiful farmers folks, screwing them on a level that's frankly never been seen, and they're coming up to me with tears in their eyes saying something that isn't "sir"
US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more.
- US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID
- $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes.
- Food stranded in Houston
- Aid stopped in transit.
The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.
- US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID
- $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes.
- Food stranded in Houston
- Aid stopped in transit.
The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We're screwing our beautiful farmers folks, screwing them on a level that's frankly never been seen, and they're coming up to me with tears in their eyes saying something that isn't "sir"
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Regular reminder that this entirely comes down to retirements. I think it's good that old people are able to stop working, and that we have payroll-tax-paying-aged people coming here from around the world to keep things going
February 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Regular reminder that this entirely comes down to retirements. I think it's good that old people are able to stop working, and that we have payroll-tax-paying-aged people coming here from around the world to keep things going
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DOGE is, in the truest sense, a completely rogue agency. The White House has admitted it doesn't really know what DOGE is doing, it's commandeering critical systems, it's resourced by an independent oligarch, it's tearing chunks out of the government. It's a rogue actor in US government
February 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
DOGE is, in the truest sense, a completely rogue agency. The White House has admitted it doesn't really know what DOGE is doing, it's commandeering critical systems, it's resourced by an independent oligarch, it's tearing chunks out of the government. It's a rogue actor in US government
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Excellent, chilling piece by a current OPM employee giving an inside view of the reckless (and frequently illegal) Musk/Trump assault against the federal workforce. slate.com/news-and-pol...
February 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Excellent, chilling piece by a current OPM employee giving an inside view of the reckless (and frequently illegal) Musk/Trump assault against the federal workforce. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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As much as this may be angering Trump, we can also console ourselves with how much the recent Trump-Musk compact is doubtlessly angering JD Vance!
February 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
As much as this may be angering Trump, we can also console ourselves with how much the recent Trump-Musk compact is doubtlessly angering JD Vance!
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I will never yield a nanometer in my open contempt and disgust for the drones and useful idiots who called Musk a free speech hero.
Free speech absolutist Elon Musk calls for the firing of a journalist who revealed that one of the people Musk hired for DOGE bragged about being racist on social media
February 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I will never yield a nanometer in my open contempt and disgust for the drones and useful idiots who called Musk a free speech hero.
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Sincere props to a colleague who very obviously is doing his job well.
February 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Sincere props to a colleague who very obviously is doing his job well.
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I have not become completely numb; I can still be shocked by some depths of depraved sadism inflicted by this collection of despicable thugs, giggling sociopaths, and dead-eyed apparatchiks. May their days be short and frustrated.
New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.
February 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I have not become completely numb; I can still be shocked by some depths of depraved sadism inflicted by this collection of despicable thugs, giggling sociopaths, and dead-eyed apparatchiks. May their days be short and frustrated.
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So DOGE showed up at the CFPB last night. This truly epic press release identifies the workers by name (and biographical low-points) and goes on to say "we welcome our newest colleagues and look forward to the smell of Axe Body Spray in our elevators." nteu335.org/2025/02/07/c...
CFPB Union NTEU 335 spies dodgy DOGE bros - CFPB Union
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Washington, DC, February 7, 2025 — On the evening of February 6, three minions of professional Twitter poster and Jeffrey Epstein confidant Elon Musk appeared in the Consum...
nteu335.org
February 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
So DOGE showed up at the CFPB last night. This truly epic press release identifies the workers by name (and biographical low-points) and goes on to say "we welcome our newest colleagues and look forward to the smell of Axe Body Spray in our elevators." nteu335.org/2025/02/07/c...
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As MLK famously said, injustice anywhere isn’t really a big deal to justice everywhere, no matter how much the loudest voices might want to equate the two
From the Chronice of Higher Ed's daily newsletter email. The first ICE arrest on a college campus happened at Spokane Community College yesterday. The Chronicle, however, is here to tell us that in "the bigger picture," it's no big deal, even if "the loudest voices" say it is.
February 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
As MLK famously said, injustice anywhere isn’t really a big deal to justice everywhere, no matter how much the loudest voices might want to equate the two
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Today's annual benchmark revisions to jobs data turned tech job growth from bad to worse—instead of only slow growth from late 2023 through 2024, the industry has actually been losing jobs at a rate not seen since the Great Recession
February 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Today's annual benchmark revisions to jobs data turned tech job growth from bad to worse—instead of only slow growth from late 2023 through 2024, the industry has actually been losing jobs at a rate not seen since the Great Recession
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He resigned because those posts were about to be printed in the wall street journal.
For context, the staffer was fired because he posted, "I just want a eugenic immigration policy, is that too much to ask," "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity," and "Normalize Indian hate."
can't make it up
February 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
He resigned because those posts were about to be printed in the wall street journal.
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great @brianbeutler.bsky.social piece
open w/ trivialities of interest to your audience (me), close with appeals to the bittersweet yearning of our shared humanity. leave the reader confused about how you got from one to the other. that's the good stuff
www.offmessage.net/p/does-rfk-e...
open w/ trivialities of interest to your audience (me), close with appeals to the bittersweet yearning of our shared humanity. leave the reader confused about how you got from one to the other. that's the good stuff
www.offmessage.net/p/does-rfk-e...
Does RFK Even Lift, Bro?
An investigation—and a thought experiment.
www.offmessage.net
February 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
great @brianbeutler.bsky.social piece
open w/ trivialities of interest to your audience (me), close with appeals to the bittersweet yearning of our shared humanity. leave the reader confused about how you got from one to the other. that's the good stuff
www.offmessage.net/p/does-rfk-e...
open w/ trivialities of interest to your audience (me), close with appeals to the bittersweet yearning of our shared humanity. leave the reader confused about how you got from one to the other. that's the good stuff
www.offmessage.net/p/does-rfk-e...
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I would pay money to be a fly on the Oval Office wall when Trump sees this
February 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I would pay money to be a fly on the Oval Office wall when Trump sees this
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New — I did a brief history of the ‘Fork in the Road’ email to show how Musk screwed up by treating federal workers like fucking idiots, and how the pressure to resign is about breaking morale more than culling the workforce.
How Elon Musk forked up his mass resignation plan
Incompetence and desperation are a bad combination.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
New — I did a brief history of the ‘Fork in the Road’ email to show how Musk screwed up by treating federal workers like fucking idiots, and how the pressure to resign is about breaking morale more than culling the workforce.
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"No, and I think you can’t be a senator in private. At some point they have to do something." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Do Democrats Have a Plan?
Senator Brian Schatz on how the Party should be responding to Donald Trump’s breakneck assault on the government.
www.newyorker.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"No, and I think you can’t be a senator in private. At some point they have to do something." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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The self-abasing, servile conduct of congressional Republicans, whose own power is under attack, is the element of the current crisis that the founding generation didn’t anticipate.
Approps Chair Collins voted for Vought but told @pressherald.bsky.social he might lose a lawsuit 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼:
“I do intend to support his nomination...If there are impoundments, I believe it will end up in court, and my hope is the court will rule in favor of the 1974 impoundment and budget control act"
“I do intend to support his nomination...If there are impoundments, I believe it will end up in court, and my hope is the court will rule in favor of the 1974 impoundment and budget control act"
February 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The self-abasing, servile conduct of congressional Republicans, whose own power is under attack, is the element of the current crisis that the founding generation didn’t anticipate.
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withholding information like this is beyond irresponsible and borders into the territory of purposeful malice
SCOOP: Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Transmission Between Cats and People (Gift Article)
The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
withholding information like this is beyond irresponsible and borders into the territory of purposeful malice
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That would be the logical start.
I suppose the task force created by this EO will start by investigating the Vice President’s statements attacking Catholic bishops, the leader of DOGE accusing Lutheran Family Services of money laundering, ICE raids on churches … so much work already on anti-Christian bias from this administration.
Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose
www.whitehouse.gov
February 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
That would be the logical start.
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"Democratic [or republican] strategist" became this catch-all fake title for cable news pundits without real jobs and then journalists started acting as if it was a real job title
This reverse-Chotiner Chotiner interview with @schatz.bsky.social is absolute pure 100% gold www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
February 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"Democratic [or republican] strategist" became this catch-all fake title for cable news pundits without real jobs and then journalists started acting as if it was a real job title
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This is a very good reminder to keep your cats indoors. (Er, unless you're leashing them or keeping them on a cat patio.) I know that cats are very special little libertarians who demand their freedom to roam, but keeping them indoors keeps them and you safe. Please and thank you.
SCOOP: Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Transmission Between Cats and People (Gift Article)
The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This is a very good reminder to keep your cats indoors. (Er, unless you're leashing them or keeping them on a cat patio.) I know that cats are very special little libertarians who demand their freedom to roam, but keeping them indoors keeps them and you safe. Please and thank you.
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Illinois should hire them all and establish a robust foreign policy apparatus.
Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
February 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Illinois should hire them all and establish a robust foreign policy apparatus.
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Don’t shop at Whole Foods. I mean mostly because they’re overpriced and pretentious-twee, but also because of this bullshit.
February 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Don’t shop at Whole Foods. I mean mostly because they’re overpriced and pretentious-twee, but also because of this bullshit.