@verycoolrock.bsky.social
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Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off
www.sfchronicle.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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no idea why I can't sleep I say as I watch civilisation crumble in real time on the glowing rectangle in my hand
February 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
no idea why I can't sleep I say as I watch civilisation crumble in real time on the glowing rectangle in my hand
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It's striking the extent to which there's never any justification given for any of this beyond "it's too many people" or "it's actually fake" and no apparent planning behind any of it. It's the aesthetics of "move fast and break things" without any discernible direction or purpose. It's cosplay.
CDC source:
“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.
They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.
They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
February 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
It's striking the extent to which there's never any justification given for any of this beyond "it's too many people" or "it's actually fake" and no apparent planning behind any of it. It's the aesthetics of "move fast and break things" without any discernible direction or purpose. It's cosplay.
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It is clear that Musk’s motivations are all about his own self-interest.
Trump is allowing Musk to operate with zero accountability.
Trump is allowing Musk to operate with zero accountability.
February 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It is clear that Musk’s motivations are all about his own self-interest.
Trump is allowing Musk to operate with zero accountability.
Trump is allowing Musk to operate with zero accountability.
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I won’t stop posting this.
How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
February 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I won’t stop posting this.
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“So let me get this straight, he wants contracts for cancer research cancelled but says let[’s] keep contracts for his company SpaceX to do research. Greedy billionaire trying to ripoff [sic] the American people pretending to be altruistic is all I see,” said Rep. @ilhanmn.bsky.social
Omar Slams Musk for Slashing Cancer Funding While Keeping SpaceX Contracts
“Greedy billionaire trying to ripoff the American people pretending to be altruistic is all I see,” the lawmaker said.
truthout.org
February 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
“So let me get this straight, he wants contracts for cancer research cancelled but says let[’s] keep contracts for his company SpaceX to do research. Greedy billionaire trying to ripoff [sic] the American people pretending to be altruistic is all I see,” said Rep. @ilhanmn.bsky.social
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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
February 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
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PUBLISHED! Forget talk of a coup or self-coup, Musk's siege of America's vast federal bureaucracy is a form of state capture. It fits seamlessly with Trump's authoritarianism.
I suspect this will be the most important thing I ever say about American politics.
theconversation.com/is-elon-musk...
I suspect this will be the most important thing I ever say about American politics.
theconversation.com/is-elon-musk...
Is Elon Musk taking over the US government? Here’s how ‘state capture’ works – and why we should be concerned
Elon Musk has been accused of attempting a coup or hostile takeover of the US government. His actions could better be described as a form of ‘state capture’. Here’s what that means.
theconversation.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
PUBLISHED! Forget talk of a coup or self-coup, Musk's siege of America's vast federal bureaucracy is a form of state capture. It fits seamlessly with Trump's authoritarianism.
I suspect this will be the most important thing I ever say about American politics.
theconversation.com/is-elon-musk...
I suspect this will be the most important thing I ever say about American politics.
theconversation.com/is-elon-musk...
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Newly signed Executive Order is pretty wild. Officially puts Elon in charge of radically downsizing all non-military departments, and all hiring—at a mandated (arbitrary) rate of just 1 for every four workers who quit—must now go through him.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Implementing The President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Workforce Optimization Initiative
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.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Newly signed Executive Order is pretty wild. Officially puts Elon in charge of radically downsizing all non-military departments, and all hiring—at a mandated (arbitrary) rate of just 1 for every four workers who quit—must now go through him.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Having facilitated a Navigating Grief in BIPOC Solidarity series, which delved into Collective & Ancestral Grief, Disenfranchised & Suffocated Grief, Movement Grief, Anticipatory Grief, Carceral Grief, Disability Grief, Climate Grief, etc, so sharing those resources: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
February 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Having facilitated a Navigating Grief in BIPOC Solidarity series, which delved into Collective & Ancestral Grief, Disenfranchised & Suffocated Grief, Movement Grief, Anticipatory Grief, Carceral Grief, Disability Grief, Climate Grief, etc, so sharing those resources: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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CFPB - closed
USAID - closed
Medicaid - under attack
NIH cancer funding - frozen
Department of Education - under attack
But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today?
SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk
USAID - closed
Medicaid - under attack
NIH cancer funding - frozen
Department of Education - under attack
But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today?
SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk
February 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
CFPB - closed
USAID - closed
Medicaid - under attack
NIH cancer funding - frozen
Department of Education - under attack
But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today?
SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk
USAID - closed
Medicaid - under attack
NIH cancer funding - frozen
Department of Education - under attack
But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today?
SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk
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Musk killed these people.
February 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Musk killed these people.
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USAID was investigating Starlink
CFPB was the agency preventing dodgy financial maneuvers like X becoming a bank
Musk is systematically (and illegally) going after the agencies that constraint his business interests
CFPB was the agency preventing dodgy financial maneuvers like X becoming a bank
Musk is systematically (and illegally) going after the agencies that constraint his business interests
Russell Vought, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and one of the authors of Project 2025, just ordered the agency's staff to effectively cease all operations in an org wide email.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
Federal Financial Watchdog Ordered to Cease Activity
In an email to staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency’s acting director ordered workers to cease “all supervision and examination activity.”
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:43 AM
USAID was investigating Starlink
CFPB was the agency preventing dodgy financial maneuvers like X becoming a bank
Musk is systematically (and illegally) going after the agencies that constraint his business interests
CFPB was the agency preventing dodgy financial maneuvers like X becoming a bank
Musk is systematically (and illegally) going after the agencies that constraint his business interests
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always a good sign when the police say they’re trying to find a crime they can charge a person with
Excuse me, what in the Footloose fuck? www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
February 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
always a good sign when the police say they’re trying to find a crime they can charge a person with
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A gift--
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
Court Blocks U.S. From Sending Venezuelan Migrants to Guantánamo (Gift Article)
The men, who are detained in New Mexico, say they “fit the profile” of the type of migrants the Trump administration has started sending to the Navy base in Cuba.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
A gift--
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
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BREAKING -- Trump says he's kicking undocumented immigrants out of Social Security.
One small problem, though -- undocumented immigrants are ALREADY ineligible for Social Security benefits.
You know, because they don't have Social Security numbers. Because they're undocumented.
One small problem, though -- undocumented immigrants are ALREADY ineligible for Social Security benefits.
You know, because they don't have Social Security numbers. Because they're undocumented.
February 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
BREAKING -- Trump says he's kicking undocumented immigrants out of Social Security.
One small problem, though -- undocumented immigrants are ALREADY ineligible for Social Security benefits.
You know, because they don't have Social Security numbers. Because they're undocumented.
One small problem, though -- undocumented immigrants are ALREADY ineligible for Social Security benefits.
You know, because they don't have Social Security numbers. Because they're undocumented.
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“As a nation, we still have not recovered from the physical, mental and social toll of COVID. What will happen if bird flu starts coursing through us?”
The US Is Not Ready for Bird Flu in Humans
Bird flu is infecting more people than we think. We need to stop it now before a new pandemic begins
www.scientificamerican.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
“As a nation, we still have not recovered from the physical, mental and social toll of COVID. What will happen if bird flu starts coursing through us?”
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Draft Exec Order wld halve FDA staffing, slash NIH, eliminate CDC. WH being warned of impact on public health, biopharma industry, science. OPM back to work starts at FDA March 17.
www.biocentury.com/article/655011
www.biocentury.com/article/655011
White House plans to slash FDA, NIH would decimate agencies
White House plans to slash FDA and NIH and eliminate CDC could create lasting damage to public health, sink share prices of biotech and pharmaceutical comp...
www.biocentury.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Draft Exec Order wld halve FDA staffing, slash NIH, eliminate CDC. WH being warned of impact on public health, biopharma industry, science. OPM back to work starts at FDA March 17.
www.biocentury.com/article/655011
www.biocentury.com/article/655011
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One irony of Trump's erratic policy on tariffs—where he makes wild threats, and then backs down— is that the targeted leaders end up looking like amazing negotiators and that they stood up to the bully.
Mexican President Sheinbaum is at 81%.
mexiconewsdaily.com/news/81-of-m...
Mexican President Sheinbaum is at 81%.
mexiconewsdaily.com/news/81-of-m...
February 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
One irony of Trump's erratic policy on tariffs—where he makes wild threats, and then backs down— is that the targeted leaders end up looking like amazing negotiators and that they stood up to the bully.
Mexican President Sheinbaum is at 81%.
mexiconewsdaily.com/news/81-of-m...
Mexican President Sheinbaum is at 81%.
mexiconewsdaily.com/news/81-of-m...
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NEW: Mayor Adams' admin last month quietly told all city agencies, including schools & shelters, they can let ICE agents looking for immigrants onto city property without warrants if city personnel "reasonably feel threatened" by their presence.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/06/a...
www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/06/a...
Adams revises rules limiting ICE searches at schools and shelters if NYC workers feel “threatened”
All New York City agencies, including public schools and the shelter system, can allow federal authorities searching for undocumented immigrants come onto their property without warrants if city pe…
www.nydailynews.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
NEW: Mayor Adams' admin last month quietly told all city agencies, including schools & shelters, they can let ICE agents looking for immigrants onto city property without warrants if city personnel "reasonably feel threatened" by their presence.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/06/a...
www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/06/a...
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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 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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...
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This seems to also be effecting the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), national database that identifies missing, unidentified, and unclaimed persons, which has taken several webpages offline — including those with information related to transgender and LGBGTIQ hate crimes.
February 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
This seems to also be effecting the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), national database that identifies missing, unidentified, and unclaimed persons, which has taken several webpages offline — including those with information related to transgender and LGBGTIQ hate crimes.