Congratulations, much deserved! Welcome to the club.

The race to save the bee collection at a lab stung by Trump cuts The Eastern Ecological Science Center’s Bee Lab in Prince George’s County is funded by the U.S. Geological Survey. Volunteers helped preserve bees as they worry about the lab’s fate amid Trump’s feder...

"A sudden shuttering would put at risk nearly 300,000 bees in the collection that hadn’t yet been properly preserved. Their little bodies left to rot in an empty lab building. Gnawed by mice, scattered by insects. Decades of research, gone."
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No nation can keep its republic if constitutional conservatives don’t join with liberals, progressives, & libertarians in common cause to prevent far-right parties from abusing power.

The USA is at dire risk.
Americans will need to find common cause to overcome our domestic authoritarian movement.

And still pay no taxes?

Feel sorry for those having a long weekend away from work emails. To read work email on weekends is not good work life balance.

So sad that so many good people are in this administration. Thank you to those who upholding standards and professionalism.

If they believe in fairness, why do they fire people without cause? If they believe in not being biased, why do they dismiss employees who do not agree with their politics? This administration is two-faced and liars. There I said it.

FCSM Research and Policy Conference The Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) was founded in 1975 by the Statistical and Science Policy Branch (formerly, the Office of Statistical Policy) in the Office of Information and R...

The Call for Abstracts for the 2025 FCSM Annual Conference (Oct 21-23) is open! Abstracts are Due by April 21. The conference will be held in College Park, MD.

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Where will our future civil servants come from? Yet again questioning the US future as a democracy. 🤔

I think this year, we do now have a deep state and vengeful federal government. It's up to the courts now to save us.🙏

Boo 👎

If you are curious about the End of Term Crawl this post goes into detail. #datarescue

A closer look at federal records shows Musk’s claims are vastly overstated, and the $55 billion figure lacks any real documentation. Share to help stop the spread of misinformation.

Since He promised lower egg prices to win the election, can we say he was wrong and have another election 🤔 Please?

My guess is that Elon Musk never heard of the GAO

Surfer fucking shreds on the south central coast.

Failed government aside, what a great fuckin' country.

So much to cover over 50 years. I wished they covered political humor more. Cold open regular theme. #SNL50

Adam Sandberg made me cry. #SNL50

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NEW: Now-former Census Bureau Director Robert Santos says in an open letter to the bureau’s staff that his family situation required him to step down, adding, “in all honestly, stormy weather lies ahead. Yet, the Census Bureau’s mission remains as a beacon of hope”
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The Truman Committee showed Americans why Congress must not ignore the world’s wealthiest “dollar a year man” at DOGE Good afternoon from Washington, where yesterday’s snowfall is melting faster than ethics standards and watchdogs in the Trump administration. Glad to see more folks subscribing to Civic Texts today: ...

The relevant precedent to DOGE isn’t Gore’s National Performance Review or the Truman Committee: it’s the War Production Board & “dollar/year men” the Truman Commitee investigated. Corrupt CEOs are literally why ethics laws for “Special Government Employees” exist today.
Congress must enforce them.

Is Muck the the foreign invasion the Republicans warned us about?

DOGE’s Federal Job Cuts Threaten Republican Districts Too While the Washington, D.C., area is known for its concentration of government workers, the reality is that America’s 2.3 million federal employees are scattered across the country.

While the Washington, D.C., area is known for its concentration of government workers, the reality is that America’s 2.3 million federal employees are scattered across the country www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Learn some history.
Nothing is new!

#AcademicValentines

Trump’s firing of the U.S. government archivist is far worse than it might seem The National Archives and Records Administration does more than just preserve documents: It’s the scaffolding of the American political system.

"The National Archives and Records Administration does more than just preserve documents: It’s the scaffolding of the American political system." www.fastcompany.com/91277620/tru...

Opinion | How to Fix America’s Two-Party Problem

Imagine what our government would look like if we had proportional representation. Congress is not speaking for all of America. Wonderful dataviz toward the end.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Federal Bureau of Investigation

What would JE Hoover say about someone who committed perjury to become the head of the FBI, now FIB? If you want to fix the FBI follow some of GAO's recommendations. www.gao.gov/agencies/fed...

Kash Patel Passes Senate Panel Vote Amid FBI Turmoil The vote moved Mr. Patel, a Trump loyalist, one step closer to leading the nation’s premier law enforcement agency.

Breaking News: A Senate panel voted to advance Kash Patel’s FBI director nomination, paving the way for a floor vote on his confirmation.

If we still have a democracy in 2028, I would think people would have realized the deep doodoo Republications had put us in. I hope that in another two years all Republicans running will be be voted out.

How deeply embarrassing that RFK, Jr is now the secretary of HHS. Shame on every Republican who voted for him. We now have a former heroin addict and conspiracy theorist who doesn’t believe in modern health science at the helm. This is so dangerous.

In one of Elon’s outcries about fraud, he actually ended up cutting funding for cancer research. Despite initially denying it, he was later proven wrong. This incident highlights how little he actually understands about what he’s doing.