"Brazil has demonstrated how democracies that value themselves defend themselves," Quico Toro writes. "America could have done the same."
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Five alarm fire.

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Ticket bought!

On the HHS Leadership call today: 1 employee from CMS (Center for Medicare/Medicaid Service) and 2 employees from SSA (Social Security Administration) have died by suicide after their firing.

BIG: DOGE Firings Found Unlawful by Office of Special Counsel There was a very important development today, still only little-noted in the...

"under civil service law this finding that the terminations were unlawful can create serious jeopardy for the government employees who signed the terminations, including fines, debarment from government employment and other serious civil sanctions. So those people may already have a problem."

Just cut federal cancer research & food for starving children.

Oversight agency finds Trump’s federal worker firings unlawful, asks for some employees to be reinstated The findings could have sweeping impacts for the tens of thousands of recently dismissed workers.

Office of Special Counsel rules that some of Trump's firings were unlawful, asks for some to be reinstated.

www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

There Is No AI Revolution Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei hav...

We cannot replace people with GenAI in the government or anyplace else. www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...

The young vote in Germany, by gender. 😳

A child walking with a backpack toward the Ahmaud Arbery mural

Otd 5 years ago, Ahmaud Arbery was "trapped like a rat" before he was shot dead for being Black

With the all the attacks on our community I thought I’d post this again. Might save a life.

Trumpism Is Not Inevitable But if Trump and Musk are going to be defeated, it has to start now.

"What could provoke a revolt of at least a few Republicans? What about the attempted betrayal of Ukraine? Half of the Republicans on the Hill voted for aid to Ukraine less than a year ago. Are they going to do nothing to prevent a free Ukraine from disappearing?"
www.thebulwark.com/p/trumpism-i...

How many Tesla’s should we throw in the Boston Harbor?

Sign of the day…

PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Modern-Day Peaceful Protest…

TikTokers are hunting Cybertrucks—pulling up behind them and projecting anti-Elon Musk messages onto the tailgate. What’s genius: the driver has zero rear visibility & zero idea.

The Cybertruck Hunters account launched a week ago and already dropped a dozen videos.

Anxiety Mounts Among Social Security Recipients as DOGE Troops Settle In Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be signific...

Musk and DOGE are closing local Social Security offices, making it hard for people with disabilities to access help.

Frank Bisignano, former FISERV CEO, is Trump’s nominee for commissioner of Social Security.

He is likely to expand this.

www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Elections at stake as Republicans mobilize a takeover of the PA Supreme Court Control of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is on the ballot this year, with three Democratic justices up for retention elections. This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and…

Elections at stake as Republicans mobilize a takeover of the PA Supreme Court: Control of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is on the ballot this year, with three Democratic justices up for retention elections.

This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering…

Due to a pet sitter cancellation I am doing some last minute pet sitting for a neighbor and few animals seethe with ancient and incandescent rage quite like elderly Chihuahuas

When Trump promised to make prices go down I guess he meant stock prices

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

swear to god if this were a movie script the studio would send notes back saying "tone it down, no one's gonna buy this"

So.

It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year.

I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

Wahlbenachrichtigung

🗳️ This Sunday is the German federal #election. This election matters. Please go #vote!

👉 My personal perspective:

🚗💨 Still so many combustion cars polluting the air. When I think about my kids’ walk to school, I wonder: Why haven’t we come much further by now?

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A priest, a rabbit and a minister walk into a bar.
The bartender asks the rabbit "what'll ya have?"
The rabbit says
"I dunno. I'm only here because of autocorrect."
🤣🤣