Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees. The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project’s size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.

Even the architect Trump hired to build his massive addition to the White House objects to the president's vision. The two have argued about the size of the 90,000-sq-foot project that would dwarf the mansion. @jonathanreports.bsky.social @ddiamond.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The misogynistic fucks in the admin are trying to make it so that grad school certifications in female-dominated professions (nursing, therapy, education) no longer count as “professional degrees” & you can’t get loans to go to grad school.

Nice job!

AP is banned by Trump from WH pool, while this is happening:

Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting Kluwe, a Huntington Beach resident, made comments against a MAGA plaque proposed for installation at the Central Library, then approached the dais and was arrested.

Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting

www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

The United States of America has become a kleptocracy.

Hobby: designing and building an all-sky camera for astronomy. During the day, the exposures are much shorter, so you can catch faster events. Because the focus is set for the sky, things up close are out of focus, but you can see in this shot a snowflake that was caught at just the right time 🙂

Open message to Elon Musk:

Rumors are swirling that you’re spending $40 million on Super Bowl ads targeting USAID. If there were truly fraud, wouldn’t you not need to spend millions trying to convince people?

Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.

3 hours to leave her house. This is how they treat a 4-star Admiral and Commandant of the Coast Guard.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).

Just to clear up any Trump world fantasy that Donald Trump has a mandate, his current approval rating of 47% is the second lowest of any new president in modern history.

The lowest was Trump in his first term.

www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/d...

The Cultural Ascendancy of the New Young Right Among the gleeful, confident, and casually cruel Trumpers who, after conquering Washington, have their sights set on the rest of America.

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Excellent post

the entire "pivot to video" strategy that destroyed many of the sites you used to love was based on Facebook lying about video metrics, convincing everyone that was the only way their content was getting shared

they half-heartedly "apologized" for this years later, leaving burning wreckage behind

The United States is now producing enough domestic solar to cover nearly all annual deployment. That's what policy can do, folks! And a majority of these jobs are in Republican districts.

Howdy sir, welcome to bluer skies (hopefully!)

Love your work :)