Just making sure everyone saw what the former Social Security Administrator told CNBC on Saturday...

This sort of comic book corruption is quite literally illegal in every single country in the world that has written laws. I don't even know what else you say about this, it's amazing

In states across the country, Americans are likely to find themselves picking up a hefty tab, @ktumulty.bsky.social writes. wapo.st/4bhEoIA

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"No outcomes are ever preordained, nothing is ever over, and you can always affect what happens tomorrow by making the right choices today" - Anne Apllebaum - We're standing at a crossroads! 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸 It's up to you! #BlueSkyFriends We need to be brave! 🧵1/9

This is an ABSOLUTE must watch. www.facebook.com/reel/2133869...

REDDIT: Spotted at a KNOXVILLE Kroger… 🥚 is it “Day One” yet? www.reddit.com/r/Knoxville/...

To American Men … who go on and on about the 2nd amendment when there are school shootings, and their right to bear arms. The defence you say then: is we need them in case we have a tyrannical government. Is this not s tyrannical government ? Or do you use them just to shoot kids ?

Relates directly to my previous post. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Someone on FB suggested renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of the Cretaceous Meteorite. It was tongue-in-cheek, of course, but humans might owe their existence to the Chicxulub event. Such renaming might help our species collectively reframe our self-concept. www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/s...

#Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. 🧪🌎 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c... 🎁🔓

“Work that was halted, according to employees and contractors, included the U.S.’s efforts to stop the spread of an Ebola outbreak in Uganda, an outbreak of the Marburg virus disease in Tanzania, and a multicountry outbreak of Mpox.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

My and @leahgreenberg.bsky.social's first piece in @zeteo.com up here! zeteo.com/p/how-democr...

A witch hunt has begun at the FBI. Employees are required to provide information by Tuesday and are being encouraged to report on their coworkers. The FBI questionnaire asks agents about their roles in various cases, including whether they made arrests or appeared in court, among other details.

New album dropping on Bandcamp 2/22!

Here's some empowering, evidence-based & practical advice about how to strengthen friendships, because we really need friends right now (gift link) wapo.st/3Q1j0xv

I'm reading informed speculation that Trump's tariffs are imposed to give corporations and industries a reason to support Trump’s interests: Buy Trump Coin and/or contribute to the presidential library, then ask for tariff relief. Extortion, in other words.

On a lighter note.

The wife upstairs…another one that triggered the eff out of me. Infidelity, manipulation, a marriage that goes wrong and ends with an injury needing long term care, and an unknown psycho killer that could be either spouse. The toxicity! #freidamcfadden #booksky

5 takeaways from RFK Jr’s confirmation hearing showing how his nomination poses a threat to public health. By me, with reporting and editing by @laurenjyoung.bsky.social: www.scientificamerican.com/article/reca...

We highly advised for all federal employees not to respond to or open OPM emails. Our coalition will be advised on additional precautions. Reports of a hostile takeover at OPM have been circulating. More details will be released in the future.

An oceanographer/pediatrician says having a puppy in the home when you're an infant is like reading the entire Library of Congress, in terms of useful exposure to bacteria that helps develop the immune system. On a BBC radio news programs.

Library of Congress launches History of the Book post series blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/...

Trump is both more experienced and more extreme than he was in 2017: He and his allies have learned from their failures the first time around and are pursuing a nakedly fascistic agenda.

www.azquotes.com/quote/652853 H. Arendt seems especially relevant to these times. Just tweak this quote a bit. "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists."

Yes!!! Say more of this!!! It’s the most astonishingly, openly corrupt administration in US history, literally from the first day, and it’ll only get worse. They aren’t even trying to hide it. It’s a degree of corruption that could destabilize the whole country, the whole world.

The end of the American Experiment? Yes, it probably is. I don't know about the rest of you, but I hear a funeral dirge. www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

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More bad news for the "vaccines are killing millions" crowd! Researchers in Norway conducted a study examining all-cause mortality between 2021-2023 from the population, over 4.6 million people. In all age groups, the rate of death was lowest among those who were fully vaccinated.

Hannah Arendt was a historian born to a Jewish family in Linden, Germany in 1906. She escaped from Nazi, Germany after being arrested by the Gestapo for her research, eventually escaping to New York where she wrote “ The Origins of Totalitarianism”.

Literally nothing is as MAGA as watching a bunch of self-righteous frauds who pretend to give a damn about Christianity, viciously attacking a minister preaching about caring for the vulnerable while their r*pist-felon messiah condescendingly scoffs at her. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/maga-chris...

Right out of the gate they are detaining U.S. citizens and saying their “papers”are fake. It was always a lie.

Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps. The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years. History is repeating. Pay attention.

An unqualified former Fox host, accused in an affidavit of being "abusive" toward his second wife, of being perpetually drunk, and allegedly screaming "Kill all Muslims! Kill all Muslims!" just got confirmed as the US Defense Secretary (!) by a tie-break vote in the Senate.

In a world gone mad, the most powerful acts of resistance don’t involve posting on social media, but engaging in your community. Here’s my piece from last summer on the value of Supercitizens, who don’t just provide the glue that keeps us together, but also live longer because of it.

Donald Trump has a new condition on federal assistance to California. It’s all part of a plan to use the country’s largest state for his own political agenda.