The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

As always, if you’re a federal worker or someone in tech and you want to talk, you can find me on Signal with a non-work phone at Vittoria89.82

The US Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine. A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them. n.pr/48ihZvq

Pro-tip: the people zip-tying kids or shoving the elderly down stairs are never the good guys.

Here’s the CBS News report about ICE making bogus 911 calls and filing false police reports in Chicago. ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social

SenatorWarnock just broke it down: health care is on the line. A Chatham County, GA. family once paid $559/month for coverage—now it’s $2,100 after GOP subsidy cuts. Quadruple the cost just to stay insured. #TrumpsHealthCareShutdown #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker explains what he believes is Donald Trump's real goal in normalizing a military presence in U.S. cities by dressing ICE and Border Patrol agents in military gear. Watch:

To be absolutely clear on what just happened here, Trump ousted this veteran career prosecutor *precisely because* he would *not* cook the facts to bring a corrupt prosecution against one of Trump's leading enemies. To Trump, refusing to prosecute his foes for fake crimes is a firing offense.

NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Public media is really special. Shame, shame, shame on this regime and its campaign to make everyone scared, obedient, and stupid. They are stealing from all of us and from our futures. Despicable.

"The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival. Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort." —Justice Sotomayor

House Republicans voted to cut funding for NPR and PBS.

Philly local tv station reporting that a man allegedly posed as an ICE agent in order to rob a car repair business office. How many other criminals might be getting this idea right now, given that actual ICE agents are refusing to show IDs, warrants, badges?

NYT: "I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention" Kseniia Petrova "is a Russian scientist who works in a lab at Harvard Medical School. She told her story through a Times Opinion editor, Alex Ellerbeck, over multiple calls from an ICE detention center." A 30 y.o. who erred at Customs.

Trump memecoin makes Page One: @nytimes.com @ericlipton.nytimes.com

People who never read books now in charge of books.

Could you imagine the response if a democratic president said they didn’t know if they had to uphold the Constitution? How fast would the articles of impeachment be drawn ? 20 minutes at the most

So are laws not real anymore? I feel like all the scoops from the past 2 months show that Republicans don’t have to follow laws but everyone else has to?

🚨 SCOOP: DOGE just cut millions in Labor Department grants to support getting women into manufacturing & construction jobs & tackling gender-based violence & harassment at work. It may be illegal since some grants were mandated by law. New @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

So Republicans aren’t following the laws that they want everyone else to follow…

NEW: Whistleblower records show that the NIH axed research grants – even after a federal judge blocked the cuts with an injunction. www.propublica.org/article/trum... 🧵

Salt Lake City, Utah, and Boise, Idaho, adopted official Pride flags on Tuesday in response to state laws barring the display of any nonofficial flags at schools and government buildings.

Breaking: NC Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin just conceded the election - six months, and three rounds of vote tallies, after he lost. Our office led the legal defense of this election, pushing back against an effort to throw out tens of thousands of lawful votes.

The first lady publicized the $MELANIA coin in a Truth Social post on Jan. 19, hours before her husband was inaugurated for a second term, and two dozen digital wallets bought $2.6 million of the tokens in the two and a half minutes before her post went live, reported the Financial Times.

Party of 'family values' doesn't care at all about families www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

NEW: The Great Lakes hold 95% of all the surface freshwater in the United States. Severe cuts have decimated the NOAA Great Lakes lab. Scientists worry they’ve lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people. My story for @propublica.org

There are real people hurt by HHS cuts. Imagine losing your child to a horrible disease, working tirelessly to make sure other families don't have to experience that, and then - at the last minute - all your work to save children and families is suddenly gone just to score political points.

🚨BREAKING: Federal District Court REJECTS Republican effort to overturn North Carolina Supreme Court election result. Orders the state to certify the results of the election and not proceed with the cure process. Congratulations to our clients, the ELG team, Justice Riggs and the voters of NC!

I've just found a clip of a wild bald eagle being weighed and can't stop laughing XD

Doug Bowser: Diversity is important to Nintendo “We always want to attract the best talent we can and retain that talent. We also believe it’s important for that talent to be diverse in terms of their backgrounds, their experiences, and their understandings" nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-on-...

Liz Oyer, the Justice Department’s recently fired pardon attorney, made a staggering claim on social media this week: President Donald Trump’s pardons of people convicted of white-collar crimes have cost Americans $1 billion.

Part of the populist project of undermining expertise is to convince "regular" people that the research done by highly trained scientists is the same as the research they can do by following recommended YouTube videos down into a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories and snake oil pitches.

Woman sues LAPD over SWAT raid allegedly triggered by confusion over similar name

If you work for the FAA, and you were forced to sign an NDA that prohibits post-employment disclosures of anything other than classified information, please call a lawyer. NOW.

It is SO unusual for the Supreme Court to issue an order this late at night and honestly incredible only Thomas and Alito noted their dissents. Also fascinating that SCOTUS rushed out the order before Alito could finish writing his dissent. That basically never happens! Again—majority seems pissed.

The NYT when someone wants to kill higher education

I called for an independent investigation into Donald Trump's dismantling of the Department of Education, and now, it's happening. This investigation will reveal what's at stake for families. While Trump and Musk side with billionaires, I'll side with our kids.

Minnesota abortion fund Our Justice literally GIVES PEOPLE ✈️ VOUCHERS so they can travel to MN for a safe, legal abortion. And right now, when you donate, the National Network of Abortion Funds will match your $ and give it to Our Justice. Help me help them! fund.nnaf.org/fundraiser/6...

I made a video like this during Trump’s first presidency for friends and still can’t believe we are back in this place. Good content here + strong book color organization game.

If you’re protesting today, please watch and share widely.

Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.

I remember my president Elizabeth Warren once saying something along the lines of — doing something matters even if you don’t get the results you want, because it turns you into the kind of person who does something.

If you or someone you know got laid off by Trump & Elon today, consider running for local office and bringing your expertise into leadership. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net

NEW: CDC FOIA page are being dismantled, including pages containing FOIA request logs and the portal to submit FOIA requests.

“ …in the worst counties of the nation, women…have a ninefold, 900 times higher risk of dying from cancer [than]…counties that are the best” #NIH #healthcarefunding #cancerresearch #researchfunding #scientificresearch

WE'VE RAISED $100,000 IN LESS THAN SEVEN HOURS!!!! I'm SO grateful to the thousands of grassroots donors who've contributed so far -- and none of them are corporations or lobbyists! Help us build a different type of campaign: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-b...

As I said: Fight Club Democrats are not going to have a problem raising money.

Tomorrow, we expect Trump is going to sign an Executive Order claiming to dissolve the U.S. Department of Education. Reminder: Trump does not have the legal authority to destroy a cabinet department; reporting on the EO as if he does have that power is both inaccurate and unethical.