May 22, 2025
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May 21, 2025
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- “Weaponization Czar” Ed Martin Threatens U.S. Security
- The DOGE Committee Has Become the Modern-Era HUAC
- MI Republicans Think It's “Inappropriate” to Ask GOP Lawmaker to Prove Their Gender
- Republicans Seek To Cut Medicaid By Imposing Work Requirements
- A Devastating New Exposé of Johnson & Johnson Indicts an Entire System | The New Republic
May 18, 2025
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- How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes | WIRED
- Donald Trump Is No Longer the President of the United States
- An Obituary for the FBI
- Raising My Children in Bucks County Between Two Identities and Cultures - Bucks County Beacon
- My no-plastic life: I tried to cut out single-use items for a month – and it almost broke me | Plastics | The Guardian
- Why Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris in 2024 election
- U.S. Credit Downgrade Rattles Markets in Run-up to Budget and Debt Standoff
- Pennsylvania election overhaul clears Democratic-led House - Votebeat
- Federal Government's Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship - PEN America
- Corruption and a Security Catastrophe in Plane Sight
May 17, 2025
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- The murder business - by Judd Legum and Noel Sims
- Far Right Federal Judge Rules Gay And Trans People Can Be Discriminated Against In Workplaces
- "Chilling Effect," 11th Circuit Blocks Florida's Drag Ban
- How ‘Job Loss Penalty’ Reframes the Fight for Medicaid
- American Schools Were Deeply Unprepared for ChatGPT, Public Records Show
- Having a clear vision in a blurred world | by Thomas Ricouard | May, 2025 | Medium
May 16, 2025
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- Inside Lucy the Elephant, the 143-year-old Shore monument to kitsch
- Lower Salford Township v. EPA (2:11-cv-06489)
- The Aura of Invincibility is Fading - by Jennifer Rubin
- Republicans target Democratic Pa. Supreme Court justices in retention election
- Philly university leaders skipped City Council DEI hearing
- The Papacy and the Pathway Out
- Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US – Krebs on Security
- Governor warns Pennsylvanians will lose health care, hospitals will close under GOP cuts to Medicaid | AP News
- The Trump administration wants to end LIHEAP. 300K Pa. households could struggle to pay heating bills. : r/Pennsylvania
- PA GOP silent after Dawn Keefer calls for rebellion against Shapiro’s budget
- Ground control to Major Trial
- DOGE’s Fraud Tracker at Social Security Turns Into a Massive Self-Own
- Democrats pass sweeping election bill through PA House • Spotlight PA
May 13, 2025
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Links submitted to me in this thread
- New Worldmaking: Reparations as climate justice, climate justice as reparations
- There’s hope · Nils Mielke, the Website
- Build Then Smile
- Prepare ye the way. But what is the way now?
- Ungovernable Love: What is Ungovernable Love?
- Ariadne Systems - Ecologically Harmonious Lifestyle
- 🔭 The Branding Essay
Links I stumbled on
- MAGA, Measles and the Wellness Hustle
- US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return – POLITICO
- World's longest range LED flashlight : r/flashlight
- New attack can steal cryptocurrency by planting false memories in AI chatbots - Ars Technica
- Government Furiously Trying to Undo Elon Musk's Damage
- Still Getting On The Air – KC8JC
- Twitterlike is a Bad Shape
May 12, 2025
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- The Moderate Case Against Transgender Sports Bans
- Hypercritical: Apple Turnover
- OPM appears to cancel sole-source award for cloud HR system
- Potentially Useful | Weeknote for 2025-W12
- Trump’s Anger Spins Out of Control at Presser as Another Bad Poll Hits | The New Republic
- Why does it feel like when I learned history in school those women protesting for suffrage and rights were awesome at making a political impact but nowadays when I see protestors it looks like it’s doing nothing? : r/NoStupidQuestions
- Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States
- Exclusive: US CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say | Reuters
- Cancelling, Crybullies and Consequences - by Laurie Penny
- Letter I received from Sen. Alsobrooks : r/maryland
May 11, 2025
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- A Maryland town wanted Trump to cut waste. Now it's a target : NPR
- Resin Shine Co
- Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads
- Whistleblowing in Federal IT: What I Did, Why It Matters, and How You Can Speak Up Safely : r/fednews
- Trump’s tactics familiar to some who fled authoritarian regimes : NPR
- She Found Her Video | Illegal Parker Says She's Suing Us.. Again - YouTube
- The Brain Behind the Strongline Staff Safety Badge System | Jefferson Health
- PA schools use equity funds to cover rising cyber charter costs • Spotlight PA
- Wrong turn leads to hundreds of immigrant arrests at the Detroit-Canada border bridge : NPR
- Man suing Trump puts president on notice: 'We're not going to let him get away with it' - Raw Story
May 9, 2025
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May 8, 2025
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- Christopher Pelkey — AI ‘victim testimony’ from beyond the grave – Pivot to AI
- John Fetterman’s alleged outburst, behavior concerns staffers • Spotlight PA
- Counterclockwise Universe — I think a lot about how we as a culture have...
- places.pub - places.pub is a service that makes OpenStreetMap geographical data available as ActivityPub objects.
- Pennsylvania: Five Democratic Senators Defect for Anti-Trans Sports Ban
- Trump promised no new business deals with foreign governments. He lied.
- Roundup: Experts Condemn Trump Pseudoscientific Anti-Trans "Report"
- Disengaged Voters Supported Trump In 2024 And Now They're Jumping Ship
- The head of FEMA defended the agency, so Trump fired him. | Grist