February 10, 2025
· One min read
February 8, 2025
· 3 min read
- Trump, an American Stalin? Massive Population Transfers were a Feature of Communist Dictatorship
- What the History of American Expansion Can Tell Us About Trump’s Threats – Mother Jones
- Trump says USAID run by "lunatics" as Democrats seek answers on DOGE visit
- oh it’s the same tattered playbook – Solarbird, Collected
- Militias and Mafias: Two Factions Loyal to Trump and the Danger They Pose to Us All - Bucks County Beacon
- Three years of SecureDrop - The Lego Mirror
- What Octavia Butler saw on Feb. 1, 2025, three decades ago
- New Jersey cavity rates and fluoride in water - WHYY
- Letters: When Bucks County School Districts Actually Need to Allow ICE Agents Inside Schools, The Importance of Pennsylvania's 2025 Judicial Elections - Bucks County Beacon
- AI agents could birth the first one-person unicorn — but at what societal cost? | TechCrunch
- Researchers rush to preserve federal health databases before they disappear from government websites
- Central Dauphin was right to expel trash from its classrooms | PennLive letters - pennlive.com
- Trump’s War on Gender is Accelerating – Mother Jones
- Robert Kennedy Jr. should not be in charge of our health | PennLive letters - pennlive.com
- Ken Martin wins election as the next chair of the Democratic National Committee
- Trudeau answers after Trump imposes tariffs on goods from Canada, China and Mexico
- Central Pa. school bus had sign saying ‘NO speaking Spanish’; transportation company responds - pennlive.com
- Trump moves you might have missed this week
- I want you to do these four things right now
- Senior FBI official forcefully resisted Trump administration firings
- Sarah McBride, trans Del. congresswoman, hit with proposed bathroom ban - WHYY
- Sarah McBride’s run to become the first openly trans member Congress is decades in the making
February 7, 2025
· 4 min read
- No new contract yet for Pennsylvania’s SURE voter registration system upgrade - Votebeat
- Bucks residents press Energy Transfer for answers on pipeline leak - WHYY
- OPINION: Gearing Up in Bucks County to Fight for Racial and Social Justice During Trump’s Second Term - Bucks County Beacon
- 'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook
- Secrecy is becoming a defining trait of Elon Musk's DOGE
- Anti-‘DEI’ order leads to funding chaos for Philly-area scientists - WHYY
- UK government demands Apple backdoor to encrypted cloud data: Report | TechCrunch
- UK orders Apple to implement secret global backdoor for end-to-end encryption – Six Colors
- Shapiro uses visit to central Pa. preschool to plug childcare workforce plan: ‘critically important’ - pennlive.com
- Pennsylvania health care bills lead in legislative priorities - WHYY
- Shapiro budget: Energy tax breaks, state-level carbon cap - WHYY
- PennDOT has neglected to consult New York on the fate of Skinners Falls Bridge| PennLive letters - pennlive.com
- Keyboard maker suspends US shipments over Trump tariffs on Chinese goods | TechCrunch
- She Was Raped and Relentlessly Demanded Answers—Until the City Took Her to Court for Harassment – Mother Jones
- GOP tension on Trump agenda bill grows as Senate diverges from House's path
- Understanding His Sick Game - by Jay Kuo - The Status Kuo
- The heist of 100,000 eggs in Pennsylvania becomes a whodunit that police have yet to crack - WHYY
- The Arab World Sees Trump’s Gaza Plan As a Declaration of War
- Trump Is Not Deporting Only “Criminals” – Mother Jones
- What Justice Jackson Warned About in the Trump Immunity Case Is Coming True – Mother Jones
- Trump Just Outlined His Plan to Hand Power to Christian Nationalists – Mother Jones
- Where to Find All Those Deleted Government Websites | Lifehacker
- Government Commission Halts Investigations of LGBTQ+ Workplace Discrimination – Mother Jones
- Update on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive
- Alleged theft of more than $532K from Pa. township shows the limits of routine audits - pennlive.com
- The biggest misconceptions about PA municipal audits and fraud • Spotlight PA
- PoliticsPA Playbook: What's In Shapiro's Budget Pitch?
February 6, 2025
· 2 min read
- ”Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed - Ars Technica
- A guide to using Signal for government workers
- DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers | WIRED
- Is this a coup? Home of the Coup-o-meter
- Federal layoffs ‘likely’ if too few employees choose to quit, memo says : r/fednews
- Fearless awarded $8M GSA Login.gov Infrastructure and Technical Services task | OrangeSlices AI
- Data breach hitting PowerSchool looks very, very bad - Ars Technica
- Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
- PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory | Hall of Impossible Dreams
- I Guess This Blog has Joined the War on Cars | Jemal.co
February 5, 2025
· 2 min read
- America's Future in Four Maps
- Lower Merion gun case could impact towns ability to limit where they're sold
- ODPL: A First Hand Account of a Brazen Crypto Scam
- NSF freezes payments in response to Trump’s executive actions on DEI : NPR
- A comprehensive list of actions taken against the federal workforce : r/fednews
- USDA Inspector General Who Refused to Leave Post Escorted From Office by Security
- A Tumultuous Week for Federal Cybersecurity Efforts – Krebs on Security
- In the face of this, who do you want to be?
- Towamencin Twp. Supervisor Laura Smith in Montgomery County resigns over video showing her making gesture resembling Nazi salute - 6abc Philadelphia
- Piggybacking off Apple's FindMy network for self-hosted GPS tracking without using a single Apple device : r/selfhosted
- Process for Unexpected State and Federal Representatives to Schools – HCPSS News
- Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted | Bryan Braun - Frontend Developer
- The DEI police came to my Unit : r/fednews
February 3, 2025
· 3 min read
- Rock Spring lawyers ask for emergency State College takeover • Spotlight PA
- How to Store Important Documents | NBC Select
- Words That Wound: How the MAGA Movement's Language of Immigration Fuels Dehumanization - Bucks County Beacon
- Trump tariffs threaten to interrupt Americans' economic gains
- Trump/MAGA have started dropping CDC data down the Memory Hole | ACA Signups
- School Systems Across US Declare They Will Not Comply With Trump's Anti-Trans Executive Order
- Trump's spending freeze blocked by second federal judge
- The Democratic Party votes for Minnesota's Ken Martin as chair - WHYY
- PHOTOS: Aftermath of the plane crash, explosion in NE Philly
- CDC website scrubs HIV content following Trump diversity policy changes
- Dell risks employee retention by forcing all teams back into offices full-time - Ars Technica
- CDC site removing HIV-related content amid Trump DEI policy shifts
- Pop Cryptid Spectator #5 – Sharon A. Hill
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to duck a deposition in an OpenAI copyright lawsuit | TechCrunch
- Pilot Jonathan Campos remembered fondly by family after American Eagle plane crash near D.C.
- Sandy Hook Families Defy Alex Jones Bankruptcy Deposition Demand
- Louisiana Indicts NY Doctor for Telemedicine Abortion – Mother Jones
- Trump tariffs could cost households $830 extra this year, study finds
- Philly DA says local officials don’t have to comply with Trump’s immigration crackdown - pennlive.com
February 2, 2025
· 3 min read
- BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
- Identity Months Dead at DoD > U.S. Department of Defense > Release
- PA consumer advocate resigns after clash with Dave Sunday • Spotlight PA
- I Work at NIH. The Fear Among Staff Is Palpable. – Mother Jones
- Vote-by-mail reform, mental health, and 911 funding top counties' priorities for 2025 • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
- 21 years of postcards to the president at Philly’s Free Library - WHYY
- PoliticsPA Playbook: Shapiro Unveils “Lightning Plan”
- SCOOP: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Admits Settlement for “Misconduct” Accusation – Mother Jones
- State Lawmakers Want to Strengthen Election Integrity in Pennsylvania by Ending Gerrymandering and Ensuring Fair Redistricting - Bucks County Beacon
- Senator warns of national security risks after Elon Musk's DOGE granted 'full access' to sensitive Treasury systems | TechCrunch
- Northeast Philadelphia residents react to deadly plane crash - WHYY
- Be interesting
- A Former ICE Chief of Staff on How Trump’s Enforcement Push Is Backfiring – Mother Jones
- Links to archived versions of every CDC.gov page available pre-purge (Part 6 of 15) | ACA Signups
- Trump is waging war against his own government
- be the revolution – Harold Jarche
- The Last Word On Nothing | A Sevenmile Stream Story
- How Black women are responding to Trump
- Coping - emptywheel
- Trump's tariffs: GOP lawmakers say tariffs are necessary
February 1, 2025
· 2 min read
- Trump Orders Schools to Ease Sex Assault Rules
- Plane crashes in Northeast Philadelphia: Live updates, news
- From your genderqueer coworker, don't quit over the pronoun email. : r/fednews
- NTSB forces reporters to get plane crash updates on X
- On Trump's orders, officials released water from two California dams - Los Angeles Times
- Luzerne County manager appoints first chief artificial intelligence officer | The Sunday Dispatch
- Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
- Pa. Gov. Shapiro rolls out plan to fast-track, subsidize power plants - WHYY
- Pennsylvania’s Upgrade of Glitchy Voter Registration System Falls Further Behind Schedule
- Trump Asks Schools to Report Activist Students for Deportation – Mother Jones
- How Trump Makes Tragedies Worse, A History – Mother Jones
- Trump's FCC chief opens investigation into NPR and PBS - WHYY
- Pentagon scrambles to block DeepSeek after employees connect to Chinese servers | TechCrunch
- Democrats ready to fight unwanted candidates in Senate primaries
- Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump is sentenced to 10 years in deadly DWI crash
- EEOC Chair Announces Transgender Bathroom Ban in Private Businesses "A Priority"
January 31, 2025
· 2 min read
- EXPRESS: Lower Artificial Intelligence Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity - Stephanie Tully, Chiara Longoni, Gil Appel,
- Testing PCIe on the Raspberry Pi 5 | Jeff Geerling
- I built a special PCIe card to test GPUs on the Pi | Jeff Geerling
- you have more pull than you realize | ava's blog
- It Took RFK Jr. Just Six Minutes to Lie to Congress – Mother Jones
- Know your rights: In English, Spanish, and French | Baltimore Beat
- Former Chester police commissioner faces traffic charges - WHYY
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Distorts the Facts on His Infamous Samoa Visit – Mother Jones
- How I Used Root Cause Analysis to Turn Organizational Problems Into Opportunities
- The Incompetent Liars - by Jay Kuo - The Status Kuo
- "Take this fight to every town hall": Trump's funding freeze awakens the "Resistance"
- 7 detained in first Philly ICE raid of Trump administration - WHYY
- “Dystopian”: Trump Issues New Order to Stamp Out Trans Youth Healthcare – Mother Jones
- Shapiro administration announces settlement to prevent billions in extra electricity costs • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
- The Chilling Line Trump Just Crossed On Transgender People
- Trump-Colombia Spat: Aggressive U.S. Policy Might Push Latin America Toward China
January 30, 2025
· 2 min read
- A Summary of Kash Patel's Disqualifications to Lead FBI - emptywheel
- Judge AliKhan Didn't Halt Trump's Funding Freeze Alone, Democracy Forward Did Too - emptywheel
- Trump makes moves to expand his power, sparking chaos - WHYY
- How DOGE Will Try to Dodge Transparency – Mother Jones
- The Madness of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – Mother Jones
- Trump's Federal Funding Freeze Leaves Pennsylvania in Limbo
- Fearless: Supporting IT staff augmentation with the U.S. House of Representatives | OrangeSlices AI
- Judge pauses Trump's federal funding freeze as confusion, frustration spread.- WHYY
- PoliticsPA Playbook: Fed Funding Freeze Fallout
- Trump Jan 6 pardons: The most notorious Capitol Riot defendants pardoned
- Bullying Our Allies - by Jay Kuo - The Status Kuo
- Greenland’s Door Is Open for Trump
- Colombia’s President Rejects Trump’s Deportation Flights – Mother Jones
- Experimental Playgrounds
- Trump Hits Colombia with 25% Tariffs, Threatens More in Revealing Deportation Standoff
- Former N.J. U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez gets 11 years - WHYY