Mastodawn

Pam Apr 3, 2025

Nashville Severe Weather Apr 3, 2025

Atmosphere is recharged and ready for more rotating storms this afternoon and tonight. We are stuck on the wrong side of a stalled front

✅ instability
✅ shear and rotation
✅ storm fuel
✅ lift

Hail, damaging straight line winds, tornado will remain possible as approaching storms worsen ongoing flash flooding.

We ride again. 🐎 . 1256 PM

Pam Mar 2, 2025

ProPublica Mar 1, 2025

A high-ranking NASA official warned his employees to “use discretion” in public when displaying badges or emblems that identify them as federal workers — part of an effort, the agency says, to protect its staff amid “stories of possible harassment.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/nasa-official-warns-staff-trump-harassment-federal-workers?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #NASA #Space #Government #USPolitics #Trump

NASA Official Warns Staff About Publicly Displaying Their Badges Amid Reports of Harassment

The Trump administration has used strong language to disparage the federal workforce. A NASA official urges staff to “please use caution” in public amid the increasing “negative rhetoric” toward government workers.

ProPublica

Pam Mar 1, 2025

Laffy Mar 1, 2025

Why can't I ever get to leave before a news alert pops up.

I have questions. Was this ... today?

Via Kyle Griffin just now:

#Trump White House staffers were seen loading around 15 boxes of documents onto the rear of Air Force One.

Team Trump says the boxes contain the classified #documents the FBI seized from Trump's Florida home in 2022.

Pam Feb 28, 2025

Laffy Feb 28, 2025

“Freedom“ of Information Act

Via Kyle Cheney:

JUST IN: In response to a FOIA request from CREW, the #Trump administration indicates that its decision to relocate DOGE (USDS) into the White House makes it "not subject to FOIA."

Pam Feb 26, 2025

Entertainment Weekly Feb 26, 2025

Doctor Who reveals premiere date and Alan Cumming's wacky new character
https://ew.com/doctor-who-reveals-premiere-date-alan-cummings-wacky-new-character-11686530?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into TV Addicts @tv-addicts-ew

'Doctor Who' reveals premiere date and Alan Cumming's wacky new character

'Doctor Who' has revealed its premiere date, as well as Alan Cumming's wacky new character.

EW.com

Pam Feb 21, 2025

Laffy Feb 21, 2025

WTAF!

Via Kyle Cheney:

BREAKING: Judge Nichols has rejected further relief for #USAID workers and has dissolved his restraining order on the #Trump administration's effort to dismantle the agency.

https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv0352-49

Pam Feb 20, 2025

Lawfare Feb 20, 2025

Lawfare is tracking over 70 cases of legal challenges to the Trump administration’s executive orders and actions, as well as cases on behalf of the Trump administration to enforce them.

Check out the tracker here, regularly updated by Anna Hickey: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-series/trumps-first-100-days/tracking-trump-administration-litigation

Pam Feb 15, 2025

Show thread

Matthew Sheffield Feb 15, 2025

The movie line is based on an actual quote from Napoleon:

"Celui qui sauve sa patrie ne viole aucune loi."

From the book "Virilités, maximes et pensées" compiled by Jules Bertaut, in 1912

Pam Feb 15, 2025

Teri Kanefield Feb 15, 2025

Philosophical question: If I can't stop tinkering with the words in a blog post, does that mean I will never be finished?

Okay, that's it. Time to stop and publish.

I started out writing about the trial and execution of Socrates.

That brought me to the nature of subversiveness and the role of subversive elements in a democracy.

🎶 Come gather 'round people wherever you roam . . . "🎶

https://terikanefield.com/part-4-socrates-and-the-subversive-element/

Socrates and the Subversive Element - Teri Kanefield

I started out writing about the trial and execution of Socrates. This brought me to the nature of subversiveness and the role of subversive elements in a democracy. * * * To gain perspective on today’s politics, I have set out on a journey. Here’s where we’ve been so far: Introduction. (Given the nature of […]

Teri Kanefield

Pam Feb 15, 2025

Laffy Feb 15, 2025

I need a new emoji 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Via Anna Bower:

Who is the Administrator of the United States DOGE service?

No one seems to know.

After a hearing on DOGE access to Treasury payment systems, Tyler McBrien and I asked one of the DOJ attorneys who argued on behalf of the administration.

“I don’t know the answer to that,” he replied.

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