“Trump officials had known I was trans,” Julia Curlee writes of her time as an intelligence official staffed to the White House. “This hadn’t been an issue until it was public—and then nothing else I’d done mattered.”
The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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The reflecting pool is being sabotaged by paid protistas
'Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre', Maryland - I was privately commissioned to memorialise the BARC by a past employee after learning it will be shut down by the USDA after over 100 years of research. They wanted to focus of this aerial embroidery to be the field plots... 1/3 (see thread)
The DC Council will hear public testimony today on MPD’s performance over the last year. DC has seen too much cooperation between our local police and federal forces this year, and witnesses today will share the impact of this and why it needs to end. #EndTheOccupation #StopCooperation
If you're in DC and heartbroken/enraged, I'll see you at the ICE protest at 6PM at Hancock Park (650 Maryland Ave SW, L'Enfant Plaza Metro just off the mall). It'll be cold, but if folks in Minnesota can do it, so can we. Snow won't start until a few hours later.
@freedcproject.bsky.social Is there a vigil in DC for Minneapolis today or tomorrow?
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
As I've always said, I will not support a government funding bill that continues to raise our costs, jeopardizes our health care, and hurts the people of my state.
The USA will need UN election monitors, because ... apnews.com/article/domi...
Former Republican election official buys Dominion Voting — a target of 2020 conspiracy theories
Voting equipment company Dominion Voting Systems, a target of false conspiracy theories since the 2020 election, has been bought by a firm run by a former Republican elections official.
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First Amendment Under Attack Again!! #50150 #indivisible #mayday #flare #tyranny #firstamendmentrights #nokings #resist #refusefascism #jollygoodginger #policestate #freedc #stopthecoup #authoritarianism #federaltakeover #trumpissensitive #parkpolicearedoingtrumpsbidding #freespeechunderattack
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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A carefully worded message, attributed to Jane Goodall, that's helping me orient right now: "focus on the present and make choices today whose impact will build over time."
I canceled Disney+ because Disney/ABC is colluding with Trump to strip away our First Amendment rights to free speech #BoycottDisneyABC
If the First Amendment does not protect Philipos Melaku-Bello, it protects none of us. apnews.com/article/whit...
A decades-long peace vigil outside the White House is dismantled after Trump's order
Officials removed a peace vigil that stood outside the White House for more than four decades after Trump ordered it to be taken down as part of the clearing of homeless encampments.
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Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history
The Trump regime’s campaign of whitewashing US history has reached the halls of the Smithsonian museums, with exhibits dealing with slavery, the civil rights movement, and other struggles against oppr...
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I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org
House Republicans had another opportunity to remove the Medicaid and SNAP cuts from Trump’s Tax Scam. And once again, they didn’t. The GOP is making changes to the bill to ensure it will pass and they get to take away more Americans’ healthcare — because the cruelty is the point.
The good doctor digging in to the #DumpRFKjr story with some serious bullets here... #StandUpForScience
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · last yr.A little more on RFK's new vaccine committee: Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax
These are the employees of NASA/GISS on the day Mr. Trump spitefully evicted the whole institute from its offices, leased from Columbia University, above an iconic corner diner.
Registration is open for our Reflections Program - a light-weight way to reflect on your workflows and make goals going into summer. May 5-30, 2025: 1 hr/week for 3 weeks, plus our 2-hr GitHub Clinic in week 4. Details, open source materials & registration: openscapes.github.io/booklet/
Trump administration has deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with no meaningful process and against the wishes of her father.
Musk is dismantling a small but important independent agency that supports economic development in poor but stable nations. Employees at the Millennium Challenge Corporation were informed that they would be offered early retirement or deferred resignation following visits from Musk’s staffers.
1/4 Well @deevybee.bsky.social @scurry.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social @drshepherd2013.bsky.social I just heard back from the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) that they will do nothing about my code-of-conduct complaint against Elon Musk. Extremely disappointing and yet unsurprising.😡
It's time for #SciFri 📻 We kick off with SciFri’s @@cbquist.bsky.social, who joins us to talk about Trump’s nominee for NASA administrator, the path ahead for the agency, and other top science stories from the week.
Trump’s Nominee For NASA Administrator Meets Congress
Nominee Jared Isaacman prioritized a Mars mission in his confirmation hearings, raising questions about the fate of the Artemis lunar program.
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