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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

Since we're getting a crash course in DoD reprogramming authority, CRS has a good report on it linked below. Some important points:

Congress gives DoD reprogramming authority because when you're dealing with a trillion dollars, some stuff is probably going to need to be changed over 12 months

👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 16h

DoD usually has thresholds for reprogramming.

www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

www.congress.gov

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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 6h

I will say that Baltimore undeniably has real problems. Poverty, cycles of disinvestment and associated issues with drugs, racist governance impositions like non-local control of municipal police or transit, and I'm sure more that I'm ignorant to.

But shit like this doesn't help.

Eric Williams @ericw94.bsky.social · 7h

Read this if you want to know why people in the country think Baltimore is a shithole.

Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 8h

This Fox article today might belong in the hall of fame of bad faith use of statistics.
The headline cites a "spike in car thefts in some Baltimore districts" and the body goes on to point out some crazy increases: 62% in Northwest! 30% in Central! Sounds like a real City in Crisis, right? A 🧵:

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6h

Mods are asleep post brassicas

You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab.

CAP'N
CRUNCH'S
DOPSIAll
NATURALLY &
ARTIFICIALLY
Brassica oleracea
otened
cer

What vegetable are you?
I'm brassica oleracea
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Brassica oleracea

Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all

Selection for terminal buds
Selection for lateral buds
Selection for stem
Selection for leaves
Selection for stems and flowers
Selection for flower clusters
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Kohlrabi
Kale
Broccoli
Cauliflower

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

I’m still thinking about “No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament” and desperately wishing Democrat leadership had a fraction of this tactical savvy

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 12h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 18h

This has become a load bearing tweet to me.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 1d

Not paying your troops and
making them line up in bread lines to feed their families when you are going to be depending on them to cement your authoritarian regime is certainly a choice!

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 13

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 2d

It’s maybe not shocking that the institutions closest to fact—district judges, juries—have proven most robust against an onslaught of lies, but it’s to journalism’s eternal shame that it has behaved like the political institutions and not the honest ones.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

unlike the rest of these folks (and unlike appellate judges and supreme court justices), the job of a district judge is essentially to see what's in front of them

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d

It's very striking how clearly they seem to see what's right in front of their faces in way that so many others -- law firm partners, university presidents, members of congress, and on and on -- refuse to.

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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✨Grace Hebron✨ @heywritergrace.bsky.social · 2d

RUN to Double Bunny Bubble Tea and Bakery's cart.

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Dave Cooper @davecooperphoto.bsky.social · 2d

I will remember that @alsobrooks.senate.gov voted against the rights of trans people. Do we have a JK Rowling-sycophant representing Maryland, or simply an opportunist who thinks of civil rights of trans people as negotiable. Shame on you, Angie.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

1. Last night, 26 Senate Dems helped pass a NDAA containing a military trans sports and surgery ban and dropped demands for protections against US troop deployments in the bill.

It is the latest in the national fight over must-pass bills during the shutdown.

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26 Senate Democrats Help Pass Military NDAA Containing Trans Sports, Surgery Ban, No Protection For US Troop Deployments

The bill passed by a wide margin in the Senate and will be the starting point for negotiations with the House, which contain more severe anti-trans riders.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 2d

Baltimore: I saw a huge meteor while driving up Harford Road last night. I thought it was Starlink or maybe a problem with my brain, but turns out there's a meteor shower. The Draconids last through tonight: watch the north sky.

news.maryland.gov/dnr/2025/10/...

Fall Foliage Report for Maryland Oct. 9 – Unpredictable Conditions

news.maryland.gov

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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 2d

Who suddenly decided that everything bagels included fennel seed as part of the seasoning? GET THAT LICORICE SHIT OFF MY BAGEL

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Bob Batz Jr. @bobbatzjr.bsky.social · 2d

As the @pghguild.com strike paper sports team gets ready for the Friday night writes, we've written about IRS / @nteunational.bsky.social layoffs and roadway shutdowns: www.unionprogress.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

for my sourdough loaves, i use a cast iron bread oven that you heat up at 450 degrees for an hour before baking. put the loaf in with a couple ice cubes, bake covered, for 20 minutes, remove the cover and bake for 30 more minutes and i consistently get a crunchy, flavorful crust with a great spring

Joseph Parisi @equinas.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t you need a special oven to make really good bread?

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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 3d

Plenty of gripes to be had w David Simon but this rocks

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 3d

If we hadn't just had a baby I would make it to one of these but unfortunately I'm otherwise occupied

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 3d

since denver launched its e-bike rebate program - the have sold 10,000 e-bikes and reduced an estimated 1,000,000 car trips - replacing millions of VMTs and reducing air pollution

there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close

denvergov.org/Government/A...

Denver Celebrates 10,000 E-Bike Rebates

Since its inception in April 2022, Denver has distributed over 10,000 electric bikes (e-bikes) to community members through its pioneering e-bike rebate program. As the first U.S. city to implement su...

denvergov.org

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 3d

Or killing tens of millions of the poorest people in the world - on purpose- through vaporizing USAID.

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 3d

Call me old school, but I don't think a person illegally blowing up boats and unleashing masked goons on his citizens would be a serious candidate for a peace prize.

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 3d

beyond parody

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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 3d

"If Democrats don’t deliver, the right will continue to exploit the affordability crisis to divide working people. Delivering real affordability is how we restore trust—and how we save democracy.”

Living Wage, Affordability Platforms Like Mamdani and Platner’s Have 'Major Electoral Advantage': Polls

The One Fair Wage coalition is pushing for a true living wage to help working people thrive, with overwhelming support in swing districts and major cities. Will Democratic leaders deliver on affordability and living wages before the midterm elections, or risk losing trust and democracy? #LivingWage #Affordability #SaveDemocracy

www.commondreams.org

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