@tiamat271
#PostOfTheWeek (season 2):
Literally called Stand Up for Science, the March 7 rally brought together researchers, doctors, teachers and more to promote science and protest federal employee firings and proposed funding cuts by the Trump administration. Protesters from different fields and career stages convened on the National Mall, holding signs calling for federal support for research and celebrating science’s power for good.

@LiamEgan
#PostOfTheWeek (season 2):
Executives of The Campbell’s Co. lowered sales guidance for the fiscal year after a disappointing performance in the company’s Snacks segment and a companywide organic net sales decline in the second quarter ended Jan. 26.

Net earnings of $173 million, or 58¢ per share on the common stock, were down 15% from $203 million, or 68¢ per share, in the previous year’s second quarter.

@martinlentink
#PostOfTheWeek (season 2):
There is a new staffer from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency seeking access to sensitive data at the IRS — and his family has ties to a sanctioned Russian oligarch. The Washington Post reported that two DOGE representatives, Gavin Kliger and Sam Corcos, have been at the IRS seeking private taxpayer information in unprecedented ways that would violate current IRS privacy law. He demanded “detailed taxpayer and vendor information."

@atthenius
#PostOfTheWeek (season 2):
Sylvester Turner, a Democratic congressman and former mayor of Houston, has died at the age of 70.

Turner died peacefully Wednesday, according to a statement from his congressional office. No cause of death was provided.

“Throughout his career, he was known for his bipartisan leadership, dedication to his constituents, and unwavering commitment to improving the lives of all Houstonians,” the office said.

@Nazani
#PostOfTheWeek (season 2):
Republican senators told tech billionaire Elon Musk at a closed-door meeting that his aggressive moves to shrink the federal government will need a vote on Capitol Hill, sending a clear message that he needs to respect Congress’s power of the purse.

Musk met with Republican senators at a luncheon to give them an overview of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team’s work to root out waste, fraud and abuse across an array of federal programs.

@annmlipton
#PostOfTheWeek (season 2):
Business has made a Faustian bargain with Donald Trump and Elon Musk, his henchman at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. The promises of deregulation and tax cuts are oh so appealing. In reality, business leaders have let some extremely rapacious foxes into the hen house in ways they may come to regret.

Let’s put aside the negative economic effects of trade wars, immigrant round-ups and geopolitical strife, and focus only on Doge.

@GreenSkyOverMe
#PostOfTheWeek (season 2):
Intuitive Machines announced on Friday morning that its Athena mission to the surface of the Moon, which landed on its side, has ended.

"With the direction of the Sun, the orientation of the solar panels, and extreme cold temperatures in the crater, Intuitive Machines does not expect Athena to recharge," the company said in a statement.

@xankarn
#PostOfTheWeek (season 2):
Images of "Enola Gay," the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan are among those targeted by the U.S. military in an initiative to eliminate content related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

They are among a number of photos unrelated to DEI that have been mistakenly flagged, including those from an Army Corps of Engineers dredging project in California, seemingly because an engineer in the image had the last name "Gay."

@stephaniepixie
#PostOfTheWeek (season 2):
Republican lawmakers and industry lobbyists have tried to chip away at the small program in the Environmental Protection Agency that measures the threat of toxic chemicals.

Most people don’t know IRIS, as the program is called, but it is the scientific engine of the agency that protects human health and the environment. Its scientists assess the toxicity of chemicals, estimating the amount of each that triggers cancer and other health effects.

@skykiss
#PostOfTheWeek (season 2):
The senior Trump allies held talks with Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, a remorselessly ambitious former prime minister, and senior members of the party of Petro Poroshenko, Zelenskyy’s immediate predecessor as president, according to three Ukrainian parliamentarians and a U.S. Republican foreign policy expert.

@jd
#PostOfTheWeek (season 2):
Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich has called out Tory leader Pierre Poilievre for failing to distinguish himself from the Liberals, and instead repeating leftist sentiments.

Lich’s comments followed a post from Poilievre claiming President Donald Trump “wants our jobs.”

“Carney’s carbon tax on Canadian industry will help Trump take them,” added Poilievre in a social media post.

@swanksalot
#PostOfTheWeek (season 2):
President Donald Trump published two executive orders late Monday that targeted transgender people, but critics couldn't help but note that the clunky language declared all Americans legally female.

One of Trump's order is titled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government."

@UncleDuke1969
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@BobLefridge
#PostOfTheWeek (season 2):
US President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold.
Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 in New York in a narcotics and money-laundering conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison.

@Bit_form
#PostOfTheWeek (season 2):
Firefox maker Mozilla deleted a promise to never sell its users' personal data and is trying to assure worried users that its approach to privacy hasn't fundamentally changed. Until recently, a Firefox FAQ promised that the browser maker never has and never will sell its users' personal data.