Jenny Root

Opinion | Look Past Elon Musk’s Chaos. There’s Something More Sinister at Work. Everything is content.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o.... This piece is the best yet

Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...

Young Aides Emerge as Enforcers in Musk’s DOGE Team Efforts Much of the billionaire’s handiwork — gaining access to internal systems and asking employees to justify their jobs — is being driven by a group of engineers operating in secrecy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

Okay, electricity doesn’t need us, but supporting our news intake should be a standard utility in our lives.

If you’re following the news, and I know that you are, here’s my public service announcement: Subscribe to the journalists! Paying for journalism is like paying for your electric bill. They need us and we need them.

NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon - NASA Lee esta historia en español aquí

This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake

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Thank you!

Awesome, so glad you made it!

Love this! Happy #BHM. RESIST.

I've been wondering what exactly is going through the minds of people who sat out the election, assuming they're seeing even some of this unfold. Let alone those who voted for DT; what are the nonvoters thinking now, I wonder?

Trump is considering executive action to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

I never used to doomscroll before now

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

The Logic of Destruction
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Did Stella willingly give up her spot?

Smart girl!

(h/t: @the.language.nerds)

I was there, and @jeff-merkley.bsky.social was spot on and impressive in answering urgent questions.

“And art a paradigm of earth new from the lathe / of ploughs.”
Thank you, Seamus Heaney

Someone asked me tonight how I’m doing and I started to reply, but I got interrupted. And that’s OK because I’m really at a loss for words I mean I could go on, but there’s so much there’s just so much.

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

okay so what legal authority does elon musk have to commandeer the office of personnel management and access reams of sensitive data? www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

Only Russia has access.

Eventually... #poem #originalpoem #haiku #poetry #magneticpoetry #hope

So when all was said and done, the only country that opened it's prisons and sent crazy murderous criminals to prey upon innocent American citizens, was us.

Is it just me or does anyone else think of Leland Palmer when you see this dude

This is a brilliant poem!

Here’s our handsome boy Amaduk, also 7yo Malamute who agrees that his sister is bitchy but he literally can’t go for walks without her. Van rides, now that’s a different story

Introducing…Mischka! 7yo Malamute smarter than all the other dog park yahoos combined. And kind of bitchy too, truth be told

This photo, shared by the Carter Center. 13/10.