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OMG Yes Victoria!!

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ICE is raiding restaurants and disappearing workers. Communities can––and are––responding to stop them. Know what to do if ICE pulls up to your restaurant or bar. Read Raeghn Draper, executive director of Chicago hospitality worker org CHAAD, on exactly this issue. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

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It's never too late to try something new. It's never too late to learn the ancient language of trees. It's never too late to wrap yourself in moss & wild magic and become a terrifying creature that timid townsfolk whisper about in the dark.

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Velvet-purple Coronet, one of my favorite hummers at @montezumalodge.bsky.social #Colombia #birds #hummingbirds #nature

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OMG I wrote that! You are Me, aren't you?

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Dan Bongino has a nice cry on Fox & Friends: "I gave up everything for this. I mean, my wife is struggling... I stare at these 4 walls all day in DC, you know, by myself, divorced from my wife. Not divorced, but I mean, separated. And it's hard." (Note that Brian Kilmeade has to encourage him lol)

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an achievable short-term goal for police reform, I think, would be the passing of state laws that say that if you're canned from one law enforcement body for misconduct you can't be hired at another law enforcement body.

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Ingenious 😂 FFS

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American women aren’t stupid and can see that the Trump administration is using a junk study to lay the groundwork to roll back abortion access nationwide. I’m going to do everything I can to make sure women across the country have access to the reproductive care they need.

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Action Item

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Evasion of peer review is a hallmark of pseudoscience. But even more insidious is the obviation of scientific scrutiny by publishing in pseudoscientific journals that exist to provide an illusion of scientific legitimacy. There’s nothing new about MAHA’s propaganda tactics.

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Your periodic reminder that immigration "judges" are employees of the executive branch who, despite serving a quasi-juridical function, can be fired at the whim of the president and AG like most DOJ employees. They are not independent Article III judges.

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I cannot stress enough how much of a Def Con 1 moment this is. Federal judges fear that the President of the United States will stand down security for judges in retaliation for adverse decisions. This is such a huge story.

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“So many so-called ‘devout’ Christians among us prattled on for years about false prophets and antichrist figures, only to end up adoring one. Jesus would call them ‘blind fools.’ I simply call them what they are: the MAGA cult.”

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I can’t say more, but yesterday I had the unfortunate distinction of listening to a Jewish man (in a kippah!) read from a letter that his grant (which supports multiple staff) had been canceled because of “Harvard’s policies on antisemitism.” It beggars belief that this is about antisemitism.

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I, for one, am sick of lying when anyone asks me how I'm doing. Let's just eliminate that because they don't want the truth and I don't want to hear they are fine because, if they are white and say that, I automatically assume they voted for the fucking asshole dictator.

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Attorneys general from 16 mostly Democrat-controlled US states filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing that some of the federal government’s attempts to gut National Science Foundation research programs are illegal.

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This is really good!

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New: The Texas House approved a bill Wednesday that would give Texas parents and school boards a bigger role over what books students can access in public school libraries. The proposal now heads back to the Senate.

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been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

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A California-based company called Magrathea just turned on a new electrolyzer that can make magnesium metal from seawater. The technology has the potential to produce the material, which is used in vehicles and defense applications, with net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions.

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New story up in Nature from @maxkozlov.bsky.social NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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columbia will revoke the degrees of every one of them.

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This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

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So a respected journalist warned the nation that the Trump administration is a threat to free speech and, true to form, its state media outlet warns that there will now surely be retribution by the administration against that same journalist and his network for his act of free speech.

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NPR sued the Trump administration on Tuesday, saying that a May 1 executive order violates the news organization’s First Amendment rights. “This is not about politics — it is about principle,” the member stations wrote in a joint statement.

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Even if you don't have a yard or a tree, you can still build a treehouse in your soul. Fill it with toys, games, & books. Let spiders have the corners. Invite neighborhood kids over, and your weird friends too. Tell outlandish tales of the old times, and dream of a better tomorrow.

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"Showing Knox’s joy increases the visibility in the lives of Autistic children of color. Moments that show the world that being Autistic isn’t something to be ashamed of, it is beautiful, luminous, & being joyful shouldn’t be masked." @jtknoxroxs.bsky.social: thinkingautismguide.com/2019/10/auti...

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The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the U.S., according to internal agency documents reviewed by The New York Times.

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tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

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DIY joy hack. Bird breakfast, the orange + jam tip ftw

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We will not win the battle for democracy if those in the pro-democracy movement prize caution over taking risks. We cannot permit ourselves to be deterred by the defeats and public criticism that are inevitable along the long path of restoring democracy. Now is the time for fearless leadership.

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This sane washing—there not enough white out or bleach that can do that—of Trump, is why we are here. It’s journalistic malpractice. His father bailed out his incompetence, Burnett pushed a false narrative, Fox brainwashes his base, GOP lies for him and the media ignores his insanity and madness.

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Prosecutors who create generational harm by imprisoning people are upset they have to give people accused of crimes relevant information about their cases before trial. We don’t see any quotes from wrongfully convicted people, but they’d have a lot to say about what happens when evidence is hidden.

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NYT Tomorrow: The assertion in our recent article that black people are more prone to violence was not a racial or genetic stereotype, but based on the reported experiences of six LAPD officers we surveyed at their retirement homes in Idaho

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Before the internet (& after) people would justify their resentment of Freeway Off-ramp Person or Unhoused 7-Eleven Doorman by saying they can’t give 💵 bc they’d spend it on drugs or alcohol. They would then go home & do drugs or alcohol. Which they feel entitled to do. Because they have shelter.

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Last I’ll say on it is that pushing a narrative that Palestinian accounts or any other MA or fundraisers are scammers rather than allowing people to discern on their own casts doubt on all Palestinians & people in need on here but with regard to Palestinians in particular it is genocide denial.

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I’ll say this and then I’m gonna step back b/c 2026 IS THE ONLY NATIONAL ELECTION THAT’S IMPORTANT NOW. No Dem presidential candidate wins w/o high Black turnout & vote. So stop making it like Black voters are expendable or that you can serve up any candidate chosen by Pelosi, Clooney or MSM & win.

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The reason I keep saying there's no difference between how Palestinians are treated now and how my ancestors were turned away trying to escape the Shoah is that there is actually, in truth, no difference. They called my people scammers and grifters too. That's why they were turned away.

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I’ll say it again - when any politician uses the ‘I haven’t read that story’ lie about something they knew they would get asked about, the interviewer has a duty to say ‘Okay, in that case I’m going to terminate this interview and you can come back when you’re better prepared.”

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Anyone collating a book of his gaffs? Will be a bestseller!

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Start every day with this reality: EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined. #LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable ballotpedia.org/United_State...

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To me ‘hands too big’ looks like they are being too cowardly to say that they want child labor.

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