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X and Threads are state controlled now, so I'm here. I believe dark times, no matter how dark, are fleeting. I believe good will prevail if we don't give up.
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Research grants from the federal government are set up to maximize the benefits to the US from research. They are awarded to the places and people best able to solve the problems, invent the drugs, add innovations etc. Withholding grants hurts the US.

submitted 42 days ago • 11 comments

I am so deeply ashamed of the human race, particularly the ones who think it’s funny to pick on the vulnerable.

submitted 47 days ago • 408 comments

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

submitted 50 days ago • 369 comments

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

submitted 50 days ago • 714 comments

Palantir transitions seamlessly from helping target journalists in Gaza to harvesting Americans' tax data The surveillance architecture perfected abroad returns home with government blessing First they track Palestinians for elimination, then citizens for taxation the imperial tools always come home

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

If you abduct someone and send them involuntarily and without recourse to a country where they've never lived to be imprisoned, that isn't deportation, it's human trafficking

submitted 55 days ago • 265 comments

"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

submitted 104 days ago • 503 comments

This morning Peter Navarro said that “tariffs create revenue that will go towards a huge tax cut.” The administration is literally telling us that the poor and middle class are financing tax cuts for billionaires.

submitted 58 days ago • 71 comments

Trump is poised to lose both domestic and international support through a gradual, subterranean erosion—collateral in nature yet inevitable—as democratic societies increasingly reject authoritarian posturing.

submitted 58 days ago • 18 comments

Morning Bluesky. Russia is pushing the idea that the extraordinarily successful Hands Off protests yesterday were organised by the ‘Deep State’ to bring about a ‘Colour Revolution’ in America like the one that overthrew the Putin puppet in Ukraine in 2004. Expect Trump to echo.

submitted 59 days ago • 89 comments

Burn it all to the ground and buy up the land and water and minerals at rock bottom prices. This a fire sale for the oligarchy. How do I know? They’ve already done it to rural America…

submitted 62 days ago • 599 comments