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Department of Education sent out FAQs today about their anti-DEI Dear Colleague letter. School districts and universities really need to slow down in throwing true US History, students of color and women under the bus. Hold the line. www.ed.gov/media/docume...

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🤩 More than 200 gather in Boston Township to protest cuts at Cuyahoga Valley National Park www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/l...

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I shared this note with the owner of the Washington Post this morning.

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This is great. www.theverge.com/news/617014/...

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CAIR: “Anyone who see the word “Islam" in the name of an American charity and immediately declares the charity must be a "terrorist organization" is a hateful person who must know next to nothing about American Muslims & their contributions” www.cair.com/press_releas...

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Shortly after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was sworn in, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) asked her to drop the DOJ's lawsuit challenging the state’s voter suppression law SB 202. @marcelias.bsky.social explains:

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Looking forward to watching this over the weekend.

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Mosiah (Short 2023) @luriedanielfavors.bsky.social #LDFShow www.imdb.com/title/tt1541...

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Sixty years ago, five assassins from the Nation of Islam murdered Malcolm X. The FBI had spent years escalating the serious political differences between Malcolm and NOI leaders—and worsening petty jealousies NOI leaders had for Malcolm as his prominence rose.

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It’s cold but your constituents and neighbors want your 🔥 and action, not tepid and tired rhetoric and bipartisanship. MEET THE MOMENT @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @indivisible.org @foodandwater.bsky.social @nychange.bsky.social @350brooklyn.bsky.social @moveon.org @nypan1.bsky.social

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“A walking conflict of interest… $20 Billion in 🇺🇸 government contracts…” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Trump has ordered the Justice Department to stop enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act . It's yet another alarming move by the most unabashedly corrupt president in American history. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/bribery-unbound

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🇺🇸 Today is the 2025 Spring Primary: VOTE WISCONSIN!

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I FUCK Rubio to the moon and back! www.yahoo.com/news/usaid-w...

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During a hearing on trans military service, Judge Reyes brings up the case of a sailor whose surgery was interrupted. "They’re literally about to put anesthesia on the guy, and someone comes in and says, 'You’ve got to stop the surgery.'" The declaration https://buff.ly/41l4fvY

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Know your rights. Many of us are at risk, not just those who are undocumented. Americans have been swept up in these efforts as well.

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Demographics are not destiny but they can be a direct obstacle to the Trump-Musk takeover. Read @RonBrownstein's important article on the dangers of disregarding diversity. www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/p...

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Our VP met with far-right German party AfP while in Europe. In case you don’t know who they are, I wrote about it when Musk argued that party, Nazi leanings & all, was Germany’s future. joycevance.substack.com/p/musk-in-di...

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Schools across the country received a racist threat letter from the Trump Administration on Friday effectively stating that schools that receive taxpayer dollars cannot address the stark racial inequalities in education by any means. #THREAD ed.gov/media/document…

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This resonated with me. Read the entire article, not just the segments she's chosen. open.substack.com/pub/kristind...

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#Ohio Senate passes controversial bill banning DEI and changing how college campuses could function, a big win for straight white males.

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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 web.archive.org/web/20231206...

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A few things Trump has done that won’t lower costs but will make life harder for no good reason... 🧵

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Making sure everyone understands: Afrikaners—Elon Musk’s people—built, enforced, and thrived under the apartheid system they created. Not just “white-ruled segregation”—it was systemic racial oppression to keep the white minority in power. They don’t deserve refugee status—they were the oppressors!

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WOW! @booker.senate.gov NAILED IT! "There can be no bystanders in this fight. It is time that we understand the only thing necessary for wrong to triumph is for right to do nothing, for right to be silent."

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In their WSJ op-ed, Musk and Ramaswamy were upfrong that the return-to-office “would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome." The goal is to make the federal government such a toxic workplace that people will leave. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/will-the-f...

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Every day these people show us who they are

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Because this is getting downplayed in some of the coverage, the racist staffer DOGE rehired isn’t a case of “stupid things he wrote years ago as a teen.” He posted about how we should “normalize Indian hate” IN SEPTEMBER.

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this stuff makes perfect sense when you understand that these people have a slaveholder’s ideology and believe that liberty means the freedom to dominate others

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Shot…. and chaser.

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Just learned from NPR that the federal government is the largest employer in the great Kansas City area, for example. I found it helpful to be reminded that, of course, this isn’t just about people who work and live in DC. Federal employees are in all of our communities.

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Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

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one.npr.org?sharedMediaI... a win: a Black church awarded name and trademark of Proud Boys in settlement

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This is insane. krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen...

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I remember when right-wing media said that I wasn’t qualified to be a member of Congress because of my credit card debt. My debt was nowhere near $1.2 million. Do they think the same of RFK Jr? Or does that standard only apply to young people? We know the answer.

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These pictures are when Black Lives Matter came to the Capitol and protested. They were actually interested in having a conversation. Contrary to popular belief they didn't beat us with flag poles. Yes that's me in the pictures.

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SCOOP: DOGE has built a "firewall" separating Elon Musk's team from the ~200 legacy USDS staffers. “They don’t talk to us,” one USDS worker tells me. “As far as I can tell, they’re hiding,” says another. www.wired.com/story/musk-d...

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Netanyahu gifted Trump a golden pager that says “press with both hands” in a twisted homage to the horrific attack on Lebanon in which dozens of people were killed, including children, as a result of explosions of pagers that had been rigged by Israeli authorities.

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Groups addressing sexual violence report not getting expected payments from grants that they depend on to keep running.

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SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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This seems to also be effecting the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), national database that identifies missing, unidentified, and unclaimed persons, which has taken several webpages offline — including those with information related to transgender and LGBGTIQ hate crimes.

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Trump and Rubio sued by government workers over ‘catastrophic’ USAid cuts

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It’s worse than we thought! A 25-year-old Musk crony, Marko Elez, with zero government experience, had direct access to trillions in federal spending—while the White House and Treasury lied about it. The truth: Elez could write code on 2 of the most sensitive systems in the US government. 1 of 3

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Trump may have pardoned the rioter who viciously attacked officer Michael Fanone on January, but Judge Amy Berman Jackson made a few things clear when she dismissed the case, as she had to:

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Republicans have been ordered by their billionaire Puppet Master to end Medicare as we know it. Democrats have 215 members in the House who can stop this extreme effort. All we need is three House Republicans to join us.

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OH Residents - Our window is closing to oppose Senate Bill 1 which will harm our state’s education system, economy, labor and civil rights. Here’s some information, training and ways to push back. rolls.bublup.com/view/50f5668...

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Russell Vought is an author of Project 2025 & plans to cut federal aid for MILLIONS. Tell Ohio senators to vote NO on Vought: Sen Moreno (202) 224-2315 Sen Husted (202) 224-3353 #Ohio #NoVought

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A dire warning from a chess master with Putin experience 👇🏽

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