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Apart from everything else, the grotesque injustice toward 700,000+ taxpaying residents of DC (more than VT or WY, closing in on ND) in 'Blank Check for Musk' bill is outrageous. It forbids DC spending its own money. DC's Senators would be a "hard No" on the bill. If DC had any representation.

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Resistance Guidebook, a doc full of very concrete answers to "What can I do?" docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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This is a good action item because it: 1. Seeks info 2. Keeps DOGE busy if it complies 3. Is a basis for legal action if it doesn’t

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UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR

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As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

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A long thread that is absolutely worth every second of your time. Hippos, man. Amazing.

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like i said - this administration wants to "protect" jews like it is "protecting" women --

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I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

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Tim Walz: www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

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I voted ‘no’ on the continuing resolution.

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the authoritarianism is bad, but the loser energy is absolutely intolerable

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Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.

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chinese eggplant eggplants, painted by elsie e. lower, 1909

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Toni Morrison:

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I say this as someone with a Master in Finance Private Equity is a parasite. Private Equity is a cancer.

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Beware those who are good at both sucking up and punching down. Their loyalty is an illusion, but their cruelty is not. A true warrior licks no boots, nor uses theirs to step on others to get ahead.

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Does everyone understand they are breaking of public services because 1) they want to privatize them to make money off of them, 2) they do not believe everyone should have access to these services. This is how white supremacist eugenicists who think empathy is a weakness function.

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For me, fighting fascism has nothing to do with thinking I’ll win. I don’t fight because there’s an inevitable outcome, I fight because I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t do something.

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This is what private equity did to Red Lobster. They sold the land the franchises sat on to a holding company, then started charging each restaurant rent. Unsurprisingly Red Lobster went bankrupt.

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every headline now is like: What If I Told You Your Tax Dollars Were Going To An Amazing Program That Saves Lives And Costs Pennies? Unfortunately Elon Musk Just Dismantled It For Good!!

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I’m really not into the “FAFO” discourse when it comes to Trump voters. Am I angry and sad that we are where we are? Yes. But unless there is a correction, and fast we are all going down with the ship. Energy should be going to helping people survive what’s coming.

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toulousienne figs, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1895

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🚨 Public health data disappeared. We’re restoring it. 🚨 RestoredCDC.org preserves unaltered CDC content after key pages were removed or changed without notice. Public data belongs to all of us. 🔗 RestoredCDC.org #PublicHealth #ScienceTransparency #RestoredCDC

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Vitamin A is fat soluble, overdose can occur easily. Don’t take excess vitamin A. It doesn’t prevent or cure measles. It doesn’t replace vaccination. Vitamin A toxicity is dangerous. Vit A deficiency is an issue in developing nations. It’s NOT relevant to US measles outbreak.

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Action items with measles cases growing: If you’re unvaccinated, get vaccinated. It won’t provide instant protection. • takes about 2 weeks to develop memory immunity after vaccination. • measles virus has a long incubation period. measles cases today were infected several weeks ago. 1/

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words on deciding where to stand when everything is lava

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. NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research | Science

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The worst thing to come out of the theory of evolution becoming widely known is how badly so many people have misinterpreted it to justify cruelty and neglect. “Survival of the fittest,” in a cooperative species like humans, does not mean “let disabled people die.” It means the opposite

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I went to the tesla protest for a thing I'm working on and I talked to several onlookers - not protesters - and asked them what they knew about Elon and Doge and I'm telling you people don't know

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We're six weeks in, and I'm not sure what's missing for folks. The plan is to crash the economy and destroy lives for the good of the oligarchs. They literally don't care about them kids, the elderly, the disabled, etc. They want your safety net gone. They want you fucked up. That's the plan.

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ITS SHUT THE FUCK UP FRIDAY This is a very important message you should share with the people in your life that may be hitting the streets to protest: never talk to the police! WATCH:

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In 2016 I went to Myanmar and talked to survivors of Cyclone Nargis hit. Between shitty weather monitoring and a military junta that didn't feel the need to be communicative, roughly 140,000 people died. Weather monitoring is why US fatalaties have dropped even as more people live on the coast

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Friendly reminder that Joann Fabrics isn’t closing because it’s a bad business. It’s closing bc it was bought by a private equity firm. This is also what is happening to Hooters and what happened to US Toys R Us and Red Lobster. These companies are being dismantled intentionally.

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I missed an opportunity to make an Alf joke today and I am deeply disappointed in myself.

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I want to make it clear that no executive order can change federal law and every executive order trump has signed has expressly disclaimed the intent to. The screenshot is from the DEI EO. That’s before you get to courts actually blocking big parts of it. And yet the overcompliance is legion.

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The West Bank is being invaded.

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For #BlackHistoryMonth pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for leprosy. 🧪🐡👩🏾‍🔬 #histsci Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for 🧵

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Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota. But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies

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Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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I wrote this for me, and also maybe for you? I hope it helps: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/feel...

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Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

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