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I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

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I think there’s this tendency to assume Musk enters each agency with some kind of plan. But his office is 30 people, largely children, and the federal government employs millions. He spends half his time on drugs, tweeting, doing interviews. It’s all random noise www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Both Gov. Janet Mills and Attorney General Aaron Frey issued written statements Friday morning pledging to fight any attempt to cut off the state’s funding. Frey and others said such action by the president would be illegal and overturned in court.

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trans friends, the world is better because you’re in it and don’t forget it

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okay, it’s time for me to finally weigh in: it’s probably a bad sign that guys are just doing sieg heils in public again

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The Office of Analytics, Review, and Oversight (OARO) exists to — wait for it — improve the efficiency of the Social Security Administration.

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Please read and share. But especially share with folks that might not realize how critical Section 504 is to so many people. I tried to write a simple clear explanation at the break. I hope it reaches some people who aren't already on our side. Gift link: www.startribune.com/why-are-repu...

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I want to say again to academics who are interested in public writing. Look locally. Sure national outlets are good and I do that too, but this kind of visibility in your community can have a real impact.

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"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

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Literally today someone said we needed to be reminded of the JA incarceration so "it never happens again" and I was beside myself. IT IS HAPPENING. if you're willing to listen to a Japanese person talk about it but not a Hmong or Honduran or Haitian person you're a 🎶fuckinnnnggg racist🎶

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democrats wonder why people dont believe them when they say theres a crisis and the gop is a threat -- then ten seconds later theyre talking about "my good friend mitch mcconnell." people do not believe them and i can't say i blame 'em.

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Folks, please understand, the U.S. is doing the U.S., not Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany actually borrowed from the U.S. to become the monsters they were. We're going back to manifest destiny, to chattel slavery, to Native genocide. NOT... Nazi Germany.

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this is how they will deceive millions of americans into thinking that laying off a quarter million people from steady jobs generally immune to the vagaries of economic strife in a month was good actually — by handing them a cut of the fired’s paychecks. they’re looting the middle class.

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It’s also what America did to free Black people and Natives . Also what South Africans did during apartheid And Japanese people during internment And Jewish people in America

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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

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The accelerationist belief that if things get bad enough, then things will start to get better is quite something to see in the wild. It’s wrong though. Historically, misery creates more misery and is visited on the most marginalized in ever intensifying cycles of horror.

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who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE WHO IS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF DOGE???????

submitted 4 days ago • 458 comments

This is another reason using ChatGPT at all — even just for editing or to make a word limit — is a horrible idea.

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Trump says Ukraine started the war in which Putin invaded them unprovoked.

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And this brings us to some critical questions as the Trump admin builds the largest single database of Americans EVER: 1. Who is hosting it? 2. How is it secured? 3. How will it get updates? 4. How long will it exist? I’d ask what it’s for, but we know that answer would be disingenuous.

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Write about how the whole "Elon isn't running DOGE" nonsense is also one of the trump admin's loyalty tests, to see which useful idiots will repeat their obviously bogus framing and deny the reality everyone knows. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/18/t...

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned $21 billion to people who were cheated by big banks and credit card companies. So why are Trump and Musk gutting an agency that's returning money to people who were scammed? For them, this has never been about cutting costs.

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil former leader Bolsonaro knew and agreed to a plan to poison President Lula, top prosecutor says.

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The USDA's announcement comes while the Department of Energy is scrambling to find the federal workers who oversee our nuclear weapons stockpile who THEY accidentally fired. Imagine how many people Trump/Musk fired who they're not gonna realize they needed until the body count starts climbing.

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Denise Cheung, a veteran prosecutor and head of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C., was forced to resign after resisting the Trump administration’s demand to freeze the assets of an environmental grant initiative. Thank you for your service and integrity, Denise.

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Also à propos of nothing: authoritarian systems love laws with wide targets. Because they'll apply these selectively: only to the out-group--except, of course that the out-group gets redefined and extended by the regime as time passes. A lot of people will think themselves safe, until they aren't.

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This is nazi shit

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All these articles about Democrats moaning over their messaging issues make me tired. You know what's more important than messaging? ACTION. Don't TALK about the price of eggs. Tell people "MEET US IN THE PARK - WE'RE GIVING OUT FREE EGGS. THAT'S RIGHT - FREE EGGS FROM THE DEMOCRATS!"

submitted 8 days ago • 101 comments

And they're giving info about who has more info. And now so am I. First Amendment. From the link: (ph numbers not vetted by me)

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Ah yes, the party of free speech

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"employees say" is such a fucking cop out. It's going to make it more dangerous.

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Suspect the place we really went off the rails as a country was 1864 when we didn't bar from government every single member of the Confederate government and army without exception, seize 100% of Confederate property to give to formerly enslaved people, and muster a Black-led army to defend it all.

submitted 5 days ago • 83 comments

Every historians association needs to speak up. This is what your refusal to engage with politics because we are only about the science or whatever has contributed to.

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Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

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As a result, she said, just three full-time employees remain in both the Yellowstone and Bozeman ranger districts to manage 19 rental cabins, 60 bathrooms, 21 campgrounds and other infrastructure spread across 1 million acres. www.bozemandailychronicle.com/townnews/wor...

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This is what our Transportation Secretary was doing yesterday as planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. I cannot remember a more dangerous time to fly and yet this reality TV actor-turned-Cabinet Secretary is busy watching cars drive laps at the Daytona 500.

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