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“Shortly after Friday’s exchange, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it launched a Title IX violation investigation into Maine’s Department of Education and one of its school districts.”

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Remember when John Roberts gutted the Medicaid expansion because he said the offer of medicaid money was too coercive to the states bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

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Techbros: I have invented the Mafia

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We need to get "pedocon theory" as many hits as "trump take egg."

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I don’t think the microbes care whether you get vaccinated because you were shamed into it or whether you followed the science—get vaxxed.

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This is probably the most accurate take.

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I like the sound of “America’s Russian Crimea”.

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This is how appeasement and normalization always sound.

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I love Vonnegut. His gentle humanism showed me it was OK to me an atheist. (Vonnegut called himself agnostic and he was friendly towards Unitarianism.

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“Stop making it harder for one another (by complying in advance)” is a powerful message.

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All this stuff went right over my head back when I read Orwell’s 1984 as a kid.

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Rudy Giuliani must have been unavailable for comment.

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Hey! This is fun. Rise and Resist in NYC realized that every Tesla showroom is a target for protests against the current admin. This seems smart because it piggybacks on Tesla’s PR and visibility. www.amny.com/politics/elo...

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Noem is flexing her Newspeak skills here. “Activist” and “unilateral” are meaningless in the context of a government agency distributing funds appropriated by Congress. Things are going downhill fast. 📉

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Saw someone say, "End your friendships with people who are going about life like nothing is wrong." I will never understand people who think that further isolating ourselves from everyday people who don't get it is going to save us. It's not. Your judgment and disdain will not save us.

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I naïvely thought that the far left would feel chastened, or at least disappointed, when the concentration camps started, but now I see that they, instead, are rooting Trump on.

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Strong loser energy from Sam Altman and OpenAI. Three weeks ago the WH announced $500B for AI and Musk attacked it. Two weeks ago, DeepSeek undercut their AI plans. This week Musk flaunted his influence in the Oval Office and now Altman is saying basically “I’m not mad. Don’t write that I’m mad.”

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There it is: first human case of #H5N1 in Ohio. Given how many animal infections we've had, it was only a matter of time. Case is a farmer in contact with ill commercial birds; no info provided on viral mutations or his condition.

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This gives away where they are heading. They are going to defy the courts and go full Orwellian fascist.

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This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up took $80 million from an NYC bank account!

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Just a reminder of who Tulsi Gabbard is, via the funniest thing she ever said

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Making America Great Again by turning the US Gov into the Iraq’s Coalition Provisional Authority. This is a recipe for cronyism.

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Douchebag who doesn’t pay taxes says “we” have money in where now?

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Under oath, Kash Patel said he was unaware of plans to dismiss FBI agents before he was confirmed. Today, whistleblowers revealed Patel was reportedly directing those dismissals. Covertly. Yet another reason he must be rejected.

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The War on Drugs is over. Olympus has fallen.

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not to be that guy but sorry ... not a majority

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself as we used to say.

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My pet theory: Trump thinks Musk with his son on his shoulders is actually Barron.

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