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It's strikingly similar to the white supremacy campaigns in Reconstruction North Carolina, as described by Gregory Downs in Declarations of Independence (p.192), where Black employment in government jobs was framed as prima facie evidence of anti-white discrimination.

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The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

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it bears repeating that so many people have violent intents towards trans people not because we are inherently controversial, or enigmatic, or perverse, it’s just because so many people lack empathy. nothing about our bodies is abnormal; it’s all completely natural. lack of empathy is unnatural.

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Seriously people. Bondi is a skilled agent of corruption. Don't let her blonde hair distract from her considerable skillset.

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There’s no evidence that Dan Caine will not be an effective chairman of the joint chiefs relative to his peers, but it is certainly saying something to the services that we are replacing a highly qualified black man with a white man who literally lacks the command qualifications for the job.

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The US government behaves like mobsters, openly racketeering. This is not the first example. Worse, they do not seem to understand the consequences of their actions. It is all reactionism, 'owning the libs' and other childish behaviour.

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Time to get to know how we know about sodium channels, a very helpful tool to control pain. Hint: It was a massive, diverse, collective endeavor supported by federal investment in research institutions. And scorpions and spiders whose venoms do all sorts of weird shit to those channels. 🧪

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"Mired in diversity issues" is some real repugnant doublespeak in the service of normalizing Trumps white supremacist crusade

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Contrary to the claims of conservatives, there never was "slippery slope" towards socialism. It was the descent towards nihilism that was frighteningly easy.

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This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

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“The consumer bureau cannot be officially abolished without action from Congress”

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SCOOP: Ashley St Clair sues Elon Musk for custody of new son. Musk is pictured with his latest baby in a lawsuit filed by St Clair, seeking sole custody and paternity. www.usermag.co/p/scoop-ashl...

submitted 12 hours ago • 116 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

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It's sort of amazing that Canada's national broadcaster is just treating this as a debating fun time activity that wouldn't involve a ton of death and destruction if it came about.

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Look, it's cold comfort but if the Army rank and file broadly understand what's happening and also understand that it's deeply wrong, we are far from cooked and freedom is still alive here.

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Oh look, DOGE is a scam. Shocking. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Not trying to alarm people but just noting that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, among their other important functions, is also one of the small number of people explicitly designated for translating Presidential nuclear strike orders into reality. www.doctrine.af.mil/Portals/61/d...

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

The Trump administration reversed itself on making funding and staff cuts to a federal health program for survivors of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, after bipartisan criticism of the moves.

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“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

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The Homeland Security secretary said tonight that Trump told her to film ads that “thank me for closing the border.” DHS has budgeted up to $200 million for its anti-immigration ad campaign. w/ @swin24.bsky.social @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Better in the original German

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man, reading /r/army is kinda depressing

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Here's the sequence at the end of the half where Ant had a discussion with a fan

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It took six reporters to conclude that these numbskulls "don't fully understand" government contracting. For weeks now it has been patently obvious that not a one of them has even the faintest grasp of how procurement works.

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Elon Musk's first ex-wife (who is a novelist) wrote this harrowing account of his insane behavior back in 2010. Sadly, way too many people ignored it. www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a53...

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"We don't work for DOGE. We have always worked for you." Yes!

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Mr. Hegseth has previously said that General Brown should be fired because of his “woke” focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military. Replaces a Black four-star fighter pilot with a white man who does not meet the statutory qualifications supposedly over DEI.

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This is WSJ edit board’s second piece in a week raising escalating alarm about RFK Jr’s groundless & lethal anti-vax predilections and now policies (firing CDC vax experts) — and it pull punches in portraying him as no more & no less than a treacherous corrupt killer www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

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A lot of patients and their families experienced needless disruption and fear over this!!

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this is not where you want to be in the opening stages of your project to bludgeon the American population into submission so you can destroy their government

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Elon Musk and his team say they have saved the government $55 billion. Their “wall of receipts” is riddled with mistakes.

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sounds totally merit-based

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It's not just that the Trump Administration is bad, but that they're bad in all the ways they can be bad, at the behest of all the worst people, for the sake of nothing coherent beyond spite. We are proceeding full-speed into government by YouTube beef

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None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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They're shedding their skin. It's normal. The truck under there is way stronger anwyay

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Good overview by @karenhao.bsky.social on the risks of scientific decline in America. But here’s the thing I’m noticing, based on people I’ve spoken to and who write to me about my own reporting: The argument that all innovation started w/federal research is apparently not sufficiently persuasive.

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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