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I attended a virtual presentation about Dr. Larsen's work not long ago; he and his colleagues were doing some really exciting work. This is heartbreaking and an outrage.

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Rep. Barney Frank: "Government is simply the name we give to the things we choose to do together." Vs. Grover Norquist: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." Choose sides.

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The deranged DOGE rats have fired Yosemite National Park’s locksmith. www.instagram.com/p/DGLxMKbyKw...

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a season of white lotus about a mid-level bureaucrat who takes a long-awaited vacation to a resort in mexico only to discover that she’s been named the acting administrator of an agency that is wreaking havoc on the federal government

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I'm from Richmond, Virginia. Not long ago our water system suffered a catastrophic collapse. Without workers at the EPA and the investigation report they put together, we wouldn't know as much as we do about how it happened, and we would have had a harder time holding the DPU director accountable.

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My sadly increasingly frequent reminder that the Nazi state was absolutely torn riven with bureaucratic infignting

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I will never apologize for a post

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As Station Eleven put it, "survival is insufficient," and I'll die happily on that hill.

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Musk is a sensitive little orchid and I wish more people would figure out that it’d be really easy to push him over the edge simply by being meaner to him.

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"Survival is Insufficient."

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I was re-reading Going Postal recently and this passage really stuck in my head, its such a delightful meditation on faith, ritual and the performance of it all. And so characteristically PTerry.

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The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government. Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk

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This is it.

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These are brown shirts, and this is Nazi behavior. We are not in a fight between right and left anymore. This is a fight between Americans and those who would bend the knee to a king. If you care about the soul of this country, we have to stand for each other.

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youtu.be/f3AZYQh2e0k?...

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Hmm, yeah, that does seem like a pretty sharp distinction in tactics!

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In the era that I studied when I was still part of the academic world one recurrent topic was that of "over-mighty subjects". This referred to subjects of the Crown who were themselves so powerful that they threatened the sovereign power of the Crown itself. In the US we have no sovereign, or ...

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Important to stop phrasing & headlining things as "Trump does XXX" (e.g. "Trump fires all USPS heads and integrates it under Commerce"); we can simply say he is purporting to do XXX, or claiming the power to do XXX. Mere fact of a president saying he did something doesn't will it into existence.

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I’m begging the media to call Nazi salutes … “Nazi salutes.” You can write “he gave a Nazi salute.” That’s the proper journalism. Describe things as they are even if people get mad.

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People need to understand this: Trump did not leave office willingly the first time. If his health holds up, he will not leave office willingly this time. He is not joking about serving more than two terms.

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I don't get personal on main very often, but I spent a few hours writing this, and I want you to read it. It's about my dad and my stepmom, and me, and Stranger Things, and what's happening to the VA right now. www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-dep...

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I will vote for the first candidate who tells me they're going to make the biggest government possible. Reacher-sized agencies. Braun Strowman-level social benefits. Government so big it starts belching out National Parks and free healthcare. Chungus State.

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Putting a face to what you read in the news. Until last Friday, I served our nation working as a Research Ecologist with the US Geological Survey (USGS). As a federal scientist, I provided robust, defensible information to support good decisions in natural resource management.

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I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

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Today is the Day of Remembrance, the 83rd anniversary of the forced removal of 120,000 people of Japanese descent to American concentration camps. American soldiers physically tortured and murdered Japanese Americans in these camps. Their money, homes, businesses, and wealth were stolen.

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For no particular reason, what the Commonwealth of Virginia thinks about kings.

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Going to be quite frank, I do not find anything about this “king” stuff to be funny in any form, don’t think there’s a place for us to just crack wise about it and pretend it’s normal, yes we are all irony-poisoned but if we don’t draw a line here then we have no line

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Federal employees and contractors were always just the canaries, this shit is going to keep rolling downhill. Find your people and support them, they're going to need it. #rva

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If you live in Richmond, VA check this out! Shout-out to these black owned businesses! #RVA #804

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It depresses me but this is true!

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As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

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This is horseshit. If you fear protests will lead to martial law then you already live under martial law — and you’re the one who declared it. Plus, it won’t lead to a declaration of martial law and the fear misconstrues the nature of the threats we face.

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from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

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Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where everyone cared about their job and serving others.

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Teachers hiding Harriet Tubman posters, origami paper cranes, and rainbows from schools bc they were terrified that Hegseths would see them as “signs of Black, Japanese and gay culture” in violation “of the new rules from Washington.” This is so beyond dark. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

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Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”

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If you support any of this, you’re honestly just a terrible person. People’s lives are being upended and destroyed. For every 1% increase in unemployment, 40,000 people die—yet some are celebrating.

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