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A lovely interview with one of my favorite journalists and writers today, @edyong209.bsky.social. he's able to illuminate the distressing and the divine in equal measure and also seems like a total mensch. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

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Taskrabbit but for Pinkertons is kinda a logical next step for the VC class that seems to want to innovate a way to be protected from the class wars .

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Yep yep yep. And to take it further, that's why no one is protected unless everyone is protected. No sacrifice of vulnerable communities or identities like trans folks is acceptable in our path to collective security and freedom.

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Omg yes this x1000

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This legit just made my day 100x better.

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New from me: The ADL claims to speak for Jews, but it instead speaks for a particularly affluent, assimilated Jewish community who has always seen working class Jewish radicals as their enemy. They are the allies of the powerful, not Jews. maiseh-review.ghost.io/the-adl-does...

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I would not characterize this as “a major diplomatic breakthrough.” I would instead call it human trafficking. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

submitted 7 days ago • 68 comments

I'm working on a couple of upcoming talks and can't get over how simply describing what is happening right now with attacks on the NSF, NIH, Diversity, etc. makes me sound like a raving lunatic. They've launched an all-out assault on empirical reality.

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If you need a break from the incessant news I highly recommend "Flow" - it's a balm and a lovely respite.

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As DOGE began infiltrating government agencies and targeting federal staff for termination, I started interviewing tech workers on the front lines. With the mass layoffs unfolding today, and with their permission, I'm sharing their stories. This is what it's been like to endure Musk's campaign.

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You have to admit that going up against propositions that are true by definition is a bold intellectual move.

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NNSA is the National Nuclear Security Administration. They are in charge of the bombs.

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This also includes veterans, including, I am told, at least some fully qualified wildland firefighters with actual fire experience. Per a source with knowledge: “I want everyone to know that they are firing veterans, fully qualified and trying to serve their country again in civil service.”

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I'm shocked at the number of things I have to google to understand what all y'all are talking about

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Been thinking how my kids are essentially getting set up to have my grandparents life experience through a pandemic, depression, possibly world wars IF THEY'RE LUCKY. Could still end up worse than the 1930s and 1940s since it seems like the fascists are a bit more advantaged this time.

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Never been happier on a plane than right now - about to watch Galaxy Quest, the best sci-fi movie ever made. #nevergiveupneversurrender

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Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

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"the real problem with the federal government is that it is too small to properly secure the health, safety, and overall well-being...Cutting it further will make a bad situation worse." --Algernon Austin (@a-austin.bsky.social) and Jordan Billings cepr.net/publications...

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The Trump admin says ICE has custody of migrants sent to Guantanamo, but it's DOD guards in Camp 6, a war-on-terror prison. It won't say who is being held incommunicado there, but we are publishing a list of 53 men in Camp 6. w/ @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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we gotta bring back "broken windows theory" but for billionaires

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This this this. Medical care is private for individuals and their providers. It shouldn't involve the government or insurance generally at all!

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Protestors can shape or make a story - if you can show up these days, please do.

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Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal theonion.com/think-t...

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Hey how do we get ALL the Dem senators and representatives to read this and take it seriously? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Pssst: not a single real and sane person thought Trump would be better for Palestine. You're just an idiot who is unable to comprehend that people can condemn their own party for immoral acts too. I'm sorry that partisan politics has entirely cooked your brain, but you gotta stop with the strawman.

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Good thread on where we are and some thoughts on where to go from here. Ooof.

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Most of silicon valley thinks they're saving or reinventing the world or something that should allow them to rule us plebes but in reality

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Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

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when the GOP gets their hands on the $42.5 billion in broadband subsidies included in the infrastructure bill (which they voted against), they're going to work overtime to throw most of it at Elon musk's expensive, ozone killing starlink service, then claim they alone "fixed the digital divide"

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The level of failure of the political press right now is going to be studied in literal history books for years

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Y'all gonna celebrate at the BlueSky Bar tonight?

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average senate republican: here is the new US Constitution I wrote on the back of a napkin this is now the law get fucked average senate democrat: I wish I knew someone in the senate

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