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🚨 After months of defiance of court orders (and the Supreme Court) and claims under oath from cabinet level officials that they would never bring him back, the Trump admin blinks; Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being brought back to the U.S., where he can finally get some due process.

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I feel this way about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It’s never a bad time for Buffy.

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I’m seeing some people say “changing agency priorities” and terminating grants the way this administration is doing is normal. That’s incorrect. Agency priorities can change, but not on the whim of a president. The funds are appropriated by Congress, as I explain in this video.

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Photoshopping @lastweektonight.com’s John Oliver onto fossils until the Paleontological Research Institution secures their funding! Fossil specimen of a whale inner ear bone, tympanic bulla, from the Neogene or Pleistocene of Charleston County, SC (PRI 76859). Comedian is H. sapiens. Not to scale.

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The Secret Police have to stay secret because Americans might be mean to them? People on the public payroll have to be... well, public. We pay for them. We deserve to know where our money is going, and what is being done in our name.

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Parents and teachers in southern California are urgently asking for help to find a fourth grader who is being “held captive” by immigration authorities in Texas.

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ICE is denying people the right to due process, abducting and trafficking them to foreign countries and locking them up indefinitely in dangerous prisons. Now they’re preparing the military to deploy on US soil and in our communities to help. This is authoritarianism.

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As long as people can “prove that they matter,” they will not lose their Medicaid coverage - Dr. Mehmet Oz, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

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Apropos of nothing I feel like one of the most important things to help your kids develop is an ability to self-regulate.

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This may be a good time to re-read Jeffrey Winters’ landmark study of oligarchy in which he explains why “ruling” oligarchies (e.g. the Mafia Commission) tend to devolve into “warring” oligarchies of the kind that defined medieval Europe.

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In a serious blow to scholars, the Russian authorities have outlawed the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) as an "undesirable organization." The designation poses legal risks for the organization's 3,200 members when researching in Russia. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Russia continues its relentless attacks on Kherson. This morning, they dropped four Russian KAB bombs in fifteen minutes on the center of the city. Several hours later, another KAB bomb attacked Kherson, destroying the building of the local regional administration.

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Today is my birthday, and INSTEAD of a military parade I’d like you to REPOST this Book Giveaway! To qualify, repost and tag two friends who you think might be interested. Winner receives a copy of ‘In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism’.🗃️🏺🎂

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Want your NIH and NSF program officers and division directors to be fired and turned into political appointees? Deadline extended: 3 days left! Already 33,000+ public comments Comments can tank a proposed rule in court. 📣 Oppose the rule with a brief comment: shorturl.at/WKuBj

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As many of us have said many times: the weaponization of antisemitism is the tip of the spear for the fascists. They are using cases of antisemitism, real and false, to implement their illiberal agenda. The main reason being that liberals are less likely to fight it in that context.

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We have 50501 organizers on the ground right now, and they just got confirmation a bus with more detainees is coming. They also just overheard the cops on site say they have a minor in the car, so one of the detainees may be under 18. Will send more updates as we get them. Please help boost this!

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Also, The Discourse on this piece has not yet mentioned that Breakfast For Dinner is an Excellent Thing Worthy Of Capitalization

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One takeaway from this must-read from Garrett Graff: FEMA will most likely not be there for you if you've survived a hurricane, wildfire, or other disaster. Now is the time to build or replenish your emergency kit and go-bags for your home, car, and workplace. www.ready.gov

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To survive something is to create a version of the world where it isn’t happening anymore, and to inch yourself in that direction until you finally arrive. Scaachi Koul, @scaachi.bsky.social

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Imagine proposing a system that would serve every kid in this country (no exceptions), fully fund 13 years of nearly year-round support, employ trained professionals to lead the work, and seek to produce a wide range of positive outcomes--from academic preparation to self-actualization. We have it.

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“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ

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You can make a meaningful donation to Ukraine yourself, right here. u24.gov.ua

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Running the country like he runs his businesses, again:

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Jeff’s response is perfect. Ack.

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Me vino a la mente la famosa frase de Max Liebermann: No puedo comer suficiente para satisfacer mis ganas de vomitar. (ich kann gar nicht so viel essen, wie ich kotzen möchte) El país vecino lo gobierna la peor gentuza imaginable.

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A good exercise for the "I'll just wait 4 years" crowd: - Make a list of all the bad Bush-era policies Obama rolled back - Make a list of all the bad Trump-era policies Biden rolled back

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