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In the Opinion video above, Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley, all professors at Yale and experts in #authoritarianism, explain why #America is especially vulnerable to a #democratic backsliding — and why they are leaving the #UnitedStates to take up positions at the University of […]

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#Total #Immunity Chief Justice John Roberts described the #ruleoflaw as #endangered and warned against “trashing the #justices." “The notion that rule of law governs is the basic proposition,” Roberts said during appearance at Georgetown Law. “Certainly as a matter of theory, but also as a […]

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The Wild West of #Presidential #Pardons in #Trump’s Second Term https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/the-wild-west-of-presidential-pardons-in-trumps-second-term-a250160f?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink&st=CfJYzv #politics #corruption #Jan6 #criminals #criminallaw #courts #legalresearch […]

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#Facts vs #Lies - This isn't a #stockmarket #rally. It's a #scramble. On the back of market rallies over the last few weeks, the #Nasdaq is now up just over 1% year-to-date. The S&P 500? Flat. The Dow Jones Industrial Average? Down 0.6%.#economy #financialstability 3insidertrading #hedgefunds […]

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In the Opinion video above, Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley, all professors at Yale and experts in #authoritarianism, explain why #America is especially vulnerable to a #democratic backsliding — and why they are leaving the #UnitedStates to take up positions at the University of […]

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#Congressional #Librarians Tell #Trump 'Appointees' To Wrong Branch Of #Government To Get F*cked. And welcome to your new master #librarian, Trump's personal #criminal defense attorney, and this horse. Just saying - #librarians - all librarians - respect and defend the #truth, unfettered #access […]

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#Total #Immunity Chief Justice John Roberts described the #ruleoflaw as #endangered and warned against “trashing the #justices." “The notion that rule of law governs is the basic proposition,” Roberts said during appearance at Georgetown Law. “Certainly as a matter of theory, but also as a […]

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#JohnRoberts created a #monster. It's about to eat him and all of us too!] Helping #Trump realize his white supremacist Christofascist dream...suspending habeas strips all courts, including #SCOTUS of power to issue a writ. It completely cuts courts out of process of determining whether a […]

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How #Apple helped #China become America’s biggest #tech rival #tech #superpower https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/technology/article/how-apple-helped-china-become-americas-biggest-tech-rival-8f83tttv5 China wouldn’t be China today without Apple. The California tech giant’s investments in […]

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#JohnRoberts created a #monster. It's about to eat him and all of us too!] Helping #Trump realize his white supremacist Christofascist dream...suspending habeas strips all courts, including #SCOTUS of power to issue a writ. It completely cuts courts out of process of determining whether a […]

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Dear Colleagues: Please support Newsie.Social with a #donation - in an amount that you can afford. It is quick, easy and important. https://opencollective.com/newsiesocial Each of us on this instance, and all other instances, are in jeopardy if we live and work in the United States, and […]

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Dear Colleagues: Please support Newsie.Social with a #donation - in an amount that you can afford. It is quick, easy and important. https://opencollective.com/newsiesocial Each of us on this instance, and all other instances, are in jeopardy if we live and work in the United States, and […]

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Deputy AG Todd Blanche who represented #Trump during 2024 #criminal trial appointed acting #librarian of #Congress per DOJ. Blanche replaces longtime #librarian Dr. #CarlaHayden, fired last week by #trump. Rewind to past - unqualified White Male with no expertise, training as a #Librarian, now […]

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Deputy AG Todd Blanche who represented #Trump during 2024 #criminal trial appointed acting #librarian of #Congress per DOJ. Blanche replaces longtime #librarian Dr. #CarlaHayden, fired last week by #trump. Rewind to past - unqualified White Male with no expertise, training as a #Librarian, now […]

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Tracking Global #Forest #Biomass #EU #Space Agency released most detailed #dataset yet on how much #carbon is stored in world’s #forests tracking changes 2007-2022. Built by combining data from multiple Earth-observing #satellites dataset estimates carbon held in woody parts of #trees mainly […]

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“Let us disarm #communication of all #prejudice and resentment, #fanaticism and even #hatred; let us free it from #aggression,” #PopeLeo told more than 1,000 #journalists, including the #Vatican Press corps, who gathered in an auditorium in Vatican City on May 12, 2025. “We do not need #loud […]

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Via #LLRX @psuPete Recommends - Weekly highlights on #cyber #security issues, May 10, 2025 - Five highlights from this week: Using #AI Can Be Ethically Iffy. Here’s How to Do It Right; How to Make Your #iPhone as Secure as Possible; After $243M #Crypto Heist, a Crucial Mistake; #Postal Service […]

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Via #LLRX @psuPete Recommends - Weekly highlights on #cyber #security issues, May 10, 2025 - Five highlights from this week: Using #AI Can Be Ethically Iffy. Here’s How to Do It Right; How to Make Your #iPhone as Secure as Possible; After $243M #Crypto Heist, a Crucial Mistake; #Postal Service […]

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Tracking Global #Forest #Biomass #EU #Space Agency released most detailed #dataset yet on how much #carbon is stored in world’s #forests tracking changes 2007-2022. Built by combining data from multiple Earth-observing #satellites dataset estimates carbon held in woody parts of #trees mainly […]

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What Would You Include In A Vindictive Project 2029? Trump acts as though he’ll always be prez. He's threatened to eliminate Harvard tax-exempt status, assuming, presumably, that Dems will never again be in charge, able to retaliate. Which got me 2 thinking: What would u include in truly […]

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Characterization of Research #Grant #Terminations @ #NIH Terminations focused on topics not aligned w agency priorities. Scope of terminations, types of grants affected & differential impact of cuts across career stages have not been characterized,resulting in uncertainty about implications of […]

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What Would You Include In A Vindictive Project 2029? Trump acts as though he’ll always be prez. He's threatened to eliminate Harvard tax-exempt status, assuming, presumably, that Dems will never again be in charge, able to retaliate. Which got me 2 thinking: What would u include in truly […]

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Characterization of Research #Grant #Terminations @ #NIH Terminations focused on topics not aligned w agency priorities. Scope of terminations, types of grants affected & differential impact of cuts across career stages have not been characterized,resulting in uncertainty about implications of […]

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One #bad #leader can wreck a #nation. #History shows that #thriving #countries can #collapse from the very top. Can a single leader destroy a #nation? It’s difficult but not impossible. Modern #history offers many examples of leaders who inherited thriving countries and drove them to #collapse […]

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"It then came out that the Qataris were gifting the souped up plane to the US for Trump’s use as President and then after his presidency it would be given to the Trump Presidential Library. As soon as I heard this I was pretty sure this had now become a bribe. The Times just reported that […]

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social‬ ‘The Library’ 1960, by Jacob Lawrence Librarian of Congress #CarlaHayden was fired by #trump. She was first non male non white trained, accredited #Librarian of Congress in history. She remains a trailblazer & leader who […] [Original post on newsie.social]

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social‬ ‘The Library’ 1960, by Jacob Lawrence Librarian of Congress #CarlaHayden was fired by #trump. She was first non male non white trained, accredited #Librarian of Congress in history. She remains a trailblazer & leader who […] [Original post on newsie.social]

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Fired - 1st #woman and the 1st #African #American to be #Librarian of #Congress. Anne Applebaum "Every #book #published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books." Reporter: #president fired the Librarian of […]

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Fired - 1st #woman and the 1st #African #American to be #Librarian of #Congress. Anne Applebaum "Every #book #published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books." Reporter: #president fired the Librarian of […]

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Rep. Bob Menendez, who intervened when ICE put their hands on two female colleagues, is speaking outside the ICE facility in Newark, where Mayor Baraka was arrested. #NewJersey #uspol

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At least 6 #USAID #employees who believed they had been dismissed by #Trump admin have now been notified by agency's internal HR dept that they are under investigation for speaking with #journalists. These employees, whose official termination dates were postponed due to bureaucratic delays […]

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"Fietsvlonders" are mobile bike platforms designed to turn a car parking spot into urban bike parking. They’re modular, moveable, and cheap, making it easy to test better use of public space. When car storage gets swapped for bikes, entire streets start to feel different.

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I learned tonight that this is the correct reference - please - inclusion, equity and diversity (IE&D), not DEI. This is from the new The Littler® Annual Employer Survey Report, May 2025. https://www.littler.com/sites/default/files/2025-04/2025_littler_employer_survey_report.pdf?0xj4u9btlklh […]

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#Trump & the Make America Great Again movement hold parallels to #Mao Zedong, China’s Cultural Revolution - The Disturbing Rise of #MAGA Maoism. Trump seems to be ceding the future to #China while emulating its past. Like Mao, Trump “relishes disruption & chaos,” a China expert told the Lingua […]

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2 major #scientific societies said they will try to fill the void from the Trump administration’s dismissal of #scientists writing a cornerstone federal report on what #climate change is doing to the #UnitedStates. American #Meteorological Society & American #Geophysical Union will work together […]

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2 major #scientific societies said they will try to fill the void from the Trump administration’s dismissal of #scientists writing a cornerstone federal report on what #climate change is doing to the #UnitedStates. American #Meteorological Society & American #Geophysical Union will work together […]

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NEW: In the Mahmoud Khalil case, Judge Farbiarz orders the government to give him a COMPLETE LIST of every time since 1975 it has invoked the secretary of state's power to deport someone for foreign-policy reasons—including a description of each case's facts and a copy of the official determination.

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Senior presidential adviser #KariLake appears to have resolved any doubts about what she wants to do with the #VoiceofAmerica. Lake seeks for it to look and sound a lot like the far-right One America News Network #qanon on Tuesday night she announced that she had struck a deal to serve up the […]

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The #Trump administration abruptly and with no explanation removed the vice chairman of the #NTSB National Transportation Safety Board. Alvin Brown was the only #Black member on the five-person board of the independent agency. #transportation #airlines #airport #travel #maga #politics #maga […]

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#GlobalX, Airline for #Trump’s Deportations, Hacked https://www.404media.co/globalx-airline-for-trumps-deportations-hacked/ #cybersecurity #DataBreach #politics

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In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect. This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus. www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...

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people of the fediverse! i am currently looking for a new job and/or freelance gigs. i'm currently living in new haven, CT, but i'm also in NYC often. things i do: - build websites and web apps - make videos and graphics - IT/computermancy - teaching feel […] [Original post on merveilles.town]

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The Missing Branch. In era of intense #constitutional combat, #Congress is nowhere toB found. Free lhttps://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/missing-branch-congress/682701/?gift=201cWZnM2XBz2eP81zy0pBalGV8LLYGzpYnW5_PXF-8 Congress not doing its job & vacuum that its dereliction has […]

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Why do we write, anyway? I believe that the main reason a human should write is to communicate original thoughts. To be clear, I don’t believe that these thoughts need to be special or academic. Your vacation, your dog, and your favorite color are all fair game. However, these thoughts should be […]

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Don’t Look at #StockMarkets. Look at the #Ports. A drop in maritime traffic suggests that the worst is yet to come. #commerce #trade #tariffs #economy #recession #jobs #unemployment #maga #politics #trump #china […]

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Why do we write, anyway? I believe that the main reason a human should write is to communicate original thoughts. To be clear, I don’t believe that these thoughts need to be special or academic. Your vacation, your dog, and your favorite color are all fair game. However, these thoughts should be […]

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Ex-Washington Post editorial cartoonist @anntelnaes.bsky.social, who quit her job because the paper killed her cartoon mocking billionaires - including Post owner Jeff Bezos - for bowing to Trump, just won the Pulitzer Prize.

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Why Did White House Post a Double-Headed #Eagle? Surely it’s a coincidence that it’s the symbol of Russian Empire, the Russian Federation, and Putin via Jim Stewartson. The #official account of #WhiteHouse is just #propaganda now. This is no surprise but it’s far more# transgressive than I […]

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