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The US has a long history of using ideological exclusion/deportation (barring/expelling based on political beliefs, expressions, & associations) as a tool of political repression. 🗃️ I wrote about that history in "Threat of Dissent." ⬇️ @harvardpress.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

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It's hard to write gripping stories about the failure to discover fraud, but this is probably the most important takeaway from the DOGE circus.

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Armed government agents went to the home of a lawful resident of the United States without a warrant and arrested him over the content of his speech. This is a five-alarm fire for civil liberties.

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I am sorry for Vance's kid, but he leads a regime that has called for a "de-Baathification" of public employees, promising to put them "in trauma."

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This week Jacqui "The Magician" Ovalle has delighted us with one of the filthiest goals we have ever seen. But do you know she scores golazos in a daily basis? Here are five of them. @allforxi.bsky.social #SomosDesafiantes⚡️ www.allforxi.com/2025/3/9/243...

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Breaking: ICE arrests a Palestinian student at Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, whose wife is 8 months pregnant. They revoked his student visa and his green card. BOYCOTT COLUMBIA. WRITE & Demand answers. This is fucking sickening. zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...

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CBO Report: To achieve budget goals, GOP must cut Medicare or Medicaid What are those goals? -$4.5T in tax cuts for 800 billionaires & a few hundred billion dollar corps, many of whom only currently pay less than 5% tax That's it. That's the GOP goal. Steal from the poor to fund their rich donors.

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Urban Institute too: www.linkedin.com/posts/sarahr... It’s utterly senseless and wasteful. I was fully federal and have lost two of my three contracts “for the convenience of the federal government.” Years of work that might never see the light of day.

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@aoc.bsky.social: "Listen, if your representative is not doing a town hall, give me a ring... I'll say it right here, right now: if a deep red Republican district wants to have an honest conversation, even if it's with someone they disagree with, I'm willing to do that."

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This is flatly illegal. The plain text of the law says that any person who works for any 501(c)(3) nonprofit is eligible. There is ZERO authority for limiting eligibility based on the work such nonprofit does. They WILL lose the lawsuit. Even so, this is making so many people’s lives harder.

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Figure skating world championships were considered to be for men only until 1902, when Madge Syers showed up and took home silver and the ISU went "whooooops guess we need to segregate them." It happened again in 1992 Olympic skeet shooting: Zhang Shan took gold and then they segregated the event.

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A reminder that women’s sports are kept separate from men’s not to protect women from always losing to men, but rather to ensure that no man ever loses to a woman. I’m not making this up; that’s literally the reason.

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We shall call them the Dallas Spirits

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After mass firings, the IRS is poised to close audits of wealthy taxpayers, agents say www.icij.org/inside-icij/...

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This suit “hits upon the lawless absurdity of these developments: the legally unfounded DOGE is seizing a congressionally approved and funded agency, with leadership appointed according to the law, and destroying it without any legal justification or authority.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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There were already people in the government "reducing waste, fraud and abuse." Trump fired them and replaced them with one unelected asshole who's canceling programs he personally doesn't like and awarding himself government contracts

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THE WASHINGTON SPIRIT ARE YOUR 2025 CHALLENGE CUP CHAMPS 🏆 Presented by e.l.f. Cosmetics

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Big-time player, big-time moments. 2025 NWSL Challenge Cup MVP presented by e.l.f. Cosmetics 🏆

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Lllleeeeeeiiiiicccyyyyy!!! Yaaaaas! Magic for the Washington Spirit!!

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four minutes in and already sick of nwsl refs

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WHAT IS WITH all these soft fouls called against the Spirit!?! like 5 in the first 6 minutes??? NWSL Challenge Cup

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✊Massive turnout for STAND UP FOR SCIENCE rally in Boston #StandUpForScience

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Amazing turnout for #standupforscience2025 and we even got inspirational words from Nobel Prize winner Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi!

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Hundreds now in Federal Plaza, Chicago for the #MarchforScience. It's another cold miserable wet day, but folks are turning out. #standupforscience

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yeah i feel like a part of the problem is that elected Dems have Axios/Semafor/Politico brain and think that the base genuinely wants them to move to the center while the actual base wants blood

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Today at the “Stand up for Science” demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial.

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They're destroying civil rights history because they want to repeal the Civil Rights Act www.alreporter.com/2025/03/06/h...

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The NRCC called a US citizen and sitting member of Congress an “illegal” because they know their base is fine with vile bigotry and also being blatantly lied to.

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Since writing this article, I have received messages from federal civil servants who tell me it is accurate, and that they are frightened. Please share this with anyone who doesn't understand the scale of the transformation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Yesterday, Wash Post reported, "The NRCC did not back down amid the backlash." Now they did. This is a sign for Dems to push harder cause clearly there was some internal blowback Exploit that. Johnson's NRCC felt very comfortable attacking a Dem with a xenophobic tweet He needs to answer for it

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New from me: It's #NWSL Challenge Cup day, and we're more or less back where we left off: Pride vs. Spirit, with a trophy on the line. Regardless of the Challenge Cup's meandering history as an event, both teams are taking it seriously.

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I missed this; yesterday 20 different states sued the Trump administration seeking to halt their mass terminations of workers.

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Imagine if a woman president governed like this (Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris certainly wouldn’t have). What would the press and pundits be saying about them? And why aren’t they saying it about Trump?

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Yesterday, we published a piece about the shake-up at the US immigration courts. As I wrote, 19 judges are resigning or retiring. And now we know 66 staffers with EOIR are voluntarily departing too. That's 85 professionals leaving the agency. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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This post and the comments are eye-opening in terms of clarifying if we’re living in a repeat of 1933 Germany or 1991 Soviet Union or 1999 Russia. Exec Summary: Project 2025 is taking the Hitler playbook and combining it with the Russian Kleptocracy playbook on a greatly compressed timeline.

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Before the season starts, what teams do you think are NWSL Shield and Championship contenders? Who has what it takes to win it all? 🤔🏆 Call the Sammy Banana Phone with your question about it! 855-611-4050 🍌☎️ 📸 Jamie Squire/Getty Images

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Showcasing keyword search "false-positives" like "Enola Gay" demonstrates how stupid & lazy this censorship is; but why retreat from the argument that it's also wrong when it sweeps up the content it means to target? Academic freedom & the 1st amendment still exist in this country. Act like it, ffs.

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fun fact, the last time the US had a national origins system for immigration (the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924) it was so racist Adolf Hitler envied it

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As Shawn VanDiver points out, this means any Afghans who worked with US troops and have so far managed to escape Taliban retribution would nonetheless be completely banned from coming to the United States as part of our promise to protect them. Another group of allies, betrayed.

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Here’s a feed of US-centric women’s soccer posts (USWNT and NWSL) in case you want to add more joy to your life—

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I’m not backing down and I’m continuing to speak up, but I won’t lie and pretend that I don’t have some fears of the spotlight really turning on me in earnest and the consequences that could have for me and my loved ones.

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📣Only a few days left to contact your elected leaders & urge them to #DefendRefuge! It's time to set the record straight: ➡️Communities want to welcome refugees ➡️Newcomers resettled through the U.S. refugee resettlement program enrich our communities bit.ly/DefendRefuge...

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NEW: The Defense Department is considering a 75% reduction in workforce targeting employees who work to prevent the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, according to a draft proposal obtained by WIRED. 😕

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@maanvisingh.bsky.social found the story of a man who was tortured in Turkey and still had his asylum case denied. We found that the judge had only ever granted a single asylum case, one of the lowest rates of over 800 judges we reviewed

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The Fear Narrative is meant to divide the working class. "Immigrants are not responsible for inflation, the housing crisis or crime." Sharing a powerful Op-Ed by @erikaandiola.bsky.social @theyoungcenter.bsky.social in the Arizona Republic: www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

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NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover. Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment." WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.

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