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I think it’s not helpful to repeat claims that the administration is working on eliminating “DEIA” as though it’s some kind of corporate strategy; just say explicitly that they’re trying to eliminate diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, and explain how.

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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I spent years being like “look guys American fascism doesn’t have to look like the German kind, it’s always been a transnational movement that draws on a variety of symbols and traditions ….” And now they’re just out there doing literal Hitler salutes.

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Remember when Trumpland denied softening the 2016 GOP platform position on Russia?

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Thought your Social Security was safe?

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There are 3 special elections coming up and those 3 seats are the keys to stopping the Congressional Republicans doing Trump & Musk’s evil bidding. We need just 1 seat to block them, 2 seats to stop them, and with all 3 we can FLIP THE HOUSE. Join us!! Monday 2/24 @7:30 EST. 👇👇 mobilize.us/s/Y9NrBb

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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Zelenskyy has shown the world what democracy means. Donald Trump is a convicted felon and a sexual pervert. These two men shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence.

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FEWS NET, the U.S. early warning system for famine, shut down after the foreign aid freeze. What are the consequences? And why does the U.S. has a famine early warning system in the first place?

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WIRED health & biotech writer here. If you're a USDA employee working on the government's response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak and would like to speak securely about what's happening at the agency, please reach out to me on Signal at emullin.06. I can honor requests for anonymity.

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It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

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Elon’s wealth has grown more than ALL the financial aid America has given Ukraine- JUST SINCE THE ELECTION. Thanks to you and me and our hard earned tax dollars. www.ukraineoversight.gov/Funding/#:~:....

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I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.

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I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

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Ouch 😂😂😂

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This deranged post must be read in concert with new Daily Beast and Yahoo News reports that Trump is a Kremlin agent ("Krasnov") and Hegseth speeding up a political purge of the military. What you are seeing here is fear from Trump and Musk; they need to get to martial law fast.

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This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

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My new favorite drug is Republican members of Congress getting yelled at in their districts by constituents who hate Musk.

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Way to go, Sheryl!!

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No doubt last night’s purge reflects racism and misogyny. But those wrongs are just a cover for the far more serious evils and dangers that exist here.

submitted 7 hours ago • 240 comments

Trump is a goddamn traitor to America. Any congressional Republican who supports him — or is afraid to stand up to him — is just as much of a traitor as Trump.

submitted 5 hours ago • 249 comments

Interesting thing for the President to say about a person who, according the government’s lawyers, “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself” and “only has the ability to advise the President, or communicate the President’s directives.”

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@nytimes.com What the hell??

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Opinion | Francis isn’t dead yet but it’s not too early to start talking about how the next Pope needs to be a real Catholic. by Ross Douthat and JD Vance

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The audio edition of this week’s No Mercy / No Malice, as read by @georgehahn.com : open.spotify.com/episode/1HMV...

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Information was shared illegally. A career employee at the Social Security Administration provided unauthorized access to data to Elon Musk’s staffers. This employee, Leland Dudek, a data analyst, was recently promoted to acting commissioner by Trump.

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This is the line to get a new membership at the Costco closest to me (45 min away). Lotta folks like me who are just outside comfortable driving distance but are finally getting a membership because it pairs nicely w/ support for labor & calling your reps everyday.

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👀 🔥

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OK, the report is now fully in major media. Media must get an extensive White House response; Congress must investigate (even if it's a minority report); DOJ and the FBI must investigate; the CIA must issue a report on what it knew about this and when.

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Reminder: We’re less than three weeks away from a government shutdown. Yet instead of passing bills to keep the government open, Republicans are kowtowing to Trump’s unconstitutional actions and pushing a budget that is just one giant tax cut for the richest of the rich.

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Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

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W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

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electrek.co/2025/02/21/t... did he okay that with President Musk?

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Trump does yet another stupid chucklefuck dumbass thing that helps no American, announces commemorative series of "liberal tears" NFTs to celebrate. The edition sells out as foreign buyers frolic to another money-laundering opportunity.

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Make it make sense! 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Pope Al Dente Lasagna

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In 2020, the military was adamant about refusing to get involved in the election. That's why Trump hates General Mark Milley so much. Now, Trump is transforming the military into one that will back him up in 2029. We need to figure out how to prepare for that eventuality.

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regret to inform everyone this is a real guy who could be pope

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“What merit means to them” General Brown’s record, which Hegseth questioned for obvious reasons: www.af.mil/About-Us/Bio...

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O Canada 🇨🇦

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Extortion, pure and simple.

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More & more headlines like this emerging here in Germany. “Without America?” The tie between the USA & Europe is loosening & it could scarcely be nicer for Putin. What does it mean for Germany & its neighbours?”

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The most important thing I learned at Harvard: Human beings are all of roughly equal intelligence. My Harvard students were not inherently smarter than my hoodlum high school buddies. Inherent superiority is a capitalist myth to justify unequal possession of wealth.

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Flu infections are the highest they’ve been in nearly 30 years, and flu deaths this winter have surpassed COVID deaths. Dr. Katelyn Jetelina and Dr. Erica Shenoy join us to help make sense of the latest viral trends.

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If you haven't realized it yet, Trump and MUSK are doing an open coup and purging the government of any guardrails as they assume authoritarian rule. But pronouns! Kamala is a woman! Woke!

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