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Retired Librarian, Educator. Current Literacy Coordinator for RSVP, a non-profit. Always Phillies fan. “The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.” - Albert Einstein
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Federal employees already account for their work with their supervisors. We should be thanking them for their service to our country, not jerking them around. Disgusting.

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Yes yes yes

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Absolutely.

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[One Penn professor] “said that their department — which submitted its choices for admits to its graduate program on Feb. 14 — will be forced to rescind the acceptances of 10 of the 17 students.”

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From Bad to Worse: Pentagon's Friday Night Massacre; and Trump Pushes Putin's Wars This video evaluates the disastrous Pentagon firings, politicization of the military and filling the ranks with Trump loyalists, and Trump delaying the end of the Russia-Ukraine war. open.substack.com/pub/alexande...

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that he was firing Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations, and would be looking for her replacement.

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Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

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Really helpful list.

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You know it’s bad when this is the post’s cover

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I respect FIRE’s legal advocacy but reporters really need to stop using FIRE’s rankings unless you truly believe that campus speech is most free in southern states that have banned ideas and concepts from being taught in the classroom

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1. The Philadelphia Inquirer has 2 journalists - our chief political writer and foreign affairs columnist - in Germany for its critical election. A friend yesterday called us "a regional newspaper" but I'd say we're a historic legacy news org (with 23 Pulitzers)... www.inquirer.com/politics/ger...

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MAGA federal worker from North Virginia shocked that the fat felonious leopard ate his face. He is also a disabled veteran. That didn't mean shyt whatsoever. I'll say it again: We fukn told you! *sip*☕️ #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #USDemocracy wtop.com/virginia/202...

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“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

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* EXCLUSIVE - US DECLINING TO CO-SPONSOR UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION BACKING UKRAINE AND CONDEMNING RUSSIAN AGGRESSION AHEAD OF WAR ANNIVERSARY, DIPLOMATIC SOURCES SAY @reuters.com

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Thank you @marcelias.bsky.social for this personal, powerful letter. My family fled The Pale for the U.S. as well. I view every step towards autocracy through the eyes of my grandparents. I share their disdain and horror for the unbridled anti-semitic, criminal behavior unfolding before us.

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There are two people in Congress-the chairs of the Senate & House Appropriations Committees-who have enormous power over the illegal impoundment of funds appropriated by Congress, which is sowing chaos across the US. They need to be relentlessly contacted at their offices, in person and by phone. 1/

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"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) sued the Trump administration to release over $3 billion of federal funding allocated to his state’s agencies. @marcelias.bsky.social explains:

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People are waking up to just how bad things are with co-presidents Trump & Musk and Republicans running Congress. We don’t have to wait for midterms—we can win special elections now. We’ve been here before and won. @repjasmine.bsky.social lays out the path 🔥

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@maddow.msnbc.com leading with this speech on her show tonight. Watch it if you can. It’s powerful and just what we need.

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Trump's firing of 1,000 national park workers raises concerns about maintenance and operating hours www.kcra.com/article/trum...

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Dem base: "Oh my god, Trump is acting like a king! Please raise the alarm!" Democrats: "Too complicated. No way to explain this to normie voters." Dem base: "OH MY GOD HE LITERALLY JUST CALLED HIMSELF A KING" Democrats: "A distraction. We should talk about the complicated policy stuff."

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