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“This is what happens when someone appeases barbarians,” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on X Saturday. “More bombs, more aggression, more victims. Another tragic night in Ukraine.” apnews.com/article/russ...

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As a former Fulbright Scholar (in Chile), I personally understand how terrifying this is. U.S. citizens around the world & foreign nationals in the U.S. — all Fulbright Scholars — have now had their incomes eliminated & are stranded. DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.

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I had a hand in building this office at Thomas Jefferson’s University. So much progress—all lost now. This is what white America wanted. www.baconsrebellion.com/uva-board-di...

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NEW: I helped Brian Krebs trace the background of one of Elon Musk's top loyalists, Branden Spikes, head of IT at X, who spent 2 mo at DOGE. Spikes and his ex-wife were involved with Russian diaspora websites and groups linked to pro-Kremlin KSORS players, Russian state media while he was at SpaceX.

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NEW: Several groups representing “startup nations”—tech hubs exempt from the taxes and regulations that apply to the countries where they are located—are drafting Congressional legislation to create “freedom cities” in the US that would be similarly free from federal laws, WIRED has learned.

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SCOOP: The new DOGE official seeking private taxpayer information at the IRS has ties to a sanctioned Russian oligarch considered part of Putin's inner circle. Sam Corcos is married to a woman who partnered w/ a VC firm handling Suleyman Kerimov's money. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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The DOGE IRS layoffs significantly affected the Large Business & International Division, which audits the country’s wealthiest taxpayers & major corporations, resulting in most cases being closed prematurely. Imagine that 🤡 www.icij.org/inside-icij/...

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I'm old enough to remember when unilateral presidential alteration of the terms of student loan programs was considered on the right to be the greatest threat to the constitutional order.

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You know Pitchbot has a good one when half the comments don’t realize it’s satire and not something the NYT is actually saying.

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This is why all Dems should have walked out of the State of the Union -- that collective action would have dominated the news cycle and sucked air from Trump's cynical and cruel lies/bullshit. He'd have lost his shit live on TV. Maybe literally.

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Ole Glenn says ending DEI takes us back to slaveholders raping black women and that’s a victory. Hoods are totally off.

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[stares in Sally Hemings]

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In light of the news about Columbia, I want to reiterate a point below by me and Levitsky: universities, collectively, are among the most economically powerful and geographically thick sectors in the US. If they stood up together in opposition to this tyranny, they would be incredibly powerful.

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Goldman on Musk: "Notable, somehow none of his $13 billion of government contracts he has determined to be waste, fraud, and abuse."

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He spends most of his time watching TV so obviously the only thing that gets his attention is when he thinks he looks bad on TV.

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Pete Hegseth has ordered a massive review of DOD computer archives in an attempt to “align” the department with Trump’s directive to eliminate anything related to DEI. What are America's warfighters so afraid of? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Blue lives matter. Or that’s what I’ve been told at least by republicans at least. I’m guessing it was pretext, though.

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This is so unbelievably accurate and explains everything we are dealing with.

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This is a future 5-4 SCOTUS ruling and I’m afraid I don’t know which direction.

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All I'm saying is, if you ran a campaign on democracy being at stake and democracy lost, isn't it time to be massively freaking out instead of doing this

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Trump has ordered massive swathes of US national forests to be cut down. Hundreds of millions of acres of trees will be razed and endangered species will not be protected.

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The cruelty is the point.

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A thing few seem to learn about Trump and MAGA is that once they've set a narrative designating you as the enemy, there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. It doesn't matter if it's false. And no amount of capitulation is going to move them. So you might as well do the right thing.

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It wasn't because of antisemitism. Let's be clear, Mr. "Good People on Both Sides" and Mr. "Roman Salute" don't care about any antisemitism anywhere. Trump is petty and that's all it is.

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many Americans love Trump more than they love their own family members. When forced to choose, breaking off from Trump is more painful for them.

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I don't know that it can be said any more clearly than exactly like this. They don't want people to understand why there was a need for the Civil Rights Act so that people will think it's no big deal to just go ahead and repeal it.

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This CDC "survey" getting sent to grantees is wild yall. This is some serious "Kiss my Ring" level bullshit.

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When critics go so far as to claim that there is no precedent for what Trump is doing in the history of American government, they are forgetting about the political history of the American South. New from @aselrod.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/liberal-de...

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Our current crisis is in many ways a Southern one www.thebulwark.com/p/liberal-de...

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Hoods off. They aren’t hiding it. See who defends this or accepts it and run from them.

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hey, can one of the reasonable centrist writers condescendingly explain to me again that it is overblown to call these people segregationists?

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This is what competitive authoritarianism looks like www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

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ICYMI www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmDV...

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The odious Douthat and the #BrokenTimes give airtime to a bilious racist. All the bile that's fit to flush.

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I weep for our country

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Destroying our country for a generation or more.

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References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge DEI content

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AOC: It's really because Republicans— they’re very thin skinned and they're very sensitive, and their feelings are very easily hurt. And so they have to vote on censure resolutions.

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I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:

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This is what authoritarians do.

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New from me: A school district in Pennsylvania voted against adding a Black author's book about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre to the curriculum. Then, the community decided to do something about it.

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the problem with the "trans sports participation is a loser / 80-20 issue" framing is that it ignores how it got that way. it didn't just happen out of nowhere. It's been a 5+ year campaign by Republicans to make it an 80-20 issue, and noone fought back.

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The stupidity… “photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word ”gay,” including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II” apnews.com/article/dei-...

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