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Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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Social Security has a payment accuracy rate of over 99 percent. Only 0.3 percent of Social Security benefits are improper payments, which are typically caused by mistakes or delays. That's better than any private insurance company. www.cbpp.org/blog/setting...

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This, from my colleague @pamherd.bsky.social , is a great piece about Trump’s attack on disabled people, and the real harm it is causing, including to one of UM’s outstanding students. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.

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At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:

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A military official who served with Caine said Saturday that, despite Trump’s claims, Razin Caine “doesn’t have a MAGA hat; he’s never put one on.” Our profile of the retired Air Force general who Trump has nominated to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs: www.cnn.com/2025/02/23/p...

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Boston has an Asian-American woman mayor and Black police chief. Any guess why Trump, Homan, and their band of racists want to target us?

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Trump is doing Putin and Xi’s “work for them. He is damaging American democracy, diminishing American power, and destroying American alliances with an energy and an efficiency that must exceed their wildest dreams.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/o...

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“The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down…deleting a resource that experts said improved public safety by helping to prevent bad officers from jumping to new agencies and starting over with clean records.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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A history of the medieval coastal towns of Mozambique ca. 500-1890 CE. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-history-...

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In the first month since Trump returned to power, he has demonstrated once again a brazen willingness to advance distortions, conspiracy theories and outright lies to justify major policy decisions. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

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“No amount of diplomatic palaver can paper over Russia’s record of kidnapping Ukrainian children, executing POWs, and targeting civilians.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-neg...

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Deep. Water Horizon Ten Years On www.yahoo.com/news/scienti...

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Every day, the goals become clearer: The point of DOGE is not efficiency, but regime change www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Poverty is on the rise across the African continent. The pain, however, is not evenly distributed. On average, lived poverty is at its worst level in a quarter-century of Afrobarometer surveys.

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Manatees- amazing creatures. Humans love watching them. Gentle mammals And now the National Wildlife Refuge has lost half of its staff that maintains this site. www.tampabay.com/news/environ...

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“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

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To understand the moment we are in as a country, this is incredibly important to take in:

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No surprise here given Ruto just hosted Hemedti/the RSF in Nairobi: Kenya expects to receive a $1.5 billion loan from the United Arab Emirates by the end of next week. bloomberg.com/news/article... via @markets

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There were more plane crashes during his first month in office than in the entire previous four years.

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#Niger's national conference recommended that the #military authorities stay for a renewable period of 5 years with possibility for General Tchiani to present himself in future #elections. #AES juntas are there for the long term... www.rtbf.be/article/nige...

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“They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy.”

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By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

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Harmeet Dhillon will lead Trump's DOJ Civil Rights Division. Michael Gates will be her lieutenant Both are super partisan election deniers from California who have made names for themselves among MAGA attacking civil rights rather than defending & expanding civil rights Both are unqualified

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Not the primary culprit, but it’s also supremely & mortifyingly embarrassing for administrators of the Carter library to agree to cancel events like this. What’ll happen if they don’t? They test bluff? a presidential library is shut down by the White House, which has its own political opportunity?

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Have any of the #gop denounced this yet, or is Nazi-curious another step not too far? Very revealing how far they'll go. The MSM put a lot of energy into the "fever breaking" moment and it's getting ALOT hotter and still no sign of intelligent life.

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A judge ordered foreign aid to resume. Aid groups say it’s not happening. Instead, more than 200+ groups had their contracts terminated. Food is now rotting near starving people; some aid warehouses left unguarded. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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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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(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

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OMB director Russ Vought has officially begun carrying out his section of Project 2025. Technical thread to follow, but it’s really important - this is a major path through which the Trump administration will illegally impound funding, refusing to carry out some of our spending laws.

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Why are so few former Joint Chiefs speaking out? Four stars? FBI Directors? Former Senators? Presidents? Thanks to those that do but we need some courage now!

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Brazil’s government has approved an invitation to join OPEC+, a group representing the interests of oil-exporting nations, just months ahead of hosting the COP30 climate summi

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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It’s nonsense—but deliberately. The terms are vague and meaningless so they can ban ANYTHING if they want to.

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My latest podcast episode is out! I promised y'all on Bluesky I would talk about the Obama to anti-DEI pipeline. So let's talk about it. Trump's segregationist agenda is a reaction to Obama open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

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If you support this, you’re an awful human being

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Another scoop from @peard33.bsky.social: DOGE installed Tom Krause at the Treasury Department. He's keeping his job as the CEO of a software company that has millions of dollars in federal contracts, including with the Treasury Department www.wired.com/story/krause...

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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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In tonight's military purge, Tump nominated Dan Caine for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, a retired Lt. General so underqualified he'd need a waiver. Even odder: Caine was installed last month at 3 VC firms doing crypto, AI, and defense tech, including Thrive, founded by Jared Kushner's brother. 1/

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NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

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