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Someone on Mastodon just reminded me they have probably started erasing Admiral Hopper from US history too, and that specific thing is really messing me up.

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Intense raw statement by 4star General CQ Brown, who Trump just fired as head of Joint Chiefs of Staff — from June 2020, responding to the murder of George Floyd soon after Trump named him 1st Black AF chief of staff. Watch this great American full screen eye to eye www.dvidshub.net/video/755013...

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From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

submitted 2 hours ago • 90 comments

anyone, including those who claim to be experts saying that the Republicans are not a Nazi party are not just incorrect. They are trying to protect themselves from the reality that they are wrong.

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

This made the rounds earlier today and is quite good.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

It occurred to me that firing thousands of highly skilled, highly knowledgeable people, some of whom had access to highly secret information, and now have grievances and an urgent need for money, might be considered a security risk. Like, a big one.

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A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 12 hours ago • 74 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 22 hours ago • 565 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

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In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

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Like & Share if you stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦

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BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

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"Six weeks ago, we had the strongest economy, employment, and stock market in history. ..All gone in 30 days."

submitted 22 hours ago • 336 comments

free hint to blue state govs: automatically offer jobs in your own state's security services to the various cops, prosecutors and armed forces members that trump is unfairly drumming out. you will need people with guns who hate trump for what is coming next, and... there they are

submitted 21 days ago • 28 comments

If only they’d had more merit (white skin, penis).

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

Weird little Vatnik trolls trying to use AI to find ways to upset me. Old garbage & hateful crap about my dad. Anything they can throw to distract me from posting news of what is going on in Ukraine... Just makes me want to post even more- youtu.be/VYquh21I4jg?...

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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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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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So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

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Twitter is now an American right wing disinformation machine interfering in global politics. Your participation in it, is collaboration and nothing less.

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Weak men make hard times

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Trump is blaming Ukraine for the war that Putin started, once again peddling misinformation. He’s abandoning our ally to side with the aggressor. Shameful. www.npr.org/2025/02/20/g...

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Patrick McKenzie (patio11) did a podcast on “Debanking” www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/deb... (it’s good, btw) and was asked to issue a retraction by an offended Bank CEO (also very good) www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/edi...

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Iowa pollster Ann Selzer filed an absolutely blistering response to Trump’s lawsuit against her and Des Moines Register, calling it a flagrant attempt to circumvent the First Amendment. www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...

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Visa handles 639 million transactions per day.

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I think I'm going to hell for this one, but if the insurrectionist theater company ever puts on a musical it'll be called Bear-Spray.

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‘Developing a friendship with him…’ Wow.

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how many controversial salutes are there. i can only think of the one but admittedly i'm not a salute scholar

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🚨 Pentagon hits pause on plan to carry out mass firings of civilian employees, officials say www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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I think there’s this tendency to assume Musk enters each agency with some kind of plan. But his office is 30 people, largely children, and the federal government employs millions. He spends half his time on drugs, tweeting, doing interviews. It’s all random noise www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Trump’s envoy is the only person in the administration to praise Zelensky in recent days.

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Totally agree. Also, a lot of these “savings”…aren’t. Government isn’t a business.

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A little substance about what the FBI does & historical context to help you articulate just how dangerous the confirmation of Kash Patel is. joycevance.substack.com/p/kash-patel...

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Not enough attention is being given to the fact that SEC lawyers cannot even open an investigation now without clearance from Republican political appointees.

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Get arrested preventing DOGE goons from entering public buildings, get arrested going into public buildings to find out what DOGE goons are doing, get arrested on the floor during confirmation votes to protest the rubber stamping of unqualified candidates

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There are many mysteries and ambiguities in life but the nature of this gesture is not among them. It's a Nazi salute.

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