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The reply email inbox for this “what did you do last week” email is [email protected], so, you know, definitely don’t send them any unrelated messages that would interfere with their ability to carry out Elon’s dumbass bullshit

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Required reading during these times

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“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.

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bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/wh...

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Buy, borrow, die. youtu.be/t6V9i8fFADI?...

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This is how it's done. Stand up to the bastards.

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In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night. 800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream. There is a movement to be harnessed here. @sanders.senate.gov (📸 Anna Bahr)

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Thank you, Janet Mills. This is how all our elected officials everywhere should be confronting Trump's authoritarian "we are the law" sentiment. Head on.

submitted 1 day ago • 324 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

Congressional Democrats thinking about this in terms of traditional framing and setting themselves up for a good midterm performance are ignoring history. Make a stand now before it’s too late. The risks to democracy are so extreme. Ignore leadership if you need to. Be a hero.

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If you're going to read one thing today it needs to be this: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

make your comments

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A column by George F. Will. Grateful he wrote it. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Where are all the Dem consultants who supposedly do "comms" work at? Where's the website put together with succinct talking points, one pagers, posters that folks can easily download, print and pass out in their communities? Why aren't they doing this work PRO-BONO?

submitted 5 days ago • 187 comments

Now would be a good time to consider freezing your credit with the three credit bureaus because of gestures wildly reasons.

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

If you read one thing today read our latest piece we just posted. This one is a very important one. Please consider reading and sharing it with your friends, family, and neighbors. And as always, please share your thoughts and ideas. I am also going to post all of the text here as a thread. 1/

submitted 7 days ago • 422 comments

🤔

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truly speechless

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According to the WaPo, which got their hands on the next phase of DOGE plans, a severe resegregation of government begins this week. Which, I imagine, will serve as cover for more Musk looting of the treasury. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/15/doge-fire-federal-employees-trump-dei/

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I’m going to be blunt. I read the Wurman/Barnett op-ed again. It’s hackery by amateur historians who misstate the legal history and twist their own argument, seemingly unable to decide whether text, intent, or original meaning is what matters. It’s not scholarly. And they should be ashamed of it.

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George Washington in 1796 on rising lawless and factionalism: “cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

The community note 🤌😘

submitted 7 days ago • 2976 comments

@malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social

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If this is a direct quote, it's one of the most irresponsible and reckless things a SECDEF has ever said

submitted 10 days ago • 562 comments

Good thing Pete Hegseth had a photo op working out with the troops the other day I guess he felt there was nothing else pressing on his agenda

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You're going to hear a lot of shit from cons about how the dor doesn't pay for teachers and just uses its money for dei or some crap. It's bullshit, we're talking about thousands of teachers and aides gone overnight in every state.

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I think an American flag created entirely by black men at the Superbowl is one of the best pieces of art I've seen in my lifetime. I hope it actually killed some folks. And I hope it finally closes the fucking book on the argument that we shouldn't use the flag to fight the God damned fascists.

submitted 13 days ago • 84 comments

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

submitted 14 days ago • 131 comments

Fun fact!

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Fuck me it's true

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In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊

submitted 15 days ago • 352 comments

Vividly

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the whole country is the hot dog guy meme.

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This was the motto of the civil society movement to resist Bolsonaro’s right wing authoritarianism in Brazil. I learned it from @annagalland.bsky.social and love it. Would love to see American designers do their own interpretations.

submitted 14 days ago • 74 comments

Posted at 2:16 a.m. Federal judge issued emergency order prohibiting Musk’s DOGE from accessing personal & financial data on millions of Americans at the Treasury Department, noting the possibility for irreparable harm. Also ordered “immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded…”

submitted 15 days ago • 60 comments

A street artist in DC is putting up these posters all over the city. I’d love to get one.

submitted 15 days ago • 197 comments

[email protected] is the first big news org I've seen to highlight what's going on with federal datasets - I mean highlight as in put it up top in a newsletter. Researchers have been scrambling to archive datasets because we don't know what's being changed. This is big, and it's bad on a lot of levels.

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OH FUCK NO. I'm sending an email, but white women, this is y'all's moment to shine. I can't think of a better reason to need to a speak to a manager. Inside every white woman reading this is a Karen waiting to be called into action. Lock-in, dig deep, and be a Karen for democracy!

submitted 15 days ago • 46 comments

AMEN

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Let's talk about hand outs! Musk built his fortune on our tax dollars. He capitalized on gov't subsidies & contracts to grow his wealth. And, we get screwed! Musk pays no/low federal taxes thanks to Trump's tax scam. Now, he's using DOGE to dismantle our gov't & rig the system for his personal gain.

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why are mercenaries working for Eric Prince guarding the EPA against its own government.

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