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This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record) I don’t remember seeing anything like this before

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Rep. Zooey Zephyr - My Wife - just gave an incredible speech against a drag ban in Montana. It was so strong that a Republican rose to speak passionately against the bill, chastising the sponsor. The drag ban dies in Montana, flips 10+ Republican votes! This is the power of representation.

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Judge McConnell writes early in the order: "We begin by restating the American government principles learned during critical civics education lessons in our youth." dude is literally like, a child would understand this is unconstitutional

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Wyden on why he's not attending Trump's speech tomorrow and instead is hosting a town hall: "We're not interested in hearing about the Donald Trump alternate reality."

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An important statement from the American Bar Association. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 3 days ago • 880 comments

Reminder that instead of attending Donald Trump's first address to Congress tonight I'll be hosting an open-to-all town hall on Facebook live at 6 PM PT. You don't need a Facebook account – or to be an Oregonian – to tune in. Look forward to seeing you all soon.

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This is a very big dill

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Stand with trans Americans. You don’t have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know that Trump’s acts of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous. www.thebulwark.com/p/stand-with...

submitted 2 days ago • 128 comments

1. Today, Senate Democrats showed spine, and killed a national transgender sports ban bill via filibuster. Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture. S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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I travelled to the epicenter of the measles outbreak in rural West Texas. We found even when a preventable disease tears through a community, people double down on anti-vaccine views and even blame vaccines for the outbreak. Here's a free link: wapo.st/41BddWa

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A reminder for these times.

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Reporter: Who is the administrator of DOGE? White House secretary: “I’m not going to reveal the name of that person from this podium…”

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Fresh Impact Site in Tharsis - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2kUSJZR

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After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

submitted 10 days ago • 2041 comments

U.S. Attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers. You didn’t pledge an oath to a President, you pledged it to the constitution. This statement alone is reason enough to resign.

submitted 10 days ago • 493 comments

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

submitted 12 days ago • 1329 comments

IO Over Jupiter - NASA's Voyager 1 - 1979 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qvVPwU

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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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Heads-up for those who have purchased Amazon's Kindle ebooks: Starting Feb. 26, Amazon is removing feature that allows you to download purchased books to a computer (which is useful for backup or converting to formats compatible with non-Kindle e-readers) www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 15 days ago • 1019 comments

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

submitted 15 days ago • 136 comments

Works as advertised

submitted 15 days ago • 1204 comments

Titan 2012-AUGUST-06 - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/KeaTEP

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Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 21 days ago • 1773 comments

Very proud to announce the Department of Health will now process all requests to change gender designation on birth certificates within three business days. Previously, there was as much as a 10 month wait.

submitted 22 days ago • 310 comments

Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging? Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.

submitted 22 days ago • 1871 comments

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

submitted 22 days ago • 55 comments

This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as a shadow government across the entire federal government. Each agency/dept will be assigned a DOGE minder who will work with the Secry or Director and essentially be in charge of all new hiring and/or firing. People have been saying the Elon is ...

submitted 22 days ago • 390 comments

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I want to highlight what I believe is a significant document that I reviewed for this story. It's a memorandum of understanding between DOGE & CFPB. In all the coverage of DOGE's takeover of agencies I haven't read or heard about a document like this. I think this stands out 1/

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GITMO preceded Trumpism but shares one of its central themes: there should be people outside the law, people with no rights anybody is bound to respect. That accompanies belief that there should also be people with rights superior to all others, people not bound by any law.

submitted 24 days ago • 39 comments

For those thinking the NYT grew a spine, hold tight… even in this piece they equivocate on sports and trans youth care.

submitted 25 days ago • 51 comments

My senator seems like the only member of his chamber who is expressing the alarm and outrage that this moment requires (and doing a great job on Insta, also). Where is everyone else???

submitted 24 days ago • 174 comments

❌ NOTICE Federal US website newly deleted. https://reproductiverights.gov Action taken by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) at or around 2025-02-08 06:09:04.

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NEW — I spoke to a staffer at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) about DOJ's threat to pull funding if the org didn't comply with Trump's DEI executive order, and how org leadership rolled over. "Rather than fight back, we chose to sacrifice trans children," they said.

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The Baltic states Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have today fully decoupled their energy grid from Russia. At the moment they are running in an island mode, but starting tomorrow the energy grid will be reconnected with the European Union.

submitted 26 days ago • 207 comments

From Penzeys: through Sunday night our brand new regularly $23.95 Woke Gift Box is just $5 and our brand new $44.95 Rise & Shine Gift Box is just $10. enter the code of DEI at checkout and the most expensive 1/4 cup jar in your basket will be free. www.penzeys.com

submitted 26 days ago • 96 comments

NEW: I just met @georgetakei.bsky.social and he has a very important message for everyone:

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👇👇

submitted 27 days ago • 1260 comments

Holy smokes. A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.” www.wired.com/story/treasu...

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I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

submitted 28 days ago • 1571 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 28 days ago • 6589 comments

One of the most important websites in America right now.

submitted 28 days ago • 394 comments

NEW: The Department of Labor (DOL) agrees to not share any records with DOGE before a hearing for a long-term block on DOGE's access takes place tomorrow. As of now, Musk’s faux agency has not been able to access DOL data.

submitted 28 days ago • 50 comments

Clearest image of Mars ever taken. 🔭 🧪

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