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Did you know that (according to the 1431 trial record) Joan of Arc was not initially sentence to death as long as she did not relapse (return to wearing men's clothing)? It was only when she did that she was deemed a heretic and burned. Patron saint of "Death Before Detransition" 1/11

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A $1.5 million grant — awarded in 2023 for prairie/wetland restoration — has been frozen by the feds. There are small biz and nonprofits owed $450k in reimbursements. Work is paused but “nature isn’t on furlough” and efforts to remove invasives could be undone. news.wttw.com/2025/02/17/f...

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As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 6 days ago • 275 comments

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 🌎🧪🦑

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Trump and Musk/DOGE are absolutely, unequivocally damaging research - cancer research, Alzheimer's research, addiction research, drug development and testing.

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In a new lawsuit filed against Trump by state AGs, a family with a trans kid shares she died by suicide last month citing fears Trump would deny her access to gender-affirming care. "Her parents have expressed fear...that what happened to their daughter does not happen to other children."

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This this this this this. RWers be like "Money shouldn't go to salaries it should go to fighting cancer" BITCH, WHO DO YOU THINK IS FIGHTING THE CANCER

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This is an incredibly important story. First this, then this guy was inside the Capitol on Jan. 6. Now he's in charge of the decimation of USAID.

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This does away with awards based on underrepresentation, student support services based on race, scholarships, etc. Let me explain, pre coffee (wrote this morning, no time to update, you're getting a cut n paste), why this is a bad idea. 🧵 www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

class solidarity never misses

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Anytime a storm is brewing, your local forecasters are getting the latest data from NOAA. As the agency faces an uncertain future, one thing's for sure: for-profit companies would struggle to replicate NOAA's weather-forecasting prowess.

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It's not that big of a step from this to explicitly policing course content, is it? As some states have already started to do with public universities, but using withdrawal of federal funding for enforcement brings in private schools as well.

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The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...

submitted 6 days ago • 66 comments

Happy tenth birthday to a real one

submitted 7 days ago • 93 comments

The outside of the US Department of Justice vs. the inside of the White House.

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What's incredible is how there are thousands - tens of thousands - of stories like this, a genuine national crisis akin to a foreign invasion, and our elite press is so bubbled, so insular, that they can only cover it by writing "Strong leaders flex governing muscles" 700 times over. Pathetic.

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Why is the richest man in the world cutting cancer research?

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Most people in the US have no idea about the attacks on federally funded science or our government institutions. Many (or most!) of your family, coworkers, neighbors, and friends have no idea. My own MAGA dad thinks DOGE is just identifying waste, and that nothing has been cut. We have to tell them.

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Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.

submitted 7 days ago • 209 comments

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

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Mass layoffs is already economic violence.

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”L'état, c'est moi." Louis XIV, 1655

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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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This is also what the head of my institution said to all the scientists. “Just keep going!” With what??

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I’m seeing an awful lot of posts from people on Bluesky responding to despairing scientists with the words “please keep going, the world needs you”. Scientists cannot keep going if we can’t keep a roof over our heads and our mouths fed.

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To probationary federal employees who have been terminated: Democracy Forward has filed a first-of-its-kind class-wide complaint with the Office of Special Counsel. If civil servants want to join in the complaint, you can email [email protected]

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He's been doing and saying fascist things since the 1980s when his company refused to rent apartments to Black people & since he took out a fucking FULL PAGE AD IN THE NEW YORK TIMES calling for the death penalty for the Central Park Five FORTY-ODD YEARS & HE STILL GETS TO BE PRESIDENT TWICE

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Omg I never thought of it this way!! Musk took my job as a freelance science illustrator because academic twitter was my audience Then Musk took the full-time job I got because of academic twitter by freezing my NSF grant Wow I hate that man even more 😃

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it was bad when the worst poster on my favorite website bought that website and made it terrible but it has been worse having that person also buy my country that i live in

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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

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If anyone knows if any of the #USFWS fed workers let go were working on the Monarch Butterfly ESA proposal, can you please reach out to [email protected]? We have been covering this topic in our inaugural season and want to keep reporting updates regarding this, esp if impacted by layoffs

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The Trump administration has just announced that all college financial aid programs, scholarships, prizes, housing, and graduation ceremonies that help Black or Latino students are now considered to be illegal. The Education Department accuses colleges of discriminating against white students.

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The thing is just that I don’t want them to take away the medication that keeps me alive That’s all

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Every day I wake up and check the news to see if it's The Big Day. I can't wait for The Big Day!!

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The infrastructure of the Internet would run longer without electricity than without trans folks tbh

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My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

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We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

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Maybe this is some ironic punishment for depression and adhd being socially invisible or even shameful. I guess I didn’t tell my own story enough. No one seems particularly bothered by the government openly calling for sending us to workcamps

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Diversity supplements have been reopened! New expiration date May 8 2026

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WOW: Canadians ruthlessly BOO the United States during the singing of the National Anthem before their game in the NHL 4 Nations Face-Off. Three fights then erupt between the two teams within the first 10 seconds of the game.

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People who write about "this is the wrong fight to pick," never ever actually fight for anything. Feel free to ignore them.

submitted 7 days ago • 234 comments

Purging the scientists researching food production and diseases is gonna result in exactly what the oligarchs want it to, and exactly what you think. Situations become "it's us or them" when one of the two groups decides that's the case. Seems like the regime has made that decision clear yet again

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If you’re protesting Musk destroying so-called American democracy, and you draw the line at obstructing streets & business, you are not ready to challenge the Violent Fascist Regime ©️ with their monopoly on violence. There’s a war going on and you’re playing hop-scotch in the kindergarten.

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booked a trip out of the country for next week ages ago right now it... doesn't feel relieving to take a "break" from things given how fast everything is moving. im terrified to read about things happening while on the other side of the globe, i'm terrified of what i'm going to come home to

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