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This hypothesis has plenty of empirical support.See especially, Identity Crisis by Sides, Vavreck, and Tesler.Laid out plainly in the public opinion/political attitude/partisanship data between 2008 - 2016. White folks sorted into anti racists and “racial conservatives”/neo-segregationists.

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The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

submitted 7 days ago • 834 comments

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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Texas is suing the largest college sports governing body in the country in the hopes that a court will order the org to “immediately begin screening the sex of student athletes.” The NCAA has given no indication that it would do this. But this policy would cause big privacy concerns for students

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The Trump Administration has cost our country over 22,406 American jobs. trumpcostsamerica.com

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 1298 comments

Tom Krause is in charge of both a sensitive government payment system and a company that has millions of dollars’ worth of active contracts with various federal agencies through distribution partners, a WIRED review finds. Conflicts posed by this are unprecedented in the modern era, experts say.

submitted 23 hours ago • 36 comments

You have to love it when the Judge implies that a homeless wino passed out in front of the courthouse could argue your case as well as you're doing now:

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Re-upping this: beware of disinformation accounts.

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“.. ‘We did not elect him,’ a man shouted. “.. more constituents shouted questions about Musk’s access to taxpayer data and yelled ‘don’t lie to us.’” #WI06

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Here come the “town hall no-show’s”. #Wisconsin wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/02/21/r...

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Overflow angry crowd for town hall with Glenn Grothman in Oshkosh this morning ... www.wpr.org/news/glenn-g...

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btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, to us

submitted 21 hours ago • 56 comments

I didn’t even realize there was another Nazi salute at CPAC aside from Bannon. Fuck all of these people.

submitted 16 hours ago • 18 comments

Another stop motion animation, feat a little isopod I crocheted today #animation #crochet #stopmotion #cute #amigurumi #stopmotionanimation

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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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House Republican gets angrily slammed at his own Town hall in district he won with 65% of vote because of Trump/Musk massive cuts to their services. The anger is building!!! www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have fired “multiple FAA lawyers whose job was to help prevent pilots with drug and alcohol problems from getting in the cockpit.” Musk and Trump want you to die in an airplane crash. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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A former Soviet intelligence officer alleges Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename “Krasnov.” Alnur Mussayev served in the 6th Directorate, responsible for counter-intelligence support in the economy. One key objective was “recruiting businessmen from capitalist countries.”

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Traitor Trump just blamed Ukraine for getting attacked saying Ukraine LET Russia attack them: "They shouldn’t have let them attack because they wouldn’t have attacked if they — if you had people that knew what they were doing." This man is a TRAITOR to the USA! www.mediaite.com/news/trump-b...

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Mr Garcia, I have drafted an appropriate response for you. You're welcome.

submitted 2 days ago • 248 comments

Elon Musk high on Ketamine and Crack at the inauguration.

submitted 31 days ago • 14 comments

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

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I recorded I quick video explaining a broader strategy for #TeslaTakedown, why Elon Musk and his empire are so vulnerable, and how attacking Tesla can get dramatic results. If this video helps you see the opportunity to hit back, please share it with as many people as you can! youtu.be/L-Imw_s1aaI

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A Chicago Tribune editorial scolds IL Gov. J.B. Pritzker for his supposedly “premature” comparison of the rise of Trumpism with the rise of Nazism in Germany. Apparently the Trib wants everyone to wait until Trump gets even more authoritarian before speaking out. Which might be too late. 🧵 1/2

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The bonus will be that all the Mars-goers die of space cancer www.shesabeast.co/mars-radiati...

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NEW: DOGE put a $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards. Employees say overspending and fraud in the program was exceedingly rare. www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

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