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Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

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In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

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At the core of transphobia is the belief that men are inherently superior to women. It's the reason fascists and evangelical fundamentalists embrace it so wholeheartedly.

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This is true of pretty much every critique of "woke culture" in the last decade. If you dig down through the layers & layers & layers of puffery & harumphing & table pounding, looking for actual substance, what you find is a few scattered, low-stakes anecdotes repeated ad infinitum.

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Elon is one example of how energy/climate policy that ignores justice can have horrible unintended consequences. Obama-era energy policy helped concentrate untold wealth into Elon's hands. He used it to manipulate the 2024 election ($44B Twitter buy-out, $250M+ direct spend) and now here we are.

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An important thing that can't be overlooked: the new daily arrest quotas Trump has placed on ICE + allowing for "collateral" arrests during targeted missions + stripping legal immigrants of their status = a recipe for mass deportations that go way beyond claims of only removing "dangerous criminals"

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We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

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These same dynamics are in play for RFK Jr. His rise, nomination, and (likely) confirmation will be not despite his spreading pseudosience and conspiracy theories about public health, but because of it.

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Protecting women's sports by letting universities squirrel out of revenue sharing for female outlets. You fucking rubes got used. I was right all along.

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If you're in one of these states, please badger your AG. It's surprising how few constituent phone calls it takes for them to feel pressured. And this suit needs to die before it kills disabled people.

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Now would be a good time to read @trevondlogan.bsky.social's excellent article on the relationship btwn white supremacy—esp anti-Black political violence—& progressive tax policy. The DOGE coup builds on the historical lies that 1) taxes only help Black folks & 2) that helping Black folks is wrong.

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"They like to go after DEI, but they use the term DEI the way the Nazis used ‘un-German,’” ... “It’s a nice big umbrella they can throw lots under."

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Just got off the phone with Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), who said Elon Musk's DOGE team is "actively dismantling" federal Department of Education programs today. "They are in the building, on the 6th floor, canceling grants and contracts."

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JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 days ago • 1572 comments

This is becoming a Clarence Thomas trademark in criminal cases where he doesn't get his way: opinions with lurid, cinematic descriptions of the underlying crime, because in his mind, if a crime is Bad Enough, the person who (he thinks) did it shouldn't get constitutional rights at all

submitted 12 days ago • 59 comments

A classic authoritarian move is to go after judges. I honestly did not think we would see it in the US because the system is already so politicized and Trump has a 6-3 majority. But here we are.

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Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

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BREAKING: A federal judge has determined that the Trump administration is violating his order lifting the blanket spending freeze on federal grant programs. He is orderin gthe administration to immediately unfreeze funds, including for NIH and the IRA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 13 days ago • 470 comments

Reminder that while the “He Gets Us” ads pretend to be “inclusive”/care about everyone, up until 2024, the group that ran them (The Servant Foundation) donated over $60 million to an anti-abortion, anti-contraception, anti-LGBT rights conservative legal advocacy group (Alliance Defending Freedom).

submitted 14 days ago • 12 comments

I said this all through the first term, all through Mueller, all through impeachment, Jack Smith, all through all of it: It only stops when the handcuffs come out.

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I made a starter pack for other sewists migrating over from meta-based apps. Includes home sewists, independent pattern designers, and some fabric merchants. If you have adds, please share them with me so we can grow the list! #sewsky #garmentsewing go.bsky.app/TcArzsP

submitted 27 days ago • 116 comments

I've written for years that we should be more forgiving of old social media posts. Otherwise, we freeze people in the worst versions of themselves. But when the ugly posts are from the last half-year, that's obviously not old news: that's evidence of a person who needs to change!

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We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

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FYI, this is straight-up eugenics. There were lots of programs like this proposed in the 1930s that offered incentives and rewards to “good” (i.e. white and economically advantaged) communities to promote population growth among those groups and suppress it in others deemed less desirable.

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Important to state again that one of the main components of what the Right is doing right now is attempting to reestablish a culture of abuse and violence in order to reclaim control. It is a movement of abused people attempting to thrust abuse on everyone else. That’s how this works.

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My basic read of this survey data is that teens trust social media influencers more than journalists and are essentially fine with YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and podcasts killing the news industry. In fact they think we'll be better off.

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Fascism is explicitly an anti-knowledge anti-truth and anti-reality movement. Nothing will be spared in their quest to rewrite reality, the past, and the future. people need to understand the crushing power that Weaponized unreality of the kind that is now fully being built around us has.

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When right-wingers propose radical policies designed to assuage public fears about looming threats, it’s inevitable that the result is a tragic mess. That’s because the threats they hype in order to induce an authoritarian response are virtually nonexistent. davidneiwert.substack.com/p/when-immig...

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GOP removed housing regulations—housing collapsed GOP removed banking regulations—banks went under GOP removed railroad regulations—trains derailed GOP removed FAA regulations—midair crash Stop deregulating billionaires and transportation industries. Start prosecuting those who commit fraud.

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Importantly it found just 10% of trans youth in the study had actually been allowed to access hormones, so all the terrible things you've heard about trans youth in the UK is under a system that isn't giving them health care

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sadistic child abuse is core to the ideology of conservativism as practiced in the united states.

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Googling ordo amoris, you get a bunch of right-wing blogs, which argue that the concept is that everything should be loved according to its value. That's what conservatives want out of Christianity; the ability to impose a hierarchy, to sort out the "worthy" from the "unworthy."

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all I know is that had President Biden forced out the FAA chief under pressure from his top adviser and his corrupt motives, and then the next week there was a plane crash that killed more than 60 people, Republicans would be howling that it was an impeachable offense.

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"A coalition of NGOs has urged the president of the European Commission not to be bullied by Donald Trump and Elon Musk into weakening the enforcement of the EU’s tech regulations." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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elon musk directed the primary regulator of his primary business -- a federal contractor -- to resign. he holds no office other than 'president's largest donor.' at an oligarch's command, he resigned. one week later, the first aviation crash in the last sixteen years happened.

submitted 25 days ago • 27 comments

Is what you are doing worthwhile? Is it making you happy? If neither of those things are true, change it now. If only one of those things are true then ask yourself some questions. The sweet spot is getting both.

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If a Democrat fired 100 FAA employees and put a freeze on hiring air traffic controllers 8 days before an airport plane crash, there would be a right-wing and media frenzy for weeks.

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When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests. We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason. ALSO.

submitted 25 days ago • 132 comments

He’s the president’s biggest donor, he gets a west wing office, he gets to oust the administrator of the federal aviation administration, he gets to send emails to the entire federal workforce trying to scam them out of their pensions, and he’s a nazi.

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"Now I see a little better how Nazism overcame Germany - not by attack from without or by subversion from within, but with a whoop and a holler. It was what most Germans wanted -or, under pressure of combined reality and illusion, came to want. They wanted it; they got it; and they liked it."

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ICE complaining about ACLU’s “Know Your Rights” education means it’s working. Everyone in the USA has due process rights. Keep sharing those ACLU red cards which list Constitutional rights. ICE: get a warrant. A REAL warrant signed by a judge #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

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"The cheap, reliable labor force has generated more than $250 million for the state since 2000 — money garnished from prisoners’ paychecks, the AP wrote in December. Parole numbers have also plummeted in recent years." Slavery by another name indeed.

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Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

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All I can really say at this point is if everyone isn't watching how trans people have lost basic rights and protections on a scale that hasn't been seen in decades in the span of 72 hours and realizing that even if you aren't trans there's nothing stopping it from happening to you, you're a fool

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This Hannah Arendt quote feels appropriate right now "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

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this is a very common way for corruption to take place. this is how Oleg Deripaska paid Manafort: by forming paper LLCs in the Caribbean, then defaulting on judgments for arbitrary amounts of money after Manafort sued for breach.

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