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Lawyer at Musk’s X warned major ad company: get your clients to spend more on X, or else. Was a reminder that the ad company’s recently announced merger could be torpedoed, or at least slowed down, by the Trump administration, given Musk’s powerful role in the federal government

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Dan Bongino sued the Daily Beast for $15 million for reporting the NRA fired him for being "unfit for his duties" and not only did he lose but he was found liable for the Beast legal fees and had to pay THEM $40,000

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The thing the right-wing took away from non-prosecution of W-era torture wasn't that they were fortunate that Obama was willing to look forward, it was that installing John Yoo's to write memos saying "[illegal thing] is actually legal" is a cheat code to rewrite the laws however you want

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The Secretary of Defense goes on tv to explain he is preparing to have the military break the law.

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It's strikingly similar to the white supremacy campaigns in Reconstruction North Carolina, as described by Gregory Downs in Declarations of Independence (p.192), where Black employment in government jobs was framed as prima facie evidence of anti-white discrimination.

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This is fucked up

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I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

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The National Science Foundation fired all its experts. The National Science Foundation. Fired. All of its. Experts. And they weren't even told to! The leadership worked toward the Fuhrer and went beyond the cuts demanded of them in anticipation of many, many more firings—up to half its staff.

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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California asked the Trump administration to please test soil in areas burned by the Eaton and Palisades fires for toxic chemicals. The Trump administration promptly said, "No." Full story: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @latimes.com

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This is not about efficiency. Giving federal employees purchase cards saves money - it reduces layers of paperwork and red tape. Imagine running a business where you stopped employees from purchasing anything. The goal is to shut down government by other means.

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“It comes with a man into the world. He has a right to citizenship, no matter what his complexion, upon the spot in which he had his origin; and the man who denies it to him, or attempts to withhold it from him, is simply a monster.”

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absolute chef’s kiss

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NEW: The director of data science and engineering for what is now known as the US DOGE Service has resigned. "If DOGE truly was concerned with efficiency, they wouldn’t have fired experts in procurement," she writes, "who prevent waste up front." This is by @makenakelly.bsky.social

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I think the Republican pushback to DOGE would be stronger if older people knew more about the youth than "my grandchildren are good at the computer"

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Public Library Ebook Service to Cull AI Slop After 404 Media Investigation 🔗 www.404media.co/public-libra...

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oh come the fuck on- south dakota can author bills like this but Indiana cant?!? sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill...

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UTK Prez Randy Boyd, a former GOP candidate for governor, is among those signing the letter raising the alarm🚨 about Trump & Musk canceling NIH funding impacting Tennessee: “We cannot replace lost federal support & sustain the same level of research.” www.knoxnews.com/story/news/p...

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Surging use of Generative AI is a symptom that Americans have become used to accepting that reliability in any sense no longer matters

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Our new paper just dropped and the conclusion is: IRA good for America

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Gonna need more non-disabled people to see stuff like this and understand that ableism is also one of the integral -isms the right is devoted to, so it should be jettisoned whenever and in whomever you encounter it

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Why? Why??

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Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

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I wrote about Elon Musk and Gavin Kliger and acknowledging the reality of what they are: Nazis.

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[7th major plane crash in a week] Jeffries: but mr. President, we thought you cared about the cost of living

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Not even six hours apart.

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Andrew Lang described the way economists use statistics as the way “a drunk uses a lamppost—for support rather than illumination.” I keep coming back to that line when reading the transparently cynical academic efforts to provide support (and not illumination) for Trump’s birthright citizenship EO.

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NEW: Inside a chaotic 48 hours of resignations and rehirings at the agency responsible for maintaining the the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons. Managers were given 200 characters (not words) to justify why staff shouldn't be fired. www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...

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Massive, meaningful changes in governance done as a result of a ctrl-f for the word "transition." No one will ever believe how stupid this shit was.

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Bloomberg is reporting that federal workers tasked with approving medical devices for Medicare have reportedly received termination notices. As a wheelchair user who also uses some other assistive devices (canes, shower chairs, that sort of thing) I want to add some context to this.

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There isn’t a way to interpret the Trump administration’s decision to outright dismiss these EEOC gender identity cases other than “the Trump administration wants more stuff like this to happen more often” apnews.com/article/eeoc...

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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

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Kevin Hassett’s COVID model, which he was in no way qualified to create, predicted that American COVID deaths would be at ~zero by May 2020

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If true, Donald Trump & Elon Musk & Hegseth now responsible for a Broken Arrow incident

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NEW YORK: “A 24-year-old transgender man from Minnesota who had been missing since December was subjected to violence and torture before his remains were found this week in a field in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York…” www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.

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it is a segregation campaign www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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