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Kennedy Center ticket sales dropped roughly 50 percent week-over-week after Trump announced his takeover www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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Researchers use focused ultrasound to shrink prostate tumors, no surgery needed interestingengineering.com/health/focus...

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In November, they voted for Trump. In February, he laid them off. For the next election, they're thinking Trump.

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They pretend to be centers of learning, wisdom and freedom, but the reality is that major universities have multi-billion-dollar endowments and leaders who make seven figures. They're businesses.

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Sorry haters brutalism is woke now

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This is straight out of the Putin playbook. Consolidate all power under a handful of psychopathic loyalists, dissolve any independent oversight...

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Idaho sheriffs trying to remove people from the town hall meeting claiming he is not acting in his official capacity? Hmm going to suppression and threats route on film is not probably going to elicit the response you want.

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every time you see this shit ask yourself: what have you done - this week - to make stronger ties in your community? we're all going to need those ties

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Over at @justsecurity.org, I have a really short post discussing the latest OPM email. Two takeaways: (1) Musk continues to use private-sector tactics to manage the civil service. Those tactics don't work. (2) No. It's not a resignation. www.justsecurity.org/108229/what-...

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Our latest: The Resistance is alive and well and angry. Please consider reading and sharing. No paywall.

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remember how i told you yesterday that i've talked with people who are volcanically angry? boy, do i have a story for you coming on monday.

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An oldie but a goodie from Chumbawamba: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLkP...

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This is your regular reminder that if unions didn't work, giant corporations wouldn’t spend millions and millions of dollars trying to stop workers from making them. Unions give workers power, and billionaire CEOs don't like that.

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Dear OPM FOIA staff - Remember to preserve all of these email responses, as we will be submitting FOIA requests for this consolidated compilation of information on what the entire federal government did last week. Thx - FOIA community

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Social Security has a payment accuracy rate of over 99 percent. Only 0.3 percent of Social Security benefits are improper payments, which are typically caused by mistakes or delays. That's better than any private insurance company. www.cbpp.org/blog/setting...

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The technical geniuses at DOGE strike again

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One of the most clarifying moments for me regarding how utterly, hopelessly divorced this country was from its own true nature and history came in 2008 when I listened in disbelief to educated adults argue aloud that the election of one (1) Black president meant we were in a post-racial America.

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That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form.... www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

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Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

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I don’t understand how there’s any debate about whether to characterize them as Nazis when they’re out here sieg heiling. It’s an absolute failure of messaging not to name and condemn this behavior, and build a narrative around it.

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If we want democracy to win, we have to run the authoritarian playbook in reverse. That means building up power in all the competing places that authoritarians see as obstacles to conquer or neutralize. Here's how:

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A federal judge has extended the order keeping Elon Musk's DOGE out of Treasury Department payment systems, ruling that the Trump admin's process for granting access to the sensitive data was so flawed and haphazard that it was likely illegal.

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In case you missed it, the Trump administration is making an end run around the court order that unfroze NIH spending: by not allowing NIH to place notices in the Federal Register, it has stopped them from holding any grant evaluation meetings. Basically, there’s no way to evaluate grants right now.

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#OtD 22 Feb 1860 the biggest strike in the pre-civil war USA began. New England shoemakers walked out and within days 20000 were on strike across 25 towns. On 10 April, 30 employers agreed to increase wages by 10% and workers began to return to work stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 22 Feb 1943 German Jewish anti-fascist resistance member, communist and journalist, Dagobert Lubinsky, died in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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2016: Russia cyberattacks US to help elect Trump; Republicans gut anti-Russian policy from their platform; Campaign Manager Manafort floats policies to breakup Ukraine while sharing internal campaign data with Russian asset (shared with FBI agent investigating Trump's ties to Russia)

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I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.

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The resignation of a federal employee must be voluntary. I highly doubt failure to respond to this email---sent on a Saturday---would be understood by any court to be a voluntary resignation.

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he loves that they're death machines

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Crazy idea, stick with me... Law, but for rich people.

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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“A WaPo analysis of the data found that many of the canceled contracts were already complete, meaning canceling them didn’t yield any money back because they had been fully paid out — and indeed, 417 of the deals on DOGE’s list indicate that they saved $0.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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It's a shameful reflection on both this editorial board and this whole country that a headline of "Who Will Stand Up to Biden on Gaza?" was inconceivable.

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🧵 Two-part post: LA Times is sharing an IG video on your rights if ICE attempts to “knock and talk” at your home or businese. Part 1

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This is bad.

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Everyone is quick to jump to 1930s Nazi comparisons with these guys, when I think the goal they can achieve is Apartheid-era South Africa. A whole lot of white people wouldn’t condone outright murder, but enforced state segregation? They absolutely would go for that.

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There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard's vote. — David Foster Wallace

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We are arms dealers to terrorists.

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Telehealth isn’t a luxury—it’s a necessity. For many of my patients with Long COVID and disabilities, in-person visits are exhausting, inaccessible, or simply not feasible. Removing telehealth coverage means denying care to those who need it most. We must protect access to virtual care.

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It is mind-boggling to me that people say "but I had to comply with the fascists because otherwise there would be some cost—" NO FUCKING KIDDING. Did you think you'd never have to make a hard choice in Fascist America? That you wouldn't be asked to sacrifice someone and be rewarded for it?? JFC

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UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

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#TeslaTakedown

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Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes worldwide because of USGS.

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