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Seems like the relevance of this Reagan-era Herblock cartoon has risen by 200%. Washington Post, 12/22/1988.

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The Social Security Administration “eliminated” its civil rights office on Tuesday — a deputy commissioner-level office with several statutorily required functions within the agency — because it was “duplicative,” the acting commissioner said in a statement.

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The Times should cut out the middleman and just hire Christopher Rufo if this is how they’re going to launder his anti-trans campaign www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

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It is amazing to me that Republicans have one (1) economic idea: Cut taxes for the super wealthy and big corporations by pillaging medicaid and social security. Fifty years now, that's the only idea.

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WASH POST: “Musk and his businesses received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies & tax credits — helping seed the growth that has made him the world’s richest person.” Ungrateful hypocrite doesn’t begin to describe this guy. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

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Is it bad if only 78 percent of Trump-loyal Republicans view democracy positively but 55 percent view an unchecked strongman positively? Asking for a fairly large nation. Gift link: wapo.st/4hLudP3

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PREORDER TIME! ITS PREORDER TIME! HIT THE PREORDER MACHINE BUTTON MAKE GO MAKE GO!!!

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Um ... "small army" of private citizens, "processing camps" ... this is sounding familiar.

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Trump, Hegseth, Gaetz, RFK Jr and Mills have made it partisan to oppose domestic violence.

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Hot off the press. (This is published in @law360.bsky.social , which is paywalled, hence the PDF). static1.squarespace.com/static/6160c...

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Using both male and female mice is critical for understanding the full pathogenesis of diseases. I will continue to use both male and female mice in my research. I hope other scientists will too. Again, I ask where is NIH leadership? Anticipatory obedience will kill the NIH. #science

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After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

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#morningritual outside here for the first time in months. The high today will be 48F. Spring is coming. May we respect the holy Earth and her powers of regeneration.

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This is a second lavender scare. They're going to purge all LGBTQ employees from the federal government.

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This was the last thing I worked on at NBC News and I’m so glad we were able to publish it. It’s about KOSA and tech legislation billed as protecting children that would actually give Trump’s admin unprecedented power to censor the internet. Kids are fighting back. www.nbcnews.com/video/kosa-i...

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JUST IN: Judge Lamberth has expanded his block on the Trump administration's effort to relocate some transgender inmates to men's prisons. (There are about 16 transgender inmates in women's facilities nationwide, per DOJ) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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We have now joined the ranks of pariah nations.

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Trump and Musk are doing what was once thought impossible since Reagan: Making attacking the government unpopular, by viciously attacking the employees who work throughout the nation's communities.

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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BREAKING: Mexican President Sheinbaum argues that if cartels are deemed terrorist orgs, then the suppliers of weapons—over 74% of which come FROM the U.S.—should ALSO face accountability for enabling terrorism. As a result, Mexico is expanding its lawsuit targeting U.S gun manufacturers. 🇲🇽

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An ad put up at a bus stop in London today.

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Rest in power Roberta Flack. open.spotify.com/album/4zgWZy...

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This isn't "proto" or "neo" or "almost" or "like," or "edging toward." This is it. The thing.

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The Washington Post pulled an ad that was set to run in some editions on Tuesday calling for Elon Musk to be fired from his role in government, a group that ordered the ad said. It would have covered the front and back pages of editions delivered to the White House, the Pentagon and Congress.

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"One of the first acts of the Nazi regime in Germany was the destruction of a sexual and gender research archive." Sound familiar? The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights explains some of the many reasons why we should be concerned about data erasure. civilrights.org/blog/disappe...

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For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

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It's getting across to people that right now women who believe in equality and freedom of choice, all people of color, LGBTQ people, labor union members and workers, the middle class and the poor, all of us have a lot more to gain by forming a resistance alliance than if we each try to go it alone.

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When people say, “Only disabled people will die from this,” know that could also mean YOU. You can become part of the disability community at any time and will inevitably become disabled unless you die early. Disability is a part of life. Be careful when you exclude us because it could be you next.

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Join us in solidarity—fly your American flag upside down, the traditional signal of distress and extreme emergency.

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White power and fascism depend on a nuclear family and a traditional nuclear family to enforce hierarchy and power dynamics that are then reproduced later in life within the fascist system. People who are LGBTQ plus knock a hole in this fundamental lie they require to to reproduce their ideology

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If Europe and South Korea can beat back fascism, so can we.

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“A transition is not merely a strike against an assigned gender … it is a strike against the cissexism that undergirds an fascistic worldview dedicated to treating bodies and their gendered, reproductive capacities as merely means to a rigid, narrow end.”

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the rise of the fascist nerds was anticipated by Ellen Ullman's 1995 essay "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life."

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We had friends & allies around the world based on alliances & relationships that were built over many decades. In one month, Trump has torched them all. Now our friends are Putin, Orban, the crypto scammer in Argentina, and the guy in El Salvador offering us mercenary prisons.

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Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

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I am so, so tired. And I know you are, too. Here's “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution, it became a hospital.

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Keep this for receipts next time the libs tell you DOGE isn’t accomplishing anything

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Is anyone keeping a running list of which grad programs (subjects) at which universities have decided to freeze PhD admissions and/or rescind offers? Please lmk me if so.

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W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

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I'll remember this email my entire life.

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Elon Musk's first ex-wife (who is a novelist) wrote this harrowing account of his insane behavior back in 2010. Sadly, way too many people ignored it. www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a53...

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Fortune cookie fortune: "it is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."

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“When environments are designed with neurodivergent people in mind — ensuring accessibility, inclusion and safety — it is likely to make those spaces more inclusive and supportive for all.” insightplus.mja.com.au/2025/5/why-w... #neurodiversity #autism

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What I sent to [email protected]. Next I'm sending it to my congresspeople.

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Members of the military are supposed to be loyal to the Constitution, not the president. Changing that seems to have been the point of the Friday Night Massacre. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

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