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A group of mostly Quaker religious organizations succeeded in temporarily preventing federal immigration agents from operating around their places of worship across the U.S.

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who gets hurt: “The roughly 15 million recipients of Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance benefits — many of whom are severely disabled and destitute, or are orphans — are among the least politically powerful people in the U.S.” www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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NatAlliance has a take on government layoffs. 🇺🇸

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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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A tracker estimating deaths caused by the partial PEPFAR funding suspension: pepfar.impactcounter.com. Methodology here: pepfar.impactcounter.com/methodology.

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NEW: Breaking some news here. The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) got shut down at CDC because it has questions abt race, sex orientation, gender and socioeconomic status. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-p...

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@newsjennifer.bsky.social on the gripping and impactful DOGE reporting by local news outlets: "It would be both ironic and so very American if the rich and powerful oligarchs were finally stopped by the underfunded newsrooms and working-class reporters." jenniferschulze.substack.com/p/local-news...

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To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

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Be clear. $8 billion was an error. They misread $8 million! And it’s not saving. It’s cutting services, necessary research, assistance to millions here and overseas, and enforcement of laws that protect consumers and workers.

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nervously humming along with the Weyland-Yutani customer care hotline hold music as screams of terror draw ever nearer

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By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

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one of the reasons I say Ohio can be saved is something I've said for a long time and this survey quantifies

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This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

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Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

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you couldn’t make indiana jones today because nazis would get mad

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Why is this so hard for news orgs? www.status.news/p/cbs-evenin...

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where are all the newspaper columnists calling for the cops to violently crack down on CPAC like they do on college kids? go bust some heads and ruin some lives for these scumbags like you do for kids protesting the killing of innocents?

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I will vote for the first candidate who tells me they're going to make the biggest government possible. Reacher-sized agencies. Braun Strowman-level social benefits. Government so big it starts belching out National Parks and free healthcare. Chungus State.

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One danger of embracing generative AI as a learning device and in language assistance is that you're letting the keepers of that AI have power over what you learn and how you write. It will be programmed with biases, unintentional but often quite intentional, that you will unknowingly adopt.

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"When the powerful want you to forget a conspiracy, what they want you to forget most are the victims. The victims are why the crime matters. To be human is to care about other people. To seek justice is to honor another's humanity." -- THEY KNEW (2022)

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“No one pays attention to the things that are not mentioned like postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression, there’s even postpartum psychosis ... I feel like bringing these postpartum centers like Ziva to Charlotte and other areas will help address these issues." 19thnews.org/2025/02/chil...

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It's always fascinating that the only part of the political spectrum that seems to have any agency is the left. The poor centre and right don't make any choices, it's the left who shape reality (but also the left are fringe actors who are to be despised and removed from politics)

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Traister: bffr nymag.com/intelligence...

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Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

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Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

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When Trump declares himself above the law and Musk calls for jailing journos, this threatens to become "legitimate" for countless voters, especially Republicans, says Steve Levitsky. "Very dangerous." New pod on all the signs that we're sliding into authoritarianism: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

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Republicans have for years attacked federal workers as the enemy, a left wing woke army in their delusional Fox News dreams. I’m originally from the DC region. These people are our friends and neighbors, normie moms and dads who keep this country running. And we should stand up for them.

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i tell this story every time these old photos come up but: I remember in film school one of my classmates asked what about film chemistry in the 1970s caused everything shot in NYC to look so brown and grimy and our professor was like "that wasn't the film, that's just what the air looked like here"

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We covered Steal My Sunshine by Len open.spotify.com/track/6eKWlW...

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Giddy

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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

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The oral history of Weekend Update, if you’re into that sort of thing. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/a...

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This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen in my life

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On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

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JPMORGAN: “.. it is clear that a new global trade conflict has started. A widely established body of economic literature sees tariff hikes as a tax “.. studies of the 2018-19 US trade war conclude that the tariff costs were borne primarily by US consumers ..”

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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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This also includes veterans, including, I am told, at least some fully qualified wildland firefighters with actual fire experience. Per a source with knowledge: “I want everyone to know that they are firing veterans, fully qualified and trying to serve their country again in civil service.”

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Updated @kff.org analysis of health coverage by race and ethnicity from 2010-2023. Despite coverage gains over time, racial disparities persisted in 2023. Disparities could widen due to potential Medicaid cuts, expiration of ACA subsidies, and immigration policy changes. www.kff.org/racial-equit...

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Not to be alarmist, but this is alarming.

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Viewer feedback tonight came in the form of a letter from a federal employee in Colorado...

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Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

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Trump/Musk action really showing us that decades of Democrats saying “well, we can’t just…” was a lie.

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really cool moment during Hubie Brown's last broadcast as his longtime partner Mike Tirico calls in with moist eyes to pay tribute

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slate.com/podcasts/wha... I want you to imagine that your baby has been born with mysterious symptoms. A hospital data scientist is trying to figure it out with rare disease data from the CDC. But suddenly that information is deleted. Today’s show. With @jasonkoebler.bsky.social:

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The Trump team goes on the warpath against a Washpost oped writer, and the Post offers a full-throated defense. The Trump team goes on the warpath against the new WSJ reporter who broke the story about the racist DOGE bro, and the Journal doesn’t offer a comment. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/b...

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Musk has sicced his followers on the WSJ writer who reported on a DOGE staffer’s racist online, history demanding her firing. This is a tactic Silicon Valley’s neoreactionaries have been advocating for years: Pick a reporter, dox and harrass, make an example of them, make everyone else afraid.

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