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The NYT is inventing experimental euphemisms for "racist" like Edison in the lab in 1877

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“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

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This is so unconscionable. Elon Musk is personally extorting Ukraine to get access to their minerals for his car batteries. Once again, Elon Musk is an existential threat to everyone on this planet. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

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We’ve already had people sent to Gitmo and then deported to Venezuela so if whatever “first they came for…” you’re reaching for as a white person isn’t acknowledging the ongoing removal of brown people from the country then idk like maybe the poem is for you and not about you

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People with doctorates are the most liberal and progressive. The entire mission of destroying academia is to eliminate entire voting demographics. They explicitly spell this out. Shutting down PhD programs isn't an accident, it's the goal.

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Finished week 7 of the Montana legislature and honestly, it was pretty good overall. - Dems blocked a school voucher scam program - A Republican voted NO on an anti-trans bill (a first this session in the House) - Medicaid expansion is on track to pass the senate - We got some great court wins

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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For all you who continually whine “I’m not racist, I just think we need to have standards,” this is absorb this.No Black man could become head of the Joint Chiefs without meeting the standard. What they want is to harden a system of affirmative action for white guys.They what their grandfathers had.

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obvious to most people who will see this, but worth stating directly: it doesn't really matter if the person being targeted is cis or trans to the people who want this shit enforced. partly because it enforces a specific idea of gender presentation, but also because it still drives a wedge anyway.

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Tucson cops trying to arrest a stud lesbian because they thought she was a man using the women’s restroom

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🏳️‍⚧️ WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN! 🏳️‍⚧️ CHLA reversed its decision to pause initiating hormonal therapy for transgender youth. Gender affirming care is lifesaving care. We must continue to fight back, stay organized, and to demand institutions not give into Trumps fascist executive orders.

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“I just wanna say trans people are beautiful. We are never going to stop existing. I’m never gonna stop being trans, a letter on a passport can’t change that, and fuck this administration.”

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Trump’s EO ruining the independence of federal agencies shows the real goal of Musk and Trump is not efficiency or even winning the culture wars. It’s thievery. And they are exceptional thieves. My latest in @thenation.com

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Federal judges are regarding Trump’s executive orders targeting transgender people with skepticism and, in some instances, outright disdain. Four judges — a Reagan appointee, a Clinton appointee and two judges appointed by Biden — have temporarily paused enforcement of Trump's anti-trans policies

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American Pundits: It was an exuberant and controversial gesture of uncertain significance… Actual Fascists: It’s a Nazi salute.

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"Let's figure out why men become Nazis" isn't a particularly rewarding game, in my opinion. Yes, everyone has reasons for what they do, but the answer to "why does a white man embrace a political system in which white men alone hold power" is fairly self-evident.

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We at the Internet Society are deeply disappointed that Apple has had to stop offering end-to-end encryption in the UK. The following can be attributed to Dr. Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Distinguished Technologist at the Internet Society: 1/

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Important to start admitting that we’re living under Schrodinger’s constitution—one that is not in effect whenever it constrains Republican powers, but is in effect whenever it can be used to stymie democrats or suppress opposition.

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In addition to Congress being the place that makes the laws, pretty key thing, the constitution explicitly says Congress gets to create the postal system. It’s not left implied that that comes under law making generally. The President has no power to unilaterally abolish it and move it to commerce.

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I am very sad to say that I would have said this is a straight line from exactly what the signals were online, and nobody was listening to the whole cohort of folks shouting about this for about 10 years straight while having their lives ruined for mentioning it

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Again, the two most impactful lies of the past half-century have been “Trump is a good businessman” and “Republicans are the good-at-economy party”

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Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

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They’re all getting in. All the moles and monsters. We can’t depend on Congress to save us. We can’t rely on “normal Republicans” to defend us—they no longer exist. It is, and always has been, down to us to resist and persist in any way we can.

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I’m gonna log off but like as a journalist you need to push back on this framing, even in a promo post, you can not say this without indicating that it’s a falsehood meant to justify a power grab.

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So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

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Our about-to-be next FBI director just called journalism “the most powerful enemy the US has ever seen.”

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It's weird how Yglesias read a column that specifically said that one subset of DEI critics (the ones in the White House) were segregationists and decided to act like it was referring to him and his readers

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Florida has sued Target for selling pride merch during pride month in a clear and blatant violation of the 1st amendment. www.reuters.com/legal/target...

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seeing this chart set in he’s doing sex selective IVF for boys and that’s why he lost his fucking mind and became a hardline fascist when vivian came out as trans, he’s a freak

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exhausting as liberal democracy is, I feel it is vital for us queer and trans people to fight for its survival because it is also the system of government that tends to be least interested in killing us by a very wide margin

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Big Tech is a huge problem. But gutting Section 230 will make Big Tech bigger and kill off alternatives like Bluesky and Mastodon. We're in the middle of a fascist coup but Senate Democrats are stuck on stupid on this issue. Call your Senators again and again until they get it BadInternetbills.com

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And that’s on top of the concentration camp in Cuba

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We set up a concentration camp for asylum seekers in the Panama jungle. We set up a concentration camp for asylum seekers in the Panama jungle. We set up a concentration camp for asylum seekers in the Panama jungle.

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Donald Trump shut off funding for dozens of Head Start programs across the country. I visited the PICA Head Start Training Center in Minneapolis to hear firsthand from educators on ways the federal funding cuts would impact students across our state.

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In the wild in comment sections I often see people suggest that it’s better to have rampant sexual crime without consequences rather than risk any false allegations. Actually, it’s not!

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fantasizing about a world where an opposition congress responds to trump’s attempts to usurp legislative power by defunding the entire white house staff

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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I’m tired of prominent (national) Democrats warning that whatever is happening is just a distraction & to save up for the “real” fight. At what point is <banning trans people from bathrooms|flaunting the constitution|declaring themselves king> not just a distraction and worthy of a fight on its own?

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“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.

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Congress is pushing bills to silence criticism of Israel, punish activism, and criminalize boycotts. Here’s what you need to know: mondoweiss.net/2025/02/what...

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Whole lotta folks trying to do the “no true Scotsman” thing here, but… this is mainstream Christianity in this country. They’re the ones listening to fascist torture ASMR.

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CISA controls the .gov domain registrar and the national public key infrastructure (PKI). This means Elon Musk has the ability to shut down any federal, state, or city government using a .gov domain. Musk can also now prevent .gov agencies and officials from registering their .gov BlueSky handles

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The reporters at Texas Observer have been doing incredible investigative work lately, the kind of work that places like the WaPo used to do with a much larger budget before it got bought up and then slowly hollowed out by a billionaire sycophant who'd rather go into space than live in a democracy.

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