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I don’t even like/watch MSNBC but that racial purge was bleak.

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Republican Congressman David Schweikert has introduced a bill to begin the process of letting AI prescribe drugs. Instead of investing in the U.S. healthcare system, this bill paves the way for doctors to be replaced by AI.

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NEW: Elon Musk is wreaking havoc on US science in Antarctica. Program managers have been purged; workers fear they could be fired while being trapped until October; foreign nations including China already recruiting, poised to take over. This is from @leahfeiger.bsky.social

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To understand this moment in American politics you have to accept that a significant portion of white Americans (regardless of political affiliation) hates Black people being free more than they love themselves or their children.

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the andrew tate news has solidifed this. they want women to be afraid because they think if we're afraid, then we won't thrive.

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The right can easily organize themselves toward political ends because they are literally advocating for the imposition of a monoculture that they adhere to Those on the left have a harder job because we are trying to assert the inherent value of multiculturalism with all its tensions & challenges

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It’s always gratifying (and harrowing) to read @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. But I especially enjoy it when amidst the stark truths about our crisis she turns out passages like this: open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...

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Will be interesting to see how a state that shreds its own capacity to collect taxes can sustain global power status

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morality aside: it turns out, as a purely sociological matter, that a politics premised on empowering people who loudly and performatively don't care if discriminated-against Others suffer and die results in surprisingly indiscriminate suffering and death. this needs to be explained to people

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Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.

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Every time I say this, some people get mad. A lot of people want to be lied to. Once you really understand this, a lot of human behavior starts to make more sense.

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Bezos is not acting out of fear. He is participating in a political project that benefits him. This distinction is important.

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South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson is proposing legislation to feature President Trump on a $250 bill.

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The FAA may cancel a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon and instead give it to Starlink, owned by Elon Musk, WaPo reports. This would be his latest opportunity to get richer off of taxpayers. Musk and his businesses have received $38 billion in federal contracts and subsidies.

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Just so you all know what's coming: They're going to claim that extending the tax cuts doesn't cost any money. It's called a "current policy baseline," it's mostly a scam (though all budget math is scammy in one way or another), and the Rs aren't going to let being against the "rules" get in the way

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Y’all! This is $566 of baby formula. Roughly 12 weeks of food! My nonprofit (thurmanperryfoundation.org) dropped it off outside the prison today to the family of a woman incarcerated there after we heard they had to travel to get the baby Along w/ thousands of menstrual products for the women!

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Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily let President Donald Trump keep freezing foreign-aid payments while the US Supreme Court weighs whether to lift an order that would require disbursement of as much as $2 billion.

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The USDA says egg prices could increase 41% this year. Meanwhile, the industry is more consolidated than ever and revenues are rising. Cal-Maine Foods controls a fifth of the egg market. Its revenue jumped 82% in a year—driven by an "increase in the net average selling price."

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“And then white people started talking medical advice from a man that sound like Rockbiter from Never ending story and many children in Texas DIED”

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Five alarm fire. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Barack Obama winning in 2008 was honestly peak Millennial culture to me. Just a pure, euphoric, racism is dead, we’re all gonna live forever type of youthful ignorance

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the main effect of firing 800,000 people — in addition to debilitating the federal government — would be to plunge the US economy into a recessionary spiral that rivaled the Great Recession

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"It’s a familiar Silicon Valley mindset, the reason startups are forever reinventing a bus, or a bodega, or mail. It’s the implacable certainty that if you’re smart at one thing you must be smart at all of the things." www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

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RNA xkcd.com/3056

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Good night everyone. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace.

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Someone generously shared this template of a handout they were inspired to create for their local community with me. Here's a canva link if you'd like to adapt it for your communities: www.canva.com/design/DAGgN...

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Billionaires are not “scared” and are not “bending the knee.” Billionaires are being freed from the shackles of needing to pretend to care about other people.

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NEW: Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday empowering DOGE to scrutinize how federal agencies spend money, the latest expansion of Elon Musk's cost cutting powers.

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everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky

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The Republican budget plan: -Cut SNAP by $230 billion -Cut Medicaid by $880 billion -Give $1.1 trillion to the top 1%

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As Trump promised, the Alien Enemies Act will be invoked. The law is a wartime authority that can be only used against any noncitizen from a country at war with the United States, regardless of whether they are in the country legally or not. Its use for immigration enforcement purposes is unlawful.

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DOGE cited contractors’ DEI programs, not performance, to cancel housing technical assistance grants nationwide. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-ci...

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House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

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Cutting $880 billion from Medicaid is going to have a lot of devastating consequences for a lot of people

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I have decided to cancel my show at The Kennedy Center on May 11, 2025 and move it to The Anthem.

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Point out things are illegal not from a belief that the courts will save us (they almost certainly won’t) but because it’s important to not shift toward an authoritarian mindset by allowing them to normalize illegal shit

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Anger is useful, but it burns hot. Use it before it burns up.

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Almost 40% of the thousands of government contracts being canceled by DOGE will produce no savings, the AP reports.

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Former CISA director Jen Easterly helped put together a site that matches laid-off CISA employees with companies that want to hire them. bit.ly/4bxFqAF

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Many people used to like to say that “Twitter isn’t real life,” but now we have a federal government influenced in large part by people who spent the last decade as Twitter trolls. A few of us tried to warn that the online ops happening in plain sight needed to be taken far more seriously.

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This is a full purge of every single LGBTQ employee at the NSA. Rufo is falsely mischaracterizing a LGBTQ employee resource group as a "sex chat" to create pretext to fire every single member in it. This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.

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The headline that 21 DOGE staffers have resigned is a little misleading. These were employees of the United States Digital Service, which existed pre-administration and was absorbed into Musk’s team. These aren’t the young idiots; these are actual civil servants.

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Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

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couldn't stop thinking about DOJ threatening prosecutions for Trump's petty grievances (especially when the grievance in question is constitutionally protected speech by a sitting congressmember!!) so I did what I do when I can't stop thinking about something* ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...

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Trump's new FBI Director vows "world's largest manhunt" in chilling message

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an unelected billionaire with no official job in the government thinks he can fire half the workforce for not replying to an email

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"The Black mentor class is being fired, not just on television but throughout America." And that's why it will never be enough to "express sympathies" and send "thoughts and prayers". If you want to make a difference, hire, platform, support, and put on Black folks. Anything less is cheap talk.

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🧵Early last century, South Carolina destroyed Black homesteads to bring power to rural areas. Today, they're planning on re/opening polluting power plants in Black neighborhoods to power AI. The long history of 'growth' on the backs of Black lives: capitalbnews.org/ai-data-cent...

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Cancelling @joyannreid.bsky.social means the door she held open for the next generation of Black voices will slam shut. Without her, the next her, won't get platformed by white media. That, of course, is why white media pushed her out. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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What drives me crazy about the anti-DEI rhetoric is everyone wants to be judged on merit. But you can't be judged on merit if you can't even get in the door because you don't fit some prejudiced definition of who is capable and who isn't

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