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France's Nazis officially find CPAC too Nazi to attend. www.politico.eu/article/fran...

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NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

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On February 19, thousands of higher ed workers took to the streets to tell the Trump administration "Hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs!" On Tuesday, we’re taking that same energy directly to D.C. labor4highered.org/#register

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There Are No Faces This is beyond shameful. Whoever authorized that should be indicted open.substack.com/pub/slowcivi...

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NEW: Let’s Disavow The Myth of Government Efficiency. There is no “right” way to slash the federal government. The center, center left and left should be pushing for more federal resources, not less. 1/20 therevolvingdoorproject.org/lets-disavow...

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“The lawsuit appeared to represent an astonishing effort by Mr. Trump to pressure a foreign judge as he weighed the fate of a fellow right-wing leader who, like him, was indicted on charges that he tried to overturn his election loss.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

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“We refuse to let others be swallowed by the same nightmare we endured. No one deserves to be thrown into a system built to erase them.” Read the letter 16 former Guantanamo detainees wrote in solidarity with the migrants the U.S. is sending there right now.

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You know you suck when Erdoğan and MBS are the good guys in the room #Ukraine “Erdoğan stated that Türkiye continues to support Ukraine’s territorial integrity and political unity and provide contribution to the peace effort.” www.hurriyetdailynews.com/amp/turkiye-...

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If the situation was hopeless the propaganda wouldn’t be necessary.

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Breaking News: Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president, was charged with overseeing a vast scheme to overturn the 2022 election he lost.

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USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...

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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

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Javier Milei, crypto scammer Coming soon under the Musk junta unless we stop them #fireMusk www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Argentina opposition calls for impeachment of Javier Milei after cryptocurrency collapse

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“Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.” www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...

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The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

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New: Elon Musk relied on undocumented workers to help build Tesla's gigafactory in Texas. He later propagated anti-immigrant sentiment to vault himself into political power alongside President Trump. Great reporting from @julialove.bsky.social (gift link 👇) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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“If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.” Damn. static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

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I wrote about the dominant creed of American life — the Gospel of Stuff and Status — and argue that these false idols are making millions of people avoidably miserable. www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-false-...

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BREAKING On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.

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🔥 This Saturday, join a nationwide action against Tesla & Musk 📅 Saturday, February 15th 📍 Tesla Showrooms Everywhere 🚨 Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines! ✅ Register or find your nearest action at TeslaTakedown.com and get a media advisory and toolkit #TeslaTakedown REPOST!

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Newsletter: The tech industry has turned on the consumer, using abusive, manipulative software as a means of extracting wealth from every corner of our lives. Both society and the tech media must fight back, as I believe many of us deeply love our tech. www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/

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As the Musk coup rampages through DC, most Americans don't understand there's a method to the madness that's even more terrifying They want to replace "outdated" democracy with AI, in a power grab that empowers billionaires with a lie about efficiency My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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The formation of the mutual aid group Floyd Bennett Field Neighbors is a reminder that new migrants aren’t alone. inthesetimes.com/article/new-...

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Updated story: the judge convened a videoconference hearing and granted the order within an hour of the filing - during the Super Bowl. Not sure I have ever heard of a court moving that fast.

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In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

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"If you want a labor force, a regulatory bureaucracy, or accountability to disappear, you simply say, 'AI can do it.' Then, the conversation shifts from explaining why these things should or should not go away to questions about how AI would work in their place." - @eryk.bsky.social

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Incredible news. After immense pressure and threats of protest, Children's Wisconsin has reinstated treatment for at least one trans teen under its care. Several hospitals across the country determined their fear of Trump's illegal EO was more important than their trans patients.

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SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants. —> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you. Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?

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I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

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Just absolutely bonkers details in this article. Edward Coristine was a member of several Telegram chat rooms that were being tracked by the FBI, including Kiwi Farms (known for harassment campaigns). Coristine was apparently on the FBI's radar for his prior contacts with an alleged criminal hacker.

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🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Wow www.wired.com/story/treasu...

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A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge has links to a deleted social-media account that advocated for racism and eugenics

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