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If you think the Trump administration in any way cares about antisemitism, you're a dupe. forward.com/fast-forward...

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SCOOP: The FTC has removed content critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI companies published during the Biden administration from its website.

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The Pentagon purge of media it considers 'DEI' has expanded to stories about Navajo code talkers and Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who helped raise the US flag over Iwo Jima. w/ @jonswaine.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Canadian actor detained at US border in ‘inhumane conditions’ for nearly two weeks

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We’re hearing that Republicans will soon bring back the SAVE Act for a vote. This bill is a blatant voter suppression tactic that could block millions of Americans from voting by imposing unnecessary and harmful citizenship verification requirements. Take action now: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

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How many signs of democratic collapse do we need? A push to impeach judges not for misconduct but defying Trump? Refusal to honor a court order to turn around planes? Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act outside wartime? A budget clearing him to ignore Congress? Jailing students? The list goes on.

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Chilling that the US government is deporting “terrorist/criminals” WITHOUT JUDICIAL REVIEW to be imprisoned in another country that has pledged to subject them to forced labor. This starts with “foreigners”and “criminals,” but it seldom ends there.

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youtu.be/BRDq7aneXnk?...

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On my mind lately… encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

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A 2024 report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found that the IRS found savings of $13,000 for every additional hour spent auditing the tax returns of very wealthy taxpayers — a return on investment that “would leave Wall Street hedge fund managers drooling.”

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company. It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create. They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms. I’m happy to invest and/or help

submitted 17 days ago • 3514 comments

NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny

submitted 17 days ago • 1097 comments

Judge Alsup has issued a TRO in the case regarding OPM's memo ordering the removal of probationary employees. Will post my thoughts in this thread as I read and drink my coffee. 1/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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This is going well… DOGE Cuts 9/11 Survivors’ Fund, and Republicans Join Democrats in Rebuke www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 25 days ago • 37 comments

Texas’ measles outbreak has now spread to New Mexico. @jessicanix.bsky.social > www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 27 days ago • 25 comments

I'm seeing a pattern here, thanks to @andrewtorrez.bsky.social. He points out here that DOJ has argued to courts that they can't enjoin the EOs because it isn't a final agency action. (Spoiler: courts disagree): www.lawandchaospod.com/p/courts-sta...

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

People tend to forget that news organizations are robustly protected by the First Amendment not because of their journalism but because of … an ad The New York Times decided to run. This repudiates that. www.nytimes.com/2023/03/19/i...

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For folks in DC with animal pals

submitted 29 days ago • 105 comments

All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes Trump has already checked off.

submitted 30 days ago • 62 comments

The lawsuit alleges the migrants have been "disappeared into a black box" and are unable to communicate with attorneys.

submitted 33 days ago • 549 comments

Since I’m not seeing this on the front page of WaPo or NYTimes today… www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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The Army and other service branches are abandoning recruiting efforts at a prestigious Black engineering event this week, turning down access to a key pool of highly qualified potential applicants. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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When the NYTimes refers to ethic cleansing as “nation building…”

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Has congress passed a law superseding or eliminating the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961? Has the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional? Then why are journalists reporting that Trump and Musk are "shutting down" USAID. They are not authorized to do so.

submitted 43 days ago • 167 comments

On #FBI #Purge Important guidance @justsecurity.org just so happened to publish today: "Probationary employees may appeal their removal ... if they allege it was based on partisan political reasons." Resource for employees, public, and reporters covering the issues. via expert Suzanne Summerlin

submitted 46 days ago • 15 comments

Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including: - Holocaust Remembrance Day - MLK Day - Juneteenth

submitted 48 days ago • 880 comments

This is Carolyn Edwards. She was one of the first officers attacked and knocked out on January 6th. She bravely testified before the January 6th committee. She is one of the bravest people I know and she deserves better. (She posted this publicly on her FB page which is why I'm sharing publicly)

submitted 53 days ago • 347 comments

Trump is not Hitler, but his administration’s efforts to concentrate maximum power in the Executive and disregard for legal norms have dark echoes from the past. www.yahoo.com/news/hitler-...

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Either we are doomed to be ruled by oligarchs who believe what they read in random tweets, or this was never about cutting spending in the first place… www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Sotomayor scoffs at suggestion that democratic process will protect trans people: "When you’re 1% of the population or less, it's very hard to see how the democratic process will protect you." Adds: There are many more Black people/women, & the dem process "didn't protect them for whole centuries"

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I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this: Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...

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NEW: UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found.

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Vandals Deface Mural Made for Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial hyperallergic.com/966916/vanda...

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Oklahoma Law Requires Ten Commandments To Be Displayed In Every Womb

submitted 122 days ago • 88 comments

Take a stiff drink. Relax a bit. Read this. Then prepare to get to work.

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

for my first act as president, i am going to pass monstrous tariffs that will devastate the ag industry and for my second act, i will deport everyone working in farming and food production, checkmate [checks notes] red states

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I'll post a few things today/tomorrow re Hitler's Enabling Act, which allowed the cabinet to pass laws on their own, without the Reichstag (Congress). Excerpt from Cabinet Minutes 3/15/33 below (6 wks after H took power). Full minutes can be seen here: shorturl.at/uEtBC

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Caligula’s ghost must be feeling pretty good after all these millennia of infamy to realize that appointing his horse as a senator makes him look like a ho-hum establishment centrist.

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The countdown to our OFFICIAL launch continues (FIVE days to go…). Read more about our journey here: #LDML_24 reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholoc...

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Something BIG is coming … The countdown to our OFFICIAL LAUNCH begins (6 days to go…). Read more about our journey here: reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholoc... #LDML_24

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

Sure hope the media who pushed the narrative of antisemitism on campuses and members of Congress who dragged university presidents to Washington do something bout the pro-Nazi movement in Michigan that said “Heil Hitler” and “Heil Trump” at an Anne Frank play www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

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GDP growth at 2.8 percent, PCE inflation 1.5 percent. This puts a capstone on an incredibly successful response to the pandemic — even if many people won’t believe it www.bea.gov/news/2024/gr...

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Where we may be next year - www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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