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A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

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Here's @oliverdarcy.bsky.social describing how the big national newsrooms characterized Kash Patel as they reported on his appointment. www.status.news/p/cbs-evenin... "Conspiracy theorist" and "Trump loyalist" are both factually correct. So it becomes a question, not of accuracy, but of truth.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

How many of my academic friends saw this? Pitt Pauses All PhD Admissions. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

submitted 9 days ago • 88 comments

In which the great Garrett Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social and I look out over the horizon and deliver a warning. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/patel-ratc...

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Are you wearing hot Nikes?

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I love leaving voice mails for my senators where I say things like "the USPS is very important to our country" as if I'm helping a small child with a book report or describing our civilization to an alien

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Cowardice in the Civil War: A Conversation With Lesley Gordon 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Also would note responsibility for this goes to the U.S. Supreme Court and the North Carolina Supreme Court - for greenlighting gerrymandering. The three extra seats that Rs picked up in NC after a fair 7R-7D map was replaced with a gerrymandered 10R-4D map are, by themselves, the difference.

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I’m pretty much reduced to AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH at this point

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How many Federal workers were fired so $200M could be spent on this wankery?

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This short video on the false promise of using AI for climate is brilliant. The speaker worked years at Microsoft and resigned over the AI's broken promise. It's only 5 minutes, but a high quality 5 minutes:

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Entitled thief “Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

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The current proposals that AI companies should be uniquely excluded from paying for other people’s IP and creative labour is effectively a state subsidy worth trillions of dollars, paid for by content creators and copyright holders.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Incredible thread - full of practical info about the process that shows where we can stop these marauders. Please read, and keep on calling your reps (whom you can find at reps.fyi).

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Every House Republican just voted to defund Medicaid. Reminder: there are no moderate Republicans in Congress, and stop pretending there are.

submitted 5 days ago • 109 comments

Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

submitted 7 days ago • 613 comments

When I entered class this evening, students were talking about the AP/WH fight over the Gulf of Mexico and said both sides were being "petty." I used this exact hypothetical (great minds!) and they realized the AP is not being petty. It's not about this fight, it's about the broader principle.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Covfefe: The Golden Years

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UK creators, you have till TOMORROW (Tuesday) to comment on this proposed upending of copyright law

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Good that the Times is tracking his deeds and words like this. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Next level would be to organize all the known steps in democracy's replacement by authoritarian governance, and report it as news when he reaches them, so that we know where we are— and what remains.

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

submitted 8 days ago • 761 comments

An update - when I told the editor I was hoping to write something broadly accessible they decided to share the column with Texas sister papers! There is a lot of interest in hearing from scientists - reach out!

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“From my perch here in the US—where I arrived decades ago, thinking that having grown up in a country that experienced fascism was never going to be relevant again—here are a couple of thoughts on what we might learn from the German election.”

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

So I did this today: banged out a couple hundred words of a pitch while managing lab, sent it to the opinion page editor at the newspaper my parents still somehow get in print, and got back a "yes" in, I absolutely kid you not, under 15 minutes

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

One of the repeated themes in Victor Klemperer's diaries of the early Nazi years is hearing from someone whose cousin works in the finance ministry that the regime can't possibly last another six weeks.

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I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Trickle-down economics was never about helping the average American; it has always been about enriching the few. It's time to call it what it is: an upward siphoning of wealth from the 95% to the top 5%.

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Absolutely. Call the reps you have, whether they're Ds or Rs. You can be incredibly powerful when you call YOUR OWN reps. PARTICULARLY very LOCAL reps. They don't get that many calls! You can make a big difference!

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

This morning, I called both Cruz and Cornyn using a modified version of Andrea’s script! #DidThisToday

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We can't post about the end of the world all the time so here's a sliver of joy

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Ganz isn’t the first to say this, but it’s a pithy statement of the problem. Right-wing myths must be fought with progressive & democratic ones. substack.com/@johnganz/no...

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Can confirm. Therapists and investment advisors are going to need therapy.

submitted 15 days ago • 62 comments

This is another huge norm broken within DOJ. Typically, a long-time senior career official -- who knows and cares about the institution and has DOJ's integrity as a guidepost -- would hold this role within the office of the Deputy Attorney General.

submitted 13 days ago • 33 comments

I mean, mustache-twirling level

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If Joe Biden said this, the entire Republican Party would be yelling about Munich/1938/appeasement, & it would prompt nonstop front page headlines about whether he was mentally unfit to be president.

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@juliusgoat.bsky.social

submitted 14 days ago • 722 comments

I'm just saying: Adams is the worst and has been for a long time. If you're a New Yorker, call Hochul and tell her he has to go. This is the closest she's signaled to actually doing it: let's push her over the top. 1-518-474-8390

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Dwight Garner on Paul Fussell. Both so good. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/b...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u... BRAVO

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BREAKING: Elon Musk is now trying to buy Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court majority. Election is on April 1—the first statewide election of the new Trump/Musk era. Musk wants to own state-level courts to thwart any possible check on their coup. Help us fight back. secure.actblue.com/donate/wisde...

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Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

submitted 20 days ago • 3884 comments

Yesterday she said it sounded "undemocratic" to fire him. THE CALLS ARE WORKING. KEEP CALLING, Y'ALL. Tell her to fire Adams NOW. 1-518-474-8390

submitted 17 days ago • 44 comments

I just added more things to this list today: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 15 days ago • 78 comments

Read the letter of resignation from SDNY AUSA Hagan Scotten, Bronze Star recipient, former clerk to Chief Justice Roberts. Bravo! 👏👏👏

submitted 17 days ago • 165 comments

if you work for the IRS, i’d like to chat. message me on signal at marisakabas.04

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