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Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.

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None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 23 hours ago • 336 comments

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 23 hours ago • 836 comments

Welcome to today's episode of Shut The Fuck Up Friday! Check out this video for some tips from a local lawyer for those of you headed out to the streets to protest. You're a target of the state when you take action. NEVER talk to police & always STFU! Full video in thread👇

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A Tyrant and his Bugaboo. #protest #fiftyfiftyone #altgov #coup #noking #dictator

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This is, in no uncertain terms, a rout. The New York Times published an unfortunate op-ed trying to legally justify Trump administration's #Birthright citizenship order. Here, five leading scholars show, with analytic precision, how that op-ed was "fundamentally flawed and irresponsible."⬇️

submitted 2 days ago • 79 comments

Mouse brains with Niemann-Pick Type C, a neurological disorder. The image is derived from a public domain NIH image. #SciArt

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Hold fast to our ideals. #protest #resist #altgov #noking #justice

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Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

submitted 2 days ago • 567 comments

Where the law ends, tyranny begins. #protest #resist #DepartmentofJustice #Doge #nooneabovethelaw #altgov

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 5 days ago • 2289 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 126 comments

Don’t feed the billionaires! Our family is committed to boycotting; I hope you can too! #protest #resist #doge #boycott

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Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 50 comments

The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...

submitted 6 days ago • 66 comments

Perfect. By @zezvaz.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

Trump and Musk are weakening the US in order to line their own pockets. Executive orders do not override the law. Don’t comply. physicsworld.com/a/us-science...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

American idea

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Anatomy of the heist at USAID

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submitted 16 days ago • 57 comments

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

submitted 17 days ago • 1765 comments

Elon acolytes targeting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “It’s been a longtime goal of corporations that rely on Noaa data to prevent the agency from making the data public, instead of giving it directly to private corporations that create products based on it.”

submitted 17 days ago • 67 comments

Still true.

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Replotted modeled climate (CMIP6) data from GlobalChange.gov to show the expected number of days with temperatures exceeding 100 F in 2100. 🧪

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America is under attack. youtu.be/2B6gS_WyXKo

submitted 20 days ago • 227 comments

Good graphic by WaPo showing Canada (purple), China (brown), Mexico (blue) and other top suppliers by share of value of goods imported by the US in 2023. “One of the first places US shoppers may feel the impact of increased tariffs is in the grocery aisle…” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments