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“Anything that happens” is truly threatening- this is coup talk- and it should be a warning sign to us all. Ask yourself: why does he need to get rid of qualified people who are loyal to the Constitution and replace them with people who are loyal to Trump above all?

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Remember, everything is part of the same story. They need to destroy our democracy and crush dissent because letting billionaires take over the government in order to steal from us isn't popular and a functioning democracy wouldn't allow it.

submitted 4 days ago • 69 comments

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

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Mr. Hegseth has previously said that General Brown should be fired because of his “woke” focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military. Replaces a Black four-star fighter pilot with a white man who does not meet the statutory qualifications supposedly over DEI.

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

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now spinning chez nous

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look what arrived today! It’s @reproutopia.bsky.social ‘s new book!

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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

submitted 336 days ago • 80 comments

JFC

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One of those people that makes you wish hell was real. At least he goes out being despised by the very party he served so relentlessly his entire life- so the only silver lining here is that his misery seems palpable.

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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

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Was just looking in a desk drawer in my office on campus and found some ten year old sweets. This is why you shouldn’t accept candy from absent minded professors.

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Iowa's House File 274, which would criminalize librarians, passes out of the House Education Committee. It can now be heard on the floor. What this bill is, what it would mean for library and school workers, and why it was rushed through. bookriot.com/iowa-rushes-...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

submitted 5 days ago • 240 comments

Splashed out on this bad boy - have wanted this for ages and finally snapped it up

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This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

submitted 7 days ago • 148 comments

I am filled with utopian feelings (and a tuna sandwich I ate onstage) after performing "Fresh Squeezed Grapefruit" tonight with @lordchiefjustice.bsky.social at the Park Avenue Armory as part of “A Dream you Dream Together", a celebration of Yoko Ono on the occasion of her 92nd birthday.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

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Arguably the central story of American life in the 21st century. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/b...

submitted 10 days ago • 123 comments

You can’t spell Stonewall without the T

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In case this disappears from the CDC site in the coming hours: here is the full recommended vaccine schedule for birth to 18 years. Keep kids and your community safe. Alt text supported. @altcdc.bsky.social #vaccines #shots #RFKJr

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"The department plans to buy armored Tesla vehicles. Elon Musk, who is leading efforts to cut government spending, has won more than $13 billion in government contracts in the past five years." one news story that really brings together a lot www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

These delightfully cryptic, funny and unsettling vignettes / very short short stories were just the thing- so glad I jumped on board

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I want to highlight what I believe is a significant document that I reviewed for this story. It's a memorandum of understanding between DOGE & CFPB. In all the coverage of DOGE's takeover of agencies I haven't read or heard about a document like this. I think this stands out 1/

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Can't get out of our own way... --> 400,000+ jobs at stake across the country --> $80B in benefits to the U.S. economy jeopardized --> research on cancer and diabetes and heart disease at risk --> effects red and blue states (Texas gets $200M annually and Florida gets $100M annually)

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Reading is resistance because even knowledge is seen as a threat to occupation When the truth is silenced, books become weapons, and every page turned is an act of defiance. Where history is revionised and erased, where voices are suppressed, reading becomes a revolutionary act

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Israeli police have raided the best-known Palestinian-owned bookshop in Jerusalem and detained its two owners after using Google translate to examine the shop’s stock. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Calling the costs of running scientific research labs “administrative overhead” might fool the lab rats and guinea pigs. It won’t fool the people dying of cancer or heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Last night I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n

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Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

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My institution is at the very top of the list; I fear that we will be impacted severely if these cuts are not successfully challenged in court.

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The budget shortfall at Sonoma State, an HSI, is 8 million, leading to layoffs of 25% of faculty and shuttering programs. The system is paying 17 million to OpenAI. We always say budgets are moral documents. This is why.

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When they said “the professors are the enemy”, they meant it. This administration wants to devastate academia as a sector out of culture war petulance.

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Instead of Bandcamp Friday today, BC's% is going to WILDFIRE RELIEF, 👏. Meanwhile, our own % of Fovea Hex sales today will be going to GAZA via @unicefireland.bsky.social. From €5, collaborators/guests include Eno, Matmos, Abul Mogard, Peter Chilvers & more... bit.ly/3WT3tDX

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“Amassing authoritarian power depends in part on a willingness of the people to believe in the power exercised. In some cases, Trump’s declarations are meant to test the waters, but in other cases, the outrageous claim is its own accomplishment” ~Judith Butler www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I wish more reporters would do this!

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