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Now that Trump has ousted Brown, and the heads of the Navy and Coast Guard, the remaining top military leaders are all white and male, particularly striking given that minorities make up nearly 40 percent of the military and women constitute fully a fifth. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...

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THIS TRACKS

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"In construing freedom as the multiplication and speedy satisfaction of needs, they distort their own nature, for they engender within themselves many senseless and stupid desires, habits and most absurd inventions." —a dying monk in The Brothers Karamazov, published in 1880, by Dostoevsky

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can't wait!

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Lord knows I’m not a constitutional scholar not even a lawyer (and I’ve yet to check in with @kateshaw.bsky.social) but a legal regime in which “you can do crimes if you’re buddies with the president or praise him publicly” is on its face a violation the equal protection of the laws.

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The Elon-Sam Altman showdown is a lot less fun than the Kendrick-Drake rap beef, and we aren’t gonna get any great music out of it 😔

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Incredible new ep this week! It's @elisewho.bsky.social, who takes us inside her TED Talk. We discuss: - What goes into crafting an exceptional talk, tightly told - Our shared love of Bourdain - The “peak/end rule” - Using callbacks And more! Find How Stories Happen in your podcast player

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US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

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From Oliver Darcy, @oliverdarcy.bsky.social February 05, 2025. www.status.news/p/trumpocaly...

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"'Constitutional crisis' does not even begin to capture the radicalism of what is unfolding in the federal bureaucracy and of what Congress’s decision not to act may liquidate in terms of constitutional meaning." —@jamellebouie.net @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

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"OPM released a new memo and a contract providing more specificity about the terms of the deferred resignation agreement. It is even worse than it initially appeared." via @popular.info

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Pretty clear that the operating principle here is that the law is whatever Elon Musk’s current whim dictates.

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This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

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It seems picayune, but policing body hair is one of the oldest forms of bodily control. Forced shaving of Guantanamo detainees, for example, were considered an element of abuse, like food deprivation

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"I think when you revert to protectionism, you're on the way downhill. You have given up; you're not going to expand your markets. You're not going to be a world power. That's the beginning of the end. That's utter foolishness." —frmer US Treasury Sec & Sen Finance Chair Lloyd Bentsen, in 1992

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The clearest-eyed look at what has happened in America over the past 48 hours is one written w/ the authority and remove we write about foreign nations. From @vermontgmg.bsky.social www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

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it's STILL JANUARY?!

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happy year of the snake. mumbles to self: Of COURSE it's the year of the snake

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My TED Talk is out today and it's about the way filters and feeds in digital culture are now reshaping our expectations of our appearance toward an internet-driven sameness. It's marginalizing for everyone who can't conform, and punishing for those who can. LMK what you think! go.ted.com/elisehu

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Just made it all the way to the intermission of The Brutalist, please clap

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It’s raining in Southern California!

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COSTCO!!!!!

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"People are giving out a lot of stuff. That's really great, but I feel like what most of us need the most is money & homes or places to go. Bc if you give ppl a lot of stuff, they don't have PLACES to put that stuff." —12 yr-old fire victim Indi R, on what she wants folks to know in the aftermath

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I don’t know German but I think I understand this headline fine enough.

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"One of the singular themes of the 2nd Trump admin is the sheer amount of corruption & grift, an angle ppl can care about. The Trump admin is handing out necessities of life to their friends rather than people that need them ... & making it more difficult for ppl to access opps we should all have."

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Nazis: "that's a nazi salute" Historians: "that's a nazi salute" Average person: "that's a nazi salute" The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."

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how is it still january

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The mass purge of officials loyal to the United States of America rather than lackeys of Trump is underway www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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I'm riding hard for Learner Tien in the #australianopen; what are Tien fans called? Is there a Beyhive type name for Learner Tien fans? Help a girl out

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I hope everyone has recovered from the trauma of living without TikTok for the last checks notes 12 hours

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OH: Him: Do you remember clear Pepsi from the 90s? Her: There was CLEAR PEPSI!?!?

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South Korean investigators arrest impeached President Yoon, ending weeks-long standoff | Reuters www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

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Hollywood studio donation pledges to the wildfire disaster: Netflix: $10M Disney: $15M WBD: $15M NBCU: $10M Paramount: $1M Sony: $5M Amazon: $10M Fox: $1M Total: $67M Richard Rushfield puts it into context: "Collectively, they are pledging one-third of the marketing budget of one tentpole film."

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The fast-emerging TikTok substitute is called Red Note, a shortened version of the Mao-era "Little Red Book" of China's famine/Cult Rev days. Feels wrong! Is the entire existence/name of this app one big troll???!

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"Karen Bass, whose political career is lying somewhere amid the tiny piles of grey ash currently accumulating on the sidewalks and rooftops across her city." —@peterhamby.bsky.social for @puck.news

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"We are looking for the remains of your neighbors ... please be patient with us." —LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell, on why some residents haven't been allowed to re-enter evacuated zones ugh so grim

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Conclave: very good, but def doesn’t pass the Bechdel test

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What a year this week has been

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Incredible outpouring of volunteers & donations across LA County. Folks at Anderson Munger YMCA have been tireless and their latest requests are: ▪️diapers, wipes, formula ▪️lg cardboard boxes ▪️plastic utensils, paper plates & bowls ▪️hygiene products ▪️lunch sacks ▪️ziploc bags 🛑 no more clothes

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