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Way back in '16 when Trump said something in a debate about how the military wouldn't defy his orders, I sounded the alarm on FB and got back a bunch of comments along the lines of he'd never order them to break the law. Guess what, folks...

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I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

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DOGE has spent $40 million in one month

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Trump is ruling like a 'king,' following the Putin model. How can he be stopped? phys.org/news/2025-02...

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"I read this story and felt utter fury at the scumbags working for Marco Rubio at the State Department. But the story also brought to mind conversations I’ve had with several Democrats in the last couple of weeks that pissed me off almost as much."

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Saruman laughed again. "...Still I have already done much that you will find it hard to mend or undo in your lives. And it will be pleasant to think of that and set it against my injuries." --Return of the King, "The Scouring Of The Shire"

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Sidney Poitier would have celebrated a birthday today #botd

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I heard the NEA is only considering proposals related to 1776 & the USA’s 250th birthday & I was feeling intensely patriotic, so I’m printing these really big posters inspired directly by the Founding Fathers The cut was carved from the masthead of a 19th century newspaper

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Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk.

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The order “affects tens of thousands of children who entered the country without parents or legal guardians, many of them victims of human trafficking or gang-related violence.”

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EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

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“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

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This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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Murphy: "The game is clear. We can see it. They're not even hiding it. There is not a rule of law anymore. There is one set of law for people who are loyal to Donald Trump, and there is one set of law for people who care criticize him. That is not democracy."

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It's 17 years from Bilbo's birthday to when Gandalf returns—but it's less than a year from Frodo leaving Bag End to the destruction of the One Ring. Just a little reminder that events can take a long time to build, but when the boulder gets a-rolling, things come to a head awfully quickly.

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Remember when you were in school and you read "The Diary of Anne Frank" and you thought of all the things you would have done to stop the Nazis? Do those things now.

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NEW: SpaceX engineers are already onboarded at the FAA. How'd they get in so quickly? By using a policy designed to fast-track federal employment opportunities for people with disabilities. from @telliotter.bsky.social and @aarianmarshall.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/faa-do...

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Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

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Happy Publication Day to me! 🎉😱🥹🧿 Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History is officially out! It’s a history of the region through objects found in an ancient museum in Princess Ennigaldi-Nanna’s palace, and I hope you all like it 💛 lnk.to/BetweenTwoRi...

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Unelected billionaire breaks laws to "restore" democracy "What #Musk is up to is #illegal. Most egregiously, his deletion of entire depts and Trump’s refusal to spend as directed by Congress is unconstitutional. That’s why courts enjoined them." www.publicnotice.co/p/elon-musk-...

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Black and white college students went to MISSISSIPPI in 1964 to register people to vote. They got shot at, bombed, beaten and killed. These pampered fucks need to take accountability and act.

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HEADS UP! We need to give this story more attention. This is the next phase - investigations of those who criticize Trump, Musk or SCOTUS. It’s already started. It is a campaign of intimidation designed to silence criticism. wapo.st/3X8d75G

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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.

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Thank you Rev. Caleb Lines.

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Trump literally referred to himself as a King, a day after also declaring that he is the only one allowed to interpret the law. Meanwhile he throws Ukraine under the bus and dismantles 8 decades of US-European partnership. Reagan voters raised children who voted to make Russia great again.

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Your regular reminder that §230 protects YOU, the person reading this post, from being sued for reposting things just as much as it protects "Big Tech" from things that still wouldn't be a viable cause of action because your problem is not with §230, it's with the first amendment

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I had two grant proposals up for review in the NIH Bacterial Virulence (BV) study section. It was canceled without notice this morning. Without those grants, my lab must close within a year. And so the purge of scientific research in the US continues 🤬 #MicroSky 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬

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If you need some space, a place to escape to, but can't get out somewhere quiet, we can help. Switch off from the noise with Radio Lento. 🎧

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Trump proved conclusively last night with his deranged statements that he is an enemy and menace to our friends and allies around the world, and the best thing that ever happened to our adversaries and corrupt dictators. meidasnews.com/news/trump-s...

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Right, it’s 8:30 am and I am gassing up my car and I am hardcore struggling already. I guess some days we are more resilient about the fall of democracy than others!

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New in PN: Unelected billionaire breaks laws to "restore" democracy "In reality, most of what Musk is up to is flatly illegal. Most egregiously, his deletion of entire depts & Trump’s refusal to spend as directed by Congress violates the Constitution. That’s why multiple courts have enjoined them."

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If you're new here, there are 4+ years worth of knowledge, resources, research, and action steps to help protect public libraries, public schools, and anti-book censorship efforts in this pinned thread.

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Ways people are and can be resisting, by Jennifer Rubin of The Contrarian: open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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Georgia’s experience offers a warning for the nation as conservatives attempt to curtail federally subsidized health care for low-income Americans, as outlined by Project 2025, the playbook designed for a second Donald Trump presidency.

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"go in peace, Be warm and well fed..." Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me

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I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

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For what it is worth, soldiers from the 101st Airborne stationed at said Fort Campbell acting on orders from President Eisenhower to integrate Central High School in Little Rock in 1957.

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These are Fort Campbell-based 101st Airborne Division soldiers escorting the Little Rock Nine in 1957. Fort Campbell is erasing its own history.

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Some GOP bills introduced since January: 🤡 Make Trump’s birthday a holiday 🤡 Carve Trump into Mt. Rushmore 🤡 Rename Dulles Airport after Trump Other GOP bills from the last Congress: 🤡 Print $500 bills w/ Trump portrait 🤡 Rename US coastal waters for Trump (h/t @macfarlanenews.bsky.social)

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