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The Trump regime's segregationist agenda is clear. I argue that having a Black man as president of white America enraged a portion of this country so much, that they decided to destroy any pipeline to Black advancement in academia, government, & workplaces. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trumps-seg...

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Shocker! Our story didn’t make Brian’s media roundup. Not deferential enough to the msm I guess www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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For 38 years, PRAMS has collected critical data on maternal-child health with the goal to reduce infant morbidity and mortality. CDC has officially halted the 2024 PRAMS data collection for the participating 46 states and the future is uncertain.

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This is a shamefully racist movement that should be resisted by every person of good will. @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’s forthcoming book is incredible and it’s honestly the archive’s loss (and the nation’s). www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/a...

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“As part of its continued efforts to own the libs, or get rid of anything President Trump does not like or understand, the General Services Administration is gearing up to remove electric chargers from all federal properties nationwide” is as damningly factual as it gets. gizmodo.com/u-s-governme...

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There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

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"While corporate sustainability suffers from a lack of executive-level ambition, burnt-out employees, and diminishing budgets, we can find solace in the fact that we at least know what needs to be done – and that there are people working tirelessly to do it." drawdown.org/insights/wha...

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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

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ICYMI, last week we published an interactive map of more than $300 billion worth of Inflation Reduction Act and bipartisan infrastructure law funding. Enter your ZIP code or city and a search radius and find projects in your area: grist.org/accountabili...

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The American military has quietly but dramatically increased its footprint south of the border in the early days of Trump’s term. If this trend continues, experts fear it could lead to an official US military campaign in Mexico.

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Trump is trying to win over the police forces of the country by giving them full immunity to do what they please with American citizens!

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This is who Republicans just made FBI Director. Kash Patel calls for “offensive operations” to jail Americans who they consider “the enemy.” “We will go out and find the conspirators... Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media”

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The “Fog Bank”: How Trumpsters defy court orders about the Trump funding freeze. (Let’s start by noting these freezes are flatly illegal, not close cases, plain constitutional violations, which is why Trumpsters constantly lose in court.)

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The FBI has only ever had Republican directors. Trump illegally forced out the last two FBI directors for not being Republican enough. Today, Senate Republicans let him appoint a new FBI director who posted an AI video of himself chainsawing Democrats’ heads off

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Finally! @moreperfectunion.bsky.social dropped their excellent mini documentary on SpaceX steamrolling officials and the environment (featuring yours truly 😘) Well done youtu.be/5cZEZoa8rW0?...

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"Crack-Up Capitalism": Historian @quinnslobodian.com on Trump, Musk & the Movement to "Shatter" the State

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NEW: Last year, @johnnyryan.bsky.social made a website for a fake company using a photo of Russian soldiers to purposely elicit suspicion. A US data broker offered him access to thousands of lists of American devices anyway. Many lists targeted US leaders and defense contractors. Our latest:

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Disturbingly relevant as we search for parallels to what is happening in the US right now: The Democratic Erosion Consortium's Democratic Erosion Event Dataset democratic-erosion.org/dataset/

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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME Congress didn’t pass a law requiring NIH-funded trials to include women until 1993. Drug trials with government funding only started including women in the NINETIES And that’s only drug trials! And not ones with private funding! Health research FAMOUSLY excludes women.

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On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which authorized the US military to forcibly remove over 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry and launched their mass incarceration into concentration camps during World War II.

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Senators can, at any time, tell Trump he has exceeded his power. Instead, they have conceded their power, turning themselves into beggars. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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My family knows the pain of Alzheimer’s. It’s devastating. And now we learn Trump’s NIH cuts led to the firing of top researchers working on it --Infuriating. This isn’t “cutting waste”—it’s cutting and gutting life-saving research.

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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Did Panama agree to build and run Trump’s concentration camps so he’d stop talking about seizing the canal?

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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-...

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It is disturbing how the Trump regime is silencing and crippling science. We had a paleontology online seminar scheduled next week on Permian fossils and environments in Grand Canyon - but the US colleague planning to present has suddenly been sacked. climate.law.columbia.edu/Silencing-Sc...

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Which universities have the most retracted articles - and the highest retraction rates? For @nature.com, here's a first-of-its-kind analysis of retractions by institutions. Full details in the story. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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RFK's not-so-veiled threat to take mental health drugs away is even worse than it looks at first blush. He wants to replace these medications with labor camps. This fits with the larger, eugenics-informed Trump/Musk agenda. www.salon.com/2025/02/19/r...

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Good story on all the carnage with quotes from @aaas.org CEO Sudip Parikh. www.science.org/content/arti...

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As Europe reckons with the new transatlantic reality, its leaders should start treating the Silicon Valley giants cheering Trump on as adversarial powers ↘️ on.ft.com/3X8hv4D

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NEW: Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform. Yet the program has cost taxpayers $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled less than 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible.

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“It feels like a betrayal by NASA....It’s inefficient, it’s wasteful, and it’s also just messed up.” This is how scientists inside and outside the agency are feelings about the cuts to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Words by me: 🧪

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The Trump administration has been evaluating the costs of destroying or disposing of tens of millions of coronavirus tests that would otherwise be provided free to Americans.

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Musk, Trump, and the Republicans want your personal tax and banking information, wants to cut trillions in taxes for the uber-rich, but Musk doesn't pay taxes himself. Steal from the poor, give to the rich. itep.org/tesla-report...

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The Planetary Society strongly opposes the sudden, indiscriminate dismissal of more than 1,000 scientists, engineers, and explorers at NASA — the largest involuntary workforce reduction since the end of the Apollo program. Read more on our stance. ⬇️

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A law firm that represents Elon Musk and Tesla (RLF) drafted proposed legislation to overhaul Delaware corporate law. If the bill becomes law, it would reduce protections for minority shareholders like pensions, union funds, retail investors, legal scholars told CNBC. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/18/f...

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DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

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This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.

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Dr Nelson nailed it with her three fallacies of AI. Worth the quick read.

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SCOOP: Naval Academy leaders sent an email to faculty this week that teaching about “divisive concepts” such as systemic racism + sexism is no longer permitted. Faculty also can’t talk about environmental justice or gender ideology. Our exclusive: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

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Imagine the cruelty. Oh. Right. We don't have to imagine any more. 😢

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CBS is one of a dozen U.S. outlets that responded to authoritarianism by shifting coverage further right, which is why we're calling rounding up minorities in the middle of the night and dumping them in random countries they've never been to a "breakthrough"

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Washington Post got their hands on internal documents from DOGE showing the entire plan to implement resegregation. They're going to purge minorities from government by calling them DEI. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

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