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My focus group broadly agreed that Trump seeking a third term would spur a Constitutional crisis. But they also felt that in a Constitutional crisis, America would benefit from a strong leader like Trump.

France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you

Fox News is now engaged in a 24 hour operation to convince Americans that invading Greenland is normal.

that "i am woman i am fearless" tiktok song. how sweet it is to be loved by you by james taylor. sweet home alabama. "i throw my hands up in the air sometimes singing hey oh gotta let go."

Brian Eno on the police raiding a Quaker Meeting House.

can't remember who I saw say this, but..."antisemitism" is currently being used the way "communist" was during the red scare—as a slur against disfavored opinions and groups and as a justification for the revocation of all right. it's really bad. 1

Oh my God. The email contains an implied threat that any student who doesn’t immediately leave might be sent to El Salvador. /technically it says “countries other than their countries of origin,” but the context right now, given everything going on, makes the threat clear.

👀 "Fossil Future" by Alex Epstein on the left "Abundance" on the right 😭

🚨 TODAY: BRUTAL SETTLER ATTACK LEAVES 5 HOSPITALIZED IN JINBA, MASAFER YATTA, WEST BANK 🚨 Every story of Israel's violence against Palestinians deserves the level of recognition and outrage that we saw over the attack on No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal. 1/ 📷 IG: @mahmoud.photography97

weekend plans? ◡̈ so happy the winter is ending

you have my attention

The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Never forget

Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history

what replaces due process under fascism is the assurance of protection for favored groups. even though it’s precarious, a lot of people feel just as protected under that framework as they do under one with due process

Even Grok is rebelling against Elon

reading an old interview of chelsea manning from early 2016 rn and it's astounding how well she nailed the current political climate in america nearly a full decade later.

I showed my wife, a historian, the Kristi Noem video. She said “holy shit!” It’s a lot. A brief thread on bodies. It begins in the alt text below… 1/

I was so happy to have Kate and Milo from @altusds.bsky.social on the show! The way they spoke about tech development shows how differently it can be done if the will is there. It’s so different from techies who build tools for themselves then say everyone else should just learn to code.

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

Choking, strangulation victims 750% more likely to be killed by abuser Took Andrew Tate two weeks back in the US to commit a violent crime against a woman www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/26/a...

@durbin.senate.gov @hassan.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov 👀👀👀👀👀 these three dems voted to confirm www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

selena maria chandler-scott, a 24 y.o. georgia woman, was charged with concealing a death last week. for disposing of her miscarried fetus. after EMS found her unconscious and bleeding. www.actionnews5.com/2025/03/23/w...

Sorry texting a little too fast! 😅 Yeah so we saw a target go in his girlfriend’s building and just collapsed the whole thing down on everyone inside! Oh nice! ❤️✝️👍

She was targeted by a doxxing website and the US government used it to disappear her. canarymission.org/individual/R...

this is a john birch society level of delusional conspiracy theory being promoted by a democratic congressman

@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social thank you for asking this question thehill.com/regulation/n...

wow this SUCKS

The real story is that unnamed unknown Yemeni children died as a result of that cringe Signal disaster. Somehow that seems to be lost in all this.

“love your fellow as yourself” means if you don’t want a bomb dropped on your apartment building of 300 residents because one was accused of terrorism without due process, don’t stand idly by while your government does it abroad to others

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

6ft 4 cis woman loses her job at Walmart because of trans witch-hunt. Woman was followed into the staff bathroom by an anti-trans male, who called her names and threatened violence. When Wal-Mart found out, they fired HER.