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The DoJ has shut down the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, a federal misconduct tracking system that was intended to prevent officers with disciplinary records from being rehired by other agencies.

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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Bigots weaponize this tactic. They target someone marginalized relative to them, and harm that person over and over and over. And the moment their victim falls to pieces over the abuse and lashes out, they use the lashing out as evidence that their hate campaign was justified from the outset

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This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

submitted 15 hours ago • 103 comments

It's like a project tracker, except the project is the dismantling of our federal government and democracy.

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"A Department of Homeland Security unit eliminated policies prohibiting personnel from conducting intelligence activities based solely on a person’s gender identity or sexual orientation." Getting a little scary out here. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

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VP James "JD Vance" Bowman: If Germany doesn't allow us and our soldiers to be openly pro-Nazi, the US military will leave. www.politico.eu/article/vanc...

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Imagine if the governors from say, California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Colorado, New Mexico and a few others had suddenly grown spines and spoke up to support and back her. Maybe we should let them know this sort of behavior would be much appreciated.

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If you are trans, LGBTQ+ or an ally, please send Gov Janet Mills a a thank you for standing up for us and fighting back. We need Dems to get the message that this is what is needed in this moment..

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The University Of Cincinnati is replacing all of it's restroom signs with ones that designate use to only biological sex.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

If you protest in person do not trust anyone trying to lead you off. They are taking you into a kettle and you will be assaulted and arrested. That person is a cop

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"So, we’re not going to give [the state of Maine] any federal funding whatsoever until they [stop protecting trans people]" That was yesterday. This is how they'll force Blue states to comply and erase trans people. Is it legal? No, of course not. But they'll do it anyway and no one will stop them.

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BREAKING: The SEC has dropped its enforcement case against Coinbase. Coinbase spent $46 million to influence the outcome of the election. Now they're already getting their payoff.

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