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Europe has a solution for Starlink, it is faster and the quality is better. The IRIS 2 program. IRIS will make Starlink obsolete and provide permanent global coverage. The US, and especially Musk, are not needed. #IRIS #EU youtu.be/V-SXNVeNby0

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The Secretary of Defense goes on tv to explain he is preparing to have the military break the law.

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The Art of the Deal - a big fat MAGA wank. youtu.be/Jk0nUUqG_Ag?...

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Food for thought

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If Adams were to leave office before March 26, Williams would serve as interim mayor for about 80 days before the city holds a special election for a mayor to serve through the end of the term in December. Williams has not indicated whether he would run for a full term under these provisions.

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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The Paleontological Research Institute is at serious risk. And its exceptional fossil collection “can never be replaced.” My story for @science.org. www.science.org/content/arti...

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NEW: The Justice Department is investigating a New York sheriff for declining to detain someone for ICE. It's not clear what the DOJ could charge him with. But the threats could have a "chilling effect."

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Public comments are open for gender marker changes for trans people on passports. DS-11 Application for passport: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... DS-82 Passport Renewal: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... DS-5504 Name Change and Corrections. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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The Trump admin has told organizations that provide federally funded legal representation to unaccompanied migrant children to halt the service. "The administration's decision to suspend this program undermines due process." www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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NIH has a new center to study Alzheimer's & dementia It just lost 10% of its staff to the Trump layoffs, including a top scientist in line to be the next director "These people are experts and are irreplaceable" Important reporting from @gregsargent.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1917...

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“Force alone maintained him; force alone brings him down.”

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I’m at the daily crying stage hopefully the courageous part kicks in soon.

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BREAKING: The Trump administration, cloaking itself in the mantle of concern for the "working class," has withdrawn federal approval for congestion pricing, cutting funding for billions of dollars in repairs to the NYC region's lifeblood transit system.

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Is divestment the key to fixing America? It’s worked before. Elie Mystal explains in this week’s Gaslit Nation: gaslitnation.libsyn.com/the-world-mu... #oligarchy #dictatorship #dictatortrump

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The top criminal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington quit today, citing pressure by the Trump administration to open what she viewed as an improper criminal probe of a federal contract. ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro...

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I am infuriated to learn abt the celebrations of Frederick Douglass cancelled & suppressed by the Trump admin, so I'm reposting my recent essay analyzing his searing critique of white Christian nationalism.

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“We’re not going anywhere. What’s more: we’re expanding.” Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.

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Every word of this.

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www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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At the request of the Trump Admin, the Ntl Park Service removed references to trans people in this essay w/o consulting the writer, historian @wendylrouse.bsky.social. Read it here as Prof Rouse intended (and as the NPS published/maintained it until now). 🗃️ drive.google.com/file/d/1p-rQ...

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The quiet part out loud. But what Watters isn’t saying—and what is most critical to understand—is that the right’s entire model is top-down. It’s funded by and totally in service of capital. The conservative movement is a corporate counterrevolution, funded by the biggest money in America.

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This is how you do it

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Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

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Trump's resegregation and explusion of women from public service made the front page of the Albuquerque Journal today. Good thing the climate forecast for the next century is fewer wildfires! [taps earpiece] Ah, I see. And he's trying to make fewer people do this work? Well. Fuck.

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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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Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.

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Happy Congressional recess week! In honor of it, I put together a tracker of every vote the US House has taken so far this year. Which Democrats are standing up to Trump's agenda and which are being willful accomplices? docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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So the US is now kidnapping whole families and trafficking them to random countries that the US has coerced into imprisoning them for some unspecified period of time

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SCOOP: A group including Columbia alumni, professors & parents is trying to get students deported & arrested and urged people to tip off FBI. They’ve also disparaged Jewish protesters & tried to compile lists of JVP members. W/ @natashalennard.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/02/15/c...

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Sarah Cooper nails The History of Wealth Throughout History.

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