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Dear OPM, here’s 5 things I did last week: - Made 3 rings for the eleven kings under the sky - Made 9 for mortal men doomed to die - Made 7 for the dwarf lords in their house of stone - Made 1 ring to rule them all - Went TDY to Mordor where the shadows lie

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I told OPM what I did last week

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we have an adam driver, but do we have an adam cyclist? or an adam pedestrian? not even an adam wheelchair user? smh we're so carbrained

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Yet another way Trump is screwing rural America www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

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1. Monday - fell apart 2. Tuesday - broke my heart 3. Wednesday - same 4. Thursday - didn't even start 5. Friday - I'm in love

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an old co-author emailed me looking for a confirmation a non-existent paper supposedly authored by me that one of her students has cited in an essay... so i got curious and prompted gpt-4o “papers by abeba birhane”. it listed 9 papers none of which I authored

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Study finds that Meta and X Approved ads containing anti Muslim and antisemitic hate speech ahead of German Election techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/m...

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Mr. Hegseth has previously said that General Brown should be fired because of his “woke” focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military. Replaces a Black four-star fighter pilot with a white man who does not meet the statutory qualifications supposedly over DEI.

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I flew home tonight and thought “how badly could the world get fucked up while I don’t have internet it’s only four hours?” The world called BET HOLD MY BEER because what in the motherfucking fuck 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

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Civil-rights lawyer here. In my business, this is called prima facie evidence of invidious race & gender discrimination. And the other chiefs—all white men—are comparators. The evidence in support of the discrimination claim includes Trump‘s own “DEI” statements admitting to discriminatory motive.

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A year ago I had packed up my family to move to DC for the most exciting opportunity. Today I wait to be fired because fascists are hell bent on destroying this country. It’s almost too insane to believe and yet…

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Privacy controls and restrictions help prepare for the worst case scenario. You can’t assume you will always trust the recipient/collector of your information.

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Lots of folks are feeling overwhelmed and scared right now and say they don’t know what to do. Wear your masks, y’all. It’s one of the easiest, radical anti-fascist acts you can do.

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HUGE COMICS NEWS! I'm writing a new SILVER SURFER book, drawn by Sumit Kumar, with covers by Dike Ruan, edited by Tom Groneman! I freaking love Norrin Radd and this book is gonna be one of the best things I've ever worked on. Absolute dream team. Do not miss, friends! comicbook.com/comics/news/...

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stares in historian

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Republicans defunded Dolly.

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Do not mess with Miss Dolly. "Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library" www.thedailybeast.com/dolly-parton...

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If you haven’t ordered your last round of free Covid home tests, get ‘em now before they’re destroyed. special.usps.com/testkits

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Apparently I need to add “check for license plates” to the list when I pick up rental cars 🤦🏻‍♀️ Stay classy Ohio 🤘🏻 Corollary: you don’t see the license plate area on a Mustang when you put your luggage in the trunk, but cops on the side of the road scanning for plates do 🫠😬

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The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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Know what might slow down DOGE? If Democrats publicized a campaign encouraging federal workers to record their interactions with DOGE as potential evidence for future prosecution. Get names, audio (DC and Virginia only require one-party consent), take notes and print out emails.

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The story of Frances Thompson (a black trans woman who testified to Congress in 1866 about white men who sexually assaulted during the Memphis Massacre) is so incredibly telling to me because the southern media used her status as a trans woman as proof all testimony against them was a lie

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A source stationed in Germany has sent me emails showing the principal at a Department of Defense school, Weisbaden Middle, telling teachers they can no longer allow books to be checked out until someone has reviewed them for compliance with Trump’s anti-trans, anti-diversity ex orders.

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If the US blocks access to HRT, ADHD drugs, and SSRIs, I cannot begin to describe to you how much all of the tech sector will screech to a halt. The internet is built and maintained by trans people, people with chronic depression, and the neurodivergent. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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I’m teasing “being canceled in 2025” for the books and articles I’ve written on Twitter and FB But let’s be honest, my first piece for @doctrineman.bsky.social in To Boldly Go is a pro-DEI piece in my legal name that is probably going to have repercussions in the current environment

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Strip clubs, topless bars, Hooters etc have an opportunity to do something really funny and insist on making their workforce 50% male in order to comply with anti-DEI mandates. Those ladies are taking jobs away from red-blooded American men who need the work

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I invite Space Karen and all of his DOGE twats to live in base housing or the barracks for a few days. Go enjoy the black mold that no one wants to fix or the perpetual maintenance issues no one will address. And then tell me that these funds are unnecessary and over budgeted right now.

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every day I think about the comms strategy of the korean opposition party in the wake of the coup and I get so burningly resentful that other countries have legislators who are awake

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Given how hard it is to recruit technologists into government this is a travesty that will have negative effects for decades.

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This also includes veterans, including, I am told, at least some fully qualified wildland firefighters with actual fire experience. Per a source with knowledge: “I want everyone to know that they are firing veterans, fully qualified and trying to serve their country again in civil service.”

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‘Why My Baby?’: How Measles Robbed Samoa of Its Young (Gift Article) www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/w...

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Watching Rome burn isn’t as fascinating from inside of Rome.

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The ecosystem is a mess. Adversaries don’t need it via an app they make—They can just buy the data: Florida-based data broker says it obtained sensitive data on US military members in Germany from a Lithuanian firm, revealing the global nature of online ad surveillance. www.wired.com/story/rtb-lo...

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Support the @eff.org! www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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Also, no it can’t.

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We literally have science fiction on why this is a bad idea.

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I call him Space Karen, and therefore don’t ever have this problem 😂

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org is fighting for the digital rights of everyone in the USA. We demand accountability for this unconscionable collection and sharing of private data happening right now.

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