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this ignorant fucking hillbilly

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Good morning. Have you subscribed to The Handbasket yet? No time like the present. Got a good one coming out shortly...

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I am sad to share that all Retirement & Disability Research centers have been ordered to stop work. My fellowship will no longer exist, and the work of so many talented researchers and dedicated staff will be cut short. www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

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Fed workers, spending cuts: What Trump’s latest moves could mean for Maryland

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Impact of federal cuts on North Carolina's economy www.wfae.org/show/charlot...

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Older folks will remember the Cold War term "Kremlinology"—attempts to piece together from various clues the truth about the power struggles inside the Kremlin. Well, the fact that Kash Patel is the first Trumpy person to stand up to Musk in public is FASCINATING, Kremlinologically speaking.

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Accidents down 55% and injuries down 51% since nyc congestion pricing (!!!) www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/22/c...

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Elevator pitch: CQ Brown for Texas Senate.

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NEW: New Doge/Musk Email Drama Goes Seriously Sideways talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/new-d...

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ICYMI — under Trump the USDA has suspended the 1890 farm bill scholarship program that went to HBCU’s, including Tennessee State University, to increase the number of students studying agriculture and related majors. www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...

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There are a few places in this country that serve as testing grounds for conservative tactics, places where you can see the future before it arrives elsewhere. Coeur D'Alene, Idaho is one of those places -- I've written about it before This video should scare the absolute shit out of everyone

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NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

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George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse are walking free! They're doing fucking speaking tours!

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Elon Musk's first ex-wife (who is a novelist) wrote this harrowing account of his insane behavior back in 2010. Sadly, way too many people ignored it. www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a53...

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A must read story by @lomikriel.bsky.social "A top former government official who worked on refugee issues told ProPublica that another 100,000 refugees who had already been vetted by the Department of Homeland Security have also been blocked from entering the country." propub.li/3EI9X29

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.

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just started exploring ccr’s catalog outside of chronicle and wow this song. harder than their version of suzie q and it’s not even in their top 10 on spotify

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My thoughts on last nights firings

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I wrote at @flaminghydra.com today about the disappearance of privacy in your own house and some ideas on how to heal from that flaminghydra.com/issue-261/

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You have died of procedural norms.

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“.. wiping out almost all of its gains since President Trump took office last month ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/b...

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Coinbase donated $1 million to Trump’s inaugural, appointed his campaign co-mgr to its advisory board, and operates in the same sector as some of Trump’s businesses.

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He's not just breaking stuff, he's also hiding the stuff he's breaking.

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I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

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Today @polphilpod.bsky.social argues that Trump's brand of Christianity is not a deviation but within the norm of the American Christian tradition.

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the decadence of being served by the most dangerous machine ever invented and deciding that you could make yourself innocent of its actions by refusing to direct them

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I will vote for the first candidate who tells me they're going to make the biggest government possible. Reacher-sized agencies. Braun Strowman-level social benefits. Government so big it starts belching out National Parks and free healthcare. Chungus State.

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Once upon a time, these were actions by a private company. Now they are actions being undertaken by a high-ranking government official, in connection with his public activities. This raises 1A issues that didn’t exist before.

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New in @flaminghydra.com: the tech "geniuses" of Silicon Valley are obsessed with a hypothetical about AI, a nuclear warhead, and uttering an offensive word to save millions of lives. The scenario reveals just how stupid the culture wars have made them:

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That's um. Huh. Anyways sexual repression makes people do weird things sometimes

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gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

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the lack of reporting on musk's drug use is unspeakably cowardly

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The vast majority of human rights groups focused on North Korea face an existential crisis after receiving notices from the U.S. government that their grant funds have been frozen. “It’s just absolutely destroying groups,” said Sokeel Park, South Korea country director at Liberty in North Korea.

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What makes the current crop of rich people in this country so intolerable is that they could easily bail this institute out–and who doesn't like dinosaurs–and gain some popularity. But they are so greedy, they just won't help anyone but themselves. www.science.org/content/arti...

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I've been writing a series of essays for PBS on men whose style I admire. The latest is about James Baldwin, a man who knew how to sing through clothes. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

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Was in a bar the other day, enjoying a beer with my friend, when the Woke Police arrested us.

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Minnesota’s deputy director for the Small Business Administration was fired Feb. 7, rehired days later when the government said it made a mistake, and then fired again last week. Another federal employee who was abruptly fired has newborn twins in the NICU. More stories of chaos + cruelty:

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A brief history of the Pentagon's relative clear-eyed realism on climate change, now apparently upended by weird children

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If the block on the Federal Register isn’t removed in the next few months, I fear a majority of labs will close within a year. This small procedural wrench has the power to kill US science indefinitely, losing an entire generation of discovery and innovation.

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