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The Regime says they want to get rid of “waste, fraud, and abuse” while they toss critical long-standing studies that you, the taxpayer, paid for into the trash. The PRAMS study is essential for understanding maternal and child health.

New Ed Martin letter—this time to Wikipedia about its tax-exempt status. In it, he asks about topics including its editorial practices, editor anonymity, "hateful content and conduct by editors," and content used to train LLMs. www.thefp.com/p/trump-pros... Letter: drive.google.com/file/d/1ocNy...

Always the best people.

“Worst April since 1932” says WSJ - gift link and a few pictures of bread lines in NY from 1932 www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

God Damn this world and the men that have destroyed it.

It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you

(TAKE MACHINE STARTING UP) What Shedeur Sanders sliding tells us (TAKE MACHINE HITS THIRD GEAR) about America’s fraught relationship (TAKE MACHINE GETS LOUDER) with fathers and masculinity (TAKE MACHINE SPEWING SMOKE) by Ross Douthat

Don't let them in.

THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING NONSTOP! "Every single moment, statement, or action that slows down the backslide into authoritarianism is a good one, and we should look for and document them." www.lawdork.com/p/what-the-t...

This is why the Trump regime and ICE doesn't want due process - they are bullshitting and fabricating every step of the way and their BS can't withstand even the smallest of scrutiny.

I don’t want this iteration of the United States. I want what we still can be… if we value the freedom of all and fight against the lies of fantasy and hate.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Trump has signed more than 120 executive orders since taking office. These orders aren’t law, but you wouldn't know that from the headlines. 'It’s the media’s responsibility not to leave the public with a false impression,' @sulliview.bsky.social writes margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/trump-pret...

Throughout 2024, I said that the worst thing about Trump's return to power would be America's abandonment of the Ukrainians. We would throw them to the wolves. It would be sickening. And it is.

ICE harassed a lawyer who provided advice to an undocumented family about their immigration case, including *shutting off his wifi so his Ring camera couldn’t record the interaction.* radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

Some of America’s wealthiest business leaders might have lost even more money if they hadn’t offloaded millions of dollars’ worth of stock prior to President Trump’s tariff announcement in early April.

Gov. DeWine just signed SB1, a law ending “DEI” in Ohio public higher ed. Now that it’s law, U of Toledo just killed the following BA programs: • Africana Studies • Asian Studies • Disability Studies • Middle East Studies • Philosophy • Religious Studies • Women's/Gender Studies And… • Spanish

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

Once again we see the truth for the MAGAts. Diversity with people of color, race or gender = worst thing in history Affirmative action for less skilled and less talented white supremacists = a-okay

@harvard.edu @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Sounds like a good reason to fill a lawsuit against the government, no? Hard to punish people for rules that are rolling back.

The Trump administration is ending federal civil rights enforcement, including in higher education. The regulations being repealed here are the basis for the withdrawn science funding at Columbia & Harvard. They specifically accused them of Title VI violations. 🧪 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

Time to catcall MAGA idiots with “BDS” Anytime you criticize Trump, proper twats say “oh, you got TDS!” These idiots have BDS- Biden Derangement Syndrome. They blame MAGA failures on Biden like an immediate tic caused by a virus that eliminated critical thinking—and created antibodies to facts.

Feels like any capable strategist would look at this and say “here’s an issue that is Trump’s main strength and he’s just given us an opportunity to obliterate that strength by *waaaay* overplaying his hand, let’s take it and run with it”

10/10 protest sign. No notes. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Only one of these men has a criminal conviction—and his name isn’t Kilmar Garcia!

This is an enormous theft—not just privatizing a government function with a worse and more expensive for-profit substitute, but also a massive government financial data heist—and on the other side of it everyone needs to end up broke and imprisoned to deter them and others from doing it again.

Is the consensus among mainstream journalists that the White House slandering a man they delivered into slavery using a crudely manipulated photo in the president’s grasp in the Oval Office is just not a very newsworthy event?

anyone who writes about or talks about the ongoing impact of racism in the united states is accused of a "victim mentality," but this here is the actual victim mentality

"The men and women at the Naval Academy will go on to lead combat missions, to command aircraft carriers...We will soon entrust them with incredible responsibilities and power. But we fear they’ll be hoodwinked or brainwashed by certain books?" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

Hey, John Roberts? The White House liaison to DHS is saying that you have no understanding of law and its proper function and role.

Good morning to everyone but especially the White House employee whose assholery apparently woke up SCOTUS

People are entitled to vote for whomever they want, for whatever reasons matter to them. But when people who haven't been victimized complain that they're victims—people who have, in fact, been subsidized—and that this victimization entitles them to hurt others, no one's obligated to indulge that.

Be like Dolly.

You guys Elon Musk appointed the head of the IRS and President Trump didn’t even know about it.