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The Trump regime's segregationist agenda is clear. I argue that having a Black man as president of white America enraged a portion of this country so much, that they decided to destroy any pipeline to Black advancement in academia, government, & workplaces. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trumps-seg...

submitted 9 hours ago • 176 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1069 comments

Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

submitted 22 hours ago • 598 comments

for the cycle of responses to images from Nolan's Odyssey production

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Just so everybody is clear on Republican priorities: We put up an amendment to make sure nobody making over $500 million gets a tax cut. Republicans voted against it.

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Grateful to the lawyers and folks who put this memo together. Hopefully it can provide necessary courage for university administrators who may be tempted to comply in advance.

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Update: The White House is already backing down on this. Keep calling your reps. Keep pressuring them. Along with your reps, the white house phone number is (202) 456-1111. Use 5calls.org to get all your reps in one place along with a guide. www.nysun.com/article/whit...

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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NPR Up First this morning reports that many of the immigrants that Trump sent to Guantanamo were already in detention centers from the Biden administration. So the use of Guantanamo is a PR stunt to make Trump feel like a big boy.

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I literally have no idea how to explain to people That so many of the self-loathing women that they find on the Babylon bee or other right-wing media sites are just AI generated images whose speech is populated by online trolls paid by foreign actors

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“Business acumen”! Trump was a multiply bankrupt joke who did lame sitcom cameos before The Apprentice came along. I guess the eternal lesson is that jokes are dead serious

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Breaking news: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil.

submitted 2 days ago • 793 comments

Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only #HATM

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The next step in the Russian autocratization playbook is to sell government holdings off to cronies

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Toronto university slashes 18 programs including English due to financial pressures www.blogto.com/city/2025/02...

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The HHS Advisory Committee on Long Covid has been eliminated. This committee was formed in late 2023 and actually never met. By cutting it, the Administration is ensuring that they have no input within the Executive Branch from Long Covid patients, physicians, and researchers. #LongCovid

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stares in historian

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I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 3 days ago • 322 comments

This is a good response to the letter by Marjorie Hass, president of the Council of Independent Colleges: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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I know there are so many bad things happening, but this "Dear Colleague" letter from the Department of Education is truly awful. The way it so clearly--I might even say gleefully--distorts the history of civil rights and race based discrimination is truly chilling. www.ed.gov/media/docume...

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I don’t know what to call this but flamboyantly evil.

submitted 4 days ago • 260 comments

Simcha Gross closes our panel celebrating his recent book by offering an inside look at his revisionist goals for rethinking the role of minorities in the Sasanian Empire.

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Francis Young, "Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe's Last Pagan Peoples" - Cambridge University Press, May 2025 cambridge.org/core/books/s...

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I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?

submitted 3 days ago • 1521 comments

This. He is choosing, based on his personal preferences, to stop paying for those agencies to dismantle them (including agencies that have or are investigating him/his companies) It’s like stopping paying your house mortgage. You are not “saving” that money, you are withholding obligatory spending

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 4 days ago • 8248 comments

muSSkkk is canceling contracts already appropriated by Congress, something he can't do, and funneling the money he's "saving" directly into his pockets. This feels illegal. #elon #musk #atheism #atheist #christianity #christiannationalism #aoc #protests #rubio #doge #usgovernment #coup #itsacoup

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🗃️ Ephrem Ishac introduces the first public Syriac HTR model on @transkribus.bsky.social 💻 helping make Syriac manuscripts more accessible 📜 🤖 #digitalhumanities #SyriacStudies #history #HTR #Coding #llm digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/18/f...

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you don't talk about stuff like eggs or long lines at national parks because those are more important than the coup against the rule of law. you talk about that stuff because getting low information americans mad at Trump about that stuff is a precondition to getting them to care about the big stuff

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We always want to look for wedge issues to divide the GOP, and Elon Musk's gutting of federal agencies is a big one: If elected GOP officials are balking publicly, it means they are panicking privately. Keep calling your GOP elected to keep the pressure on. www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Maybe getting rid of required history courses at U.S. colleges and universities was not a good idea.

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Allowing the administration to define broad swaths of history, programming and civil rights compliance as “DEI” and then regurgitating that language instead of clearly articulating what specifically is being targeted is spreading disinformation and propaganda.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Yeah, no. Those AI models depend on the work of actual experts and what they crap out is always inferior to the work of actual experts. AI work looks expert-ish to outsiders in a field but if you really know a subject it’s almost always bullshit dressed up a bit.

submitted 5 days ago • 99 comments

one of the stupidest things i have had the misfortune of reading today and i am sharing it with you.

submitted 5 days ago • 1818 comments

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

submitted 5 days ago • 126 comments

It's also below 20 degrees in Detroit today, with 6-8 inches of snow on the ground from the last few days. So this is particularly dangerous and awful.

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Elon Musk's DOGE team of misfits have fired everybody at the Federal Aviation Administration ✈️ who is a probationary employee Thinking they have got rid of all the new hires It turns out many of these were experienced technicians, recently promoted and were on probation for their new senior role

submitted 6 days ago • 90 comments

A little affirmation for your day. Digital and print #academicvalentines now available on my website: tweedediting.com/valentines

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Roses are red. Violets are blue. Wear a mask. It's a coup.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Not a single member of the Trump administration is worthy of anything but contempt but this man and his bare naked greed, his cynical and cunning exploitation of his name/legacy in the search for power and money might be among the worst. And might end up being among the most harmful.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

The corruption is just so brazen. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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As Bad As It Gets: The dangerous co-optation of the Justice Department by the Trump White House continues in ways both substantive and symbolic. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

The passive authoritarian tense

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Two administrators at Harvard Divinity School’s Religion in Public Life program have left. The latest, Hussein Rashid, cited anti-Muslim bias.

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Heads up #ancientsky and please RS: ReMeDHe is accepting nominations for the Heidi Marx Prize for the best article published in the last 3 years on medicine, health, and healing in the ancient Mediterranean Deadline is firm at March 1 Details here: www.remedhe.com/the-heidi-ma...

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