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And have your parents complain! (I’m not saying it’s right but uni admin really seems to respond to parents they perceive as footing the bill).

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Hey. You should text/call/voice-note some friends just because. Don't just DM silly videos. Check in with them. We all need some genuine connection right now!

submitted 1 day ago • 138 comments

Is Congress ever going to stand up to this guy as he strips them of their constitutional powers day after day?

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Same with Diet Coke.

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These plane crashes are such a sad/scary/perfect metaphor for all of the Trump admin shenanigans. Illegal budget cuts will mean disarray and unnecessary death in less visible areas as well.

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Wrong. The content produced by AI is often incorrect. So asking the right questions will still produce the wrong answers. And even worse, will produce confidence in those putting forward the wrong answers.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

🚨New post live on Empirical Truths🚨 Written with my PhD Day 1 @estebanjq.bsky.social. The "Friday Night Massacre" of .gov websites and datasets has many of us terrified, and researchers are trying to make heads or tails of what to do and how to go forward.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I think we need a class action lawsuit by all taxpayers. If they aren’t spending our $ as appropriated then we want it back.

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🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨 Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

submitted 5 days ago • 289 comments

My sentiments exactly

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We are so very screwed. This is how Dem Senate leadership is spending their time during an ongoing coup. We need a new party.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

we are getting a national version of red state governance, where the people in charge do everything they can to impoverish the state under the view that the more wretched things get, the easier it is for them to stay in power

submitted 7 days ago • 330 comments

McConnell being the lone no vote on any of this is like Godzilla offering to repaint a window sill after destroying Tokyo

submitted 8 days ago • 40 comments

So glad people are talking about this. It's bothered me for a while.

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So…not much, given that there is an ongoing coup of our government.

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🚨🚨🚨 Urgent Message to Share WIDELY 🚨🚨🚨 Federal employees that are dismissed as part of the Musk & Trump assault should appeal on the grounds that they were fired for partisan political reasons‼️ ➡️ Make an appeal to MSPB following these procedures: www.mspb.gov/appeals/appe... 💪🏼👊🏼✊🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Trump “intends to curtail research on infectious diseases, ban a wide swath of virological work, & perhaps even prosecute those who, it believes, created the Covid-19 pandemic.…’There is a vendetta.’” Essential reading from @justinling.ca @wired.com www.wired.com/story/reveng...

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

The new kickback scheme.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I assume she’s purposely going for the Cruella DeVille motif?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe we can start a noise campaign so she literally can’t sleep at night. Bang pots and pans outside her door. We can call it the ‘Wake TF Up’ Campaign.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Why wait til next year? Push them to resign now.

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If Democrat electeds are annoyed by pressure from voters and constituents, I'm sure the voters would be glad to replace them with new representatives who would welcome a call to action www.axios.com/2025/02/12/d...

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

The winning strategy is simply to blame rich people. If you don't have a strategy for when rich people leave your coalition, then you haven't sorted it out and should become a Republican where this will all be easier for you.

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US cyber agency puts election security staffers on leave Staffers at the nation’s cybersecurity agency whose job is to ensure the security of US elections have been placed on admin leave, jeopardizing critical support provided to state & local election offices www.wxii12.com/article/cisa...

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

IES is the best federal research program I know. They strategically invest in the whole pipeline of research from description, to intervention design, to piloting & eval of promising designs, to scale up & eval of promising pilots, then dissemination & commercialization.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

So now you study Limate-cay Hange-cay. I don’t think AI speaks pig Latin yet.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Is there anything we can do to push his illiquidity crisis along?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Seriously. But also, he halted EEOC, so employers can keep moving forward with DEI without worrying an about complaints anyway.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Maybe let Costco and other corporate Visa sponsors know as well…

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

An answer to the question circulating this week about whether to use US flags at protests

submitted 12 days ago • 35 comments