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Given that Elon was implying that how employees handled this email could be grounds for dismissal, it seems like he’s trying to do an end-run around individual’s Weingarten rights www.ueunion.org/stwd_wei.html

UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

I mean, they just hate the idea that someone might do something that doesn't damage the planet insideclimatenews.org/news/2102202...

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MORE #FOIA news

In the stunning admission of a typo, Buddy Kennedy has been named Secretary of Health and Human Services.

At the Long Beach Tesla Takedown, lots of folks out here (I’d estimate probably 40-50 so far) and lots of support from cars driving by. Come out and join!

Yes, the zoo is partially funded by public dollars. No, that does not make them “your wombats.”

www.rawstory.com/us-military/

Kahlenberg's housing takes are bad, but somehow he's outdone himself here. Terrible but unsurprising.

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Nazi shit happens at CPAC every single year now. It's undeniable what that hive is. Anyone denying this shit still has their head so far up their own ass that they should never be taken seriously for any reason on any topic ever again because they're delusional.

Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling work to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. “We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed.” https://propub.li/4370xr2

W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

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I assume this is a typo, but I am def interested in eating some of my officials!

I was set to launch my book at the Carter Library next month. This week, we were told all events now need approval from the National Archives. The next day, my event was forced to relocate. A book about the working homeless. A book about civil rights. Apparently these topics are now off limits.

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

Democrats: we can't do anything because in order to properly wield power, norms and traditions say first you need to say the magic words in sixteen different languages only spoken by the Senate Parliamentarian Republicans: We just reincarnated Hitler and cloned him just because

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

These cuts WILL impact wildfire response. Anyone who says otherwise does not know what they are talking about.

A memo to the Education department’s Office for Civil Rights reveals that the agency will allow “only disability-based discrimination” cases to proceed. Thousands of outstanding race, gender complaints will continue to sit idle. @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social

Absolutely unethical behavior from HP. Just tell me you don't want my money. www.theregister.com/AMP/2025/02/...

Trump take wing

PBO report found that a basic income floor can slash poverty by 40% at just 5% of what we're spending on poverty, saving taxpayer money. BNN Bloomberg has called it "trickle-up economics" that grows the economy and improves people's ability to retrain and find better work.

NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out USAID told me it can’t release documents via #FOIA due to “recent developments” Meanwhile, a memo I obtained sent to DHS FOIA officers this week directs them to “maximize transparency” when processing FOIA requests www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

There's nothing slow-motion about it. We ride.

Sure, Halford the pallid bat (A. pallidus), has amazing ears but check out that tongue! #bats #arizona #cuteanimals #wildlife

Defacing this to say LOGICAL MEN and giving them little fedoras

well-before makes nice masks that are comfy and seal well on our big heads/faces (and i have high cheekbones and a low nose bridge) AND, more importantly, don't trigger my chemical allergies they're back in stock n99 with a rubber-y gasket: wellbefore.com/products/wel...

I love my community radio station KXCI 😍

Nina Simone. Born this day in 1933. Ink, pencil and watercolour drawing from 2018.

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."  —FDR, 1936

For all the USPS's faults, Americans have to realize: It's one of the best postal services in the world, even after being kneecapped by DeJoy. Fight for our postal service, guys. I know I will. It is an essential public good.

What parent could object to letting this upstanding looking man inspect their children's genitals?