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Trump can sign as many EOs as he wants but trans people are real. They are loved and cherished and valid and nothing he signs will change any of that. They are us and we will not allow them to be erased.

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The Associated Press picked up @nickjudin.bsky.social's story for @mississippifreepress.org about a judge ruling that the Mississippi Legislature is not a "public body" and not subject to the Open Meetings Act. apnews.com/us-news/miss...

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A reminder to us all to address childhood trauma before it turns you into a massive bell…

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Marshall Allen, leader of the Sun Ra Arkestra, began work on his debut solo album New Dawn two days after turning 100. It can feel like a transmission from the future and an echo of the distant past, and it's one of our picks for this week's Five Albums:

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Our about-to-be next FBI director just called journalism “the most powerful enemy the US has ever seen.”

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"For those wanting to track the progress of project 2025, here ya go. They're so far into it already, it's fucking scary." www.project2025.observer

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Important 🧵: Stanford political scientist uses data to show DOGE is attacking “liberal” agencies, not focusing on waste & inefficiency: “The hardest hit agencies are those that regulate industry, protect public health, and expand access to education.”

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Looking to be in touch with people who are in touch with people in New York prisons. email: [email protected] signal: cgelardi.42

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This is immensely embarrassing. Sen. Grassley has been in Congress for fifty years. He is president pro tempore of the Senate. His own Senate website says "An often overlooked role of Congress is to ensure the laws it passes are faithfully executed." www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Here’s the pitch: They hire back the accidentally-fired bird flu folks and the accidentally-fired nuclear security guys BUT they put them in each other’s jobs — also by accident! It’s TRADING PLACES meets FAILSAFE meets CONTAGION — and maybe also FREAKY FRIDAY! Need a title.

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Look, call me a stickler for Judicial Ethics, but I am not sure a nonpartisan, apolitical judge who is likely to hear cases involving the Trump administration should be sitting down with a club for conservative law students to discuss "DOJ AND THE WHITE HOUSE: DEFENDING PRESIDENTIAL PRIORITIES"

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🔬How did artists and scientific practitioners visualize their work in the early modern period? That’s the main question behind the online exhibition of rare books curated by @sietskefransen.bsky.social, @ariellaminden.bsky.social and Leendert van der Miesen. 🔗https://rarebooks.biblhertz.it

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If potatoes in French are called “apples of the earth,” it follows that apples should be called “potatoes of the sky”

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Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind? It's not because of immigrants, trans people, DEI, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP. It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.

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can’t teach the history of the navy to future naval officers, apparently

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Nearly a trillion dollars would go directly from the poor in need of medical care to millionaires and billionaires. That's who they are. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt. Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires? We have our answer. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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“Nice country you got there, shame if something were to happen to it”. Not just a kleptocracy, US is now a full-blown Mafioso state. www.politico.eu/article/us-d...

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A grim scene this afternoon as Emil Bove faced down lawyers from DOJ’s Public Integrity Section. One said it was “not anything any of us ever expected to see in America.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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I've been able to brush off most of the erasure of trans people from government websites, but this one is REALLY getting under my skin. It's just complete revisionist history. How fucking dare they Old vs. new

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This is so true. I think about it every day.

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"the signal has been sent, and the floodgates are now open to foreign regimes ready to ply American politicians with as much money as they want" from Casey Michel @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/f9d1...

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🚨BREAKING: While targeting federal education contracts, Elon Musk just scored a new deal for more government cash, according to documents reviewed by The Lever. The new "supplemental agreement" adds millions to SpaceX's already huge $3.9 billion deal.

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Associated Press: “Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.“

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A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

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On Sunday, JD Vance dared to argue that federal courts “aren’t allowed” to limit the president's “legitimate power. George Conway is forewarning America, predicting that Donald Trump is setting us up for a constitutional showdown that could mean the end of U.S. democracy. On…

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"The United States has reached a historic manufacturing milestone, surpassing 50 gigawatts (GW) of domestic solar module production capacity. At full capacity, these factories can produce enough to meet all demand for solar in the United States."

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Leavitt says they’ve begun flying deportees to Guantanamo Bay. This is functionally disappearing human beings. There is no consular access to Guantanamo, making it nearly impossible for those held there to be represented by their governments. There is virtually no media access, either.

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Trump has a 53% approval rating in a new CBS News poll, higher than in other surveys. Most Americans in this poll say Trump is doing what he promised on the campaign trail and describe him as tough, energetic, focused and effective. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

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New from me: I spoke to some immigration attorneys about what they've seen so far, and what they anticipate is coming. Some crazy stuff in here, including the fact that these attorneys did not want to be named out of fear of retaliation. 1/2 radleybalko.substack.com/p/a-q-and-a-...

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EXCLUSIVE: Candidates for national security roles in the new administration have been posed loyalty questions, such as: Was Jan. 6 an inside job, and Was the 2020 presidential election stolen? They were asked to give straight "yes" or "no" answers. Here's our story. wapo.st/3EF3aWN

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Because in the United States, it’s legal to feed chicken shit to cattle. That’s why. That’s literally the reason www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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It's breaking through.

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NEW: The Department of Education told employees late Friday that they must review and terminate all programs, contracts and policies that affirm the existence of transgender people. By @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

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Flood this! DOGE wants to hire people. I suggest you overload their system with fake applications. (This is how striking Kelloggs workers crashed a scab website, btw.) join.doge.gov I imagine Franco, Hitler & Disney supervillains would make good applicants. Spread the word. @altnps.bsky.social

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Not even a thread, but a series of comments on another post with some great practical information!

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Thread

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LGBTQIA minors make up 40% of the endangered minor runaway population. They are 120% more likely to be unhoused. They are also uniquely at risk for exploitation and trafficking. This is breathtakingly evil.

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46 years ago Nervous Breakdown is the debut EP by the American hardcore punk band Black Flag, released February 1979 with "Fix Me", "I've Had It" and "Wasted" on the B-side #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #blackflag #nervousbreakdown #history #punkrockhistory #otd

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"Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) on Wednesday rolled out the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy (ELON MUSK) Act, which would ban 'special' government employees like Musk from having federal contracts."

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It's OK for your hearts to be breaking. America was always an aspirational ideal, worth fighting for, imperfect and often evil, and sometimes, a beacon on a hill. You can sit with sadness. It's healthy. I'm giving you permission. Don't fight grief. Move or cry or scream or whatever you need to do.

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This is the best thing I’ve read since inauguration. 2+2=4 Don’t lose sight of the truth!

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ICE went to the home of a 61-year-old man with poor health and after his family informed ICE agents that they needed a warrant signed by a judge, dozens of ICE agents instead showed up in an armored vehicle with a battering ram and flash grenades and took him by force.

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Needing help + other people is the cost of being a person. Community isn’t just your neighborhood or your friends, it is about how you show up (or refuse to show up).

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