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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.

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Everyone is quick to jump to 1930s Nazi comparisons with these guys, when I think the goal they can achieve is Apartheid-era South Africa. A whole lot of white people wouldn’t condone outright murder, but enforced state segregation? They absolutely would go for that.

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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OK this “assertion” presented as neutral fact by the New York Times is fucking enraging. Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs to replace him with a loyalist. The extremely qualified person he fired is Black, and in writing this, the NYT is laundering racism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Want to reduce crime and end homelessness? Start supporting supportive housing! vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

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I feel like we made a mistake invoking 1984 so causally in past decades. Because holy shit, here we are, right in it:

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Rosen has voted for 7 of Trump's nominees. Yesterday she was the lone Democrat to vote for Kelly Loeffler to lead the Small Business Administration. Loeffler & her husband (CEO of the company that owns NY Stock Exchange) sold millions in stock after she attended a closed COVID briefing in Jan 2020.

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We can’t replace our 50m pool with a 50m pool because we give the VPD $434m a year and also we need to give them another $5m for the chief’s retirement party #vanpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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“These are children with literally no adults here in the United States. So they have nobody to refer to, to say, ‘Hey, can you help me find a private attorney?’ These are kids, literally.” by @racheluranga.bsky.social www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

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Asylum seekers are deported to Panama, locked in a hotel without access to counsel, and then sent to a jungle detention camp which one migrant described as “a zoo with cages.” Among them are 8 children. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

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From a century ago. Was the mid-20th century only an anomalous blip of light in an otherwise dark reality? Let's hope not.

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I'm sure Illinois folks could fill me in on problems, but it's a rare treat when a politician i'd assumed to be a neolib centrist actually shows us he's better than expected. Sort of a reverse Fetterman.

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No surprise at all. At least Clyburn is consistent: somewhere on the spectrum between Manchin and Fetterman. I.e. disgusting.

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Democrats, ARE YOU LISTENING???

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I admire Dr. Snyder and use his work in a talk I'm giving tomorrow. But I sincerely wish people on the left would stop using "affirmative action" or "DEI" as metaphors for unearned. This helps the bad guys by reinforcing an association between ameliorative policy and a supposed lack of merit.

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If we retain functioning societies, anti-immigrant hate all over the global north will effectively destroy them. As capitalism promotes collective suicide and not climate mitigation, racism is on the course to doom us. Unless things change drastically. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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Exhibit #5,000,000 that none of this has anything to do with efficiency. It's just incredibly basic white Christofascism. Anti-science, anti-life. Profoundly sadistic. The people who claim they are going to protect your money would spend any amount of money to cause you even a little more pain.

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A grim but realistic look at all the ways everything can come crashing down around us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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There seems to be almost no real opposition, only a Greek chorus of hand-wringers and collaborators. the.ink/p/essay-home...

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Exactly. I'd like a diversity of views based reality. "There’s no homework assignment that requires you to allow people to ruin your experience. You’re not required to spend a certain number of hours a day engaging with hateful people." www.damemagazine.com/2025/02/18/a...

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Kill. Me. Now.

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The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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Because none of the amendments in the Bill of Rights are in force any more, except a distortion of the second.

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No, you ineffectual dipshit. Eric Adams has to show his back to us as he's run out of town on a rail.

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The fundamental problem with negotiating with russia is that russia has no intention of abiding by international law, nor does it intend to abide by any treaties it might sign. russia's signature on anything means nothing. They never keep their word.

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Scary. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

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Here's a very realistic, do-able, powerful thing that Democrats can do, immediately. Will they though? Perhaps calling your Senator is warranted. theintercept.com/2025/02/17/e...

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Remember when we were like “Biden ban Trump from office” and “Biden fire dejoy” and “Biden expand the courts” etc and a bunch of liberals were like “HE CANT BC RULES” yeah just thinkin about that while planes crash every day bc a guy who isn’t even president just kinda felt like “disrupting” the FAA

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Sacramento today. No king day.

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Democrats during Biden: We're trying, but those damn Republicans, who aren't even the majority, keep blocking us! Democrats now: We're trying, but we can't accomplish anything because we're not in the majority. What can we possibly do?

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Suddenly, they care: The same media and institutions that cheered on Biden’s Gaza genocide are now clutching their pearls over Trump’s plan. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/the-...

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Fortunately there are still people with advanced degrees who can spot BS like this a mile away.

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A racist Jewish American believes two Israeli tourists are Palestinian and attempts to murder them. Sadly, his victims join in the racism. As this is beginning to represent Judaism, i'm beginning to think i want out, entirely. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Ben Jennings for the Guardian, Feb. 17 2025

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[7th major plane crash in a week] Jeffries: but mr. President, we thought you cared about the cost of living

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About 50 years ago, I was reading political thrillers, including several by Fletcher Knebel. His 1966 novel, NIGHT OF CAMP DAVID, centers on a U.S. president who has gone insane. Signs of insanity include: desire for (a) an alliance with the USSR, and (b) annexation of Canada.

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It’s crucial that folks realize that DOGE is grabbing data from the Gov Accountability office and claiming it as their findings. There is nothing illegal about grants that mention diversity, equity, and inclusion. This is how technofascism operates. X is a psyOp and Musk is chief propagandist.

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The Guardian's First Dog on the Moon for Feb. 17 2025

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We'll see if anyone in Canadian government is willing to take real steps like these. Not holding my breath. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

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"[Issue x] is a distraction!" is a corrosive outlook. All outrages are important to fight. Nobody can fight them all, but together we can cover them all. You telling somebody who is fighting an issue that you aren't fighting that what they're doing is a distraction is a distraction. Stop.

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When the Nazis took power and gutted the Weimar era civil service in government, they also claimed the need to increase efficiency and to ensure loyalty to the nazi party. They did it through the law for the restoration of the professional civil service. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_for...

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Of course it was never about China. It was about AIPAC and Israel. Criticism of ongoing genocide, not throttled as it was on X, Meta, etc. was dubbed "anti-Semitic" and was the major reason for the TikTok ban. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/tiktok-ban...

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By the way, if anyone has the slightest doubt that Donald is full of shit about Canadians getting “the best treatment” and “better care” should their country be annexed by the US, I encourage them to note the relative positions of Canada and the USA on this graph.

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Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

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