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If this happened in a foreign country we’d call it a purge

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27% of Michiganders are on Medicaid. Almost one in three.

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Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue: 1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance 2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion 3. Don't live post resistance meetings

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106 years ago this week, the US Army realized that it was hiring unqualified, uneducated, illiterate job candidates because of racial preferences… White men

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There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

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No, the mail is not “the least of our worries.” It’s a fucking important worry. It is the only postal service that delivers to every address. They are only provider of complete mail services for overseas military bases and provide free overseas PO boxes. They help prepare passport apps. Ship meds…

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Some thoughts on the release of the hostages’ bodies today. There’s enough sorrow to share. Enough empathy to go around. Let us break open, rather than close up.

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If you are in the LGBTQ+ community, your existence matters. The current administration wants, for cynical political purposes, to make you feel helpless and alone. You are not. If you don’t have a support network at home, there are helping hands reaching for yours. (Cont.)

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May I present some ways that we might ask for our users' sex/gender on our forms in order to comply with new EOs: codepen.io/buttermilkbi...

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I don't think the Dems can stop the firings. But why aren't they proposing legislation that assures those that took the buyout get paid , and that all that are fired, get at least a year severance and health benefits? And any one with a health condition is covered the entire time they are sick?

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trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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I don't know Spanish but Hell YES!!

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Trump administration drops work on stronger building codes for natural disasters www.npr.org/2025/02/20/n...

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You have to be a particularly vile human being to pick a fight with Dolly Parton over anything, but especially providing books for kids.

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This is SO important. We have to make arguments clear and concise for the public. Save the caveats and asterisks for the colloquium. And yes, your colleagues might call you unserious and be mean to you about it; remember no one is listening to them.

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New issue of German Studies Review has a diminutive special section I edited, “Remediating the Third Reich,” with fantastic essays by Mary Hennessy (on the 1943 film GROßSTADTMELODIE) and Brook Henkel (on Fassbinder’s WORLD ON A WIRE) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54291

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Amanda Zurawski, one of the Texas women who nearly died due to the states abortion ban, has been named one of Time’s Women of the Year.

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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

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"Crack-Up Capitalism": Historian @quinnslobodian.com on Trump, Musk & the Movement to "Shatter" the State

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The Trump Administration is making it impossible for immigrants from Ukraine, Latin America, Haiti and Venezuela 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺. With this applications pause in place, migrants CAN'T get another legal status, like TPS. Noem cancelled TPS for many Venezuelans. youtu.be/J_Q9p5nrxbI?...

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NEW: You may have seen that screenshot of a program for students with disabilities transitioning to adulthood being canceled under the Trump administration. The real story is so much deeper. 1/

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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

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Who watched Don't Look Up? So many people I know didn't like it but ...

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On this Day of Remembrance, we honor the 120,000 Japanese Americans unjustly imprisoned during WWII because of their heritage. Their resilience remind us to never forget the lessons of history. We will continue to fight for justice, equality, and civil rights for all.

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Over 120,000 Japanese Americans forced into imprisonment in internment camps simply because they were of Japanese heritage.

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