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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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RFK Jr. promptly cancels vaccine advisory meeting, pulls flu shot campaign. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

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(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

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Black officers were also not permitted to refer to themselves as policemen, but rather as patrolmen. To read the full story about how Miami’s Black police officers had to follow a different set of rules, click the link ⤵️

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This was published last October www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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Modern-Day Peaceful Protest… TikTokers are hunting Cybertrucks—pulling up behind them and projecting anti-Elon Musk messages onto the tailgate. What’s genius: the driver has zero rear visibility & zero idea. The Cybertruck Hunters account launched a week ago and already dropped a dozen videos.

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Ukraine has shown all of us around the world, what passion and patriotism looks like. For the past 3 years, they have stood tall and strong in the fight for democracy, sovereignty, freedom and humanity. Ukraine is all of us.

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I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

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JUST IN: “A federal judge in Maryland on Friday blocked the Trump administration from terminating federal grants and contracts related to DEI as called for in executive orders signed by President Donald Trump.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

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Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need

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This is an excellent, fact-filled article with video segments to answer questions about Trump & Putin’s “illegitimate president” propaganda war against Zelensky.

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Coke is often used as a a positive case study of an organization that did diversity right (after a bruising loss in an anti-discrimination suit). Conservatives claim to be free marketers, but by forcing companies to end anti-discrimination policies, they put bigotry over profits.

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This is why I keep talking about the last ten years as a metastasizing misinformation crisis. Why on EARTH would you think Trump would do anything thoughtfully or strategically? If the media is giving people this impression, it is lying to them

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It's also important to note how privatizing USPS will devastate rural communities. FedEx, UPS, etc. don't deliver in a lot of those areas and hand it off to USPS to deliver last mile. Voting is essential, but think of all the other stuff people get through the mail, including medicine.

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I’ve asked it before and I’ll ask it again: where oh, where are all of those strict constitutionalists demanding that the executive branch’s power and reach is limited in their very, very very limited government view?

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“It turns out that military veterans are disproportionately represented among the DOGE cuts, because they disproportionately work in federal jobs. Two-thirds of veterans voted for Trump in 2024.” Trump’s new mantra, “Fuck you for your service.”

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I do appreciate how creative humans are and how they can make songs about the fall of democracy that really slap

submitted 16 days ago • 32 comments

I am reposting this from yesterday because it REALLY bothers me. And it's not just traditional news outlets either. Sam deserves better, especially from us trans people.

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It's #FlamingoFriday time! Fiona in a hurry to get back to Fred, coming in hot. #birds Good weekend all!

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Now imagine if a black male american said this shit about white kids with ADD. White privilege in majority white countries is absolutely fucking wildly accepted. wordinblack.com/2025/02/rfk-...

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Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

submitted 2 days ago • 2595 comments

In addition to Congress being the place that makes the laws, pretty key thing, the constitution explicitly says Congress gets to create the postal system. It’s not left implied that that comes under law making generally. The President has no power to unilaterally abolish it and move it to commerce.

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'“Even if we don’t get enough weapons or if funding is cut, that doesn’t change our duty to (fight),” said a Ukrainian officer who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with military rules. “No shells? We’ll take up rifles. No rifles? We’ll grab shovels.”' apnews.com/article/ukra...

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Chancellor Crystal Hines Martin of Hinds County, Mississippi has issued a prior restraint order so ludicrously unconstitutional it’s only consistent with deliberate misconduct or abject ignorance of the relevant law. Disgraceful and lawless. /1

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in terms of professions that do indeed owe you something, politician is actually one of the big ones

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Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional. This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on! Huge win for trans people in MT!

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I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Jamie Raskin: "Given that I was marching at age 3, you know I’m not letting any coup-plotting, election-denying, insurrection-supplying autocrat, kleptocracy, plutocrat or theocrat, or any techno-feudalist Silicon Valley broligarchs aspiring dictator, turn me around now.” Amen!!

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So, looking at flu, Covid, and RSV rates this year… can we finally put the “immunity debt” idea to rest? I think a much more parsimonious explanation is that people are getting vaccinated less and taking disease less seriously.

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In South Carolina, tonight: “I have an ectopic pregnancy. It’s on my ovary. They’re making me risk my ovary even though I don’t want to. They refuse to do the surgery.” #ForcedBirthNation Original Post: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2yCKENt/

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Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.

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They're going after the LGB too. We told you so. www.washingtonian.com/2025/02/18/k...

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Think space exploration is a "waste of money?" If you use/depend on: - phone camara&smartphone - scratch resistant lenses - wireless earbuds - prosthetics - CAT scans - purified water - memory foam - solar panels - LED lights - fireproof fabrics Then you benefit from its advancements. FUND IT!

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How Ireland Becomes A Nuclear Superpower Liam: Right, we’ve got the rocket. Now all we need is some enriched uranium. Conor: ENRICHED uranium? sucks through his teeth Hang on, I might have something in the shed. 5 mins later C: Will this do? L: The very thing, Conor. Good man yourself.

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How Livelihood Alternatives Are Changing The Future For Pelagic Thresher Sharks www.forbes.com/sites/meliss... By diversifying local incomes, Indonesia is exploring new strategies to reduce the pressures on pelagic thresher shark populations and promote sustainable fisheries.

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I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important: Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

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Dragon lightning Captured in South Dakota in 2022.

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That’s how you write a headline, people.

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"But please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended." ~Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (1983)

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I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

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JFK Presidential Library and Museum shuts down in Boston due to Trump executive order www.bostonherald.com/2025/02/18/j...

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Headline: Exploding rocket company to oversee changes to airplane safety. buff.ly/3X86gt4

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I wrote about Elon Musk and Gavin Kliger and acknowledging the reality of what they are: Nazis.

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Have you heard the good news? The UK is investing in🌡 climate detection systems. So even as the US takes belligerent steps backwards, Europe is making investments & advancements.🌍 One thing is certain everyone needs to take this sh't far more seriously.⌛ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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