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A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Let's say their names: * General CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: FIRED FOR BEING BLACK * Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE * Admiral Linda Fagan, Coast Guard Commandant: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE All replaced by less qualified white guys.

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Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

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Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, its recently departed director, Robert Santos, tells NPR. By @hansilowang.bsky.social

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Go Janet!

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This is really something

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With so many crazy things happening, focusing on them all is impossible. So, I am trying to pay attention to the things I have expertise The new admin floated handing over FAFSA and student loan repayment guidance to AI. Here is why that is a terrible idea #EduSky www.newamerica.org/education-po...

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Life-threatening infections in Texas have soared among women losing a pregnancy after the state’s abortion ban. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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Elon Musk claims DOGE has saved $55 billion, but the numbers don’t add up. DOGE released a list of canceled contracts totaling $16 billion in supposed savings. However, nearly half of that came from an $8 billion ICE contract—except that contract was actually worth just $8 million.

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Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-p...

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Out of the 12,000 civil rights complaints the Education Department has put on hold since Trump took office: • 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students • 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence • 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination

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Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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Trans people were on the front lines at Stonewall. Don't let Trump, Musk, or a bunch of Vichy gays and TERFs tell you otherwise. My latest for Slate on what happened to the Stonewall monument website, why autocrats always destroy history, and where it can lead slate.com/news-and-pol...

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The FAA firings will continue until they stop all these planes from crashing

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The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

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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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I don’t know about y’all, but I’m starting to think the only thing that kept the planes from crashing before was diversity.

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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🔬 On 11 February, we celebrate the important contributions of women to the STEM disciplines. On this occasion, we asked six female scientists what science means to them: home.cern/news/news/cern/international-day-women-and-girls-science-2025

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"This is one of the most talent-dense events we do," one Army recruiter told Military.com. “Our footprint there has always been significant. We need the talent." 24 percent of Army enlistees are Black. To be clear: the DEI purge has nothing to do wjth meritocracy.

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This is so awful. Trump’s proposed imperialist land grab from devastated people is repackaged as a “development plan.”

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Let’s gloat.

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Trump administration solves problem that it created.

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This. Share this.

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“A new analysis by independent automotive blog FuelArc suggests that fire fatalities are 17 times more likely in a Cybertruck than in the infamous Ford Pinto — the posterchild deadly cars if ever there was one.”

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"I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire."

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"He is not trying to just ensure white countries stay white. He is trying to destroy brown and black countries. And his destruction of USAID is just the first step in that approach." The ever-astute @eladn.bsky.social on Elon Musk, white globalist

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“... I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.” John F. Kennedy, 1962

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Affirmatively stating that you are a racist is no longer a fireable offense. But supporting workplace diversity is.

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One reason Musk might be so driven to shut down USAID? The agency's inspector general opened a probe into Starlink last year. Now the Trump administration says Musk will self-determine his conflicts of interest. Hello?

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"And then we'll have a white guy with a shaved head wearing a brown shirt block the way..." "Come on, Bob, no one will believe that part of the script. Dial it down."

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This will go well lol #Article3andthenYoureFree

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Who could have possibly predicted?

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Catastrophe.

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FT: “.. An entrepreneur .. told German media that he had been ‘completely overrun’ with orders for a sticker he produced for Tesla owners that read: ‘I bought this before Elon went crazy.’” $TSLA www.ft.com/content/ea23...

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Good morning New York. While you were sleeping, this was our most read piece. www.ft.com/content/d202...

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NYT wrote an article basically saying, "Canada doesn't export much fentanyl to the US and where it does, it comes in via the method pioneered by Trump pardon recipient Ross Ulbricht," only it doesn't mention Ulbricht. It never mentions that fentanyl was a pretext. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/w...

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Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

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“Officials at the Homeland Security Department — which oversees the Coast Guard — cited border security issues and an ‘excessive focus’ on diversity, equity and inclusion among the reasons for her dismissal.” tldr; she was fired for commanding while female

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Happy Black History Month!

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It’s no coincidence that Donald Trump has withdrawn the U.S from the UN Human Rights Council just prior to meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu. Where DJT then explains how he’s going to take possession of GAZA & “relocate” its citizens. We Told You So, Protest Voter. Jill Stein Voter, 3rd Party Voter

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everything is fraud, for show.. caves on tariffs and fake deportations. his followers get scammed again

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Just so y'all know - the dude that hijacked the federal government couldn't get clearance because of his drug use and ties to foreign nationals. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Sharing this from Rt. Rev. Jonathan H. Folts, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota. “One of our own priests was targeted at his home—so let no one say, ‘it can’t happen here.’ It can. It has. It is. And rest assured, we will not remain silent or passive in responding.” My heart aches.

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