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Professor of Hispanic Studies--science fiction, fantasy, horror. Vice-Minister of Silly Walks. Reasonably-priced Tardis repair. Demonic ambassador to the Court of the Fae. Quantum punster, apocalyptic poet and runic rapper, yo.
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In issuing the temporary restraining order, the judge said DOGE’s access to the data breached federal privacy laws and posed irreparable harm to plaintiffs. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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dang they really are running the government like a university

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The top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

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Good morning America...💙

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If my AG has time to sue Costco over DEI, I reckon he has a couple of minutes to sue an unelected South African billionaire for stealing the data of hundreds of millions of Americans.

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l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...

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PSA: They’re killing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because it protects you from them.

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Gov JB Pritzker (R-IL) signs order prohibiting Jan 6 rioters from state employment in Illinois: “I hereby direct CMS to apply the State Personnel Code and consider any participation in the January 6 insurrection as infamous and disgraceful conduct that is antithetical to the mission of the State”

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Comics Scholars Society of Canada CFP for the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Link: www.comicsscholars.ca Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Comics George Brown College (GBC), Toronto Canada May 30-31, 2025

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This is as bad as one might expect. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Watched this live sitting next to my husband who was an active duty patrol officer in St Paul. As a cop’s wife, I saw these police officers who just showed up to do their job on Jan. 6 get brutally beaten. Watched as MAGA beat officers with Trump flags, and I will never forgive MAGA.

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Trump’s appointed FCC chair is trying to defund NPR and PBS. In other news, water is wet. — Source (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

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By popular demand:

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Trump blames "DEI hiring" (i.e. minorities who must of course be inferior workers) for the fisrt mid-air collision in the US in 16 years:

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Not a drag queen

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Very much enjoying Sue Burke's Interference. A worthy successor to her extremely original and well-written Semiosis.

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Corporate strategy choices have financial consequences. Done with Amazon first, now Target forever, and I used to shop there at the minimum weekly. 2024 clarity, fluently speaking in cash.

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America is this lady frantically trying to distance herself from the Nazi

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Tech Bros and Western Chauvinism go hand in saluting hand

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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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I saw this on TikTok but I had to go see it for myself. The White House website, translated into Spanish—gone. And they’ve replaced the Home button with the words “Go Home.” www.whitehouse.gov/es/

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bsky.app/profile/sueb...

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A fascinating read about the first life-form on Earth www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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time.com/archive/6598...

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"More significant was the fact Hitler became in 1938 the greatest threatening force that the democratic, freedom-loving world faces today."

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No women will lead a House committee for the first time in two decades after House Republicans revealed their list of committee leaders for the 119th Congress. No people of color were selected, either.

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