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BREAKING: In response to our lawsuit, the National Endowment for the Arts will no longer force grant applicants to certify that they won't promote "gender ideology." This is a big step toward defeating the NEA's unconstitutional censorship.

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Happy International Women's Day ♀️

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Silence will mean death. Will Americans speak up? Will they FIGHT for the lives of others? Part of me wants to believe they will but a bigger part of me looks at the recent elections & thinks most Americans will be cheering for the deaths of people like myself. Gavin Newsom, we're looking at YOU.

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NEW from me: DoD hired Kingsley Wilson, a deputy press secretary with a very very long history of bigoted and xenophobic posts www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Perfect title — the famous quote from The Great Gatsby which i also used as the opener of my memoir Burn Book. We need more insiders there and elsewhere to come forward and explain what happened since these careless people have never been more powerful. apnews.com/article/meta...

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In grim contrast to the red carpet, Soheila Golestani faces 74 lashes for her Oscar-nominated film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Watch this film to understand the repression of Iran’s theocratic regime &why the #WomenLifeFreedom movement is so important: www.thetimes.com/culture/film...

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On his popular YouTube show, Joe Rogan interviewed Ian Carroll, an antisemitic conspiracy theorist. Rogan and Carroll promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy. Rogan also downplayed the severity of measles, which he said would make you "sick for a few days." angrywhitemen.org/2025/03/06/j...

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Of course Speaker Mike Johnson is living in the $3.7 million DC home of an election-denying, policy-driving “evangelical pastor who has attacked the separation of church and state as ‘a delusional lie’ and called multinational institutions ‘demonic’”… www.propublica.org/article/mike...

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"These findings do not support public claims from X that exposure to hate speech decreased after Musk’s purchase." Actually, hate speech increased after Musk took over. Shocking. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

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I heart Tina Smith.

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💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes. Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out

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Horrible news about Michelle Trachtenberg. 39 is an tragically young age to die. May she rest in power

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Wow! So 1+1 really does equal 2. The Texas measles outbreak is hitting the area with the highest vaccine exemption rates. Shocking—if you ignore science.

submitted 15 days ago • 1260 comments

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

submitted 16 days ago • 764 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

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Worst. Episode. EVER.

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This week we dive into Joe Rogan's interview with Tucker Carlson. We break down Tucker’s logical fallacy "one-two punch," he even calls Alex Jones a prophet. Patrons get early access and a 40+ minute bonus "Off the Record" episode. The show drops for everyone early Tuesday.

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SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

submitted 19 days ago • 36 comments

Join us for a conversation about anti-wokeness and the reactionary right for a Scandinavian perspective on the recent tech-bro turn. Speakers include @maiathecyberwitch.bsky.social and @mortenstinus.bsky.social 7th of March 12-13pm Sign up here: stavanger.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Please share widely

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Some good news on a morning we need it: a federal judge has largely blocked Trump’s executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. apnews.com/article/dei-...

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"I called it ethnic cleansing. But when I saw the images of starving babies in Gaza I had to upgrade my language." By Art Spiegelman (Maus) and Joe Sacco www.theguardian.com/world/pictur...

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another great example along with Wired and Teen Vogue of how real journalism these days can be a lot braver at outlets where no one is trying to get in good with the White House press secretary they’re out here with us, reporting on what’s happening to us all, instead of trying to get inside access

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I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...

submitted 19 days ago • 474 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 19 days ago • 858 comments

I read data about how white people are more likely to receive bystander CPR than Black people. That means that many people who saw a Black person dying on the street would just let it happen. But, if the person in need were white, they'd stop and offer potentially life-saving help. Sit with that.

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Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

submitted 21 days ago • 241 comments

Turning 50 today. I need a little time to get used to that thought

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“…you must be aware that it is not a crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”

submitted 34 days ago • 96 comments

The longer this year goes, the more I think this character is onto something...

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You can extinguish tear gas canisters! Wearing gloves, submerge the canister in a wide-mouthed water jug containing baking soda, dish soap, and/or vegetable oil—3 tablespoons of each per liter of water. Cover the top with one hand, just enough to keep the gas from getting out, and shake the jug.

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The New York City School Boycott was #OTD 61 years ago. You can read Al about it in NYC’s Civics For All Comics Group comic ACTION ACTIVISTS #1 by @fredvanlente.bsky.social & @ryandunlavey.com! H/t @zinnedproject.bsky.social Download it here: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

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The Williams, The Black Armed Guard & Negroes with Guns Robert F. Williams served in the Marines, but his biggest war was after took uniform, and he had an army, one that sent the Klan running!

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Mushroom

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Starting the day in an Eastbourne park - people training their dogs and walking to bowls

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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 39 days ago • 502 comments

For those wondering: Yes, I'm uploading the entire 15 GB public-facing CDC.gov website that I downloaded a few days ago...but it's gonna take awhile to upload...

submitted 39 days ago • 121 comments

After another plane crashed, this time in Philadelphia, Donald Trump took to Truth Social to advertise his $Trump meme coin.

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Fired Jan. 6 prosecutors were told they were terminated "based upon your actions in the prosecution of persons relating to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021," and cited Trump calling it a "grave national injustice."

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🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo rescinding the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs. Full text, per government source:

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Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT) just now: “You could literally walk down the street and the first 100 people you’d find would be less dangerous as the head of HHS than Robert F Kennedy Jr. He will get people killed”

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NEW: It took RFK Jr. just six minutes into his opening statement to lie to Congress...and then came other falsehoods and misrepresentations. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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fascinating maths from @kityates.bsky.social on the fallacy of BMI as a measurement of fat and a more accurate and accident method! Not sure I fancy being submerged in water tho! 🧪

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‘Potentially dangerous’: health experts call Alberta covid report ‘an attempt to rewrite history’ | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1097837...

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Computer scientists hard at work writing papers titled, "Does Magic exist?"

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