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Social Security has a payment accuracy rate of over 99 percent. Only 0.3 percent of Social Security benefits are improper payments, which are typically caused by mistakes or delays. That's better than any private insurance company. www.cbpp.org/blog/setting...

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VACCINES SAVE LIVES Vaccines ended the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccines and other public health measures save the lives of millions of children worldwide. Do not let RFKJr and the Trump admin take us back to a time when 5 in 10 children died before the age of 5. theconversation.com/infectious-d...

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I want to say again to academics who are interested in public writing. Look locally. Sure national outlets are good and I do that too, but this kind of visibility in your community can have a real impact.

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Just a reminder that there's good in the world, and good people: this year's Project for Awesome raised more than 3.7 million bucks. My sincere thanks to everyone who donated, and to Hank and John and everyone at #P4A for doing this. projectforawesome.com

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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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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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“We have an obligation to resist kings, we have an obligation to resist oligarchs.”

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Again, the two most impactful lies of the past half-century have been “Trump is a good businessman” and “Republicans are the good-at-economy party”

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X is a censorship engine run by a fascist regime. Posting there or using it as your source of news is collaboration with oppression.

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There is zero ambiguity here. It’s nauseating.

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Trickle up economics.

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My message to my reps this week was that the current leadership is incapable of managing this crisis and has to go. They’re getting circles run around them.

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Fecking cowards

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i feel like we all need another timeline cleanser

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Trump: I order that the sky is orange MAGA: sky is orange, libs Musk: sky is orange 🤣🤣 Executive branch: sky is orange now DOJ: sky is orange Judge Reyes: sky is blue actually DOJ: oh no

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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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National Park Employee Laid Off www.reddit.com/r/50501/s/N7...

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♫ if you don't like a response then don't reply - 👏 👏 if you don't like a response then don't reply - 👏 👏 just ignore a bad response pure engagement's all it wants if you don't like a response then don't reply - 👏 👏

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This is HUGE. The administration is trying to dismantle the board so that government employees have nowhere to file termination grievances.

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Brazil shows that it can be done. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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even the "best" billionaires are still the dumbest motherfuckers in the room any room, anywhere.

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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- Y'shtola, Night's Blessed - Final Fantasy XIV x MTG One of the best things to arrive in my inbox : a commission to paint Y’shtola. I loved each minute of the process. Thank you AD Stephanie Cheung. <3

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There are very few people well versed in COBOL, Musk's script-kiddies are clueless as to how it even works. COBOL borders on being a true "lost art" in modern tech. Most DOD, SS, and Medicare systems are COBOL. This is a cluster fuck for President Musk and King Trump.

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This is the closest photo of Saturn ever taken. 🔭 🧪

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

Been thinking about this moment from a Bug's Life lately.

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Yelling it again from the rafters: If your job is to report true facts, clearly pointing out who is screwing everything up and how they're doing it is your job. If the fact that things are FUBAR offends some readers, that's on them. Do your job anyway. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/four-essen...

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Wear a mask, and encourage others to do the same.

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I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

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from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

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I am being deeply unhelpful and near doom-rt'ing shit b/c nnnnnggrrrrhhhh. tldr: please mute me if you don't want this shit rn. (FUCK!)

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I know Stathis. He was a colleague of mine at the University of Chicago. He is a pretty buttoned-down scholar. For him to tweet this out is… something.

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Yeah, that's exactly what this anti DEI purge is all about. Censoring minorities and expelling trans people out of public life.

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This is a good time to remind everyone that this administration hasn't done anything for anyone. It has literally only taken away things we've already paid for and fired and sued people. Oh and the quid pro quo with Adams. That's the extent of what they have done. Kinda nuts.

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What the fuck? I figured that would be the last thing touched so they could keep up their "claims" that they care about veterans I need more details on this and for it to go mainstream

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Also, this is a picture of the Speaker of the House standing next to someone who is illegally & unconstitutionally seizing the Article I authority over government spending for which he is responsible. Someone should ask him why he is violating his oath of office by participating in this project.

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Checked this story about Trump shaking Ukraine down in exchange for continuing military aid to see if it mentions that he got impeached for doing that exact thing, and friends, you will not be surprised that it does not.

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Rest in Peace to Victor Antonov, the brilliant artist behind the iconic architecture of Half Life and Dishonored

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On the streets of Brussels I encountered numerous little plaques in front of doorways. They commemorate the Jewish families who were taken from their homes and murdered by Nazis. Never forget no matter how many lies Elon Musk tells.

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Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.

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When the Nazis took power and gutted the Weimar era civil service in government, they also claimed the need to increase efficiency and to ensure loyalty to the nazi party. They did it through the law for the restoration of the professional civil service. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_for...

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This seems like learned helplessness.

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