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I'm struck by the all-female space tourism flight today when 1 million+ international students, faculty, researchers (as well as other non-Americans on work visas and green cards) have been advised to not travel internationally out of concern they might not be allowed back in the US by CBP officers

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DOGE abruptly cut a program for teens with disabilities, designed to help them transition from high school into college or the world of work and self-sufficiency. www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...

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initial reports made this sound like a minor failed attempt

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This isn't going to end until the judges start holding lawyers and DOJ officials in contempt and throwing them in jail. Even that might not end it, but there's no point trying to delay the inevitable. They're just getting bolder and more destructive as they go.

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My kitties are Charley and Oliver and I have a thing for pets with human names - Fred, Henry, Floyd, Maude. But the winner is my friend with a beautiful, long haired, female red orange tabby, which is unusual - 80% of orange cats are male. She lives in Tennessee and her name is Jolene😁

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More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

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The reason I get really pissy at damsels in distress like Liz Bruenig whitewashing eugenics is because I am in Colorado, the flipside of Texas. The Texas women who don't want to die from ectopic pregnancies & septic miscarriage seek care here, from doctors I know. Zero patience for this nonsense.

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trump is not congress; he does not have the power to unilaterally cut anything. he can't impound funds that congress appropriated. we're already living in a dictatorship without constitutional protections. we're just negotiating the details at this point.

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No. With the exception of Lakshya Jain, I do not need more Mediocre Male Opinion in my life. Let them stick to their little clubhouse.

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If the United States wanted him out of that prison, he would already be home, with or without El Salvadorian assistance.

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This. Autistic people have correctly been made a integral, regular part of our everyday life, as they should be.

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This is what masculinity looks like. How absolutely lovely - and the trumpet player at the end is perfect.

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Trumpers will never be this cool and they know it.

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Not a traditional khao soi - I used a mix from the Asian market and Costco rotisserie chicken - but it came out tasty nonetheless.

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also, just...every single person who attempts to compromise with trump or find common ground or work with him ends up horrifically humiliated. every single one. if you give him any ground, he will crush you. this is not new, or complicated.

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The reason I get really pissy at damsels in distress like Liz Bruenig whitewashing eugenics is because I am in Colorado, the flipside of Texas. The Texas women who don't want to die from ectopic pregnancies & septic miscarriage seek care here, from doctors I know. Zero patience for this nonsense.

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The oldest man in Georgia never bought stocks. “I can’t afford to lose it, because I can’t make no more.” Asked whether he had any other general life advice, he listed, in no particular order, good sex, fresh vegetables, the occasional Coors Light, & water aerobics www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Bill Maher hates women too so of course he found Trump amenable in private. Hitler was a vegetarian who liked dogs.

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I'm not saying journalists should never interview admitted propagandists. There are journalistic reasons to do so. But if we do, we must be prepared to -- in fact it is our duty to -- challenge vociferously all unsubstantiated claims. Otherwise, we ourselves become propagandists.

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While we're all correctly dumping on Liz Bruenig's pro-eugenicist piece, a simple fact she refuses to acknowledge: the same people who want women to have more babies are just fine with them dying in the process. This shit is not about life or babies. It is about power, pure and simple.

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i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.

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Liz's piece was not good, especially since the dateline and the creepy pro-natalism conference were from Texas, a state where if you're a woman getting pregnant can kill you.

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Social media is funny because someone will be like “Had to delete my post supporting eugenics because people got weird about it”

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trump is launching an unprecedented attack on worker's rights and wants to gut social security and medicare, but the Atlantic's daring socialist writer Elizabeth Bruenig is laser focused on demanding that the left embrace fascist natalism. 1

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I think women should do whatever they want, the pro-natalism movement is creepy as hell, and it's no one else's business/agenda why you choose to have children or not. Liberals are not obliged to help eugenicists.

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RFK believes that he is one of the genetic elect and that it is a violation of the natural order to either impose on the genetic elect with public health OR prevent nature from taking its course with those who are predestined to biological damnation.

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Exclusive: Two days after the Social Security Administration purposely and falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency’s Woodlawn, Maryland, headquarters.

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they want jim crow history for a jim crow society

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Every state in the union should join Arizona and Michigan in helping their citizens report when they're experiencing problems with Social Security services.

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