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📢 ProPublica is looking for 5 newsrooms to join our Local Reporting Network! These newsrooms will be part of our 50 State Initiative. Newsrooms in 40 states (in blue) are eligible to apply: https://propub.li/41270AQ Here's what this would mean for your newsroom 👇

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Welcome to today's episode of Shut The Fuck Up Friday! Check out this video for some tips from a local lawyer for those of you headed out to the streets to protest. You're a target of the state when you take action. NEVER talk to police & always STFU! Full video in thread👇

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Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue: 1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance 2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion 3. Don't live post resistance meetings

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Cosign all of this. Additionally: - Yes, you need to install and use Signal - No, WhatsApp, Telegram, etc etc are not good alternatives - You need to get as many people as you can to join you on Signal

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Very thoughtful article on the effectiveness (or lack there of) of doom/rage scrolling… www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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Trump's SEC and DOJ dismissing lawsuits against crypto scammers and Musk's companies is too on the nose.

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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This just means that NEH awards have to be used to do things that are racist and transphobic. Anti-anti-racist is just racist. Anti-anti-transphobic is just transphobic.

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TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

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First clip from my interview with former NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social Chris Kluwe about why he chose to be arrested for civil disobedience at his right wing city council meeting this week in protest of MAGA. More clips to come before we release the whole interview. Chris is fiire.

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“A threat anywhere impacts all states. It’s important that information is not confined to state lines.” Derek Tisler talked with Stateline about the federal government’s important role in protecting election security and the risks of gutting agencies that help in that work.

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NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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Just a reminder that violent crime rates were the lowest they've been in 50 years when Joe Biden was President.

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In Roswell, Georgia, an overflow crowd packed into a town hall forum for GOP Rep. Rich McCormick, barraging him with pointed questions about DOGE. One accused McCormick of 'doing us a disservice' for supporting DOGE. This is a district Trump just carried by 22 points. www.ajc.com/politics/mcc...

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#Yellowjackets star #MelanieLynskey was not expecting to learn that her great-grandfather led a double life for decades.

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Keep runnin’… Yearning For Your Love by The Gap Band tidal.com/track/932830...

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Governments are supposed to protect their people and tell the truth.

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So... I want to try to articulate some thoughts that have been forming in my head the past few days. They're still coming together (which I know is risky #onhere) but I feel like I want to "talk" through them.... (1/)

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If interested in a primer on Hazel Scott, the virtuoso pianist, check out the new PBS documentary American Masters - the Disappearance of Miss Scott. It's not a very inspired doc, but I learned more about her and why she left the spotlight. (Hint: it's a far too common story about Black talent).

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

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By the way, this is one of the issues where you might be able to make some headway with GOP reps if you live in a rural district. It has always been the heavily red rural districts that stopped them from destroying USPS in the past. Reps know their constituents depend on USPS.

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No, the mail is not “the least of our worries.” It’s a fucking important worry. It is the only postal service that delivers to every address. They are only provider of complete mail services for overseas military bases and provide free overseas PO boxes. They help prepare passport apps. Ship meds…

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Now why do you think it is that DOJ dismissed charges against SpaceX WITH prejudice but Emil Bove plans to hold charges over Eric Adams' head for almost four more years? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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There are many mysteries and ambiguities in life but the nature of this gesture is not among them. It's a Nazi salute.

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Eggs are now over $8 a dozen, a new all-time high.

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If you, like me, have been looking for a mutual aid project to donate to, this one is open this week for the next quarter! Any weekly amount is welcome

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Incredible public service. @propublica.org has catalogued the DOGE crew and their links to Elon. projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

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Y’all still out here talmbout “Kamala needs to do something”? Umm…I don’t know how your job searches have gone, but usually once I’ve gotten that “we’ve decided to pursue other candidates” notice, I’m done. I’m out. I wish you and your new hire well.

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".. not only did Trump not win any sort of mandate, his honeymoon numbers are basically a participation trophy compared with other presidents." @sykescharlie.bsky.social charliesykes.substack.com/p/trumps-hon...

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The US Education Department has lifted a pause on disability-related civil rights investigations but not cases of race, gender discrimination. // Have a related tip? Contact: ⁦‪⁦Jennifer Smith Richards at ProPublica‬⁩ www.propublica.org/article/depa...

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The Trump-Musk assault on disability rights is monstrous on its own but also the start of a wider assault on other vulnerable populations. Pay attention.

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