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I'm a whte person who doesn't want to live in a nation made up of nothing but whte people. I have no interest in seeing us become a gated community of inbred, entitled supremacy that cuts itself off from a world it believes itself superior to. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/im-a-white...

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‘I'm a White American. I Don't Want Trump's White America.’ johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/im-a-white...

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NEW INVESTIGATION: A private equity-fueled for-profit chain slashed patient care for years while its executives got rich. So we scraped every malpractice, personal injury, and wrongful death case tied to Steward hospitals. And we found how mothers, newborns, and others paid the ultimate price.

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Trump Republicanism at its finest. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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The Afrikaner stunt is the kind of thing that has backfired so far -- it creates legal arguments for other refugees about animus. But holy hell he's not hiding the white sheets.

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Chris Murphy: "Let's be clear what this trip is all about. This is President Trump's corruption tour of the Middle East. He is going to the gulf to collect tribute. What's happening here is an extraordinary level of corruption. We shouldn't pretend this is business as usual."

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In 2024, Biden signed into law a $105 billion measure designed to end a shortfall in air traffic controllers. In 2025, Trump came in and instead began firing hundreds of them. So you can see how clear it is that Biden is to blame for the shortage now.

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Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

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Duffy’s full of it. Pete Buttigieg and Dems pushed to modernize our air traffic control system under Biden—Republicans in Congress blocked it. The Trump administration’s been too busy blaming DEI instead of fixing the real problems.

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1/2 Just-dismissed Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, has a PhD from U Chicago, is in numerous scholarly societies, has wide acclaim. She is also first African-American to lead LoC. The dismissal note did not say "Dear Dr. Hayden" or "Dear Madame Librarian" or even "Dear Carla."

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The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents. What the fuck are we doing here?

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The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

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American Christianity.

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The US has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year. It’s only the second time the US has hit this dangerous milestone in the past 30 years and it’s only May. This is the Make America Sick Again agenda.

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I don't see how this is any different than Russia forcing workers to clean out Chernobyl. The ruling class using and abusing the bodies of the working class to line their pockets. It's why the wealthy refer to us as "human capital stock." www.cbsnews.com/news/west-vi...

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Alcatraz, Gulf of America, a third term, being Pope. All distractions. So well done to the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world for focusing on a story that matters. Trump Inc and the new age of corruption.

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The rule of law is all or nothing and must apply equally to everyone. If there's no rule of law for some people in America, then there's no rule of law for any of us.

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A 25-year old DOGE bro oversaw the termination of lawyers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last month, just days after they warned him certain stocks he owned were prohibited by employees.

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"Bikeways like Bryant can give a huge new group of people the freedom to choose biking over driving in the Twin Cities."

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The government promised his team a $6.7 million grant to help save babies. But it has pulled it back amid a mix of new executive orders limiting what government money can support and the sweeping grant cancellations ordered by DOGE.

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Sit down before you hurt yourself, Donald!

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Federal funding cuts to NIH threaten more than just scientific progress. They jeopardize crucial ethical oversight that prevents research abuse and protects participants in medical studies. Legal and bioethics scholars explain: buff.ly/g7xRpqJ 🩺 🧪

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Trump and his team operate within the protective cocoon of a media-disinformation environment that allows just enough criticism to retain “credibility” but essentially functions as a Ministry of Truth.

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Sir Adrian Hill of Oxford-AstraZeneca joins leading British scientists in telling The Times planned levies on pharmaceutical companies will jeopardise healthcare

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By slashing teams that gather critical data, the Trump administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades: propub.li/3RZzqHP 📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social

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In his first 100 days, President Trump “debased the very idea of America,” Jill Lepore writes. “He created chaos, emergency after emergency.” When she needed refuge, she turned to the Penguin Little Black Classics.

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The Trump administration has ousted the leader of the Federal Emergency Management Agency just one day after he testified before Congress about the size and scope of the federal agency.

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So accurate

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🧪🧠👩‍🔬 Wow. This sounds terrible. The staff at NSF is top notch and this re-org sounds totally chaotic.

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“Whatever you think about various controversial ideas — Mr. Hegseth’s memo cited critical race theory and gender ideology — students should engage with them and debate their merits rather than be told they are too dangerous even to be contemplated.” 🧪

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President Donald Trump and his administration have gutted science agencies, terminated research programmes and cancelled billions of dollars in grants to universities. A feature in Nature examines the long-term impacts for the US and the world. #Academicsky 🧪

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Walz: When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child has? Government just big enough to fit in your bedroom, your womb, and apparently now in your toy chest.

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NEW: Minnesota’s graduation rate just reached the highest level on record. Two years ago, we made the single-largest investment in public schools in state history. Today, we’re seeing the results.

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Not to be too pro technocrat, but it is astounding how much this country depended on the selflessness of like a few hundred thousand highly educated public servants who, for peanuts, made sure our food and medicine and environment etc were safe. And in return these servants were demonized.

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Which Trump officials will be on Fox today blaming Biden for stuff when they should be doing actual work for the American people at their agencies? At this point, taxpayers are just paying the salaries for a bunch of daily Fox contributors.

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Republicans are calling hearings to talk about trans athletes in fencing. Their goal is clear: to make sure Fox has something to talk about other than Elon Musk’s theft and Marjorie Taylor Greene’s insider trading.

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“You know, somebody said, ‘Oh, the shelves are going to be open.' Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls. So maybe the two dolls will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally.” I'm trying to imagine the Fox News coverage if Obama had said that.

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BREAKING: If you're a Christian and you're donating money to a White woman who used the N-word toward a 5-year-old Black child (or you're celebrating or defending her), you're not a Jesus Christian. MAGA White Evangelicals, you're doing it wrong. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/shiloh-hen...

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Two of Musk’s most strident goons manually, one-by-one, killed lifesaving programs even those Rubio wants credit for trying to save, on Musk’s orders.

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He’s like a kid in the 8th grade who didn’t complete his homework assignment offering up lame BS explanations to the teacher. He couldn’t even get the FBI budget done on time and has no timeframe for having it done. These people are grossly incompetent. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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It's come to this.

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President Harry Truman: The man who understood the buck stopped with him. That didn't mean he stashed all the bucks in his pocket.

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