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2020: attacks on “BLM” 2022: attacks on “CRT” 2024: attacks on “woke” 2025: attacks on “DEI” BLACK. THEY MEAN BLACK.

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Courtesy of @onwasow.bsky.social #fdr

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Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.

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I had to bring this here because it’s so good

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Kristin Jen should never have been let go. She's the first line of defense. “My life is disintegrating because I can’t work in my chosen field,” says Jenn, 47, from Austin, Texas. “Lump on top of that no support from family – it hits you very hard.” news.yahoo.com/thrust-unemp...

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Now streaming: Monterey Bay’s sublime symphony of whale vocalizations! 🎵🐋 Spanning more octaves than a piano, humpback whales sing powerfully into the vast ocean. These songs are beautifully complex, weaving phrases and themes into masterful compositions.

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I think people are extremely on edge, and horrified by how quickly society has slipped into this banal techno-fascism, and scared about how far it will go, and that makes people brittle and impatient, and if I were a better person I would extend grace to people because of that, but, you know, I’m me

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This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.

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What a wonderful idea…👇 Let’s. Do. This. ✨

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While Donald Trump is attacking democracy at the federal level, we continue to see the war on voting continue in the states. We need to pay attention to both threats. Paige and I discuss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2CS...

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Senator Chris Murphy took to the Senate floor on Friday to break down the corruption flowing from the WH. He connects the dots, and makes a clear argument regarding who what where and why Shitler and Muskrat are destroying our govt!! This needs to be shared far and wide!! youtu.be/hycoCYenXls

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March 7 demonstrations across the U.S. and Europe will protest cuts to research, staffing and funding, and push for a continued federal focus on diversity, equity and inclusion. “There’s never been a more important time to stand up for science” @michaelemann.bsky.social insideclimatenews.or...

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Every time I read a story like this I recommit to be louder and more defiant.

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Again, what’s worst about this isn’t that Trump is a petty and narcissistic freak supported by sycophants — that’s already priced in — but that so many Americans are willing to demean themselves by pretending this is okay. Trump thrives because America has so many shitbirds.

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Federal marshals forced entry into the US African Development Foundation and escorted Musk staffers inside, after agency employees resisted their entry. Once inside, they changed the federal agency’s locks. Musk staffers were seen plugging in an external hard drive and going through everything.

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We are all in the debris field of a SpaceX mishap

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If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

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This article highlights that both of the following are simultaneously true. 1) Our leaders, elected and otherwise, are exhibiting shameful cowardice by not speaking out about what is happening. 2) The country is rapidly becoming a de facto Mafia state where dissent is genuinely dangerous.

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when you repeat a known falsehood it is a "lie":Trump is wrong that US was richest during the Gilded Age, and he is overstating the impact of tariffs. He is also wrong that the country grew less prosperous in 1913, when a permanent federal income tax was introduced. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/u...

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Breaking NYT: Pete Hegseth has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to halt offensive operations against Russia. The instructions have not been publicly explained. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

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An official at USAID has been placed on leave after writing a memo to staff — including those placed on leave or laid off — saying the funding cuts and layoffs from Trump and Musk "will no doubt result in preventable death, destabilization, and threats to national security on a massive scale."

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Elon Musk's DOGE has deleted hundreds of items from the public accounting of its cuts — shrinking the savings it has claimed to provide by nearly half. Contracting experts say these mistakes raise questions about DOGE's basic understanding of the federal government. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...

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It's not the night of the long knives; it's apparently the year of the long knives.

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Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

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We should worry about migrant rape gangs, says the man who just pressured Romania to free the Tate brothers so they could return to the U.S.

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Wyden on why he's not attending Trump's speech tomorrow and instead is hosting a town hall: "We're not interested in hearing about the Donald Trump alternate reality."

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Seems like Hegseth's Stand Down Our Defenses Against Russia order should be getting a bit more attention.

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Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.

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This is no longer about a policy difference, not a simple disagreement on the humane and responsible way to deal with collective national challenges, it isn’t a matter of agreeing to disagree on less-than-critical subjects where a stalemate is acceptable. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/yes-you-ca...

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Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities. That means: 🚫 No gas from corporate giants 🚫 No fast food chains 🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)

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NEW: Tomorrow, The Daily Beans podcast will run without any ads in solidarity with the 2/28 economic blackout. We'll be forgoing any advertising revenue for the day. You can listen and subscribe for free: link.chtbl.com/TheDailyBeans

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"We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame. In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness, all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing." ~ Hermann Hesse

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Just dropping this little bit of utter sweetness into the mix here…

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Currently appearing at UK bus-stops. More of this pointed ridicule, please.

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After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

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DOGE claims to have "saved" tens of billions in fraudulent government spending, but don't be fooled — all they've really done is illegally cut a bunch of congressionally-appropriated funding that Elon Musk doesn't like.

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