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The burdens of Republicans’ campaign of hatred against the community affect trans people most severely, but they truly fall on everyone. I don’t want to live in a society where police officers come storming into the john demanding to see your private parts. www.advocate.com/news/lesbian...

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“There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.” - Fanny Lou Hamer

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"You're not supposed to be asking that question ... that's enough" -- Trump gets mad at and shuts down a reporter who tries to ask him about reported clashes between Musk and Rubio

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This "immediate cancellation" violates the law. If the Admin thinks Columbia has violated Title VI by being deliberately indifferent to antisemitic harassment, it has to give Columbia a chance for a hearing first, make findings on the record, & wait 30 days. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

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I’m gonna disagree. Dems should say: “You know damn well Republicans don’t care about women’s sports. And you know they get arrested every single day for preying on kids. No wonder they make laws where they get to look in your kid’s pants. They wanted to make a child predator Attorney General.” …

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While blowing up the Department of Education. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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Hey, faculty upset about expanding authoritarianism and your institutions' complicity in it: you don't have to wait for your university presidents and deans to act, and they probably won't. You can act now. Organize. Picket. Sickout. Strike. If it's as bad as you say on here, now's the time.

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REPORTER: Are you considering revoking the TPS status for the more than 20,000 Ukrainians who live here in the US? TRUMP: What are you saying? REPORTER: TPS status. TRUMP: On GPS?

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The #MuskOrUs March Recess starts 10 days from today. So today would be a great day to call your members of Congress and demand a town hall. @indivisible.org even made you scripts. Here's everything you need. 🧵

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The Trump administration effectively shut down a global air quality monitoring program and U.S. embassies will no longer publish data on local pollution levels. In many places, it was the only reliable source of such information.

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NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

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Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Pentagon to halt offensive cyberoperations against Russia, officials said.

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It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

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'Did you even say thank you?'

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‘Move fast and break things’ only works for people who have never had to clean up after themselves.

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Brutal.

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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

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NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones. + similar in the Department of the Interior

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I am so pleased to announce a Palestinian Studies cluster hire at @huntercollege.bsky.social - we are hiring one person in the arts and another in the social sciences. This is an incredible source of pride for me as a faculty member & one of the many reasons that I feel so lucky to work here 1/

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Hey, I'm giving a zoom talk on my book, Citizen Scholar, at University of Wisconsin Sociology's Politics, Culture, and Society Workshop, tomorrow at 1:30pm Eastern US time. @uwsoc.bsky.social It's open to the public at: uwmadison.zoom.us/j/9571632480...

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Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

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Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

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In 1976, 10.98M students enrolled in US higher ed, of whom 9.08 were white. In 2000, 15.31M students enrolled in US higher education, of whom 10.52M were white. In 2020 19.03M students enrolled in US higher education, of whom were 9.82M were white. All growth is non-white.

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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

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DEI initiatives are still legal. Universities need to stand their ground. A Friday gift to your university's General Counsel Office - courtesy of an all star lineup of civil rights lawyers and scholars. You're going to want to read this.

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After Declaring NAEP Off-Limits, Education Department Cancels Upcoming Test www.the74million.org/article/afte...

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“If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.” -Bayard Rustin

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Derek Black, a constitutional and educational law expert, will be discussing his book Dangerous Learning: The South’s Long War on Black Literacy tonight at 6 (link for event details).There is a zoom link on the event page for any who can’t attend in person. allgoodbooks.com/events/18226...

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NEW: Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

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The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

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Today the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) updated their policy in regard to student eligibility in sports to comply with Trump's recent federal directives, stating that "only students designated as females at birth will be allowed to participate in girls competitions."

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1/Trump Media sues Brazilian Judge as court considers coup plot by Bolsonaro. Read: Long arm of US law used not to promote democracy or human rights but far right nationalism. Stunning turn both for US role in the world and how US law might work in that new paradigm. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

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holy god apnews.com/article/bols...

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How did the Reconstruction Amendments affect the mobility + citizenship of Black Americans, Native Americans, Chinese immigrants, & European immigrants? In a crisp 28 pages, I explain. Last & final article before the full book is out in 2026. @gracemallon.bsky.social @conniethomas.bsky.social

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Allowing the administration to define broad swaths of history, programming and civil rights compliance as “DEI” and then regurgitating that language instead of clearly articulating what specifically is being targeted is spreading disinformation and propaganda.

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