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A busy week at SF Symphony, and for me, writing about SFS: irontongue.blogspot.com/2025/02/this...

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Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

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Last night's firings? Trump is going to install people who are willing to follow his orders by firing on civilians and participating in mass roundups and deportations. I hope I'm wrong.

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That’s rich, coming from the guy who used his power as a federal judge to start making (at least) interns and clerks sign nondisclosure agreeements because he was afraid of being outed as a sexual harasser.

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I can only read this preposterous piece by a disgraced federal appeals court judge intimating that Democrats may cancel elections as pure projection so to lay the groundwork for Trump's "defensively" cancelling elections. www.wsj.com/opinion/coul...

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The Maine Principal's Association said it would continue to allow trans girls to compete in school sports, saying President Trump's recent executive order is in conflict with state law.

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Oh. Whoops! www.investing.com/news/stock-m...

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More of this. The fuck are you doing promoting a book when the country is falling apart?

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For all the USPS's faults, Americans have to realize: It's one of the best postal services in the world, even after being kneecapped by DeJoy. Fight for our postal service, guys. I know I will. It is an essential public good.

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Here's Skarsgård (in the suit I worked on!?) as #murderbot from yesterday's AV Club reveal article. SO happy for @marthawells.com - just beyond words, and am glad to finally be able to say so 😭 I got lucky to be asked onto the project, and learned so much from so many awesome humans along the way!

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Not going to get into any of the Brahms threads beyond saying that I love almost everything he wrote. You'll have to tear the Requiem, Op. 17, and the two sets of Liebeslieder waltzes from my cold, dead hands. (If you've never heard Op. 17, you're in for a treat.)

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okay, it’s time for me to finally weigh in: it’s probably a bad sign that guys are just doing sieg heils in public again

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I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.

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Breaking — The Social Security Administration is dissolving its Office of Analytics Review and Oversight effective 2pm today, an agency source tells me. In a meeting leadership claimed it was part of government-wide mission to “align missions better” & said it was the first of many changes to come.

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SF Symphony has appointed Joshua Elmore as principal bassoon. (There are two photos with the Chronicle link. On the left, a young Black man wearing glasses in a black suit, his hands over the top of his bassoon. On the right, a balding, bearded white man...) 1/ www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

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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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It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

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Perhaps tonight is a good night to remind ourselves that the federal government is 20% of GDP & 2% of overall non-farm employment, & dismantling this - as we appear to carelessly & without any pushback appear to be doing - is going to not only be a political, but also an economic disaster.

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We are living through a tragicomedy of Performative Stupidity (TM) right now. "Turning on the water" wasted 2 billion gallons of water and did not reduce fire risk. Firing thousands of National Parks employees dramatically raises wildfire risk. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/c...

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“Most of the new hires that were fired are young people that are going to be the next generation of scientists protecting clean air, clean water and clean land,” recently fired EPA employee Nicole Smith said. “We’re being targeted.”

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Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

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Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

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Our new site is live! Find protests in your area or create your own. Learn about the criminal actions of Musk and Doge. How Musk’s wealth is tied to his stake in Tesla. How Tesla is a massive offender of pollution and bad labor practices. Go to TeslaTakedown.com to get informed and get involved!

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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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“U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce”

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