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I'm tired. I've never turned down a glass of 🥂 Agnostic non-authoritarian Miss me with your Maga bs With fear for our democracy, I dissent ~Justice Sotomayor
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Everything they do is to enrich themselves and their friends. electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

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

That's Vanderbilt with no phd admissions, Pitt announced yesterday, and now Penn is reducing their grad admissions (and notified faculty after they already began notifying students which ouch). www.thedp.com/article/2025...

He's making an Oppenheimer/Bhagavad Gita reference and it not only fell flat because he's dull as shit, but that is totally the wrong crowd for that not even deep cut.

What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?

Opinion | Je Suis Big Balls by Ross Douthat

I don’t understand how there’s any debate about whether to characterize them as Nazis when they’re out here sieg heiling. It’s an absolute failure of messaging not to name and condemn this behavior, and build a narrative around it.

another Nazi salute at CPAC

A new piece co-authored with my esteemed friend and colleague @saladinaldronni.bsky.social for The Counter Extremism Project The Islamic State in Puntland, Somalia "Africa is slowly developing in to the new epicenter of ISIS’s global terrorist operations" www.counterextremism.com/blog/islamic...

Removing Judge Advocates General who would uphold the rule of law in the military - so dangerous

Running thread of people trying to normalize the sieg heil. It's not an "Elon gesture", it's not autism, it's not your heart going out, it's not parody or trolling. It's fucking despicable. Don't ever let this shit become normal. Fuck any excuse given, there is none. Zero tolerance. 1. Elon Musk

These weasels should all f*ck off to their own desert island and leave the rest of us the hell alone.

NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

“RESIST. DO NOT COMPLY WITH THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES.”Judge Ortiz emailed her EEOC colleagues after the anti-trans EO. She told me, “The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up. I can exist on cornflakes and community at the end of the day if it means that my soul is intact.”

People really out here pretending to have heard something good about Trump's intentions & not just making shit up out of whole cloth. Sir, he's been bankrupt trash his entire career. youtube.com/watch?v=N23K...

Medicaid cut to Nevada will be devastating, no two ways around it. It will affect Democrats Republicans Independents and children. www.ktnv.com/news/congres...

🤬🤬🤬 www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Holy shit! 11 deaths?! 😳

By now, everyone knows his piece of shit cars are deathtraps for the driver and anyone else unlucky enough to be anywhere near one when it goes off the rails.

After Musk accused NHTSA of holding back progress on self-driving technology with its investigations and recalls, his DOGE team has laid off some auto safety inspectors.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump admin from terminating federal grants and contracts related to DEI. The ruling bars Trump from requiring federal contractors and grant recipients to certify that they don't engage in "equity-related" programs, a term the judge found too vague to be enforced.

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

Elect a 🤡, expect a circus.

@jessicavalenti.bsky.social WHAT IN THE HANDMAID'S TALE IS THIS

Three years ago, I was honored to be a featured voice on this episode that now feels eerily prophetic. This weekend, they re-aired the duPont-Columbia Award-winning story, showing this fight was never just about curriculum - it’s about dismantling equity. Listen, then keep pushing back.

An excellent and absolutely infuriating episode. Illustrates where we are now. And the story described below was from 2022z

"U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters."

Judge blocks Trump’s executive order ending federal support for DEI programs www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/21/t...

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Fresh out of prison after Trump’s pardon, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested today for assaulting a woman protesting his event.

"We are getting lots of calls about Musk and lots of calls thanking me for sticking up for Ukraine..." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

This is a charitable subhead at best. The president made Gen Brown the USAF Chief of Staff explicitly for his “warrior mindset”

FLASH: Trump fires Gen. Charles Q. Brown as chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, other senior officers www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

huh wonder why a racist nepobaby would fire an accomplished Black man

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

New CIA recruiting poster

New and devastating reporting from my colleagues showing just how dangerous it has become to be pregnant and in Texas after the state banned abortion. Please read and share: www.propublica.org/article/texa...