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I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

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in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

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I propose that "coup" is the collective noun for late night purges and resignations.

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"I am... we are the federal law." Paging Dr. Freud... Dr. Sigmund Freud....

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This is a big win for the crypto bros, Trump & his cronies who are making big bucks & catering to their wealthy crypto donors. Dropping the Coinbase lawsuit also legitimatizes opportunistic lawbreaking & advances the broligarchy's plans to embrace crypto as an alternate currency & destabilize the $.

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Sure, Google's data centers consume tens of billions of litres of water yearly and emit more carbon dioxide than many nations, but on the other hand, you can look up Uranus and AI will show you a picture of Neptune. Never in the history of humanity, have we reached such speeds in making mistakes

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TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

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As always, Mary Ziegler is both required and chilling reading. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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I wrote about the reconciliation bill which passed last night; and what an unprecedented sum for immigration enforcement might mean.

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The far right legal movement is trying to astro-turf a manufactured "debate" about birthright citizenship, to give cover to the gutting of the 14th Amendment. Lest you think this kind of transparent sophistry won't fly, they did the exact same thing to gut the coverage mandate of the ACA.

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Part of the core message of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000... @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social

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Now why do you think it is that DOJ dismissed charges against SpaceX WITH prejudice but Emil Bove plans to hold charges over Eric Adams' head for almost four more years? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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DAMN!

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wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!

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Good news in the world

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For those unfamiliar, General Charles Brown, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is Black. Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the Chief of Naval Operations, is a woman.

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Free speech absolutism and the wisdom of the crowds

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It's not a coincidence that Musk likes to wear a black hat...

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One danger of embracing generative AI as a learning device and in language assistance is that you're letting the keepers of that AI have power over what you learn and how you write. It will be programmed with biases, unintentional but often quite intentional, that you will unknowingly adopt.

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Reminder: Big Balls is believed to have past ties to criminal hackers.

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Going to be quite frank, I do not find anything about this “king” stuff to be funny in any form, don’t think there’s a place for us to just crack wise about it and pretend it’s normal, yes we are all irony-poisoned but if we don’t draw a line here then we have no line

submitted 3 days ago • 135 comments

American presidents don’t even joke about this. Just because he’s petty doesn’t mean this isn’t dangerous.

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Trump Fired the People Who Could Dispute His False Claims about Ukraine Aid www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/19/t...

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These people are idiots. If you are hit by a car driven by an idiot, it hurts just as much as if you're hit by a car driven at you deliberately. But if you want to make sense of it: 'these people don't know what they're talking about, or often what basic words mean'.

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NSF fired 168 yesterday. Today its staff directory page says this:

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🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration? I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for meaningful opposition to each. I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24

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"I’m pretty sure that when the guy breaking your storefront windows is the same guy selling you replacement plate glass, you are not, in fact, witnessing the free market doing its best work."

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Trump has always thought that the reason the U.S. was being "taken advantage of" was because it was not demanding the tribute that was rightfully "ours"; that it was doling special favors without demanding payment; that it was not running the protection racket correctly. And he was going to fix that

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Reminder: we already paid for this. This is our tax $$ he’s trashing.

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Me, every 15 minutes on hearing about the administration latest... media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...

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