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Staggering numbers. "Roughly one-fifth of Internal Revenue Service staff — some 20,000 workers — are taking the buyout, a significant increase from the 4,700 employees who opted in for the first round." finance.yahoo.com/news/federal...

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The very best of America’s shitposters are now outgunned by their Chinese peers. Balance of power has shifted.

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It’s a sidenote here, but it really burns me up that so many have conflated “some elite libs were willing to follow the right into Iraq“ with “the Iraq war was an elite liberal project“. It was guys like JD Vance that called you everything but a child of God if you asked a single question about it

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Registration is OPEN for Bike to Work Day 2025! Join one of the group rides from your neighborhood and learn more about our festival at City Hall Plaza on Friday, May 16: boston.gov/bike-to-work-day

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"here's a look" tabarnak

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"A lifetime bitch" is an amazing insult.

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We already know of over 1,000 student visa terminations. The true number is likely significantly higher. Very few have anything to do with pro-Palestinian advocacy. The overwhelming majority seem to be the result of automated terminations for any contact with law enforcement, no matter how minor.

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"If you're providing an online system with very personal data about you, like your face or your job or your favourite colour, you ought to do so with the understanding that those data aren't just useful to get the immediate outcome — like a doll." I have to explain this to students almost daily!

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also hilarious that his unedited solo blog posts are straight up better prose without some schmuck NYT editor making them more pretentious and turgid

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Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Another victory for congestion pricing. It isn't hurting most restaurants, delivery charges are being spread out to the point of barely being noticeable (as we all argued would happen), and deliveries are arriving on time, helping businesses plan better.

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The people telling the world they want to "have Greenland" and make Canada the "51st state" are suddenly really into respecting national sovereignty when it comes to the nation they want to serve as their fascist blacksite penal colony

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There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

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Correct! Also in awe of “the taste of despair” 👏🏼😂

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Reminders: "Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific. Most Nazi camps were outside Germany, away from the eyes of German citizens. Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant. Never again is now.

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Jesus in the garden:

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This is why I keep screaming NUREMBERG

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For Absolutely No Reason

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There's always been reason to believe DOGE was hacking govt systems. Now a whistleblower has substantiated it at NLRB, precisely the kind of data compromise labor unions worried about when they sued re DOL.

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He’s gutted the government, spurned the courts, disappeared college students, and caused a near-global economic crisis.

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so, uh, i guess this is happening

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Sharing my regular reminder that Harvard can't just start pulling from its endowment to close federal funding gaps. Endowments are earmarked for specific purposes and heavily restricted. This blog is a great explainer.

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(Bloomberg) - The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products, adding to a growing list of headwinds keeping recession risk elevated. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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It's funny that every former US ally is now lining up to beat the shit out of American corporations.

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Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.

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important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

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i love the rendition of La Marseillaise in Casablanca so much www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...

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One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

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This is what a 50-state strategy sounds like. Maybe you don't win all those elections, but there are other ways for energized citizens to make their voices heard, and some of those ways are especially important for the current fight to restore a democratic constitutional order after this Trump coup

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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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My quick theory is that New York City exceptionalism makes introspection and improvement a lot more difficult than in cities with something to prove. Pretty hard for people to even recognize problems when they're told they live in the greatest city in the world. (See also: American exceptionalism.)

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The biggest Nazi concentration camp wasn't in Germany itself. Trump and Bukele aren't special and new, they're shitty and old.

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Pablo’s podcast is one of the best out there right now, so underrated

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It is essential for the rule of law that everyone involved in this end up in prison. Nothing else is a sufficient deterrent against the intentional, repeated abuse of government power to systematically deny fundamental rights.

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Eat shit, JD

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“Trump is illegally disappearing people. He is proposing abducting Americans. He must be removed from power. He no longer has authority.” And honestly that’s the weak version of what Democrats should be saying.

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When I reported a long 2021 piece about Cuomo, a thing that many people who worked for him for years told me about (besides the corruption, incompetence & cruel domination tactics) was that he & those in his senior circles JUST DIDN'T CARE about policy, or about actually getting anything done.

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Even assuming electoral victories in 2026 and 2028, if Democrats don't start taking away badges and putting people on trial the instant they take power back, we are going to be right back here on January 21, 2032. I don't know how many more chances they're going to get to not learn this lesson.

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I am a nobody but I have been saying for years that “mass deportations” poll well until you actually get into what that means. Which is why the Democrats trying to be the tough border party instead of contesting the narrative war was always infuriating!

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This is why I think people in academia who use gAI to "write" are not people I would take seriously, in general. Why should I bother to read anything you produce, if you can't be bothered to value this process?

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