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I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.

Video snippet courtesy of Belfast legend David Holmes on Instagram...

Russia🇷🇺 is winning.. 🤔

Prove me wrong

In the Senate, I proposed blocking tax breaks for people who make over $10 million a year. Every Republican voted no. Republicans then refused to rule out tax breaks for people who make over $100 million. And $500 million. Is ANYONE too rich to get a giveaway from the GOP?

A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

This is how it’s done.

Ruhle: The left-leaning podcast MeidasTouch has just done the unthinkable—dethroned Joe Rogan to become the country’s most popular podcast…

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Many of the best English-language writers of the past century served apprenticeships under New Yorker editors. Jill Lepore considers some notable exchanges from our archive. #NewYorker100 nyer.cm/i0n8WoA

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.

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Obsessed with the women’s flag football commercial. Sorry Brad

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My God, I feel this post as much as any I have read in the last month

Elon Musk spent over $280 million to elect Trump and his GOP allies. Now Musk is collecting on that investment—grabbing control of the system that gets your grandpa his Social Security check, pays your mom’s doctor through Medicare, and keeps your kid’s Head Start center open.

In terms of how empires fall stories turning the whole thing over to a ketamine addled tech baron and a band of incel teens is probably one of the most pathetic options

I’ve read a lot of nonsense political novels, but I don’t think any of them imagined the afrikaner broederbond taking over the US Treasury.

The Proud Boys have lost the legal rights to their name to a Black church they attacked.

For the visual learners...

I wanted to read The Handmaid’s Tale, not live it. #America #Booksky #Booktok #Project2025

The same people who complain about D.E.I. are the same people who chose an unqualified game show host to be "President".

Not today, Satan

While 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg, combined, own more wealth than the bottom half of America.  Apparently, that’s not enough. Republicans want to give them a massive tax break by slashing Medicaid. Together, we will stop them.

Putting together a -very- small stack of books that have been banned (in the U.S.) for a customer

My God, Sagan had it pegged long ago.

I need to buy this right now

Started reading this tonight 😬 #booksky #raybradbury