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It'd be awesome if @whitehouse.senate.gov asked Attorney General Bondi if she has issued some kind of finding that foreign donations are cool now, so long as they're covered up nicely. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/22/p...

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Percy Shelley: I propose a ghost story contest! What is the SCARIEST story concept??? Mary Shelley: a guy creates another guy Byron: I don’t get it Mary Shelley: (*looks directly into the camera)

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1) trump’s Commerce Secretary Confirms Plan to Gut Medicare-and More newrepublic.com/post/191740/... Commerce Secetrary Howard Lutnick has confirmed that trump was simply lying to maga supporters about not touching Social Security and Medicare. “Back in October … I flew down to Texas, got Elon

submitted 6 hours ago • 12 comments

those that evangelize genAI as a "powerful tool" for their little tasks without consideration of its disastrous impact on the information/knowledge ecology are shortsighted, to say the least

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

thoughtful resistance would be to either buy every available ticket and no show or buy the tix and relentlessly heckle and boo the criminals

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

I watched Gladiator II (meh), but it did give me the idea of sidestepping our imminent civil war by making Kyle Rittenhouse bareknuckle box Luigi Mangione.

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

Please please please goad Musk into flying on one of his totally safe rockets.

submitted 21 hours ago • 72 comments

Doing this right before firing three top military leaders is so deranged. Source at DoD told me, “Disdain for Hegseth is a near-universal feeling even among the Trumpiest in the office.“

submitted 19 hours ago • 90 comments

“In an annual filing, the company said its business could be adversely affected if it was ‘unable to attract or retain specialized talent or top talent with diverse perspectives, experiences and backgrounds.’” Cola wars just leveled up.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

This made me laugh. And I think it's a good tactic for showing whose gender ideology is the problem.

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FOX NEWS: You are against people bringing in eggs that have not been-- I mean, we have the USDA for a reason. These could be contaminated and bring illnesses in. GALLEGO: Absolutely. This is why we shouldn't be firing USDA inspectors that are actually doing oversight over avian flu

submitted 1 day ago • 573 comments

And part of the work of remembering is also acknowledging the work of other historians, archivists, librarians, etc, who’ve studied bibliocide (Ovenden, Battles, etc), endangered archives (Raad, Zaatari, etc), fugitive libraries, etc

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

While many of you are likely yelling "GO USA" or "GO CANADA!" I'm yelling "GO literally any elected member of congress and the rule of law, please, anyone or a single check or a solitary balance or—

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Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

I don't think the Dems can stop the firings. But why aren't they proposing legislation that assures those that took the buyout get paid , and that all that are fired, get at least a year severance and health benefits? And any one with a health condition is covered the entire time they are sick?

submitted 2 days ago • 5049 comments

Thousands of federal employees, some of them Trump voters, are now without jobs thanks to Musk who is going to get contracts and government subsidies for his companies. This while the price of eggs & groceries are high. These families just lost a source of income. How do you think will play out?

submitted 22 hours ago • 74 comments

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

submitted 1 day ago • 560 comments

Postdoc opportunity at the School of Information Sciences, Urbana-Champaign. Teaching one course a semester. Application deadline April 1, but they recommend conversation with potential faculty mentors in advance of that date. Renewable for a second year. Pls RT! ischool.illinois.edu/research/pos...

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trumpcostsamerica.com

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 1 day ago • 1219 comments

Things hurting the US economy: -mass layoffs of federal workers -funding cuts to every federal dept -corporate layoffs -measles and tuberculosis outbreaks -high flu rates -$8/dozen eggs -new tariffs raising the cost of everything -Canada boycotts US travel and goods -concerns about airplane safety

submitted 23 hours ago • 22 comments

Precisely what we warned about when the emails first went out.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

submitted 2 days ago • 5074 comments

elon musk at cpac was so fucking weird you guys I know this reads like a parody but I literally just wrote down what happened www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

submitted 1 day ago • 259 comments

A few years ago I did an occupational folklife project for the Library of Congress, interviewing 25 rural mail carriers in Appalachia. What I learned is that their work goes way beyond delivering mail—they are care workers for the communities they serve. This is going to hit rural places the hardest

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It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now is political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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I heard the NEA is only considering proposals related to 1776 & the USA’s 250th birthday & I was feeling intensely patriotic, so I’m printing these really big posters inspired directly by the Founding Fathers The cut was carved from the masthead of a 19th century newspaper

submitted 2 days ago • 52 comments

Obviously this right-wing dismantling of the US institutional apparatus is about something much darker and more nefarious than a difference of opinion on the size and footprint of the federal government. For instance, whatever you think of it, USAID serves as soft power mechanism to protect the US.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

So I did this today: banged out a couple hundred words of a pitch while managing lab, sent it to the opinion page editor at the newspaper my parents still somehow get in print, and got back a "yes" in, I absolutely kid you not, under 15 minutes

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Heads up!

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Maga stands for trying to erase trans people from existence Maga stands for resegregation and racism Maga stands for censorship and book bans Maga stands for firing air traffic controllers while planes are crashing Maga stands for firing the people overseeing our nuclear arsenal

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This is a more clear, emphatic, and politically potent bit of messaging than we have gotten from basically any Democratic representative

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I honest to god don't care that she tried to kill congestion pricing like 50 times if she's gonna behave like this.

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

Ok that made me laugh

submitted 3 days ago • 648 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 3 days ago • 845 comments

I'm normally cynical about politicians but this is statesmanship. It is affirming republican civic virtue. Not irony-poisoned snark, not focus-grouped talking points. The oath to the Constitution matters, and it's time to speak plainly and earnestly about how our fundamental principles are at stake.

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to annihilate 60 years of advancements in equal opportunity by eliminating all federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds. 🧵 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Every serious DC political journalist should be at Speaker Johnson’s & Senate Majority Leader Thune’s doors today, with copies of the Constitution, their oaths of office, & Federalist 65, asking them where the articles of impeachment are & why it is taking so long for them to fulfill those oaths.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Next, they'll claim that all of this (Trump's "LONG LIVE THE KING!" post and its echoing) is a joke, a transparent trick they use repeatedly. As w/ Musk’s Nazi salute, they'll pretend for out-group audiences to be kidding or misunderstood, while the in-group recognizes that they are deadly serious.

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments