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The Trump admin just killed off the State Department's Title VIII Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union. All fellowships for studying Russian and other East European and Eurasian languages are immediately cancelled.

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America is for sale

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NEWS: The Trump administration has funneled Elon Musk's company $86 million out of NASA coffers since the inauguration - all while NASA now slashes 5 percent of its entire workforce.

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Not pro-life

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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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fascinating to watch a global superpower tear itself apart for no good reason

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As usual, Donnie’s brain is playing shorthanded.

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Elon Musk spending more than $4 million to buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court race NC Republicans going to unprecedented lengths to overturn Democratic victory in NC Supreme Court race There’s a constitutional crisis in the states as well www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Letter from 21 legacy US Digital Service staff who resigned, saying they can no longer work for DOGE. "We will not use use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize American's sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services."

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NEW — House Republicans are putting the brakes on town halls after blowback over the Trump administration's cuts. One GOP aide said House Republican leaders are urging lawmakers to stop engaging in them altogether. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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From @reuters.com: President Donald Trump's sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country's drug cartels, according to eight people familiar with the situation. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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Shameful. The US under Musk and Trump has become a rogue state.

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Trump on civil servants working from home: “Nobody’s going to work from a home. They’re going to be going out. They’re going to play tennis. They’re going to play golf. They’re going to do a lot of things. They’re not working.” Trump 1.0 - 293 golf days, $150m to taxpayers Trump 2.0 - $10.7m

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Former archivist on Trump’s firing of the Archivist of the US, who administers the processes of the Electoral College and Constitutional amendment. www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-sho...

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Kofun-shaped plates and cookies at the Mozu Tombs Visitor Center near Daisen Kofun in Sakai

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Pair this with his “l’etat, c’est moi” ideology and you encapsulate the entirety of this presidency.

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Elon's crazy behavior spells disaster for Tesla

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Here is what Google Maps now shows in Japan: Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)

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Entire train themed with massive Myaku-Myaku red, white, and blue blotches in Osaka

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NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

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This is like if the mob got to fire every federal agent investigating organized crime bsky.app/profile/make...

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every day I think about the comms strategy of the korean opposition party in the wake of the coup and I get so burningly resentful that other countries have legislators who are awake

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After a long hiatus, The Onion is back to making videos, and they haven't lost a step www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwlB...

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Somehow, I only just realized that Myaku-Myaku has a "tail" and it is...yet another eyeball

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Kurt Warner's absolute evisceration of the Chiefs' play-calling in Super Bowl LIX is long but worth watching. For some reason, the Chiefs kept running man-beater plays over and over against Vic Fangio's quarters zone coverage - a recipe for disaster. www.youtube.com/watch?v=55j6...

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THEY’RE CLIMBING THE POLES IN TOKYO GO BIRDS🦅🦅🦅

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If you are a basketball fan, this is one of the most important videos you can watch. Everyone is complaining about how "unskilled" and "uncreative" today's game is, when in fact it's more complicated and skilled than ever before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp4b...

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Enjoying this Japanese soda composed mainly of sugar, apple juice, and...carbonated milk

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Today I learned that Japanese toilet manufacturer Toto, famed for their super hi-tech toilets, also plays a small but important role in the semiconductor industry www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

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Of the 24 busiest train stations in the world, the top 23 are all in Japan ❤️🚃🚅🚄🇯🇵

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Of the 24 busiest train stations in the world, the top 23 are all in Japan ❤️🚃🚅🚄🇯🇵

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Elon Musk and a small handful of inexperienced coders have been handed total control of the US government and access to the sensitive personal info of all US citizens, with Musk able to murder individual government programs at a whim by shutting off funding. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

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In a disgraceful act betraying millions of their own residents, Iowa, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming all write to oppose birthright citizenship.

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Where Americans think they get most of their imported oil vs. where it actually comes from

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Krugman on Canada tariffs: “I think you have to see fentanyl in this context as the equivalent of WMD in the runup to the Iraq invasion. It’s not real; just a plausible-sounding reason to do what he wanted to do — George W. Bush wanted a little war, Donald Trump just wants tariffs and dominance.”

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Although Trump's government-wide spending freeze was rescinded, his climate and energy spending freeze remains in place, threatening to torpedo a massive $167 billion in private investments. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/c...

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A new bus running the 13 hour journey from Kochi City to Tokyo will feature seats which can recline fully flat. The Transport Ministry issued new safety guidlelines for such seats, and this is the first service to meet them. www.yomiuri.co.jp/economy/2025...

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In one week! Michiko Suzuki (University of Tokyo) on her new book “Humanitarian Internationalism Under Empire: The Global Evolution of the Japanese Red Cross Movement, 1877–1945”, in conversation with Jessamyn Abel (Pennsylvania State University). Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-5763612

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