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i just want to share that i taught my first class last month (it was on the constitution, womp womp) and i just got my evals from the students. they were uniformly very positive with some genuinely helpful advice for if/when i teach another class. hope to do it again!

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Have been blocking people who are annoyed that I am not doom-spiralling about the German election results. I’m not naive about what’s happening here. And I can say for a fact, yesterday could have been much worse. I refuse to concede to despair where there is clearly room for something better.

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Nearly 100 people across Texas and New Mexico have contracted measles, state officials say, escalating anxiety over the spread of a potentially life-threatening illness that was declared eliminated in the United States more than two decades ago.

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For the curious.

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles mayor dismisses fire chief over response to most destructive wildfire in city history last month.

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The VP is posting through it. (Good for @shashj.bsky.social for hitting a nerve.)

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WOW "Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump’s first month in office is having on their livelihoods." ⤵️

submitted 9 days ago • 177 comments

It’s awe-inspiring how he unlocked the whole system’s capacity for the most shameless bullshit, he’s not John fucking Wick, he didn’t kill the dude with a stray pencil

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The CIA has moved to dismiss an unspecified number of officers who were working on recruiting and diversity issues, according to former officials, in what would be one of the largest mass firings in the agency’s history.

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Not surprising, I guess. But fucking hell. Only question is if he now gets promoted.

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I … cannot deal with this one tonight, but y’all should see it. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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“Pep Guardiola had asked his players to give the Bernabéu a fright; instead, they were the ones exposed to a terrifying truth, wearing a haunted, hollow look” Cracking report by @sidlowe.bsky.social for @theguardian.com from the other game played last night. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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This is happening to thousands of people but of course only your friend is worthy of the king's mercy. What the fuck are we doing here bsky.app/profile/pbum...

submitted 11 days ago • 66 comments

i think the “NPC” insult is dehumanizing and illiberal and rich coming from a guy who thinks entirely in mindless dinner party cliches. in fact, all you need to know what he will think about anything is to know what parties he goes to.

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"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

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This is literally describing a child’s behavior. But if he wants to fly in a compromised plane, who are we to object ?

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Cutting Dolly Parton’s program that helps kids learn how to read <<<<<<< www.14news.com/2025/02/19/t...

submitted 12 days ago • 184 comments

on january 6 and historical memory www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Eric Adams's attorneys to Judge Dale Ho: "There was no quid pro quo. Period." Eric Adams's attorneys to acting DAG Emil Bove:

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these guys are also afflicted by the delusion that nothing can actually get bad

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Sorry to the eugenicists in the comments but you do not get to use “fuck around and find out” on kids who are being murdered by their idiot parents

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I will hate these mother fuckers for the rest of my life. We gotta be doing everything we can for these kids in the next four years

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i told you i told you i TOLD you this was a theocratic power grab

submitted 23 days ago • 44 comments

Unilaterally shutting down USAID via Executive Order and merging it with State is openly illegal and Dems should immediately converge on D.C. and call for protests if Trump tries to do it.

submitted 30 days ago • 32 comments

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

submitted 30 days ago • 231 comments

Having a senile Fox News uncle as President of the United States is actually very bad

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it is honestly kind of striking to me that the founders were basically on target re: “things that could end our republic”

submitted 30 days ago • 215 comments

“First do no harm”

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Finally someone brave enough to take it to the disabled after they've been living like kings under the famously generous Conservative party.

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One of the biggest losses from Brexit wasn’t economic. It was the theft of possibility - the devastated young people telling me that they’ll never get to live their dream of studying and living and working in Europe, maybe even falling in love there and staying there. I feel for them all the time.

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Firefighters have now left - after 14 hours - with new images showing the scale of the damage

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NEW: A 3.8 magnitude earthquake centered off the coast of Maine rattles the region, causing light to moderate shaking in the state — as well as in parts of Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

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Apartments for $20,000 a month: residents scramble after wildfires deepen LA’s housing crisis

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Meta is changing its rules about what constitutes ‘hateful conduct’ and terminating support for global fact-checking organisations. This may not end well, writes Ethan Zuckerman, writes @ethanz.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

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Singer Grimes, who shares three children with Elon Musk, has distanced herself from the tech billionaire following his controversial Nazi-like gesture at Donald Trump’s Presidential inauguration.

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Can American media outlets help amplify good solutions built on solid data, evaluating the evidence fairly and emboldening others to try them? Or will they fall prey to questionable culture-war narratives, and let the world burn?

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The essay, at its end, gives some suggestions about what can be done not only to resist but move beyond fascism. Please do have a read if you have a moment, and please share if of interest.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Jan. 6 sedition defendants, Oath Keepers' Rhodes and Proud Boys' Tarrio, are released from prison after Trump clemency.

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“He can sign all the papers he wants to sign, but until it’s actually happening, it’s kind of hard to tell how this is going to go.” We spoke to 7 Americans about what they thought about President Trump's Inauguration Speech and his first day in office.

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The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents federal government employees in 37 agencies and departments, has sued President Donald Trump over his order that makes it easier to fire career civil servants and replace them with political loyalists.

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Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong discusses his thoughts on the Trump family’s meme coins launched over the weekend. See more from the interview: www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0...

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NEW: The new president’s orders will take the US out of the Paris Agreement, encourage the extraction and use of fossil fuels, and undo Biden-era policies.

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Trump is ending all diversity, equity and inclusion programs in federal government, after signing an executive order that describes the policies as “discriminatory"

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Former Georgia prosecutor faces trial for allegedly obstructing Ahmaud Arbery killing investigation

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North Koreans showed up on the battlefield on behalf of Russia in its war against Ukraine in late October. Since then, they've earned a grim reputation among Ukrainians for apparently preferring to kill themselves rather than surrender.

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Europe’s left-wingers today raced to condemn Elon Musk after the world’s richest man performed a stiff-armed salute at an event to celebrate new United States President Donald Trump.

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