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My article in today’s Observer about the German elections (the title and the piece reference this outstanding poem by the technologist, storyteller and activist @emily.gorcen.ski: emilygorcenski.com/post/the-tim...)

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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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The thing about the All Powerful Absolute Executive that Trump is creating: Republicans would NEVER allow Trump to do this if they thought Democrats might ever inherit it.

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it would be extremely cool to reach $2,000 for reproductive justice and mutual aid in the south!

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Everyone bears the responsibility for what is happening to Ukraine 🇺🇦 had the sanctions been put in place Navalny suggested, the war would be over. The West has lined their pockets while they’ve fought for their lives. Let’s be clear-eyed about that, and we cannot let 🇺🇸 extort them like this.

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they voted for harris, because rural voters are not a bigoted monolith despite what you've been led to believe. but even if they didn't? they'd still deserve fucking mail service

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I don’t understand how there’s any debate about whether to characterize them as Nazis when they’re out here sieg heiling. It’s an absolute failure of messaging not to name and condemn this behavior, and build a narrative around it.

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PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

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"When it came to personal harassment, there was a clear gender dimension." The fact that sexism remains widespread in academia is itself very disturbing but that this fact is not seen and treated as a big problem within academia (leadership) is infuriating.

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i absolutely believe this is where we are headed. this has always been the playbook. sartre wrote in 1945 that they delight in their own bad faith. in 2017, andrew anglin made it the official editorial policy for his nazi blog. it’s always “just a joke,” but the punchline is actual violence.

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today's billionaires, at least in cities like NYC, live in needle-thin glass towers literally amid the clouds. wisely most of them keep very low profiles & their names are generally unknown. NYC is becoming an unreal city reminiscent of "Blade Runner." soon, the wealthy will live "off-world"...

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Can't spell neoliberal without AI

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Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

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Flashback to when Musk told Twitter engineers to print their source code for review.

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Judith Butler looking on as the concept of Gender outlives another Pope:

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This is horrible for the future of American science and innovation and economic wellbeing and all the things Pitt is not a small institution It has nearly 10K grad students It is where Salk discovered the polio vaccine

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The Ford family has had something personal against Toronto from GO. Everything they've done since entering politics, has been designed to hamstring this city and it's progress. Kick this prick OUT this Friday! >___<

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Odd how the turns have tabled… Trump reversed course and admitted that Russia did, in fact, invade Ukraine. International news sources and independent media have stepped up to keep Americans informed.

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This hits hard.

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First ever Secretary of State to just get out there and say “we are weak, come walk all over us”

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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

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New: My dispatch from the hottest club in New York City on Friday — the Luigi Mangione hearing. Truly one of the most fascinating scenes I’ve ever witnessed. With illustrations from inside the courtroom by the great Molly Crabapple www.theverge.com/law/617946/l...

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We need to call Trump and his enablers’ actions for what they are: illegal, stupid, and dangerous.

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"This is a vast project of enforced re-education by a colonial power that wants to wipe away history as though clearing a computer disk, and reprogram a population through barrages of propaganda at the barrel of a gun" From @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social, on occupied Ukraine econ.st/41CVD4d

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C-PAC is a cult gathering, not a convention! This “Third Term Project” poster at CPAC is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. The same people who were screaming about “the deep state” are now openly fantasizing about a dictator-for-life.

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I truly think people don’t realize how many universities and colleges — especially public ones — may shut down if restrictions on and withholding of federal funding persists for even one presidency We are facing the demolition of American higher education

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“NAZI RAUS” is the traditional graffiti to use.

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Elon Musk says he's going to "fix" X's community notes system because he disagrees with a note on President Trump's claim that Zelensky has a 4% approval rating in Ukraine. Musk also claims community notes are "being gamed by governments & legacy media", but provides no evidence for that claim.

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Just so you know, every Ukrainian flag and every expression that Ukraine is still remembered abroad which I and millions of other Ukrainians see in the upcoming days means the world

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Circle of Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, 'Winter landscape with sleigh'

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All federal workers will shortly receive an email asking what they did last week — and that if employees fail to respond, it will be taken as a resignation, Elon Musk wrote in a post on X Saturday.

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

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Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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I have been making regular donations to Člověk v tisni/People in Need's Ukraine fund (also their Syria & Gaza funds), but I am making a special donation to the Ukraine fund today. Please join me if you can. www.clovekvtisni.cz/darujte/jedn...

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Adopted people tried to warn you. We knew this was coming. "If passed, the bill would create two registries: one for people “at risk” of abortions and one for people looking to adopt." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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@adopteeson.bsky.social’s interview with @kit-myers.bsky.social is so good. Kit discusses what he calls the “emotional violence” of #adoption with such sensitivity. I highly recommend it.

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“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause... it is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go.” – Sophie Scholl, anti-Nazi activist, executed by guilotine #otd 80 years ago, in Stadelheim Prison, Munich.

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Huguette Caland (Lebanon 1931 - 2019), Undercover III, 2011 , (from the 'Rocinante' series) mixed media on canvas. 51 x 42 inches Caland, née Khoury. Her much less interesting father was Bechara el-Khoury.

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I beg someone to make an effective block list that catches all the blue wave blue heart blue butterfly no dms no crypto resist grifter bots and accounts Only begging b/c bluesky still hasn’t given us private accounts

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