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There’s no evidence that Dan Caine will not be an effective chairman of the joint chiefs relative to his peers, but it is certainly saying something to the services that we are replacing a highly qualified black man with a white man who literally lacks the command qualifications for the job.

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I repeat, if you or a loved one was recently fired from the federal government during your probationary period, and the reason you were given was poor performance, please reach out to us at www.centerforemploymentjustice.com. We have a plan and may be able to help you.

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

Illegally cutting cancer research and meals on wheels to pay for PR ads for themselves.

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what the moment calls for is fighters instead of gormless boobs who should have retired 30 years ago. policy differences can be hashed out later, everyone can agree that Musk and Trump must be stopped and democracy restored

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"Do you expect me to talk?" "No, Mr. Zelensky, I expect you to die"

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House Budget voting on Tuesday Robbing from poor and giving to the rich. Can only afford to lose one vote. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE IN THE HOUSE. Cutting Medicaid, Snap, and ACA and higher education. WE MUST CALL AND TELL OUR REP THAT THEY WILL NOT BE REELECTED IF THEY VOTE FOR THIS.

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Trump is proving that what DEI is really about is preventing people from consistently hiring unqualified White men when there are qualified women and people of color. And that's why Trump hates DEI.

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"A lot of powerful people don’t really grasp the full extent to which Musk is marinating in and sharing extraordinarily deranged material on the platform, sometimes hundreds of times a day." – @jwherrman.bsky.social (nymag.com/intelligence...)

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Big Balls’s past gets more scrutiny — including the internship where he was terminated. “You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old?” one frustrated executive asked the company’s CEO in 2022. “Are you for real right now?” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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It's strikingly similar to the white supremacy campaigns in Reconstruction North Carolina, as described by Gregory Downs in Declarations of Independence (p.192), where Black employment in government jobs was framed as prima facie evidence of anti-white discrimination.

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I heard Grindr crashed last night.

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Of interest @moiradonegan.bsky.social www.usermag.co/p/link-fixed...

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hyper-confident idiots and explicit white supremacists, burning shit down and making up numbers to pretend it has value

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in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

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None of these actions are making us any safer

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On Wednesday I was the first to report Leland Dudek was on the verge of losing his job at the Social Security Administration when he was suddenly promoted to acting commissioner by Elon Musk. Thursday I published a story with more details. I’ll let you guess if I got any credit in this Post story:

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“🚨 as bird flu now ‘endemic in cows’ while #Trump cuts staff & $..outbreak unlikely to end w/o intervention w mutation of virus likely New variant>>dairy cows in NV & AZ prompting theories abt how virus spread, leading to q’s abt containing outbrks ..amid purge” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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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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I'm digging down details on a few stories, but I'm very interested in hearing from any federal employees or contractors: * who are just seeing DOGE folks coming into your agencies now * about what has happened in the wake of a DOGE bomb: rehires, canceled programs, big changes, etc. Signal: crg.32

submitted 23 hours ago • 15 comments

Hello All, Just put out this piece about the false hopes people are placing in the idea of a "transactional" foreign policy. Basing your security not on strong alliances but on bilateral deal-making and power wielding is normally a failure. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

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Telehealth isn’t a luxury—it’s a necessity. For many of my patients with Long COVID and disabilities, in-person visits are exhausting, inaccessible, or simply not feasible. Removing telehealth coverage means denying care to those who need it most. We must protect access to virtual care.

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It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

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NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

submitted 22 hours ago • 315 comments

if you look at a bad thing that happened and assume, evidence-free, that it's because a Black person got a job they shouldn't have, you're not a "DEI skeptic," you're a dumb gutter racist

submitted 22 days ago • 16 comments

And last night, online Nazis were touting their knowledge of said lists and their joy that Hegseth, a white nationalist, was using them.

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If you've missed Garrett Graff's breathtaking "foreign correspondent" pieces, check this one out. Maybe have a drink first though.

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This is key: If we want to beat Trump, we must talk about impeachment until it gathers public support and becomes a Big Thing. Failing to talk about it, as Dems think is smart, means it will never become a Big Thing.

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In 2019, Army officers accused or convicted of war crimes were pardoned. A Navy SEAL was restored in rank. Groups on the right have agitated against military ethics. The Secretary of Defense has been dismissive of Int'l Humanitarian Law. This is the larger context of the JAG firings.

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🪧🪧🪧

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Yes this. And I'm betting this was on a tiny budget just cleverness. But they have a public communication mandate because of the nature of recalls

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I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.

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

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Shoutout to Governor Janet Mills! This is the kind of courage we need.

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Here's a straight line: In 2019, Pete Hegseth encouraged President Trump to pardon accused war criminals. In 2025, Pete Hegseth and President Trump fired the military's top legal officers.

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Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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If I see you show up to a protest wearing these, I will stay close by and protect my queen at all costs.

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Republican moderates( in the House) many in swing districts, are refusing to go along with projected deep cuts in staple assistance programs in education, medical care and food.

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It seems like right now the organizing against this regime is very disjointed. I'd love to see the various groups come together as one voice - especially those with organizing experience. We need consistent messaging and targeted protests. Too many protests dilutes the process.

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this week’s writing: on Niemoller’s antisemitism, AOC’s resistance, and how the stepford wives warned about techbro misogyny 50 years ago. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/this-weeks...

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