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This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

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Read the real stories about what USAID cuts mean, not the Musk propaganda www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

This is the right message. What we're witnessing is a socioeconomic sickness. Megalomania brought on by severe concentration of wealth. It will destroy everything if it's not addressed

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NEW: A federal judge blocked Trump’s effort to stop funding grants and contracts that have DEI components, saying it is likely viewpoint discrimination and worded so vaguely that it will chill free speech. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Exactly. The root here isn't that bigots have some philosophical concern which compels them to care about what appears on someone else's government ID. Rather, the purpose is practical and malicious: to force trans people to disclose it—and, often, to explain it—every time they show ID.

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“Actually come to space, pussy” is a pretty funny dunk on Elon Musk, gotta admit

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In content moderation, there’s this thing where you make a rule and come up with a punishment but some people (marketing) dont want you to punish anyone because it’s negative/mean/uncool/lame and really, there’s no point in having rules if you can’t enforce them

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I think humanitarian aid as an extension of soft imperial power is good and "have free elections and we'll cure your tuberculosis" is the best game in town.

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major props to the associated press for not capitulating to trump. they're setting the standard for what news should be - independent, committed to the truth, and ready to stand against authoritarian governments.

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NEW: DOGE has operated in relative darkness even as it appears to be behind an explosive — and legally disputed — overhaul of the government. But details about the Musk-led agency teams have emerged in court. We review (and link to docs) here: www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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History rhymes encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

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she made the greatest posting mistake you can make, acknowledging a dunk on you like this

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sympathy for Barron Trump who is no longer the person his father considers to "know more about computers than anyone I know"

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Last week, JD Vance gave Europe an ultimatum: it can align with the Trump administration, or face its wrath. To comply, Europe needs to embrace the extreme right, repeal tech rules the US “will not accept,” and allow Silicon Valley to dominate its market. It should tell the US to take a hike.

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“If you ever wondered what you’d be doing during the 1940s, you’re doing it now.” I would still be yapping with the other Partisans about what annoying feckless cowards so many people turned out to be.

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The right wing woman is not insincere in her politics, but she is tactical: she believes that sexual and reproductive service to right wing men will earn her their protection, affection, and material support. She is wrong.

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The Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum says President Trump's dismantling of the U.S. civil service system, and his attacks on judges and his opponents, are part of a playbook on undermining democracy. 🎧 tinyurl.com/3w32xujf

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The law will not save you.

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one thing i'm thinking about is the last two major economic slumps the US has faced have happened in the final year (2008 and 2020) of the incumbent's term, and it seems like we're hurdling toward that happening in the first year

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It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

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New Better Offline w/ @edzitron.com Ed Zitron walks you through the how the tech media misses the stories that hurt billions of people every day - and how deep down, most people really do like technology and miss when it wasn’t so actively harmful. www.iheart.com/podcast/139-...

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It might a stretch/straight up incorrect that this was Trump's intent, but you can't tell me this isn't exactly how Q-obsessed freaks like the Proud Boys would interpret a coincidence like this.

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Trump take insulin

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here is the thing about the “argument” that democrats should have run roughshod over the law when they had the chance: it is much easier to break the law to destroy a program than break the law to create one.

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"I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath." @marcelias.bsky.social responds to Elon Musk's recent criticism of him. Read Marc's full letter to Musk below.

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The highest ranking trans person in the federal government was fired last week amid the broader purge. It was certainly political and targeted. 19thnews.org/2025/02/amy-...

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Very interesting report. It does appear that the UAF is starting to adapt a more flexible, in-depth defensive scheme (akin to German defensive tactics on the western front in 1917). But issues of rotation and combat engineering make wide scale adaption difficult

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Welcome to today's episode of Shut The Fuck Up Friday! Check out this video for some tips from a local lawyer for those of you headed out to the streets to protest. You're a target of the state when you take action. NEVER talk to police & always STFU! Full video in thread👇

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I sincerely believe the high volume of WWII-era media that Millennials were exposed to and the dearth of it that male Zoomers/GenAlphas experience is a non-trivial factor in the latter's comparative rightward shift. The kids need Medal of Honor games now more than ever.

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Business majors and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

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What’s funny is over the last few months, Ukraine has been able to close the firepower and manpower advantage (changing tactics and inflicting 130,000 casualties in 2.5 months will do that)

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Donald Trump is ending the national database of police misconduct

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There's no way to respond to Trump's threats that can be successfully guaranteed, but a two-track approach that focuses on tempering Trump's demands in bilateral relations with U.S. while also building and reinforcing a multilateral framework for global cooperation offers a possibility of success:

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When we were working on this story, I spoke with a Justice Department lawyer who had been pushed out by Trump. I was told that this civil rights discrimination case DOJ had filed against SpaceX was likely going to be dismissed. Now that's happening.

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