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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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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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the stock market is now below where it was when Joe Biden left office

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Is bluesky more like holding court in a radicalized, kooky cult or is ejecting an acquaintance from your chateau in rural France for the sin of disrespecting Bari Weiss more like holding court in a radicalized, kooky cult?

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Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

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27% of Canadians view the US as 'enemy.' 75% of Canadians have a negative view of the US. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

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What the fuck is wrong with these people?

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the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

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Iran’s online army isn’t just targeting critics at home—it’s using AI and digital tools to silence women dissidents abroad. @mdladly.bsky.social examines the Islamic Republic’s evolving tactics of transnational repression in this report for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/ho...

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They’re going to ‘troll’ us all the way to a final solution.

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"Most Americans don’t want to believe that their government is taking lifesaving medicine away from sick people in Africa, or betraying Afghans who sacrificed for this country" But it is. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.

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Musk is straight up threatening advertisers to stay on X. This is exactly what anyone who knows anything about him expected him to do when he got this power. Musk very clearly sees the US government as just another new arm of his business empire. And is using it all as any authoritarian would.

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BREAKING — I've confirmed the DOGE staffers at SSA. They are Marko Elez (who was previously fired for racist posts and then reinstated), Ethan Shaotran, Nikhil Rajpal, and Gautier Cole-Killian. This is per Social Security Works, a non-profit working to protect/expand Social Security.

submitted 3 days ago • 136 comments

so basically we have Lavrentiy Beria running the FBI, awesome

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Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

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On one hand this is absolutely awful—a dark and dire day for America. On the other, at least we have the overall continuity of McConnell acting like Iago while the republic crumbles.

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

There are are roughly five Democrats worth a damn at present. Two of them (Van Hollen and Raskin) are in my beloved Maryland, and one of them is Pritzker.

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In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

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"MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is." www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

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"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

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Its something worth being #transmemes

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DHS has removed manual guidance barring investigations solely based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

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UPDATE: Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

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"At least one person tried to commit suicide, according to several migrants. Another broke his leg trying to escape. A third sent a plaintive missive from a hidden cellphone: “Only a miracle can save us.” A migrant from Iran, Artemis Ghasemzadeh, 27, wrote “Help us” in lipstick on one window.

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Not all that familiar with the New Testament, so perhaps some of the good Christians who serve in the Trump administration could explain how this gibes with their deeply held beliefs. Remarkable reporting via a 5-person NYT team. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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I realized today that Trump, Musk, DOGE, Vance, Miller, Vought and their many collaborators have broken so many laws already that they know they have to destroy our government and entire way of life to stay out of jail. This is all or nothing. We should respond accordingly.

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That’s how you write a headline, people.

submitted 4 days ago • 568 comments

Actual headlines in the past week.

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NEW: The USDA acknowledged that over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak. The agency adds it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.

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“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated. This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Democratic politicians need to be screaming about this from the rooftops

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w... “In one window visible from a sidewalk below the hotel, a woman clawed at a latchless glass pane in an attempt to escape. When she noticed journalists below, she held up a piece of paper that read “Afghan.”

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At the request of the Trump Admin, the Ntl Park Service removed references to trans people in this essay w/o consulting the writer, historian @wendylrouse.bsky.social. Read it here as Prof Rouse intended (and as the NPS published/maintained it until now). 🗃️ drive.google.com/file/d/1p-rQ...

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Tom Homan confirms on Fox News that he's asked the DOJ to investigate AOC

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Given the way things are probably going to start collapsing over the next few months, we’re going to need to build up the kind of grassroots organizing and protest infrastructure America hasn’t had in generations. Imagine trying to sustain BLM-scale mobilization over four years and start from there.

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worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.

submitted 7 days ago • 478 comments

Has it occured to them that one reason voters aren’t biting on the idea that liberal democracy is facing an existential threat is that they find it inconceivable the opposition party would be nattering about fucking egg prices if they really believed that were true?

submitted 6 days ago • 159 comments

Those who back the Trump-Musk-Vance administration, or are still giving it the benefit of the doubt, have failed the simplest test of our lifetimes - and the one that really matters. They can't be trusted again.

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“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.

submitted 8 days ago • 291 comments

14 flags, posted at 1:14pm. Ensuring there's a 14 there regardless of your time zone. If you wanted to signal you were a Nazi now...this is a good way to do it.

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we are getting a national version of red state governance, where the people in charge do everything they can to impoverish the state under the view that the more wretched things get, the easier it is for them to stay in power

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Life expectancy in Gaza has dropped from 75.5 years to 40.6 years https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02810-1/abstract?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3F99FCiO7aUK4ZmCkTVkkQc_kIAlI1X4_REv4Jo8HaQvN0mTTjQMgjN5s_aem_HAUojJ7htkq1k_htaTY6AA

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