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“It's conceivable, you miserable, vomitous mass, that I'm only lying here because I lack the strength to stand. But, then again...perhaps I have the strength after all. Drop. Your. Sword.” History. Music. Anthropology. Space. Sci-fi. LSG

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I say we prove him wrong.

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If you’ve lived through spousal DV, you know that isolation and restricting outside contacts, controlling access to funds, and denigrating language is universally employed. Now look at social media and news through that lens and think about who is publishing what.

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If you thought it wasn’t possible—well, here we are. Musk pulled $80 million in funding authorized by Congress straight from NYC’s bank account. The federal government took the funds and called it a “clawback” of taxpayer money. A lot of others would simply call it stealing.

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We can be told to sit down and shut up, but the reality is that truth and love can never be erased or deleted. Not allowed to have DEI? Have an Office of Collaboration instead: www.cu.edu/collaboration

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The US Census records are also no longer available online. Let’s have our students cite Wikipedia as their source, shall we? Or better yet, the AI synopsis of what the Google internet says.

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While Trump has been distracting America with everything else, Elon Musk’s staffers are quietly taking over NOAA and the Department of Labor. They are also using AI to help rewrite a significant portion of the federal government’s computer systems.

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1/3 In Congress July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another

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1/5 Abraham Lincoln Jan 27, 1838 “At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live

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1/3 “I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy...censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is

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We like to think we would stand up and sign the Declaration. But so often we have many cares to account for, family income being a big one. Standing up only comes with sacrifices of our comforts. Stand anyway.

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1/2 "When technologists assess a new A.I. language tool, the go-to metric is generally not the accuracy of its product, or even the consistency of its answers. It is engagement. Substance is pushed aside in pursuit of simply keeping human eyeballs trained on its messages for as long as possible.

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Sometimes irony and sarcasm are not strong enough descriptors. Amanda Marcotte of The New Republic pointedly and eloquently snarked yesterday: “They say… Maybe you don’t like the fact that… inflation is back… federal grants cut off… can’t get Medicaid anymore, but don’t you hate Democrats though?”

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Given all the new executive orders in the last week, at the very least they could have done away with daylight savings time.

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The Trump administration warned federal employees of “adverse consequences” for not reporting colleagues resisting orders to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, giving a 10-day deadline to report via a special email account.

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Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry François-Philippe Champagne's letter to the CEO of Amazon. "This is not the way business is done in Canada."

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Representative Andy Ogles, Republican of Tennessee, has filed a resolution to amend the constitutional term limit for presidents from two terms to three, though only if a president’s first two terms were non-consecutive.

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