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ON TYRANNY (20 LESSONS BY TIMOTHY SNYDER) Timothy Snyder is a historian and Yale professor known for his work on authoritarianism, the Holocaust, and the Soviet Union.

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“Steve, who works in the store’s dairy department, said he recognizes American egg hunters by their accent” thelogic.co/news/canada-...

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America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...

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So the CDC, headed up by RFKjr, will be conducting yet another study on the correlation of autism and vaccines. Now, if you think to yourself, but we already paid for that study. You would be correct. It was found credible that vaccines DO NOT cause autism. Yet here we are. Again. #SheShed

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Holy shit!! Trump just slipped on live TV that he lost the 2020 presidential election. Trump would HATE it if this goes viral:

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Governor Glenn Youngkin said he wants to bring back the values of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson knocked up his late wife's enslaved half-sister with 6 kids after starting a relationship with her when she was 14. 4 kids survived and he freed a couple of them…eventually.

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Whether you already know Octavia Butler's work or are new to it, this excellent piece is well worth your while. "Octavia Butler didn’t just write about dystopias—she wrote about how to survive them." - Scot Nakagawa antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/octavia-bu...

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What a wonderful idea…👇 Let’s. Do. This. ✨

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Might save a life.

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Bill Nye at the Stand Up for Science rally in DC: "What are you afraid of? What is it about the process of science, modern medicine, caring for our neighbors, or Women's History Month, that you all find so scary?" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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It's not safe out here in these streets. The Blackwing XIX is a tribute to the 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920 & granting [SOME] women in the U.S. the right to vote… Each pencil honors the suffrage flag & the 36 states that ratified it. A portion of proceeds goes to the League of Women Voters.

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NEW: The National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods is (or was) an advisory committee housed within the USDA which provides outside expert advice to advance food safety across the US and across different levels of govt. It was ordered disbanded this afternoon.

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Some photos were "flagged for removal simply because their file included the word 'gay,' including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II" apnews.com/article/dei-...

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This is so good. “Nature has its way of taking out the weak and the not so well and the injured. The eagle likely thought it would be able to take it out quite easily,” Sequeira said. “But, it wasn’t.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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"history" is among the flag words in the federal social media censorship directions. Also "dignity" and "respect."

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The Go-Go’s debut studio album “Beauty And The Beat” hits #1 — 43 years ago today “I do remember, in the very early punk days,” said Belinda Carlisle, “going to [Jane Wiedlin’s] apartment and she was writing songs with masking tape on the frets of her guitar. ‘Our Lips Are Sealed’ was one of them

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Ladies and gentlemen, a tweet from a senator who—like all other U.S. senators—swore to "bear true faith and allegiance" to the Constitution, and to "support and defend" it.

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love this

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Trump Just Created a Big Problem for His Lawyers by Telling Congress DOGE Is ‘Headed by Elon Musk’

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Such bullshit that Trump claimed to bring back free speech while removing people with dissenting opinions from his SOTU, starting with Al Green. Trump is a fraud. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

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Al Green after he was THROWN out: 🔥 "It is the best way to get on the course to a person who uses his incivility, who uses his incivility against our civility."

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Every accusation is a projection. This is what an actual witch-hunt is.

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If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

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The Iowa GOP advanced a bill making it a misdemeanor for a healthcare provider to administer a Covid vaccine. Even when a person has requested a Covid vaccine.

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"Jobs were also eliminated at the National Hurricane Center and Storm Prediction Center... and the tsunami warning centers in Alaska and Hawaii..." www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

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🗃️The Spring 2025 Special Issue on Global Histories of Menstruation and Menopause is out! Check it out here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54321 More detailed info. in the next few days.

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Cities should invest in public spaces are third places. We need many more public spaces to live out loud. This is a failure of city planning as much as anything else is to blame, as these are the things planners should be advocating for. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b...

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Remember this: Tyranny cannot prevail over people who refuse to succumb to it.

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Maybe dem reps could hold their own state of the union on the Capitol steps. Steal the spotlight. Let members like AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Max Frost, and the DNC make remarks. Norms don't exist. Buck them.

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WATCH: #MI07 Rep. Tom Barrett is "proud" to have voted to cut Medicaid and SNAP benefits his constituents rely on so that he can give handouts to billionaires.

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Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual. cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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The National Institutes of Health website is down. www.nih.gov

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WASHINGTON, March 1 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has pulled the plug on a team of tech-savvy civil servants that helped build the IRS’s free tax-filing service and revamped websites across government, a spokesperson for the General Service Administration said on Saturday.

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Pubmed is a useful resource for biomedical researchers. It allows a free search of publications and quick access to those that are open access. Apparently D.O.G.E. has seen fit to fuck with this wonderful tool.

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A lot of people are going to die from this

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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

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I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

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Bought this little book upon its release. Thought we had survived the warning. But the boomerang came back with lightning speed. Tyranny has arrived.

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Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

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Today, in a meeting at the White House, the only person actually defending American interests was Zelenskyy. Let that sink in.

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Watching Joffrey and Reek trying to bully Jon Snow was quite a thing.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered U.S. Cyber Command to halt all planning against Russia, including offensive cyber operations. The directive was relayed to Cyber Command chief Gen. Timothy Haugh and outgoing operations director Maj. Gen. Ryan Heritage.

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