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Media shying away from calling things what they are will be our downfall if this continues. What this should say is: Bannon whipped up CPAC crowd by talking about possibility of Trump unconstitutionally staying in office for third term—and concluded his speech with a Nazi salute like Musk did.

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BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

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JUST IN: A judge has enjoined President Trump's effort to block federal funds from going toward grant recipients who engage in DEI practices. The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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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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This is how dictators talk.

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another thing every other president in history would be impeached for just happened

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Hey, I've got a new and spiffy-looking website, if you're inclined to check it out. benjamindreyer.com

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How it started. How it’s going

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I’m pleased to announce the release of my new book, Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West, published by @utexaspress.bsky.social More details can be found here: utpress.utexas.edu/978147732998...

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Dated this very day in 1959, Eagle 10/8, with its cover featuring another chapter of Frank Hampson & his studio’s finest Dan Dare serial, “Safari In Space”. That it was to be Hampson’s last work on the strip remains an immensely sad business.

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New at The Virtues of Captain America Blog: thevirtuesofcaptainamerica.com/2025/02/21/i...

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‘E-Harmony for babies’: Registry would track Missouri women ‘at risk’ of abortion www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...

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Dark Pence is back.

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New from me, based on the movie #CaptainAmericaBraveNewWorld and the new edition of my Cap book (amzn.to/4gJbvpT): www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mayb...

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Firings happening right now at the NSF.

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NEW: “The sudden departure of Justice Department veteran Denise Cheung comes a day after President Donald Trump announced his nominee to lead the prosecutor’s office, Ed Martin, who has supported unwinding all January 6 criminal cases that the office brought.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

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HAPPENING NOW: Judge Reyes has opened her hearing on transgender members of the military. She begins by getting the plaintiffs for transgender service members to agree that it's reasonable for the US military prioritize lethality, readiness and WH is owed deference to oversee the military.

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New from me, based on the movie #CaptainAmericaBraveNewWorld and the new edition of my Cap book (amzn.to/4gJbvpT): www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mayb...

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Is Musk demanding the data held by the Social Security Administration in order to make it more efficient? Unlikely. Here's a better explanation: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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🚨🚨🚨🚨DOGE is breaking into Social Security records too now www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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New toon: rapid unscheduled disassembly www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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CFP for a special issue of Synthese on hinge epistemology, deadline 1st of April (which I presume means they're open to joke papers)

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Gathered with perhaps 400 friends and neighbors in front of Frederick city hall to register our protest at recent happenings. Many good signs and this was one of my favorites.

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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Five years ago, I wrote about this self-loathing issue of Inferior Five: tombrevoort.com/2020/02/15/b...

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Vance’s embrace of the far-right party was quickly rebuked by the ADL: it was “deeply concerning” that Vance appeared to openly welcome a group with “an extremist agenda and a history that includes antisemitic, anti-Muslim, anti-democratic and xenophobic rhetoric.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/u...

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New from me based on the revised edition of my Cap book (amzn.to/4aUH4ff), on Sam Wilson's different approach to Captain America compared to Steve Rogers: www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ma...

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“The absolute minimum requirement for someone occupying such as role should be an understanding of science and respect for scientific evidence and expertise. Yet, Kennedy fails spectacularly in this regard.“

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If Pam Bondi wants to dismiss the Eric Adams indictment, she can just do it herself. She is the attorney general, she doesn’t need to have a line prosecutor do it for her. But they want to be able to say a career person did it.

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Headlines from today: Vice President Vance Accuses European Leaders of Censoring Free Speech White House Bars Associated Press From Spaces Like Oval Office and Air Force One

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New from me based on the revised edition of my Cap book (amzn.to/4aUH4ff), on Sam Wilson's different approach to Captain America compared to Steve Rogers: www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ma...

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No, they were asking her to shut down the illegal infiltration of the government

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New at The Virtues of Captain America Blog: Something for everybody! thevirtuesofcaptainamerica.com/2025/02/14/a...

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Wow This is an extraordinarily dangerous and self-defeating act The CDC’s EIS officers are some of the world’s best respected & trained experts in investigating & controlling outbreaks (they’re nicknamed the “disease detectives”)

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Nat King Cole photographed upon arrival at Idlewild Airport in New York City, 1959

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When a satirical write-up of the coup d'état you are currently experiencing is more accurate and factual than most of the “news” coverage being published by main stream media…

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A stark contrast: Kash Patel, who is on track to be confirmed as FBI director (but shouldn’t be) & DOJ employees who resigned rather than follow a directive to let politics interfere with prosecution. joycevance.substack.com/publish/post...

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I have a question. What is the foreign policy of the U.S. government? www.wsj.com/world/europe...

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The precedent for immigrant mass deportations of the 20th and 21st (?) century, I argue in my forthcoming book The Politics of Mobility, 1619-1888--Voluntary and Involuntary Migrations, is Native American deportation. See Claudio Saunt's Unworthy Republic re deportation of 80K Indians in the 1830s.

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Without Yale, JD Vance would be a nobody who would’ve had a good life because of a high quality education at Ohio State no matter what he did after. As, I think @michellegoldberg.bsky.social hits on well, he wants more than reform. He’s a hypocrite pulling up the ladder up after he used it ably.

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Just a reminder that Germany was the center of scientific progress until the Nazis suppressed, drove away, or killed all the non-Nazi scientists.

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New at The Virtues of Captain America Blog: Something for everybody! thevirtuesofcaptainamerica.com/2025/02/14/a...

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This is deranged.

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