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By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

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Google, Microsoft, and Meta's increasing use of data centers has resulted in increased air pollution from extensive fossil fuel energy consumption and associated public health costs related to treating cancers, asthma, and other similar issues, valued at over $5.4 billion in the past five years.

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What kind of self-defense training is good to defend yourself against plain clothes who won't ID themselves from zip tying you for using your voice? Or to interfere on someone's behalf? @karenattiah.bsky.social

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As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

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Any organizing work that could have contributed to electoral outcomes last year was pretty much directed towards this, too. I pretty much completely burned out by the summer of last year

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Watched The Substance. Would not recommend!

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NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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The Trump regime's segregationist agenda is clear. I argue that having a Black man as president of white America enraged a portion of this country so much, that they decided to destroy any pipeline to Black advancement in academia, government, & workplaces. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trumps-seg...

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Mr. Hegseth has previously said that General Brown should be fired because of his “woke” focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military. Replaces a Black four-star fighter pilot with a white man who does not meet the statutory qualifications supposedly over DEI.

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This is even more unconstitutional than usual. Article I gives Congress the power to establish the post office. It cannot be "dissolve[d]" by the Executive.

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Imagine if the CEO of Purdue Pharma went on TV and said there were “pluses” to opioid addiction

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Call your Reps. Doesn’t matter what party. Your own Reps. Call, often.

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ok i am absolutely SICK of this anticipatory obedience that we're seeing across academic institutions and scientific organizations. miss me with the "oh the white house said xyz we have to stop DEI." EXECUTIVE ORDERS ARE NOT LAW.

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When ordered by Nazis to give lists of disabled people by disability severity, some doctors sent back exaggerated data to protect patients from forced work They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first The moral here isn't to tell the truth It's to never co-operate with Nazis

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Really don’t know what to tell people as someone who has written and spoken about the far right and authoritarianism and is in the academic side of this that we crossed the rubicon tonight when Trump declared he and the AG are the sole arbitrators of law. This is it. It’s here there is no going back

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the thing about due process rights is that you can’t mistakenly fire anyone unless you’re violating their rights

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I pre-ordered this from not-amazon and Mar 25 can't get here soon enough

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I wish some of the biggest accounts here on Bluesky would use alt text more. It really doesn't take that much time to do. Here's a link to a quick explainer. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

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A deadly virus has decimated the world's wild and domestic bird population and it has spent the last two years adapting to mammals. Do you know what I'm not worried about? The price of eggs.

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Democratic Senators voted unanimously to confirm Marco Rubio.

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Elon Musk is murdering people.

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The GOP's response to the air crash in DC illustrates the moral decay of today’s Republican Party. Make no mistake, the recent plane crashes are a harbinger of what is to come. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Suspect the place we really went off the rails as a country was 1864 when we didn't bar from government every single member of the Confederate government and army without exception, seize 100% of Confederate property to give to formerly enslaved people, and muster a Black-led army to defend it all.

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"The sheep like the shade, plus the solar panels increase grass yield and protect sheep from predators," said Pearce. Meanwhile, Pearce revealed farmers and shepherds reap their own set of benefits, as "sheep eliminate the need for herbicides or costly grass cutting on the solar farms."

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1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

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To probationary federal employees who have been terminated: Democracy Forward has filed a first-of-its-kind class-wide complaint with the Office of Special Counsel. If civil servants want to join in the complaint, you can email [email protected]

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"The government has been misusing taxpayer money for too long, and I am more than ready for it to use taxpayer money to redundantly undertake the expensive process of reviewing every piece of paper, saved document, and financial transaction across the entire federal government."

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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

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Reminder: Black history offers many examples of fighting authoritarianism, so one doesn't always have to look to Europe. Nazi lawyers looked to Jim Crow for inspiration for their racist laws. Read as much about struggles against Jim Crow as you do about other examples of resisting authoritarianism

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"Now is not the time to roll over. Now is the time to step up and put our foot on the accelerator." - Illinois State Senator Cristina Castro Illinois is leading the way and will continue to fight for climate progress, no matter what happens at the federal level.

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"The history of this country tells me that poor whites will put up with pretty much anything as long as they feel Black people are getting it worse."-- @elienyc.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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It's getting tiring to keep saying this, but for posterity's sake I will: any previous administration would have been instantly sunk by this. Before January 20, 2017, this would have been the most stunning corruption scandal in the history of the American justice system. Now, it's...a Thursday.

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every day I think about the comms strategy of the korean opposition party in the wake of the coup and I get so burningly resentful that other countries have legislators who are awake

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Bringing this 2022 chestnut over here. Hey, it's still true! Whispers: There's a commission in your state of 3 - 5 people who can shut down all the fossil plants and pipelines and replace them with clean electricity, and SCOTUS can't stop them.

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In order for New Yorkers to vote in the closed Democratic Mayoral Primary, they must be registered as Democrats (and not unaffiliated or otherwise) by TOMORROW, February 14th. You CAN do change or update online through the DMV link below with a valid ID: e-register.vote.nyc

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NEW: At least three more DOJ Public Integrity Unit senior officials have resigned after meeting with Emil Bove on the Eric Adams case. Five in Public Integrity overall. That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.

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Interesting to see that Shell have revised their CCS assumptions down quite significantly, for both their 'ambitious' scenarios and their 'archipelagos' ('evolving policy') scenarios Fundamentally still absurd relative to the reality, but interesting. Shell deleted their CCS target in March last yr

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Let's go 💪💖

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anyway I strongly suggest you call your senators' office, especially if you have dem representation, and tell them you expect real actual obstruction, not obstruction theater.

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Bluetorial: The rationale for the “NIH” indirect cost “plan” is based on misunderstood (unintentional or intentional) accounting and math The value of real government transparency

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2024 BigOil profits: Saudi Armco - $120 billion Exxon - $33.7 billion Shell - $23.772 billion Chevron - $17.66 billion TotalEnergies - $18.3 billion BP (not reported yet) IMF calculations for fossil fuel industry subsidies & externalized costs in 2024: ~$6.5 TRILLION This is insanity.

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