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When I want to feel hopeful, I remember I hold my political beliefs because progressive taxation, equality of all citizens, peaceful co-existence & anti-fascism are morally & logically superior to MAGA fascism. I can hope the scales will fall from the eyes of others. Lots of work in the meantime.

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Much better no/yes meme that doesn't use Drake just dropped! (Meme generator template in replies.)

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DOGE has been sending their mass emails from a misconfigured server, causing DOGE emails to fail SPF (Sender Policy Framework) validation. This means that agencies are probably marking DOGE emails as spam.

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L. O. L.

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I wrote this last week, with info on how any international engagement NOAA does (there's a lot of it) had to be run through political appointees. I have heard now that almost none have been approved; basically everything, including things flagged as high priority or urgent, is listed as "on hold".

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Egging my own Cybertruck to try and increase its resale value

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

Dems should have to sit through a six-hour seminar composed entirely of Dril tweets before taking office

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Historians will have the simple clarity of referring to Trump's second term as "the Resegregation," since that's the single through-line of it all.

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Deconstruction

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I’m pretty sure the number of Nazi salutes at an event that makes it a Nazi rally is one but I guess it’s nice all these CPAC speakers are offering confirmation

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Division leadership in a few places have already told their staff to wait until Monday before opening it so they can figure out what to do

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I guess I'll just say if you're gonna do this probably use some secondary secure email address, in case that's not obvious

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Deleting this because I have heard from a reliable source that all of the ACIP members remain accounted for/not fired. They met on Friday. Obviously unsure of the future here but this hasn't happened.

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From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

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In the era that I studied when I was still part of the academic world one recurrent topic was that of "over-mighty subjects". This referred to subjects of the Crown who were themselves so powerful that they threatened the sovereign power of the Crown itself. In the US we have no sovereign, or ...

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A lot of regretful Trump voters are learning the hard way that voting to hurt others isn't as fun when the harm hits you.

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Let's hear it for the Eagles👇✊️👏

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Presidents come and Presidents go. Through it all. Life, it never die. Women are my favorite guy.

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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

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So if you get that OPM email, my only advice is to recognize (1) it is asking you to give them an excuse to fire you (2) it will be processed by an LLM. If you want to leave, good luck to you, thank you for your service. If not, reply in a way designed to not give their LLM bot those free excuses.

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WaPo about the TPUSA grifter who promotes vaccines cause autism conspiracies and features episodes discouraging toothpaste and cancer screenings while also preaching that LGBTQ+ people should be barred from having children and fantasizes about publicly executing immigrants: “wellness influencer”

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I wrote about how particularly ridiculous it is that Senate Democrats, led by Dick Durbin, think the priority should be repealing Section 230 and undermining the very open internet we need more than ever right now. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

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Batman villain Emil Bove is Donald Trump’s hatchet man in the Department of Justice. The great @lizdye.bsky.social unpicks his past and his ruthless knifing of former colleagues. Move over Scarecrow and Riddler. It’s the hour of The Apostate! airmail.news/issues/2025-...

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lord knows I try

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First clip from my interview with former NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social Chris Kluwe about why he chose to be arrested for civil disobedience at his right wing city council meeting this week in protest of MAGA. More clips to come before we release the whole interview. Chris is fiire.

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just did the very first interview for my new book on radical labor history for kids, and it’s finally starting to feel real! preorders are live here :) www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fight-...

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A lot of these people have done unforgivable things. Also holding an anti-Trump conference as Republicans takes bravery that I respect I know, I know, you don't have to hand it to them, but I'm handing it to them with both hands. Republicans who step out of line are getting credible death threats

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FFS New York Times. They’re not *his generals. Unbelievable

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If you'd asked me a year ago whether Steve Bannon or Elon Musk would be first to throw a sieg heil on a Republican stage I'd have laughed you out of the room for even asking This is why Bannon's wing is losing. Thinks he's driving the zeitgeist but he's actually way behind

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Holy crap. At his town hall last night, Rep. Rich McCormick compared his own constituents who asked him tough and fair questions to January 6 insurrectionists

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Ask anyone even remotely non-white

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the emotional logic of fascism

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Here is a list of groups that have been doing the work of advocating for queer and trans people who are incarcerated. You can help someone with as little as being a friendly pen pal who is able and willing to listen and respond regularly. legacy.lambdalegal.org/know-your-ri...

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Altar Mitty, the swasvicar has had his visa revoked. Ok, who reported him to ICE?

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So, when the far right call it a Nazi salute it’s a Nazi salute; otherwise it’s just ‘a controversial gesture’.

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Give it a year, I reckon we and the Canadians could knock over the US.

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Global crisis style note: What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.

submitted 10 hours ago • 28 comments

A reminder that @scarleteen.bsky.social is 100% queer and trans run and will ALWAYS be providing educational materials, support, and more to youth seeking sex, relationships, and health education from a source who won't casually erase their existence with their political winds.

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Five major airlines are suing to overturn a rule from then-Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg that actually holds airlines accountable for damaging disabled people's wheelchairs. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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I need abled people to understand that breaking someone's wheelchair is like breaking your legs. Both of them. They want to get away with breaking people's legs.

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Update: The White House is already backing down on this. Keep calling your reps. Keep pressuring them. Along with your reps, the white house phone number is (202) 456-1111. Use 5calls.org to get all your reps in one place along with a guide. www.nysun.com/article/whit...

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