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Strong statement by retired Rear Admiral Mike Smith, President of NSL4A: "National Security Leaders for America strongly condemns the removal of senior military officers without just cause. ... Removing experienced leaders with meritorious records weakens the force and emboldens America’s enemies."

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apnews.com/article/trum... Trump revels in mass federal firings and jeers at Biden before adoring conservative crowd: He is mentally ill, and multiple psychiatrists and psychologists have gone public with that assessment.

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JUST IN: Judge Ali responds to Trump admin request to clarify his order blocking blanket freeze of foreign-aid funding, calls his directive "unambiguous" and no obstacle to specific actions related to waste, fraud or abuse. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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This. Is. Insane.

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Donate to Marc Elias!

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

In summation, a qualified Black man got fired and will be replaced with a white man who doesn’t meet the qualifications for the position.

submitted 20 hours ago • 34 comments

The latest message from Elon Musk to federal employees. This comes after President Trump posted that he wanted Elon to get more aggressive.

submitted 3 hours ago • 129 comments

Fantastic piece by @adamserwer.bsky.social of the resegregation of America under Trump.

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Pope Francis now in a critical condition after respiratory crisis, Vatican says

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Back on my Bullshit the Supreme Court Enabled Beat, co-presidents Musk and Trump edition ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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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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Yesterday it was university of Pittsburgh - today it’s Penn. I fear this will soon be a grimly long thread of more gratuitous Trump/Musk inflicted disabling of America for the long term www.thedp.com/article/2025...

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. apnews.com/article/musk...

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We've spent so much time focusing on the removal of Confederate soldiers that we have missed the more important story, which is the dedication of numerous monuments that honor United States Colored Troops. 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/out-with-c...

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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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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

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BREAKING via AP Pope Francis is in critical condition after suffering a long asthmatic respiratory crisis Saturday morning, the Vatican says.

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www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n...

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Amid Changes at the National Archives, the Carter Library Cancels a Civil Rights Book Event www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/a...

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The Trump administration has halted a federal scholarship for HBCU students. "The 1890 Scholars Program has been suspended pending further review," a notice on the government's website said. www.livemint.com/news/us-news...

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Really good. READ @legaldefensefund.bsky.social ‘s analysis.

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The American Bar Association will temporarily suspend enforcement of its diversity and inclusion standard for law schools reut.rs/3CZRBJA

submitted 20 hours ago • 88 comments

I was on the board of the ABA about 10 years ago and all I can say is what the actual fuck are they thinking

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Scammers like to target seniors. This week, I held a seminar with finance, bank & fraud experts from Florida Bankers Association and local lenders to help older residents avoid greedy fraudsters. Protecting our seniors is always a top priority for me, at home and in Washington.

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A vast trove of Roman antiquities has lain hidden somewhere in Rome for half a century. Now, it's beginning to open itself up to the public eye—and our reporter managed to get inside the restoration lab.

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Upset to learn that Judge Vargas’s clerks don’t follow me on here bc if they did she would’ve added one more thing to this order….

submitted 19 hours ago • 24 comments

When you fire the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs-who’s Black Replacing him with an unqualified white man Then ax the Chief of Naval Operations-who’s a woman-saying she’s a DEI hire After you fired a female Coast Guard Commandant Your racism and misogyny seem pretty clear apnews.com/article/trum...

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“Where does it end? In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it—and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so.” —the defiant Maine Gov. Janet Mills www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...

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General CQ Brown gave 40 years to this country—not to a president—only to be forced out for it. This is what service looks like. This is what sacrifice looks like. A hero. A patriot. 🫡 🇺🇸

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BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732. Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.

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“The truth is clear: the president is using the blunt instruments of the criminal legal system to punish and isolate vulnerable people, while simultaneously trying to avoid legal oversight and flout the protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.” Read the full op-ed here ⤵️

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www.politico.eu/article/euro...

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Great piece by @adamserwer.bsky.social. Reminder that this isn’t the first time the federal workforce has been resegregated: Woodrow Wilson’s 1913 order to impose Jim Crow rolled back almost half a century of progress that saw Black people working at every level of the federal government.

submitted 6 hours ago • 10 comments

Say what now?

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@americanair.bsky.social I’m really pissed. I’m flying on your airline and I just found out that you guys cut your diversity equity and inclusion program. This will be my last flight on American. You guys are douche bags.

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The NYT is inventing experimental euphemisms for "racist" like Edison in the lab in 1877

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I literally reported this Wednesday.

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Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

submitted 7 hours ago • 235 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 9 hours ago • 1114 comments

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

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