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"Three tribal nations and five Native American students say in a lawsuit that the Trump administration has failed its legal obligations to tribes when it cut jobs at Bureau of Indian Education schools." www.news10.com/news/politic...

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"In tribal nations across the United States, leaders are scrambling to respond to a directive from President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to close more than a quarter of Bureau of Indian Affairs offices, which provide vital services to Indigenous communities."

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New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt is a look at Trump and Musk's different motives for the same goal of economic ruin. Subscribe today! salon.com/newsletter Music by black midi.

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Indigenous people ‘feel the brunt’ of trade war as ‘B.C.’ presents 2025 budget The financial plan presents a large deficit and no new major promises amidst looming economic uncertainty for already stretched Indigenous communities indiginews.com/news/indigen...

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B.C. Conservative MLA kicked out of caucus for mocking residential school victims www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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It would appear that the sell off of the national parks may have begun. When does the drilling start? wapo.st/3Db7DAu

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pretty sure if Trump told his voters that all their mothers were nasty bitches, a day later mothers would poll at 1% favorable with republicans

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The radical free speech administration has a banned word list. It includes the very dangerous term "female." These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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OTOH, what's REALLY wasteful is failing to invest in our long-term well-being. Private business will never do this. Exxon & oil companies knew they were causing a #climatecrisis 50 years ago & they invested AGAINST saving us. They invested in deceiving us. Government is how we protect ourselves.

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Remarkable: Numerous Fox News figures are now openly panicking about Trump's economy, warning that it's in real trouble. It's a sign that the MAGA project is quite fragile: If voters keep turning on him here, the whole edifice could collapse. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1925...

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Trump pretended he was "moderate" on abortion and supports "exceptions" for "rape, incest, and the life of the mother." This week, he backed states that ban abortion for women who show up at E.R. in crisis, needing an abortion to survive. www.salon.com/2025/03/07/q...

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It's increasingly clear to me that a big factor driving this obsession with trans athletes is men crave an excuse to imply that women's sports aren't real. Acting like any trans woman is 5 million times faster and stronger than any cis woman is their outlet. It's so gross.

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😂😅

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New in PN: How DOGE is running back Musk's Twitter takeover "The Twitter takeover is very much a blueprint for what Musk is doing in govt — from the cuts in cost to the layoffs to 'fork in the road stuff' emails offering resignations. It’s almost like he’s playing the hits." — @rmac.bsky.social

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if you replaced these guys' inboxes with a woman sportswriter's, they'd commit suicide by lunchtime

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It’s wrong to say leading House Democrats aren’t doing anything. As this thread notes, they’re lashing out behind the scenes at the few House Democrats who are doing something.

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"The Census Bureau estimates that 1.9% – or more than 2.3 million households – use wood as a primary heating source. However, in counties with a high percentage of tribal communities, that number often exceeds 30% of households."

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What a weird way to say: Under Biden… ‘23, ‘24 real GDP growth exceeded expectations Inflation was tamed without a recession A record 16.6 million jobs created A record 21 million new business applications Lowest avg unemployment of any admin in > 50 years… But, you be you, Mike…

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“Because, like I said, I was a Trump supporter,” he said. “I voted for Trump last election, but, because I thought it was going to be the things, you know, like, … just go against criminals, not every Hispanic looking, like, that they will assume that we are all illegals.”

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GOP leadership group lambasted for referring to Chairman of the Congressional @HispanicCaucus.bsky.social as ‘illegal immigrant.' Despite his citizenship & senior rank in US Congress. wapo.st/3QRtvnq Citizens of color are 'illegal' in the eyes of the the Republican Party’s congressional leaders.

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I will believe Trump is "reining in" Musk when it happens. However, this is largely good news. One of Trump's weaknesses is his narcissism, which compels him to pit his people against each other. The more they in-fight, the more they will slow down. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

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"He can't do that, it's illegal" is a profound misunderstanding of the law. Unfortunately. This is horrifying.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom debuted his new podcast with far-right guest Charlie Kirk. Newsom used the conversation to throw trans people under the bus.. it was emblematic of the current wave of rightward pandering @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/03/07/g...

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Watching Dem politicians like Newsom make the calculation -- throw trans people overboard in exchange for a patina of "moderation" -- just makes me violently ill. I hate these fucking people and I will never forgive them.

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Email from Columbia President Armstrong makes clear that admin still has no idea what it’s dealing with. No amount of “serious action to combat antisemitism” (read: punish Palestine activists) will satisfy the Nazis. They see universities as an enemy institution to crush underfoot.

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In light of the news about Columbia, I want to reiterate a point below by me and Levitsky: universities, collectively, are among the most economically powerful and geographically thick sectors in the US. If they stood up together in opposition to this tyranny, they would be incredibly powerful.

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This will be challenged but remember that these bootlicking Columbia bureaucrats shamefully punished students for protesting genocide. Despite their horrifying cowardice and repression, here's the result. But don't forget they did this before Trump. They're not just cowards, they agree with him.

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They're destroying civil rights history because they want to repeal the Civil Rights Act www.alreporter.com/2025/03/06/h...

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DEI is fascistcode for “the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” That’s what’s under attack. Don’t let them lull you into thinking that it’s “only” policies aimed at addressing the white patriarchal ableist mediocrity that has been our nation’s default and giving others an equitable shot. (“Only,” ha.)

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Everybody's upset abt this or that thing Dems did or didn't do at the faux-SOTU. Poor messaging, poor this, bad that. Very few of those things matter much or will be things we'll remember in a couple months. What they do on the CR really does matter. A LOT. That shld be 10x more focus anything else.

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This is a really good question and a really good thread, and I'm going to answer as best as I can. (A reminder: Don't be a jerk to this person, or to anyone in my mentions. It's gross, and I'll block you, even if I'm on your side of the argument.)

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TRACKER UPDATE. - Small plane crashes in WA and CO, killing 2. - SpaceX explosion rains debris and halts air traffic in Florida. FAA allowed the launch despite an ongoing investigation into the SpaceX's January explosion. - Sec. Duffy accused Musk of trying to fire Air Traffic Controllers

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"The No. 1 thing I've been told is that if I were to wear that on graduation day I would be such a distraction, that I would ruin the entire ceremony. It's just beyond crazy what people have to say when you try to represent your culture and where you come from."

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"The play, 'The Other Children of the Sun,' had been set to premiere just 10 days later at the performing arts center as part of the Theater for Young Audiences BIPOC Superhero Project, a nationwide initiative with playwrights of color."

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"The U.S. needs to return its public lands to Native Americans. In fact, I believe that might be the only way to save our parks and forests from corporate privatization and destruction, as well as preserve public access to them."

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"The main graduation ceremony presumably will go on. But the decades-old, more intimate and culturally focused ceremonies are being washed away in a red wave of anger over anything that smacks of diversity, equity or inclusion."

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"Haskell faculty that were terminated in the probationary layoffs will be returning to the classroom to finish the semester under the adjunct contract."

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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

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“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

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"Quisling Democrat" should become a universal epithet for this kind of behavior, not just these 10 in this one atrocious instance.

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The weakest, most pathetic thing. Imagine becoming one of the only 535 people out of over 260,000,000 US adults with the Constitutional authority to craft the federal budget—which many aspire to their whole lives—then begging an unelected official to "let" you have a say in the federal budget.

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The President and the entire Republican Party are all open Nazis now; it should be an eternal shame for any leader of any kind to exercise decorum in their presence at any time.

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What a front cover...

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For all the TRUMP = STRONG propaganda this is exactly what his “leadership” was like in Covid. Constant zigging and zagging, self-contradictory, incapable of commitment, wanting to have it both ways. It was a disaster!

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It's looking very much like Trump is deliberately tanking the economy to punish Americans for not worshipping him as much as he desires. Like the two-bit abuser he is, Trump's excuse is to blame the victims — a group that includes most Americans. www.salon.com/2025/03/06/n...

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I always thought Newsom would be a terrible 2028 candidate for the Dems but this clinches it -- he is utterly dead to me www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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Bad in every tactical and moral way. Chasing mythical swing voters is a bad strategy for any national Dem, especially one who wasn’t Obama’s VP and whose ambitions depend entirely on winning over the Democratic base.

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i’m sorry, i’m tired of this shit. there was no pronoun policing. i have encountered exactly three or four land acknowledgments in like ten years, and the most you’ll hear about “intersectionality” is in liberal nonprofits. this is just freefloating resentment masquerading as analysis.

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This is so profoundly strange from @slotkin.senate.gov. The Harris campaign ran one of the most aggressive outreach efforts to moderates, independents, and soft Republicans in recent memory!

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The actual trajectory of Democratic opposition to Trump since 2016 is that Democrats first engaged in #resistance and cultural progressivism, won the House in 2018, defeated Trump and won a trifecta the year of the George Floyd protests, tacked right under Biden, and lost in 2024.

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