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Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"

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Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

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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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UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

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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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He nails it.

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

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BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

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Celebrating the birthday of the late Walter Becker of Steely Dan: writer, musician, comrade. Bonus: here's a recording of Hey Nineteen, live at the Greek, during whose vamp Walter speaks of getting stoned, back in the day, with me— And with my mother. The embarrassment starts at 2:50.

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Stop calling these acts of deliberate malicious destruction mistakes — if you close your eyes and fire machine gun spray ceaselessly into a crowd claiming you just want to scare some of them off, it’s not a mistake that there are casualties.

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“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

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Chayney, Goodman, and Schwerner had more courage, and more principle, than any 218 Republicans.

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AOC speaking to a thousand NYC federal workers and allies about the urgency of resisting Musk 🔥🔥🔥

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!!!TONIGHT!!! Information and tickets below.

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elon musk using IVF and CRISPR to ensure all of his children are male and then one transitioning to female boiled his brain so much he ends society as we know it is like the ultimate expression of family being the oldest kind of empire for the most pathetic kind of humans.

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JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

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AP is banned from WH events and all the other legacy journalists walk right in. If this was the 60s, we know who would have been with the Freedom Riders, and who would’ve been writing about them from a safe place. AP stands alone. Sad but true.

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we are rapidly turning into the kind of small minded authoritarian country that is given a made-up name in an action thriller

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil former leader Bolsonaro knew and agreed to a plan to poison President Lula, top prosecutor says.

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Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

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Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

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Dear Canada, A whole lot of us are horrified and doing our best as opposition.... and yeah, we're also super-embarrassed by how stupid Donald Trump is and how crassly normalizing the New York Times is. sincerely, your friend on the left coast

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Red sky at night, sailors’ delight.

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Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Panama, and Gaza could not immediately be reached for comment

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Always.

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All over today. This is NYC.

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Thrilled that the MICKEY ONE existential dread franchise has legs.

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This Wednesday at the Academy Museum I'll be hosting a screening of EASY RIDER and talking about the extraordinary life and work of its screenwriter Terry Southern (DR STRANGELOVE, CINCINNATI KID, BARBARELLA, etc.). Special guest: Nile Southern. Join us for a fabulous evening. Info & tix:

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It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

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Don't post AI slop. And if you repost by mistake, as I've done, delete it. When you have something to say and attach AI art, you're undercutting your message and hurting artists. Pay or barter for art. There's a reason good things cost money and take time. AI art is harmful and it looks like ass.

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@theatlantic.com, still assuming that damage is collateral rather than the goal.

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The lure of Elon’s alternate reality for his followers is so powerful that he will tell them that pulling books off shelves, deleting words from government websites, and banning programs for their kids based on words they used is all part of fighting back against censorship. And they just let him

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Has it occured to them that one reason voters aren’t biting on the idea that liberal democracy is facing an existential threat is that they find it inconceivable the opposition party would be nattering about fucking egg prices if they really believed that were true?

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Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

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Found myself singing this in the car yesterday. For no reason at all...

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again, this is the easiest political slam dunk in the world find a veteran with a lifetime of public service who has been fired for no reason and bring him on television with you do it again tomorrow with a different veteran, and again, and again show the human cost

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Deputy AG Lionel Hutz quickly scribbling an ampersand onto it.

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learn about the Black Panther Party free breakfast program learn about the Zapatista uprising learn about Jane learn about the Kensington Welfare Rights Union learn about STAR learn about Act Up learn about the Battle of Blair Mountain learn about the Spanish Civil War we are not the first

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People died to give us our democracies, perfect or not… We should at least have the good grace & gratitude to fight for them.

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Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?

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