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Good. More pushback against the blatant censorship. 🧪

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Ungoverned content monetization like this was one of Meta’s contributions to the genocide in Myanmar. They paid scammy third parties who overwhelmed real news orgs and published hoaxes and genocidal content for clicks. www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/20/1...

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Huh, so surprising for a group of [check notes] programmers and hackers with no auditing experience who weren’t conducting any sort of systematic audit like you might do if you were actually looking for fraud and waste. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Trump fired the country’s top general because the general made a four-minute video about being a Black man in America. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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The current attacks on nonwhite scientists reminds me of this paper by Lisa Cook, on how Jim Crow violence undermined Black scientific activity. This time neo-segregationists seem intent on just destroying scientific institutions outright. lisadcook.net/wp-content/u...

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"One of the difficulties of being alive on earth in the age of climate catastrophe is that we find ourselves in the peculiar position of mourning the future." www.hcn.org/articles/the...

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SCOOP: New Social Security chief was being investigated for leaking data to DOGE when Musk team tapped him. Sr officials placed him on paid leave while probing whether he may have violated privacy & tax laws, WaPo's Lisa Rein reports. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 275 comments

"It is absurd to mindlessly decimate the workforce that has led the world in science over the past 75 years, and to willingly give up excellent scientists and talent," Beyer wrote. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Trump: Fire hundreds of thousands of career civil servants trying to keep America safe and running. Also, Trump: Give DHS a budget of up to $200 million to run anti-immigrant ads that repeatedly thank Trump for leading an immigration crackdown. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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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

submitted 2 days ago • 225 comments

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.

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

THIS IS A MUST-READ PIECE. Please share, off Bluesky as well as on it. Most people do not understand how harmful these short-sighted cuts are going to be - for our economic as well as our physical health. 🧪🛟🩺

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

The rise of gen AI, backed at every level by the far-right, suggests the arrival of an _anti-information_ age. AI offers a self-reinforcing bullshit loop that, much like a Russian disinfo operation, serves to muddy the information space and create doubt about the very nature of reality.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

So much winning by the rupturing the nation’s world-class scientific pipeline. Such a colossal self-own. 🧪

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

When I was in residency I had to watch a teenager and her parents brought to tears when she learned that she had Turner Syndrome (XO). But Nancy Mace doesn't mind being horribly cruel.

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

Elon: "IF YOU RESTRICT THE POWER OF THE EXECUTIVE IN AN WAY YOU LIVE IN A DICTATORSHIP!!!" UP IS DOWN. LEFT IS RIGHT. WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

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Awful: Numerous scientists and researchers were just fired at NIH's center for treating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They fear Trump-Musk cuts could dramatically set back our ability to treat dementias. New reporting from me here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

Never forget #Bucha. Or any of the other horrific war crimes committed by Russia, the war's true aggressor. The ugly doublethink can't prevail over the truth. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

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"People are crying — these people have children," "Everyone has bills — everyone has to put food on the table. We still have to survive." "This is a paradigm shift," the official continued. "The world of government as you knew it, it's gone." www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

LITERALLY EVERY FBI DIRECTOR HAS BEEN A REPUBLICAN. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

submitted 3 days ago • 164 comments

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.

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

hey @mattyglesias.bsky.social, the piece that you link to here — my piece — does not say that “all DEI critics want to reimpose segregation” and i would appreciate it if you didn’t lie to your audience about what my work says.

submitted 4 days ago • 355 comments

The Trump campaign spread malicious lies about Haitian immigrants to gin up its anti-immigrant messaging. And now, despite repeated debunking (even by GOP officials), the administration is continuing its attacks.

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This is pretty straightforward authoritarianism: if you don't support my toxic businesses, I will use my government power to kneecap yours.

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

In case you were wondering how the Trump admin was still freezing NIH funds, despite court orders, this is how. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Howard Lutnick, Trump’s billionaire buddy turned commerce secretary, has confirmed that the administration was simply lying to MAGA supporters about not touching Social Security and Medicare.

submitted 4 days ago • 59 comments

“We’re fucked.” New @nature.com, @maxkozlov.bsky.social reports on how the Trump admin is exploiting a ‘loophole’ to maintain its freeze on NIH funding despite legal challenges. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Trump Sick And Tired Of Mainstream Media Always Trying To Put His Words Into Some Sort Of Context theonion.com/trump-s...

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The “free speech absolutist” owner of X doesn’t like the output of the Community Notes program he has previously championed, so he puts his massive thumb on that scale to ensure it’s labels align with his twisted view of reality.

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"Spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else." "A lawyer at advertising conglomerate Interpublic Group fielded a phone call ... from a lawyer at X. The message was clear ... Get your clients to spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else." A merger could be tanked. Gift!

submitted 4 days ago • 46 comments

Vance has made no secret of his admiration of authoritarian regimes. Now we and much of the world will suffer because of it.

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Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

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DOGE claims firings target low performers and new employees. The reality is far from it, according to documents and interviews: cnn.it/417VuEn

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Trump is acceding to every Russian demand and setting Europe, and perhaps the world, up for even more devastation to come—without getting anything in return for the United States.

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NASW chiming in: "The more people who are trained to become scientists and science communicators, the more minds are available to tackle the many global challenges we face. We are redoubling our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility..." 🧪 🩺 #ScienceSky #MedSky

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Important report showing how Texas law has harmed women. 🧪

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Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for federally-funded health programs, including Medicaid, Medicare, and the ACA Marketplaces. Immigrants pay more into the health care system than they use, helping to subsidize health care for U.S. born citizens. www.kff.org/racial-equit...

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I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

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“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

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The court ordered that NIH grant funding be unfrozen, so The Regime found a way around it. For NIH grants to be funded, a review panel must rank them. In order for a review panel to meet, they must post it on the Federal Register. Submissions to the Federal Register are now on hold “indefinitely”.

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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"“What’s the point of fighting cybercrime if we’re just going to give access for government networks to people with cybercriminal gang affiliations?” says a cybersecurity researcher who tracks cybercriminal groups."

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👇🏻

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The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

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objectivejournalism.org/2025/02/you-...

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Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

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HEADS UP! We need to give this story more attention. This is the next phase - investigations of those who criticize Trump, Musk or SCOTUS. It’s already started. It is a campaign of intimidation designed to silence criticism. wapo.st/3X8d75G

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