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The problem with America’s legal system To practice law: —4 year degree, take LSAT, 3 year JD, pass BAR, buy malpractice insurance, total cost ~$300K To enforce the law: —Here’s paid 13-week training & a gun To write the law: —0 qualifications needed, a billionaire can buy your seat Smh

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@beyer.house.gov caught OPM/NSF arbitrarily reclassifying non-probationary NSF employees as probationary so they could be fired more easily. beyer.house.gov/uploadedfile... See also Reuters (which didn't link letter): www.reuters.com/world/us/us-... I hope the satire writers are watching.

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I wrote about our foundational supremacist culture, its inevitable outcomes of genocide and slavery, and suggest 3 principles for building counterculture. Imagining the best so we will know it when we move toward it. www.the-reframe.com/building-cou...

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Emmanuel “Manno” Bernoon, a former slave, opened one of the first restaurants in Rhode Island with his wife in the 1700s — and America may owe its love for oysters to their efforts

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Wow

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Helpful explanations here. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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The premise of American foreign policy to Ukraine, today, is one of grievance. It is worth patiently considering the proposals. They reveal little about Ukraine, but much about America in February 2025. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

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As Mangione enters court, a reminder that in just the 30 days after he allegedly killed Brian Thompson, America's for-profit health exploitation corps enabled the preventable death of ~6000 people. When do the CEOs who knowingly enabled these deaths stand trial? www.qasimrashid.com/p/americas-h...

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Yes @adamserwer.bsky.social gets it right. But for all these reasons, it is necessarily an attack on the 14th Amendment. We have to start talking about it in constitutional terms. Because that is what they are resisting.

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NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

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This is a wild, WILD situation. The President is at least allowing, licensing these emails though clearly not directing them. Meanwhile parts of the uniformed military are directing civilians within DOD to ignore them. Same at State and according to Dilanian FBI. But DOJ is saying do what the ...

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Excerpt from my OpEd publishing Sunday morning: “The question now becomes, who will Trump listen to? His own unqualified but appointed representatives in the Federal government, or his own unqualified & unelected owner, Elon Musk? Subscribe to receive in your inbox: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

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Shockingly, it turns out that empowering the richest human being on the planet to maliciously and gratuitously heap additional misery on that planet’s most poor, hungry, and desperate people might—just might—pose a niggling political problem to President Donald Trump.

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People with doctorates are the most liberal and progressive. The entire mission of destroying academia is to eliminate entire voting demographics. They explicitly spell this out. Shutting down PhD programs isn't an accident, it's the goal.

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“Until the philosophy which hold one race superior / And another / Inferior / Is finally / And permanently / Discredited / And abandoned / -Everywhere is war - / Me say war. “ Such a great speech, such a great song when Bob put this to music, and an unfortunate fact as the world continually proves.

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The messages attached to Ashley St. Clair’s paternity petition against Elon Musk. iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...

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Donald Trump has told Kristi Noem to spend $200 million of public funds on ads thanking him for "securing the border," North Korea-style www.semafor.com/article/02/1... www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Musk took over the US government with graft and is using it—in combination with his space launch firm—to exploit an allied country that’s suffering under Russian invasion for its mineral rights. The scheme is so imperiously evil I feel like audiences wouldn’t find it believable in a Bond villain.

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If you support this, you’re an awful human being

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Last week: Correspondent @stevanzetti.bsky.social identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media, and courtroom observation.

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Apparently, the mediocre-est administration of all time is gonna make America great

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Let's be very clear that Pete Hegseth absolutely has his job because he is a white man.

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let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

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On Wednesday I was the first to report Leland Dudek was on the verge of losing his job at the Social Security Administration when he was suddenly promoted to acting commissioner by Elon Musk. Thursday I published a story with more details. I’ll let you guess if I got any credit in this Post story:

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It'd be awesome if @whitehouse.senate.gov asked Attorney General Bondi if she has issued some kind of finding that foreign donations are cool now, so long as they're covered up nicely. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/22/p...

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www.msn.com/en-us/news/u... DOGE Finds Zero Fraud, Waste, or Abuse, Just New Ways to Harm Veterans

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The Trump Administration has cost our country over 22,406 American jobs. trumpcostsamerica.com

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If you're not reading Josh Marshall, well... @joshtpm.bsky.social you should be. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/infle...

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Malcolm X was assassinated 60 yrs ago today. See his timeless wisdom on the true meaning of “progress.” “If you stick a knife 9 inches in & take it out 6—that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound. They wont even admit the knife is there.”

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Yep

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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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Israel’s genocide in Gaza has destroyed over 1,000 miles of water and sanitation infrastructure in Gaza and reduced the region’s water capacity to a small fraction of what it was prior to the genocide.

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Today FIRE is promoting Ilya Shapiro’s new book, accepting at face value his posturing as a hero for pushing back against “illiberalism” in academia. Meanwhile:

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It’s journalistic malpractice — to the extent that’s a thing any more — to talk about this Ed Martin letter without clarifying that every expert, other than administration hacks, thinks that Garcia’s statement was not remotely plausibly a true threat. It’s simply ludicrous.

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Tom Krause is in charge of both a sensitive government payment system and a company that has millions of dollars’ worth of active contracts with various federal agencies through distribution partners, a WIRED review finds. Conflicts posed by this are unprecedented in the modern era, experts say.

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This is your brain on meme: Erratic Elon Musk Waves Chainsaw Around While Ranting About Memes and Fort Knox www.thedailybeast.com//elon-musk-w...

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So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

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Mr. Hegseth has previously said that General Brown should be fired because of his “woke” focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military. Replaces a Black four-star fighter pilot with a white man who does not meet the statutory qualifications supposedly over DEI.

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Correct. They bought nothing with their capitulation except disdain from their users.

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Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

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Y'all notice this hypocrisy? •Musk gets $20B+ in federal subsidies—is celebrated! •NPR gets ~$3M in federal grants—Trump wants to shut it down as "wasteful." This isn't democracy—it's autocracy & an all out war on free press. Here are two ways we can fight back: www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-war-on...

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This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

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"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

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Marco Rubio has instructed USAID to claim this is all a lie.

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AP’s lawsuit names Taylor Budowich, Karoline Leavitt, and Susie Wiles as defendants. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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