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Trump's DOJ is preparing to put all incarcerated transgender women into men's facilities as early as next week, and according to NPR "the bureau is well aware of concerns about potential risks of assault, sexual violence and suicides"

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I wrote about how particularly ridiculous it is that Senate Democrats, led by Dick Durbin, think the priority should be repealing Section 230 and undermining the very open internet we need more than ever right now. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

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U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was peppered with boos and catcalls throughout a town hall meeting in Roswell late Thursday, as hundreds of critics jeered the Republican for backing President Donald Trump’s agenda during his first month in office. #gapol ajc.com/politics/mcc...

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This is just petty

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“No kings, only trains” (Earlier today, at Union Station in Los Angeles, where Transportation Sec Duffy was doing a press conference on high speed rail…)

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Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis. The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester.

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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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above all else the current crop of republicans in congress are the most pathetic cowards to ever serve in washington www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Over the past week, several recent ex-State Dept officials reached out to me with a major concern. DOGE could soon access a huge defense-export database that represents a massive, if not transformational corruption opportunity for Musk & allies. Meet USXports:

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trying to imagine how loud the calls for my firing would be if i didn’t know who FDR was

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I put these thoughts into a post: www.techdirt.com/2025/02/18/i...

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I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

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Exactly, and much of the media and the public is falling for this. They’re bad and embarrassing ideas and should be called out as such!!

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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there’s a measles outbreak on the western side of the george washington bridge, in the most densely populated county in america www.rlsmedia.com/article/nj-h...

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This is a fantastic resource for organizing.

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Presidents Day

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"I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion" I'm no lawyer, but my assumption is that this is not a common sentence one reads in the legal field.

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For my fellow political scientists and constitutional law specialists.

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See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

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oof

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If you understand that apartheid was an economic system first, and a brutally violent system of social segregation second, you'll understand how Elon Musk is trying to update the principles from his homeland, and bring about a neo-apartheid system in the US. My latest in @thenation.com

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New from me: Some federal workers say they are moving all but the most innocuous conversations from platforms like Facebook or text messages to Signal, fearing tech companies will turn over their data to the Trump administration. www.theverge.com/news/610951/...

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Legislators in the US are now starting to push back against the UK’s demand for backdoors in Apple encryption. archive.is/2025.02.13-1...

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Yo fuck yeah

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I remember when we used to be a proper country

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A perfect substitute for doom scrolling

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This quote got my attention: “1 in 4 Americans will be betting on the Super Bowl. That 1.5 billion has gotta be one of the biggest single day transfers of wealth from lower income brackets upward in human history.”

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Rolling back civil rights for minorities is something this admin is pretty loud about wanting to do but they wouldn’t mind disenfranchising women either.

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stumbled across this gem from a few years ago: steadicam inventor garret brown goes deep on working with kubrick on “the shining” theasc.com/articles/ste...

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👇🎯 We have normalized the total bypassing of Article I of the Constitution. A comprehensive societal & institutional failure. The Republic we all claim to pledge allegiance to is completely inoperable right now, & no one seems to care.

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BREAKING: We are suing DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to stop the brazen and illegal data sharing of federal employee data with the “government efficiency” group.

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My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.

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We want Tom Kean Jr to speak up and speak out! Here is a sample letter sent by one of his constituents. Look forward to his response.

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The Trump administration is now blocking the AP from covering Trump because the news org won't call the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America." www.ap.org/the-definiti...

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For context, the US Dept. of Transportation was provided $106.3 billion for FY 2024.

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Senator Durbin sent a letter to Zuckerberg about advertising nudify ads after our report. He's basically asking what we've been asking for months, which is "wtf are you doing?" www.404media.co/senator-push...

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Here we go. The budget fight is THE big legislative fight. Here's a brief overview -- Trump has been running around with his executive orders and Musk has been running from department to department making illegal cuts and closures. The vast majority of that has been to serve THIS (cont'd)

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Constitutional crisis at a tipping point

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