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Hegseth on CQ Brown: "Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt — which on its face seems unfair to CQ. But since he has made the race card one of his biggest calling cards, it doesn’t really much matter."

submitted 9 hours ago • 28 comments

I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.

submitted 9 hours ago • 21 comments

He wants Elon to hurt more people, even as his poll numbers are down not up: www.instagram.com/reel/DGTS6V4... There’s a book about leaders counting on the truth not reaching their supporters. It’s called ‘1984’ — forget “Truth Social”, it’s “Ministry of Truth Social”

submitted 9 hours ago • 81 comments

this is low hanging fruit for Dems and all protest movements: show the ppl that Trump's emissary is taking a chainsaw to their benefits

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 9 hours ago • 1121 comments

lol

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

In tonight's military purge, Tump nominated Dan Caine for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, a retired Lt. General so underqualified he'd need a waiver. Even odder: Caine was installed last month at 3 VC firms doing crypto, AI, and defense tech, including Thrive, founded by Jared Kushner's brother. 1/

submitted 20 hours ago • 12 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 21 hours ago • 452 comments

Minorities and women in a leadership positions is ‘promoting diversity’ because they are visible role models. That’s why Hegseth is firing them. Hegseth has admitted he thinks minorities or women got their positions based on DEI and not merit. He thinks only white men are promoted on merit.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

72 million Americans are on the chopping block to lose their healthcare if Republicans pass the budget that came out of the House. AOC (D-NY) voices her concerns daily telling her colleagues on the other side of the aisle that people are yelling Don’t Cut My Medicare. AOC has no fucks left to give.

submitted 23 hours ago • 128 comments

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

submitted 1 day ago • 908 comments

NEW: A regional FEMA chief of staff took Elon Musk's Fork in the Road offer. He has proof of receipt. But they didn't honor it. Instead, they fired him 13 days later. Now, this retired Navy captain is speaking out. www.thebulwark.com/p/musk-doge-...

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Read this measured but heartbreaking account of the disastrous Musk/Trump destruction of USAID and what its devastation portends for the world and our nation’s indispensable role in relieving global suffering www.thebulwark.com/p/the-human-...

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