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I wish reading the news felt less like binge watching the final season of a long running series that’s been a major part of your life for decades.

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THIS THIS THIS

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QuiltCon!

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I can't imagine how everyone and their mother isn't already subscribed to Kelly's newsletter. Truly.

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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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Ppl should be at the house, fuck these shitbags! They shouldn’t have a moment of peace if ppl are denied medical, ppl on disability are cut off, ppl with kids have no way to get them food, ppl getting fired for no goddam reason, erasing databases of shitty cops, no access to medication for ppl

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"Taste is a form of cultural capital that cannot be purchased it has to be developed" this creator argues that the reason Elon et al are so cringe is because they want cultural control not cultural capital and that buying your way into oligarchal power is inherently uncool

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Less than one fifteenth of a percent of the national budget. Thousands of dedicated, already-underpaid but passionate and incredibly important workers with the rug ripped out from under them. www.hcn.org/articles/peo...

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Thanks to an export from @gordien3a.bsky.social, almost 5000 coin hoards of the Roman Empire have been linked to about 14000 coin types in OCRE, greatly expanding geographic visualization, from Hadrian's Wall to India. numishare.blogspot.com/2025/02/coin... #lawdi #LODLAM #classicsbluesky

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Love a spooky forest vibe when it feels like the trees are watching you.

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Journalism is the only profession protected by the Constitution because we serve as a check on power, even more critically since other checks are failing. This is dangerous. Healthy democracies do not threaten to jail journalists.

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Coping by watching some of my favorite antifascist art: Fullmetal Alchemist. Absolute masterpiece of both how fascists operate (unceasingly) and how to fight them. Reply with your favorite antifascist stories!

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NYT hates its employees and it sees this is as a way to gut its unions.

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Downloading this clip and going to send it to my non-tech savvy in-laws the next time they ask me why they couldn't log on to Facebook

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Human beings are being sent to Gitmo for no criminal charges. "The worst of the worst" is scary tattoos. Indigenous peoples of the Americas have been tatooted for thousands of years. Indigenous tribal tattoos aren't a reason to treat people like a terrorist. Especially no criminal record.

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As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

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It’s insane to me that people are so comfortable and deliberately incurious that they think prevention is an unnecessary ordeal of minor inconvenience

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Folks. It will take generations, decades and decades, for American higher education to come back from this—if it ever does. Recovery takes years of proactive work—way more time than the original destruction took. And from what we’re seeing now, white Americans seem allergic to proactive hard work.

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In case anyone was wondering why the government was so heavily invested in scientific research (pre-DOGE) here is a clear explanation from one of the workers on the chopping block:

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Somebody somewhere Needs flowers tonight

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the federal government is explicitly acting as if jim crow is the law!

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People who voted Trump who are feeling pissed off right now about broken promises are an organizing opportunity, not a gloating opportunity

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Three men wearing DOGE shirts and MAGA hats entered several offices at San Francisco City Hall around noon today, demanding digital information “related to alleged wasteful government spending and fraud.”

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Don’t lose hope. Remember, Watergate took over two years to fully unravel from the initial break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Just like then and now, Americans are losing faith in their government. We are documenting every illegal action and will hold this administration and Elon Musk accountable.

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Why is this dimwitted drunk sex pest I hired for a key position making mistakes

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Happy Birthday to Frederick Douglass who would by very disappointed in all of this BS but would never, ever stop fighting (or getting his photo taken)

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I would not characterize this as “a major diplomatic breakthrough.” I would instead call it human trafficking. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

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I am currently observing Frugal February, followed by Miserly March, Austere April, and May Not. All are welcome to join.

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Look this sucks but news outlets need to start realizing there's limited journalistic value in sitting in a room and letting a person behind a podium lie to you. You're not holding anyone to account when you do that.

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Hate that it has come to this, but it's time to consider PubMed vulnerable to enshittification. My latest post @plos.org discusses the lines we need to fight to hold – and alternatives we can rely on internationally: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w... #medlibs

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Incredible.

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BREAKING: Trump just fired an entire team of CFPB public servants who helped uncover financial wrongdoing, out-of-control AI, and consumer harm. This is a win for Big Tech & Wall Street, and a loss for everyday people.

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The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

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Everything we love must be cherished and fought for.

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