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I think this is a very common experience among people working for the public good these days. You are upset about how you were treated, but you are just as upset that your important work won't get done.

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Everything old is new again. The "Zoot Suit Riots" were caused by racist service members attacking Hispanic teens, and LA responded by... arresting Hispanic teens and banning their distinctive apparel (zoot suits)

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As the apricot tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. In his shadow I sat with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

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the plan is to end American science research all of it, no exceptions other countries simply will not be able to fill the gaps here, this is just a shocking devastation of human scientific progress as a whole

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1. This is a legitimately courageous stance in a moment when many elites are choosing the path of appeasement 2. Strategic alumni organizing will be crucial to make it stick. What I'm saying is: if you went to Harvard and you want everyone to know but in a humble way, THIS IS YOUR MOMENT

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Midrash fans - have a look at this fascinating... non-canonical Midrash and see the thread below There are more angles to this every time I look at it

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I guess that’s why they fired everyone and shut down basically every other branch of the federal government? They’re redirecting everything towards deporting people illegally. Who needs tax collection or social security cheques or education or vaccines or public health?

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1. Truth Social, Trump's social media platform, announced an audacious scheme yesterday to profit from Trump's tariffs Truth Social will offer actively-managed INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS composed of stocks in companies who benefit from Trump's policies It's a jaw-dropping conflict of interest

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Fun fact, JK—who is English—single-handedly funded the Scotland remain movement during the referendum, and called separatists “bigots”. She’s the reason there’s no independent Scotland. She throws her money and clout around like she’s fucking Nigel Farage. She’s a billionaire corrupting politics.

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Ah, great, so DOGE is harassing whistleblowers with drones now.

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Powell stating the blindingly obvious: the economy is facing a supply shock that will increase unemployment and prices at the same time

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This ENTIRE THREAD is effing brilliant.

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I used to think I was too online, and it made me too likely to think the energy on the young American right-wing was in overt white nationalism. Now I think people who are not online enough do not understand how much the energy on the young American right-wing is in overt white nationalism.

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I think this is a significant problem for the administration because their strategy, such as it is, is to be so ostentatiously cruel that it keeps migrants from coming to America. Insofar as that threshold of cruelty exists it is very, very cruel.

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A powerful drash

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I am reminded of the footage of the prisoners being released in Syria. There were rumors among the prisoners that there were secret torture/isolation rooms, but the liberators never found any. Which likely means that prisoners were killed and their cell mates weren't told what happened to them.

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it's all grift all the way down, "government efficiency" as a way to rip you off over and over again in every aspect of your life there's nothing they won't make worse

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Read this whole thread.

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🧵One thing about the Talmud that exasperates some students is the effort the sages spend to figure out which rabbi believes which thing. Does Rabbi A agree with Rabbi X or Rabbi Y, and about what issues do rabbis X and Y even disagree? Does Rabbi B agree that that's what they disagree about?

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Chris is absolutely right here. If YOU shrug your shoulders and say, "well, we couldn't possibly expect the scofflaws in the Trump administration to comply, so don't have any expectations, suckers!" then YOU have given up on the rule of law.

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American businesses getting the rudest possible crash course in tariffs

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The Kilmar Abrego Garcia case is extreme, not least bc it now involves a sitting President refusing to abide by a Supreme Court ruling. And. And none of them should be there, even if we learn that some actually ARE hardened criminals. Start w/ Mr. Abrego Garcia & for the love of God, keep going.

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While this portrayal isn’t statistically accurate for autistic folks, people who don’t talk, read, work, etc. are also valuable members of society who can live full lives.

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Can't figure out why Word thinks I should be spelling neighborhood with a U

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I love the book, but it includes the original story - which seems like a straightforward kabbalistic allegory to me?

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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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what kind of doge disaster is this one? the nnsa kind - where they oops!ed then tried to hire people back the ebola kind - where they oops!ed then failed to hire people back the lead poisoning kind - where they oopsed! then didn't even try to hire people back www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/h...

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100% this. And if you have a spare week or so, I will regale you about how this was driven home to me in the child welfare system. We love the abstract; hate the concrete.

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Pretty stark. Police departments were offering the most jobs at this state and local job fair.

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Standing in line. Huge crowd at the job fair here in the beltway.

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👇👇👇

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WELP!!!!!

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All this stuff screams great replacement white supremacy, but you can't print that context.

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Holy crap this sucks “According to Onda’s attorney, the U.S. government asked him to leave due to his criminal history, which includes two speeding tickets and a catch-and-release fishing citation dismissed in 2019.”

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jk rowling funded a case going before the supreme court that argues it should be legal to discriminate against and persecute trans ppl. yet still we have to listen to ‘centrists’ claiming she isn’t bigoted she just has ‘a difference of opinion’. no trans ppl have a voice in these proceedings.

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A whole lot of red states get a lot of income from international tourism - like, say, Florida and Wyoming.

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The U.S. is no longer subject to the rule of law, and Americans are discovering that living in countries that aren’t subject to the rule of law is terrifying.

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"Her $60 million contract with the NIH had supported an international network of researchers and clinicians who had produced pathbreaking work on a disease that infects a quarter of the world’s population and kills more than 1 million people per year."

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I was last unemployed in 2012,but I was looking for entry level. Different world, but at least I have it better than the poor laid off federal workers who have been there for a decade longer.

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