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No matter how preposterous, the Times headlines nearly every Trump story as if it were written by the White House comms team.

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I talked to the only Department of Education Office for Civil Rights investigator in Alabama, who was terminated in DOGE cuts, for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

Super helpful read on actions for colleges to take to defend their diversity, equity, and inclusion. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

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Send Dems into rural America to talk about what Trump is doing. The Republicans are too scared and won’t show their faces…in the vacuum of messaging, there is power. Tell the folks who is hurting them. Point to the GOP. Be the foil to the shit that’s happening. Be the party of the people.

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👏👏 Exactly why higher Ed institutions should NOT be anxiously scrapping any equity or inclusion related efforts, but instead gearing up for the fight. Complying won’t protect you, but forming coalitions to fight back might. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?” english.elpais.com/culture/2024...

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This is a stunning betrayal by Whitman Walker in DC. You CANNOT jettison the trans community to protect yourself. It’s shameful. I got my name changed at WWH. I have promoted their research. Now they are capitulating to save gay people at trans people’s expense by trying to erase us.

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🚨 JOB ALERT: Research Director, Center for Science & Democracy at @ucsusa.bsky.social. The work of this role in this moment where science is under attack is so important right now!

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What an appalling and bizarre effort at overcompliance from Univ of Cincinnati

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CTA — Call Your Congressperson and Urge Them To Vote Against the House Budget Resolution Being Voted on Next Week It is 11PM on Thursday night and an email from a high ranking Hill healthcare staffer has just hit my inbox: Medicaid faces an "existential" vote in the House, probably Tuesday...

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bannon was not “mimicking elon musk”, he was “being a nazi”. hope that helps.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

We don’t have the luxury of sitting these fights out. The stakes are too high. 👇

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To all the people who stop and think before meeting up with a chronically ill or disabled person, and let them know you/someone in your household isn’t feeling well, so they can cancel if they need to, THANK YOU. We are SO sad to have to cancel, but so grateful to be protected. #disabilitysky

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“The good news is that should institutions stand up for themselves, I think they will find many people standing up with them, including, most importantly, the students.” So much this. This is the time to fight back, silence will not protect higher ed. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

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When I need inspiration for sustaining activism, I think about Tawanda Jones, who has led a weekly protest for more than 10 years to demand justice for her brother who was killed in police custody. Old article, good read if you need some inspiration. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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With so many crazy things happening, focusing on them all is impossible. So, I am trying to pay attention to the things I have expertise The new admin floated handing over FAFSA and student loan repayment guidance to AI. Here is why that is a terrible idea #EduSky www.newamerica.org/education-po...

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1. Despite Republican attacks in recent years, America is queerer than ever before. LGBTQ+ identification has risen to 9.3% in the last Gallup Poll, a huge jump from 7.6% last year. I cover the latest numbers in my story. Subscribe to support my journalism.

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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This is the problem with equating billions with brilliance. It feeds into the myth of meritocracy and makes it seem like billionaires are better at everything than everyone. Which creates the perception that they deserve all the power and wealth.

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Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

submitted 3 days ago • 134 comments

Incredible news! More hospitals have returned to offering gender affirming care after Trump's executive order was blocked. Moments after publishing our story on hospitals returning, Childrens National DC announced a return to care. And JUST now, Colorado Children's is back to giving care! AMAZING

submitted 3 days ago • 72 comments

I want every Democrat to sound like this. Meanwhile I'm listening to the sounds of (congressional) silence.

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

It’s not just about tax cuts, it’s about seizing as much power over us, the people, as possible. Privatizing and leaving no public good. Taking away any meaningful choices in how we live and participate in institutions. That should make us just as angry and ready to resist as tax cuts.

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NEW: Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform. Yet the program has cost taxpayers $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled less than 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible.

submitted 3 days ago • 74 comments

The absence of any living former Presidents shouting “this is fascism! We have to fight it!” is a powerful reminder that we need to rely on each other to resist, not any particular political leader.

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Fellow Marylanders, plz call and oppose this mask criminalization bill. Masks are my main and most important defense as an immunocompromised person, and will only become more important as this regime discredits and defunds scientific research and public health work.

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If this is the announcement that air traffic control and/or all air travel will eventually be entirely privatized and under Musk’s sole control, I will absolutely just never fucking fly again.

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You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger. Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.

submitted 6 days ago • 1538 comments

🧵Private sector DEI programs still legal despite Trump's executive order, says Maryland attorney general, one of 16 AGs Trump’s EO instructed U.S. AG Pam Bondi to deter the private sector from DEI programs. 100+ corporations remain firm on DEI. www-cbsnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbsn...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

The Trump administration has fired a quarter of the federal employees in a central program office responsible for coordinating the tracking and monitoring of the growing bird flu outbreak.

submitted 6 days ago • 43 comments

I just…have my suspicions about the revolutionary capacity of a left-wing population who abandoned disabled and high-risk people at the drop of a hat for an assurance of their own normality. But it’s not to late to fix that particular choice (except for all the dead and disabled people who can’t)

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The Supreme Court has not actually ruled on whether a race neutral admissions policy might be lawfully used as a way to achieve diversity, contrary to what the Trump administration seems to be saying here.

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The right wing trap is: “We don’t need African American history because it’s American history” only to mandate teaching American history through a false, Eurocentric view that erases or omits any counter-narrative. They feign care about African American history to erase it from curriculums. /1

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An underappreciated danger in school voucher schemes is families may take on new debt—to private schools or other vendors—beyond what vouchers cover. HS degree grantors and for-profit microschools can hike tuition and all but force families to take out top-off loans to complete.

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“There will be students on campus whose classes have no instructors when school resumes Tuesday, sources on campus said Friday. The university’s accreditation could also be at risk, as it cannot support all its students with the reduced staff.” lawrencekstimes.com/2025/02/14/h...

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🚨 Your House representative is now back home through February 23. That’s where we come in. With Trump and Elon Musk pulling off a billionaire coup in real time, this congressional recess is about turning up the heat like never before. Let’s get to work: indivisi.org/muskorus

submitted 8 days ago • 151 comments

Well it’s been nice knowing y’all.

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If you elevate people that say infections and diseases are good for you, you will not feel well.

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I’ve considered it and, you know what? I don’t fucking care. They’ve already elevated those exact far right outlets at the Pentagon and pushed out legacy media. Legitimate news outfits can take a stand against this now, or they can meekly enable this fascist shit & still get pushed out later.

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On Tuesday, the Senate will vote on Kash Patel’s nomination for FBI director. Patel wants to weaponize the FBI against journalists, government officials, nonprofit organizations, & ordinary Americans. Call your senators: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Or email: act.indivisible.org/sign/demand-...

submitted 8 days ago • 39 comments

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

submitted 9 days ago • 247 comments

Getting word that a few hospitals are offering trans care again after the EO was blocked by a federal judge. Please send the decision to your hospital, and PLEASE send me a message if your hospital has resumed care, as I’m doing a story on this.

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

Call it a coup because it is a coup, and we can’t resist the thing if we don’t know what the thing is.

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Want a primer on the Department of Ed's role in higher education, and why that matters the day Republicans try to confirm an ED Sec who is going to dismantle the Department, We have you covered, from Antoinette Flores #EduSky www.newamerica.org/education-po...

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Why do we need a Department of Education? Just a few of the things ED has done in recent years to help students, from @jbeowulf.bsky.social #EduSky www.newamerica.org/education-po...

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