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this is colonialism

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Sure is great that every game decided to use Unreal Engine with its memory leak in the shader pipeline. #unreal

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For 38 years, PRAMS has collected critical data on maternal-child health with the goal to reduce infant morbidity and mortality. CDC has officially halted the 2024 PRAMS data collection for the participating 46 states and the future is uncertain.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

🚨 BREAKING: Ohio broke the law, illegally depriving 300,000 Ohioans of thousands of dollars (each) in federal unemployment benefits. $900M total. The dollars are still available. In a federal account. But Musk will no doubt be eyeing the funds for billionaire tax cuts. 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

If you aren't already a paid subscriber to The Handbasket, now is a great time.

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Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country

submitted 2 days ago • 352 comments

Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

The theme of the White House Black History Celebration is “African-Americans in Labor”. That man consistently tells Black folks what he thinks about them & there are idiots who are still sniffing his diaper.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

A fun Black History Month footnote to this is that the motif of the anthropomorphic legislative bill—known to most of us from Schoolhouse Rock—has roots in the Black press of the 1930s, as in these two editorial cartoons by Bill Chase & Romare Bearden, both highlighting anti-lynching legislation

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SPLC deliberately gutted its Hatewatch imprint. They have no full time investigative reporters working in the intelligence project, which covers the radical right. They moved the editor of Hatewatch into the comms department. Spend your money elsewhere during Trump II.

submitted 46 days ago • 59 comments

To the extent that American men have specific problems linked to their gender this is caused by a lack of feminism, rather than its excess.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I don't get personal on main very often, but I spent a few hours writing this, and I want you to read it. It's about my dad and my stepmom, and me, and Stranger Things, and what's happening to the VA right now. www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-dep...

submitted 4 days ago • 90 comments

way too much business as usual — if you’re accurately accusing your opponents of subverting the constitution you gotta act like it, none of this should be going through without trolling Republicans on Trump and Musk illegally cutting funding, firing public servants and stealing our data

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NEW: The director of data science and engineering for what is now known as the US DOGE Service has resigned. "If DOGE truly was concerned with efficiency, they wouldn’t have fired experts in procurement," she writes, "who prevent waste up front." This is by @makenakelly.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

IRS employee tells me the IRS is going to terminate ~6,600 people today. These are by and large people who "go after tax evasion."

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

Years before Hitler invaded the USSR, Nazi agents planted fake disloyalty rumors about Stalin’s top generals on Vienna phone lines they knew Soviets had tapped. They convinced Stalin to purge & shoot his own best generals before the outbreak of war. Imagine Putin’s FSB planting gossip today…🤔

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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This isn’t Nazi shit. This is straight up slave shit . It’s deeper in America than Nazis

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

The other morning, my brother and I were in the living room of my 1st floor East New York apartment watching TV. Suddenly, in surround sound, came the clang of nightsticks on the bars of the windows.

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DEI FOR ME BUT NOT FOR THEE ‘SpaceX engineers were already being onboarded at the agency under Schedule A, a special authority that allows government managers to “hire persons with disabilities without requiring them to compete for the job,”’ www.wired.com/story/faa-do...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

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

Trump crash plane. www.kgun9.com/news/communi...

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“The history of the present King … is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.”

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Wow: City of Clarksdale, Mississippi got a court order yesterday directing a newspaper to delete an editorial criticizing city officials -- without a hearing. Here's the TRO issuing the prior restraint:

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Indiana just pulled funding for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program for the state. This program gifts all children, across the state, free books from birth-age 5. This one's just fucking cruel. www.14news.com/2025/02/19/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 4 days ago • 1065 comments

they should invent a passage of time that isn’t relentless

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One insidious part of this is there is no access to US journalists so no photos of "kids in cages" and no way for US citizens to protest in person. Nor, because they are essentially imprisoned in Panama/wherever, can immigration lawyers assist them. The administration is globalizing incarceration.

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I reviewed a copy of the email received by a fired FDIC employee (who was told by phone they were not being terminated for performance) and it had some very peculiar language: “FDIC finds that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the FDIC would be in the public interest.”

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www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... Unfortunately I fear this is exactly correct. The United States is not the good guy, and they are no longer your friend

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My wife found a map from The Technocracy, the 1930's group Elon Musk's Nazi-sympathizing grandfather was involved in, that explains Trump's desire to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal. Behold the Technate of America. Thread.

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Just to be clear, because I don’t think the Post story highlights it enough: This was Trump’s day-one pick to lead the Social Security Admin until his nominee got confirmed who RESIGNED a career job rather than do what Musk’s DOGE team wants. This is Treasury (DOGE) and DOJ (Adams) all over again.

submitted 4 days ago • 90 comments

it is just grotesque how many Americans totally take for granted what good fortune it has been to have incredibly good relations with a rich power neighbor sharing the worlds longest land border

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Trump gutted the National Labor Relations Board and things are already getting grim. The new board’s first memo signal its intentions to hamstring organizing and worker mobility, allow captive audience meetings, and deny college athletes’ right to unionize. www.nlrbedge.com/p/acting-gen...

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“Forty-one U.S. senators could use the filibuster to block most legislation that enables the funding of Musk’s companies. With 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats, and two independents in the Senate, such a push is numerically possible, though politically difficult.“

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that is I guess, an evergreen truth on its own but I meant to include this link www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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They are very deliberately targeting special ed. If you review what they are cutting and who they are firing, it is staffers who took special ed training. It is programs to train special ed teachers, it’s going after IEP‘s and 504s.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

i am 100% of the belief that simply forcing take-writers to answer the question "who specifically said this and why are they significant" would result in substantially fewer bad takes circulating in the world

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