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LFK, writer, English prof, slacker. Left of the dial. I get paid to read and think and talk and write. Some poems & pictures if you’re into it: https://sw1028.wordpress.com/
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AOC: “Elon Musk is not going after efficiency — he is trying to gut everything good in 🇺🇸 for his own private profit… America is not for sale.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGXObpu...

‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones

Much media coverage: These Pentagon moves are unusual but Trump's within his rights and wants supporters of his America First agenda. The truth: How is removing the JAGs relevant to any agenda? New, Hegseth-selected JAGs are needed for total loyalty to Trump and finding all his orders lawful.

I keep thinking of that phrase Trump used—something like he who saves his country violates no laws. Someone cooks their meals. Someone carves their meat (and probably cuts it into bites). Someone drives their cars and flies their aircraft. Someone works on their brakes and landing gear.

We should be horrified Trump used the same quote as a right-wing mass murderer: The 32-year-old Norwegian considered himself a deep thinker and a big fan of the rightwing and Russian propaganda which argued western civilization was rotting from within because of multiculturalism, empowered women,…

I wanted to highlight this incredible science advocacy resource on the @sfn.org website. There's info on how to contact your legislatures, prep for meetings, and make your voice heard. Thank you to SfN for not backing down from the fight and supporting scientists! 🧠🧪 www.sfn.org/advocacy/adv...

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“What merit means to them” General Brown’s record, which Hegseth questioned for obvious reasons: www.af.mil/About-Us/Bio...

Sure Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the CNO....but they fired the top JAG's in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Why would you fire the top lawyers in the armed services at night on a Friday? That's the part you should be freaking out about.

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

A former Soviet intelligence officer alleges Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename “Krasnov.” Alnur Mussayev served in the 6th Directorate, responsible for counter-intelligence support in the economy. One key objective was “recruiting businessmen from capitalist countries.”

It's weird how everyone in the world knows a Nazi salute when we see it, with the notable exception of journalists and their editors.

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE “They are destroyers. We are the builders.” www.theverge.com/news/617014/...

If the US gets through this, the Republican Party should be outlawed in the same way the Nazis were after WWII

I wish they’d just start wearing their swastikas in public again so I know who I can trust and who I need to minimize contact with, particularly on campus

The US Marshals Service has deputized members of Elon Musk’s private security detail, giving them certain rights and protections of federal law enforcement agents www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

📢 ProPublica is looking for 5 newsrooms to join our Local Reporting Network! These newsrooms will be part of our 50 State Initiative. Newsrooms in 40 states (in blue) are eligible to apply: https://propub.li/41270AQ Here's what this would mean for your newsroom 👇

Carefully done study clearly shows X and TikTok pushing pro-AfD content to Germans whose own selections of who to follow are neutral. In other words, heavy pro-AfD thumb on the scale by Elon Musk and CCP. www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/in-g...

A guide to various resources for tracking what Trump-Musk are up to. choosedemocracy.us/tracking-tra...

There you have it. #CONSTITUTIONALCRISIS: TRUMP DEFIES FEDERAL COURT ORDER 🚨 #legal The Trump administration just told a federal judge that it will NOT comply with a court order to resume funding for #USAID and #StateDepartment foreign assistance. #RESIST #Fascism

If you didn't know... • Exxon • Moulton/Coors • Walmart Have funded Heritage Foundation (#Project2025) for YEARS #Boycott

I miss the US. I miss the US when it was merely disappointing. Its heart was in the right place, but it could never rise to the level of its ideals. RIP, USA

I FUCKEN KNEW IT!!!

At CPAC, Vance made clear that all the campaign talk about protecting abortion rights is off the table now that "we have the power."

ENJOY’E. NEWS Early morning news for Feb. 21, 2025 ✴️❎✴️❄️🤷❄️❎✴️❎ SPOILER ALERT New Zealand rejects Candace Owen’s visa. She is now banned from the country after Australia had banned her in October 2024. Both her visas revoked because of her political views. She is a right wing agitator.

Trump orders database on federal police misconduct to close www.axios.com/2025/02/21/d...

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

The mothers met in a Whatsapp group. They have vowed to fight until their sons, who they say have not committed crimes and do not have ties to gangs, are released.

Nearly one in 10 adults in the U.S. identifies as LGBTQ, according to a large analysis from Gallup released Thursday — almost triple the share since Gallup began counting in 2012, and up by two-thirds since 2020. nyti.ms/42ZZGIN