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NEW: While all eyes are on Trump and DOGE, a bill recently introduced in both the House and Senate would cripple the EPA's ability to regulate. It's a very serious threat and experts told me it could pass www.propublica.org/article/legi...

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The open-access digital research and educational resource, 'Mapping Saints', has now been officially launched! Check it out here: saints.dh.gu.se

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The nomimated NIH Director said this at his confirmation 10 hours ago. Meanwhile... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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This is why Canada needs to cancel the F-35 purchases and the use of AEGIS in our Navy. We cannot trust the Americans anymore. This really, really sucks. As a student I participated in TACOM and TARDEC vehicle competitions. But we cannot allow this to happen to us. #ElbowsUp.

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Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election. She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

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I don't know if anyone has properly written about this but I find the language around "AI for climate" stuff is so fascinating Pay attention and you'll notice it's almost always (a) extremely vague and (b) speculative

submitted 13 hours ago • 14 comments

I think medieval beekeeper outfits could be the strongest look in the entire history of fashion.

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Every single person in all three branches of government who swore an oath to country & Constitution knows this. A full-scale failure of the entire Constitutional order. Unprecedented in 🇺🇸 history.

submitted 18 hours ago • 11 comments

Donald Trumps two biggest strategic allies appear to be Russia and cancer.

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Early reports to WHO from the 30 highest #tuberculosis (TB)-burden countries confirm that funding cuts from foreign aid, particularly from USAID, are already dismantling essential TB services. Without urgent action, these setbacks will reverse decades of progress to #EndTB 🔗 bit.ly/4kvsu2i

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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

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Cry me a river, Jack Daniels. Take it up with Trump, who caused this for no conceivable reason.

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Not mincing words: "The president and reality are drifting apart" This week's @economist.com econ.st/41tx87X

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Reminds me of using suspension as a punishment for truancy. Counter-indicated and spiteful.

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Graffiti beneath Calgary’ Centre Street bridge. #yyc

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Russia is watching with glee as the US under Trump does everything Russian propaganda claimed for years: betraying and abandoning allies at a critical moment, interfering in internal affairs or others and treating small countries as colonies. Trust in the US will be undermined for decades to come

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This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record) I don’t remember seeing anything like this before

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DOGE "seemed to demonstrate a basic unfamiliarity with the machinery of government." ...yeah

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I worked at Dilley, the family detention center reopening tomorrow, for 1.5 years. I really cannot express how depraved family detention is, and even more so the longer it goes on. Jailing kids who have already suffered unimaginable trauma for weeks or months on end was and will be horrific.

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What is it that makes a protest "illegal" if it is nonviolent and nondestructive? The university objecting to it?

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I cringe in shame reading this story.

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Trying to recover from really bad burnout that had extensive effects on my health now. This is all true.

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Missed this yesterday. 19 Democrats (including Chuck Schumer.....) joined Republicans in voting to repeal a Biden rule requiring cryptocurrency brokers to adhere to the same tax reporting rules as stock brokers. A yes vote is a pro-fraud, pro-tax-evasion vote here. www.senate.gov/legislative/...

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Blood 🩸 is on Trump’s hands

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Between 2001 to 2014, more than 40,000 Canadian Armed Forces members served in Afghanistan. We lost 158 soldiers. We went to support our neighbours who were attacked on 9/11. We didn't ask for a thank you. As a friend, we saw it as our duty. Hard to comprehend how that loyalty has been rewarded

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Requires a PhD, but I guess if you're a far right and very white wingnut you can get that at 19 years old with no degree. Meritocracy restored? lmao

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A reminder that The Conversation has huge revenues - $14.9M (2023) - and doesn't pay writers, including people who are non-tenured. You shouldn't write for them or share their work as a matter of labor solidarity with those of us who aren't fancy tenured folks. www.patreon.com/posts/better...

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When Donald Trump threatens student protests, consider why: throughout modern history, student movements have repeatedly been the catalyst that toppled dictatorships. Authoritarian leaders fear campus activism precisely because it works. Below is a list of 36 student-led pro-democracy movements.🧵

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This current situation is revealing a lot of bad impulses - impulses to make wild, down-punching generalizations - in people’s characters. Doing a lot of unfollowing and blocking of people who think they are progressive but can’t examine their own actions when they are angry.

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Trans youth deserve safe schools, loving homes, and the medical care they need.

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Still wild to see Dems sit and watch Rep. Green get escorted out and none of them thought they should abandon their own little individual protests and get taken out with him. They just watched as the other side jeered him and cheered him getting escorted out. Just no understanding of solidarity.

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The 2025 Trans Rights Readathon starts on March 21st and runs through the 31st. The goal of this event is to Uplift, Amplify, and Support trans authors, trans stories, and trans communities. 🏳️‍⚧️💙💗🤍

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The headline from the Washington Post for Trump's speech is "Trump signal's full speed ahead on policies". The Post fact check showed the speech was basically all lies. The lying needs to be the headline--and would have been for any other President. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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One further thought after today’s Substack post: on tariffs, Trump has been more extreme than his campaign, despite urgent warnings from business. Any reason to believe he won’t go all-in on mass deportations? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/america-is...

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Spotted on campus this morning. Thanks to the person who posted this.

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All you are doing when you denigrate protest is being a booster for apathy. You are doing Trump’s work.

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Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.

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Watching Trump say "one way or another" the US is going to get Greenland - a rather clear threat of annexation by force against an ally - is nauseating. To hear Congress laugh and applaud such a statement means they have debased themselves and the United States of America.

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White Southerners stopped celebrating July 4 during and after the war, but as Democrats retook power across the South, whites reclaimed the 4th too. Wow.

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COLBERT, on Rep. Al Green’s removal: “Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine." @latenightercom.bsky.social

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For years, VMI refused to admit women on the view that doing so would undermine its educational mission. RBG wrote the SCOTUS decision holding the single-sex policy unconstitutional. Today, VMI fired its Black superintendent for being too "woke" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

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Yesterday I watched an episode of THE PITT in which an ER doc righteously smacks down an anti-masker who has been violent in the waiting room. But not one of the doctors and nurses on this show has worn a mask all season, except during one high risk surgery, when they wore baggy blues.

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“Again”

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Canadians were asked who they think the different party leaders would have voted for in the US election. One of these things is not like the other things. #cdnpoli slide source: @DavidColetto, Abacus Data

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The left accelerationist case for Trump paints him as a vile vessel who will, nevertheless, achieve important goals: (1) make the US less militaristic & (2) empower the Global South. It makes intuitive sense bc Trump is weakening USG & Western alliances. But it’s deeply naive. Here's why: 🧵

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A portrait of capitulation and normalization in three marriages. (P.S. It isn’t good for your kids to raise them with a fascist or a bigot who won’t respect or protect any of you.)

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Love you, NOLA.

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