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There is an organization funded by untraceable political donations that is sending UC-UAW represented workers unsolicited letters encouraging them to revoke. They're doing this because they know that collective action can defeat their attempts to destroy American medical research.

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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

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W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

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Everyone, please read this thread and share. Musk is closing down Social Security offices and it is not being reported. You have to go to the DOGE website to find it. Here are all the details: www.rawstory.com/anxiety-moun...

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NSF unilaterally stripped permanent status from both union and non-union workers, including executives, without notification.This was done by a form added to their personnel files. Rep. Don Beyer asked NSF to reinstate the employees and rescind the unlawful reclassification of permanent employees.

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UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

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I was fortunate enough to work with Bracy a long time ago at Code for America so I can easily and without reservation say that this book will be both brilliant and essential.

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Reposting with link to news story: youtu.be/0MSaK_FtqZw?...

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Let me take this format for a spin

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Guy who had to build a stage that Romney used to lay off the entire plant: "It was like building my own coffin and it just made me sick"

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“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

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How AMS and NWA have stepped up for the weather and climate community www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

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60 organizations across #LosAngeles come together to form the Community Self-Defense Coalition. “You will not come into our community without facing an organized resistance. We’re going...to surround [ICE] and not allow them to kidnap our people." boyleheightsbeat.com/community-se...

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In New York, anyone who threatens to report a person's immigration status or suspected immigration status in order to coerce them into ceasing lawful conduct or abstaining from conduct which they have a right to abstain, is guilty of coercion in the third degree. This has been the law since 2021.

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Meta laid off 3,600 employees last week, largely women, Blacks, Hispanics and other minorities. The savings from these firings were paid in huge bonuses to the senior-most management echelon. Of course major US media concluded this is not reportable news. fortune.com/2025/02/21/m...

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Another scoop from @peard33.bsky.social: DOGE installed Tom Krause at the Treasury Department. He's keeping his job as the CEO of a software company that has millions of dollars in federal contracts, including with the Treasury Department www.wired.com/story/krause...

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I repeat, if you or a loved one was recently fired from the federal government during your probationary period, and the reason you were given was poor performance, please reach out to us at www.centerforemploymentjustice.com. We have a plan and may be able to help you.

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It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

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Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

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NEWS: The Federal Housing Finance Agency has stood up a "DOGE Team" — I hear DOGE people were there Thursday — that's asking for intra-office snitching. Employees were told: "We appreciate everyone who has already provided ideas on how we can streamline FHFA operations and stop wasteful spending."

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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Is this really the "path forward" our new CEO thinks will save Starbucks? Maybe listening to the baristas running the stores and finalizing union contracts is a better first step...

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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.

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I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

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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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People in the jail are not getting food and medicine www.mynbc5.com/article/bare...

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They tell us that our phones aren’t secretly listening to us and then I get Facebook ads for replacement water fountains for museums.

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"Most of DOGE’s money, records show, has come in the form of payments from other federal agencies made possible by a nearly century-old law called the Economy Act. To steer those funds to the new department, the Trump administration has treated DOGE as if it were a federal agency."

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Brendan Carr, free speech champion.

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Unfortunately firings have continued at the National Nuclear Safety Administration. I’ve been contacted by an NNSA worker who was fired, then told her termination was paused, then told she was fired again. She says there were numerous others at NNSA treated the same way. These people keep us safe.

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Over 200 Native programs and grants have been impacted by the federal funding freeze, which includes Justice, Education, Housing, agriculture, health & more. www.mvskokemedia.com/over-200-nat...

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A baseline expectation of government is the maintenance of standardized weights and measures, to the extent that kings are known as “rulers” and are often depicted with scales in their hands.

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From an IRS employee in Texas, one of thousands still awaiting news on whether they still have jobs: "It's a mess. Lot of tears. Managers also just received an email that there was some glitch and not everyone received their letters."

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Details about a program from Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) & Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) got attention after the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) published a trove of internal documents about ICE’s ‘Citizens Academy’ programs. [Oct. 2024] unicornriot.ninja/2024/ice-is-...

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is booed by protesters as he announces Trump is cutting off funding for high-speed rail between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Instead of dealing with all the planes crashing everywhere, the former “Real World” star is abandoning investments in US infrastructure.

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Protesters unhappy with Democratic party leadership's tepid response to President Trump's authoritarian power grab disrupted outside a Hakeem Jeffries book tour event tonight on Michigan Avenue.

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Democrats should be using state authority to hound these people into exile, prison, or an early grave.

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