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Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

Time for some Streisand effect

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I've lived democratic backsliding & authoritarianism across multiple countries. I've watched repression creep across staff planning sessions & editorial rooms, from both the left & right. The #1 way it happens? Self-censorship. Before your opponents ever censor you, self-professed allies do.

from today's post — please read the whole thing, thanks! link is here: bit.ly/41irHtM

I think Republicans should stop being cowards. If they want to get rid of DEI, do it! Get rid of the Senate!! Why should we give equal voice to states with a minority of the country’s population???

Be ashamed, Mississippi.

from today's post — please read the whole thing. link is here: bit.ly/4aYH7Xr thanks!

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Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

Manhattan’s U.S. attorney resigned just days after being ordered to drop the corruption case against New York City’s mayor. So did the two men who led the unit in DC to which DOJ sought to transfer the case. This is what public integrity looks like.

Mitch McConnell: a lesson that there is such a thing as too late to start doing the right thing. "Better late than never" is in this case true in only the most trivial and insignificant of senses.

“The radical reorganization now underway is shattering the fundamental checks and balances of our constitutional order. The DOGE process mocks the tenets that we are a nation of laws not men and that Congress controls spending and passes legislation.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Ukraine's independence and territorial integrity are unconditional. Our priority must now be strengthening Ukraine and providing robust security guarantees. In any negotiation, Europe must have a central role. Our Weimar+ statement ↓

The new AP style is … interesting.

Anocracy = run by anuses? (Link if you click through.)

You can always count on the Rapepublicans to bring the stupid.

I have shut down your work in the lab that does science at which you were probably making new knowledge Forgive me it was expensive so gender and so woke

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Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

Government of South Africa takes Trump to school:

@raskin.house.gov @warren.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov @timwalzparody.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social You have an army, gather them. LEAD. Challenge this bullshit in person.

Elon thinks everything is software (where breaking things is how you fix them), but actually most of govt is hardware and infrastructure (he’s just taking a baseball bat to the whole computer mainframe).

National Day Of Protest February 17, 2025

"A top official at the U.S. Department of Justice has ordered federal prosecutors to drop charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat who has cultivated a warm relationship with President Donald Trump." apnews.com/article/eric...

Forty years ago today, this album was released. Somewhat later, a friend lent me a cassette of "Meat Is Murder" and that was my introduction to The Smiths. It's too bad that Morrissey has turned out to be a fascist shitwipe, but I still love The Smiths' music. ❤️

About the words we use, and why they matter, especially right now. robertsmcelvaine.substack.com/p/use-words-...

PERSONAL AND HANDWRITTEN. i'm not exaggerating either

Some of these are Supreme Court decisions that the executive and legislative branches may not be able to simply reverse. And doubling the minimum wage isn't nearly enough. A living wage a couple of years ago was about three times the minimum wage. And it must be indexed to inflation. But yes. 👍

Anti-DEI is your racist friends and neighbors trying to make segregation a thing again, pass it on

Today the @nytimes.com sought to whitewash its central role in laundering anti-trans falsehoods and turbocharging anti-trans attacks nationwide. My reporting showed that editorial leadership was aware of this depravity which is why this disingenuous piece can’t erase the scale of what they’ve done.

Wow I just saw the president’s limo in Nola

I'm not really willing to buy that he has actual areas of expertise, but the rest of this is utterly unsurprising.

here's today's post: "Mad King Donny is freeing us from the oppression of paper straws" — make insane obsessions great again. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

One unpopular take I still cling to pretty strongly is that American politics as a whole has lost its mind but the electorate ~as a whole continues to behave pretty much as normal including rewarding & punishing largely the same outcomes

Laws. The word you're looking for here is "laws."

LISTEN. (A little thread of usefulness). If I were an organizer, I would start with people in red states and districts doing in-person visits to their Republican Senators and Reps, demanding to know why they are doing nothing about about a massive hack of their personal data. 1/

Purging dissent in the security services and giving loyalists power is something we *instantly* recognize in other contexts.