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One of the things we are going to be talking about more and more is how the 1st amendment’s guarantees of freedom of religion were born out of centuries of deadly intra-Christian doctrinal conflict.

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Polish poster for William Friedkin's TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985)

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SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

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Trump rode to political prominence on birtherism and spent the last month of his campaign claiming that Haitians were eating cats. The rise of authoritarianism in America must be understood as a misinformation crisis.

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DHS has ordered its entire investigations division - composed of 6,000 agents - to divert focus on drug dealers, terrorists, and human traffickers and shift priority to the Trump administration’s mission of deporting immigrants www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

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Brilliant thread. Businesspeople are always screaming about innovation— which emerges from curiosity, experimentation, serendipity and the willingness to go on intellectual journeys with uncertain destinations. An LLM predicting the answer you want will not grow your knowledge base or your brain.

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Very sad news about Jamie Muir. A wizard, a true star.

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It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

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Musk fires hundreds of FAA workers www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

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“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.

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Weary Persian speaker here to remind you most Rumi quotes are in fact fake

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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.

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The effect is positively Streisand now.

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True story: when my older boys were little, they both got whooping cough even though they were vaccinated. It was bad. We asked the pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. They would’ve died, he said. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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turns out covering politics as a contest with no real consequences was a mistake

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The deputy commissioner of transformation and modernization at the Treasury Dept Bureau of the Fiscal Service, states that DOGE staffer Marko Elez was “mistakenly” given “read/write” permissions over part of the Treasury Dept payment system responsible for disbursing trillions of dollars every year.

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US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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His illiquidity is the danger. He has to keep doing shit like this. The Not Actually Real Money Bus must be kept above $200 billion or it will explode. All of this shit is basically debt and blackmail and it's forcing people like Musk into increasingly precarious and dangerous positions.

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I know I’m in Portland because the cab driver is playing King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (complimentary)

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Accidentally booked our flight to visit my mom to coincide with America’s Great Festival and it’s glorious to travel among an only moderately oppressive throng.

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This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

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🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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New reporting shows that despite the supposed unfreezing of federal grants, many Head Start centers still can't access funds, forcing them to close and leaving kids without preschool and health services and families (esp moms) without the care they need to work for pay. www.salon.com/2025/02/06/e...

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I absolutely guarantee there will be subway ads for “Sharpr” by 2026.

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Now Musk has sent Booger, Broccoli Rob and Big Balls to the NOAA, in order to be sure us freeloaders stop getting all those free warnings about hurricanes and stuff.

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I don’t know how it’s possible to have been at all shocked. And yet.

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My father spent his career overseeing DoD-funded research into ocean science, much of it with far reaching military and civilian applications in use today. Allowing a lawless assault on US researchers is a profoundly self-damaging exercise.

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Hundreds of New Yorkers are out tonight demanding NYU Langone’s CEO commits to continuing to provide lifesaving gender affirming care for trans kids. No complying with fascists! No anti-trans policies!

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Kayaking to Halifax on the theory that if I can sing the entirety of “Navy Blues” front to back they have to let me in.

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Finally saw “Passages” and while I appreciated all the hot goings-on the only person in the film with whom I could remotely identify was the tired school administrator who once again has to clear an unhinged man out of the building.

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Is there a word for when a bunch of private citizens following orders from an unelected billionaire occupy government buildings and cut off communications

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american citizens will be so overjoyed with the ability to say slurs at work that they will no longer need to consume food nor purchase consumer goods

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