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Count 3: "Section 504 is unconstitutional." GOP: We had no idea this lawsuit claimed section 504 was unconstitutional omg ur so mean to say otherwise!

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Moving oped by @lollardfish.bsky.social I went to startribune_dot_com this morning intending to resubscribe, but today the top link under "News & Politics" was titled "Tolkkinen: Transgender girls have an unfair advantage in girls' sports." So I didn't. Sigh.

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We welcome your fine kids; come to Minnesota! Land of the free, home of the brave.

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This is your state on Republican meth.

submitted 21 hours ago • 49 comments

Next I want to see the more enterprising students (especially those with 3d printers) absolutely wreaking HAVOC by creating their own signs, and using QR codes to point people to the 14 Defining Points of Fascism or the judgments at Nuremberg or something. :D

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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"This is the moment in which they come for trans people. You know the poem by Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemöller. You know what happens next. Time to fight back." www.startribune.com/why-are-repu...

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Robert Ripley's "Believe It Or Not" included Charles Schulz's first published drawing on February 22, 1937 (the hunting dog, credited to Schulz using his nickname Sparky). Schulz, then 14, would go on to a cartooning career of some renown.

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Seriously people. Bondi is a skilled agent of corruption. Don't let her blonde hair distract from her considerable skillset.

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"Still, the firings have bewildered federal employees like Powell. If their mission is to reduce government waste, she said, it doesn’t make sense to get rid of auditors like her tasked with detecting fraud." www.nola.com/news/louisia...

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Something I've now heard from federal worker constituents at several agencies: Musk and Trump's mass firings are clearing out all personnel from FOIA offices and leaving them completely empty, it sounds obviously intentional.

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"Mired in diversity issues" is some real repugnant doublespeak in the service of normalizing Trumps white supremacist crusade

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This is what the Silicon Valley gang wants the US to base its full faith and credit on.

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"his actions raised enough alarm that he may have violated privacy and tax laws that senior officials placed him on paid leave as they launched their investigation." Then Trump made him acting commissioner

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lol

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its amazing the way conservative arguments fall completely apart in court when there are actually penalties for lying

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I cannot confirm this independently but I am hearing the same thing from a source. If anyone can confirm or share info about the definitive shutdown of the 2024 PRAMS data collection can you contact me on Signal at joshtpm dot 99 or via encrypted mail at joshtpm at protonmail dot com

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“This is America and we don’t have kings” is an easy message and we should all be saying it, but it’s also easy to add on “especially not kings who hand our entire treasury over to drug addled rich Nazi fucks.”

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““We did not elect him,” a man shouted. As the town hall reached its scheduled end, more constituents shouted questions about Musk’s access to taxpayer data and yelled “don’t lie to us””

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This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 15 hours ago • 131 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

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I'll say it again purging the highest ranks of the military and replacing them with retired loyalists is what you do directly before you deeploy the military against the domestic population and our allies abroad.

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A pundit tried to argue with @jamellebouie.net just yesterday that Trump isn’t trying to resegregate the bureaucracy. But this stuff would make Woodrow Wilson proud.

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Firing career military officers for obeying the orders of the previous President sets up chaotic and dangerous incentives for senior commanders to shirk and scheme. Trump should wonder, will his generals resist following his orders on fear of what the next POTUS will do?

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Weird its almost like some of us on the academic and research side were right the entire time. Really bums me out how people just couldn't and wouldn't see what has always been right in front of them.

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

So much corruption. So much danger on our roads heading our way.

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“A desire to force U.S. military leaders to be obedient to him and not the Constitution is one of the constant themes of Trump’s military-related discourse.”

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Some things to know about General Brown: - 41 years of military service - F16 fighter pilot and instructor with 3000 flight hours, 130 in combat - Master’s in aeronautical science - son of a U.S. Army colonel and Vietnam veteran - grandson of a WW2 veteran

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And there's going to be a lot of sketchy-to-blatantly unconstitutional orders coming in the next year.

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Joni Ernst cast one of two pivotal votes to let this happen.

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“The United States has threatened to cut off Ukraine's access to Starlink satellite internet terminals if Kyiv does not reach a deal with the U.S. regarding critical mineral resources, Reuters reported on Feb. 21, citing three sources familiar with the negotiations.”

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Gee, why isn't DOGE flagging this as wasteful spending? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Dependency on Starlink casually weaponized by US administration. Conclusions for Europe and anyone else in orbit of former US-led alliance should be crystal clear. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

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Nothing says "coup" quite like a loyalty test for the military! Taken to its logical conclusion: Mump will direct the US military against American citizens. Congress, are you still happy giving up all of your power and authority?

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