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“RESIST. DO NOT COMPLY WITH THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES.”Judge Ortiz emailed her EEOC colleagues after the anti-trans EO. She told me, “The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up. I can exist on cornflakes and community at the end of the day if it means that my soul is intact.”

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#TeslaTakedown at Golden Valley, MN Tesla showroom on Feb 22. About same turnout as the week before but more engagements with drivers. Need to bring a sign encouraging honking! Annoys Tesla more, gets drivers activated and easier to tell if driver is supportive.

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Arts and crafts project for the #TeslaTakedown this afternoon.

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accepting the premise of a truly bad faith argument in order to argue against it is giving the premise credibility. this is the intellectual case for calling the people who make these arguments dingdongs.

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Note the passive voice—“multiple people were removed” By whom? If you watch the video that precedes this post, they were goons in black who refused to identify themselves.

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There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints. youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...

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100000000% THIS Remember Mitch McConnell's strategy was to use unchallenged seats on school boards, city councils, etc to build a foundation of extreme right-wing power. Progressives need to do the same. This is why I donate to @runforsomething.net monthly. If you're willing, they'll help you run.

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Pesky damn lawyers, it's always "no, that's illegal" this and "we could all go to prison" that.

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We all know this, but I'm glad it's being pointed out in more visible places than just every single person's Bluesky/Instagram/etc

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That was one of many, many peaceful protests. My Dad participated in plenty of them in the 60's. They arrested him, tortured him with electro shocks then kicked him out of the country

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Mr. Hegseth has previously said that General Brown should be fired because of his “woke” focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military. Replaces a Black four-star fighter pilot with a white man who does not meet the statutory qualifications supposedly over DEI.

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Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

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You told NPR on the record you were removing stuff to comply with the executive orders. This is a lie about planned revisions. The site also removed gender identity from legal services provided. Stop gaslighting us. You erased trans people and only responded when called out.

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I bet not never hear "This plot is a little over the top, isn't it? Where's the nuance? This reads like parody." EVER. AGAIN.

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No computer model could ever make something as pure and beautiful as your Pomps.

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tea for two 🩵

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1. Yesterday, Maine Governor Janet Mills confronted Trump to his own face at a Governor's Dinner over his anti-trans EO. When he threatened her for allowing trans people in sports, she responded: "See you in court." The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Grieve the america you were taught to love, even though you may hate it already. Give the fellow working class benefit of the doubt but also don’t take shit. Cook for your friends. Meet people in your community irl more. Ask for help when you need it even on the small things. Check in with yourself.

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very fun to to hear liberals complain about ‘purity tests’ and as a trans person knowing the test is ‘do you want to kill me and all my friends’

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DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.

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Elon is hiring criminals to work for DOGE because it is a criminal conspiracy

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And the pink NES joins the pink GameCube, pink PlayStation 2, pink PVM, and Pink Zennith Cube. I’m coming for that VCR next

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The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.

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In Yoshi's Island, all Shy Guys are the same object. A Shy Guy's color is decided solely by its initial spawn point in the level. I have taken the liberty to fill a level with Shy Guys to create a Shy Guy coloration matrix.

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The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

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“Operation Whirlwind” What’s Happening Now? In 2025, Operation Whirlwind was launched under Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin to investigate alleged threats against employees of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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the thing about resisting fascism is a lot of it is gonna be super illegal, like federally illegal, and you're still gonna have to do it if you want to save people

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It is mind-boggling to me that people say "but I had to comply with the fascists because otherwise there would be some cost—" NO FUCKING KIDDING. Did you think you'd never have to make a hard choice in Fascist America? That you wouldn't be asked to sacrifice someone and be rewarded for it?? JFC

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AP could have been cowardly and rolled over for Trump. “We had to comply or we’d lose [funding/access/privileges]” like so many orgs are doing. It would have been easy for them to say “gulf of America” But it never stops there. They got the memo. Good job AP.

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I often wonder why no billionaire has done this as the ultimate vanity project. The reason, of course, is they need the threat of poverty and starvation to keep the masses in line.

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There was always going to be a moving Overton window of where we would have to protest in a Trump 2 era. I just never anticipated that the window would move to historic LGBTQ clinics like Whitman Walker.

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The White House has kept the wire service from covering key events because it refuses to call the body of water between Mexico and Florida the Gulf of America, as the Trump administration prefers.

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Hell yea! Do not obey

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What the fuck is wrong with Democrats

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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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“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

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Milk Wars ruled and I miss Young Animal

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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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I’m so glad the Democrats are going to do absolutely nothing with this

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There’s an active fascist takeover going on. Let’s check in with the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary committee to see how they’re resisting it. Oh… oh I see. They’re trying to blow up Section 230 and open the floodgates for Trump to censor the Internet. Inspiring!

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"Well what if we just get rid of Section 230 and see what happens? What's the worst thing that could happen?" Ask a sex worker. The last time Congress changed Section 230, people died. www.thedailybeast.com/want-to-fix-...

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I talked to developers about Microsoft's newly announced generative AI model, Muse, and its role in video games: "When we rely on this stuff we are implicitly empowering a class of people who own these tools and don’t give a fuck about how they reshape our lives." www.wired.com/story/xbox-m...

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