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What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.
Prelude: I am not proposing a legit read of Lord of the Rings in this thread. I AM proposing a legit read of #Project2025 and its circle. 1/6
Revisiting what happened in June:
www.aha.org/fact-sheets/...
www.aha.org/fact-sheets/...
Fact Sheet: One Big Beautiful Bill Act Would Significantly Reduce Availability of Coverage in the Health Insurance Marketplaces | AHA
The House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA, H.R. 1) makes significant changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces that would lead to millions of people losing their coverage and beco...
www.aha.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Revisiting what happened in June:
www.aha.org/fact-sheets/...
www.aha.org/fact-sheets/...
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9/9 AltCDC remembers when “service” meant showing up.
We want to help - our admin won’t let us.
🙋
Reporters: please look into this.
👉 Ask why CDC won’t send Epi-Aid teams when lives are at stake.
👉 Ask who made the call.
👉 Ask why.
We want to help - our admin won’t let us.
🙋
Reporters: please look into this.
👉 Ask why CDC won’t send Epi-Aid teams when lives are at stake.
👉 Ask who made the call.
👉 Ask why.
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
9/9 AltCDC remembers when “service” meant showing up.
We want to help - our admin won’t let us.
🙋
Reporters: please look into this.
👉 Ask why CDC won’t send Epi-Aid teams when lives are at stake.
👉 Ask who made the call.
👉 Ask why.
We want to help - our admin won’t let us.
🙋
Reporters: please look into this.
👉 Ask why CDC won’t send Epi-Aid teams when lives are at stake.
👉 Ask who made the call.
👉 Ask why.
There's one more #Election that I know of. Let's give Micro Johnson one more headache.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:10 AM
There's one more #Election that I know of. Let's give Micro Johnson one more headache.
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22/ Thread about post-liberalism and Patrick Deneen. threadreaderapp.com/thread/18235...
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 AM
22/ Thread about post-liberalism and Patrick Deneen. threadreaderapp.com/thread/18235...
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As @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com just explained it also get SNAP increased for a whole year, back pay for Fed workers and no more riffs. Senate Republicans caved on those. And it isn't over for healthcare either. Wish LOD had popped in last night b4 so many lost it.
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
As @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com just explained it also get SNAP increased for a whole year, back pay for Fed workers and no more riffs. Senate Republicans caved on those. And it isn't over for healthcare either. Wish LOD had popped in last night b4 so many lost it.
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Live your life so that you do not draw the scorn of Joyce Carol Oates.
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Live your life so that you do not draw the scorn of Joyce Carol Oates.
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Former models for Donald Trump’s agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally.
Former models for Donald Trump's agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally
"It's like modern-day slavery."
www.motherjones.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Former models for Donald Trump’s agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally.
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
I guess I should be happy that one of my parasocials (not here) put me in a malevolent mood. I'm generating lots of pages of my ickier main character now.
Add to to-do list: find the big notebook for timeline, language notes, etc. Little chunky isn't up to it and computer is Just Wrong.
Add to to-do list: find the big notebook for timeline, language notes, etc. Little chunky isn't up to it and computer is Just Wrong.
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I guess I should be happy that one of my parasocials (not here) put me in a malevolent mood. I'm generating lots of pages of my ickier main character now.
Add to to-do list: find the big notebook for timeline, language notes, etc. Little chunky isn't up to it and computer is Just Wrong.
Add to to-do list: find the big notebook for timeline, language notes, etc. Little chunky isn't up to it and computer is Just Wrong.
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This morning:
Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to landmark gay marriage ruling
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to landmark gay marriage ruling
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to landmark gay marriage ruling
The announcement indicates there is not an appetite among the high court’s conservative majority to revisit one of the court’s most significant decisions in recent years.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This morning:
Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to landmark gay marriage ruling
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to landmark gay marriage ruling
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Repubs have three choices right now, after the so-called “catastrophic cave and betrayal” by Schumer’s senate: …..
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Repubs have three choices right now, after the so-called “catastrophic cave and betrayal” by Schumer’s senate: …..
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In sum: Republicans have backed themselves into a corner. Schumer and Jeffries are working together to shrink that corner smaller and smaller. 80% of our side is shrieking right now because they don’t realize that the “cave” does NOTHING unless Johnson reopens the house and removes that barricade.
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
In sum: Republicans have backed themselves into a corner. Schumer and Jeffries are working together to shrink that corner smaller and smaller. 80% of our side is shrieking right now because they don’t realize that the “cave” does NOTHING unless Johnson reopens the house and removes that barricade.
Passing thought: if the House was called into session ASAP, how many reps of each party would get there when?
Given the state of the airports and the weather, California dems might want to start the road trip now. Indeed, I hope they already have.
Given the state of the airports and the weather, California dems might want to start the road trip now. Indeed, I hope they already have.
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Passing thought: if the House was called into session ASAP, how many reps of each party would get there when?
Given the state of the airports and the weather, California dems might want to start the road trip now. Indeed, I hope they already have.
Given the state of the airports and the weather, California dems might want to start the road trip now. Indeed, I hope they already have.
This seems like a good day for mostly indoor tasks: vacuum up the dog hair, sort the recycling, organize the kitchen counters and my work desk, raise hell at elected officials of all levels, plant some indoor lettuce and maybe basil seeds, make a new archery target out of this nice tall box.
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This seems like a good day for mostly indoor tasks: vacuum up the dog hair, sort the recycling, organize the kitchen counters and my work desk, raise hell at elected officials of all levels, plant some indoor lettuce and maybe basil seeds, make a new archery target out of this nice tall box.
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In other words Senate Republicans saw the results this week & opted to throw Vought under the bus to preemptively protect themselves for a few months & opted to betray Trump by negotiating instead of nuking the filibuster like he keeps demanding & they could’ve done at any time to end the shutdown.
The RIFs language is actually great. Not only does it rehire the people RIFed during the shutdown, it makes it an unequivocal Antideficiency Act violation to do ANY MORE RIFs through the duration of the CR (Jan 30)
Completely stops Trump/Vought Phase 2 for now
Would love to see this standardized
Completely stops Trump/Vought Phase 2 for now
Would love to see this standardized
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
In other words Senate Republicans saw the results this week & opted to throw Vought under the bus to preemptively protect themselves for a few months & opted to betray Trump by negotiating instead of nuking the filibuster like he keeps demanding & they could’ve done at any time to end the shutdown.
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Minority Whip Katherine Clark puts out a stinging statement on the senate deal. "A GOP budget that spikes health care premiums and everyday costs to fund tax cuts for billionaires is a grave betrayal of everyday Americans. That was true in July. It was true in September. And it remains true today."
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Minority Whip Katherine Clark puts out a stinging statement on the senate deal. "A GOP budget that spikes health care premiums and everyday costs to fund tax cuts for billionaires is a grave betrayal of everyday Americans. That was true in July. It was true in September. And it remains true today."
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Now for some levity and logic based in facts.
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Now for some levity and logic based in facts.
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Folks, we need to have a little Civics #101 chat, because apparently the media no longer seems fit to explain to you whats happening.
So quick review:
The House passed a clean CR.
The senate has not passed anything.
So quick review:
The House passed a clean CR.
The senate has not passed anything.
November 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Folks, we need to have a little Civics #101 chat, because apparently the media no longer seems fit to explain to you whats happening.
So quick review:
The House passed a clean CR.
The senate has not passed anything.
So quick review:
The House passed a clean CR.
The senate has not passed anything.
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A Republican Tale as Old as Time
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A Republican Tale as Old as Time
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This is the food-distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base. Active-duty U.S.
service members waiting for basic assistance because Trump gutted
SNAP support for military families.
Trump's predatory regime refuse to offer these military families the financial relief they deserve.
(🎥hatteri621)
service members waiting for basic assistance because Trump gutted
SNAP support for military families.
Trump's predatory regime refuse to offer these military families the financial relief they deserve.
(🎥hatteri621)
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This is the food-distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base. Active-duty U.S.
service members waiting for basic assistance because Trump gutted
SNAP support for military families.
Trump's predatory regime refuse to offer these military families the financial relief they deserve.
(🎥hatteri621)
service members waiting for basic assistance because Trump gutted
SNAP support for military families.
Trump's predatory regime refuse to offer these military families the financial relief they deserve.
(🎥hatteri621)
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since Coke wanted to save money screwing over professionals and replacing them with AI, we should start a trend of asking every company doing this why their products aren't free or super cheap
they wanted to save on labor, we should be harassing them for cheaper prices to make the point
they wanted to save on labor, we should be harassing them for cheaper prices to make the point
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
since Coke wanted to save money screwing over professionals and replacing them with AI, we should start a trend of asking every company doing this why their products aren't free or super cheap
they wanted to save on labor, we should be harassing them for cheaper prices to make the point
they wanted to save on labor, we should be harassing them for cheaper prices to make the point
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So we are finally protesting the right people.
This is outside of the Heritage Foundation.
This is outside of the Heritage Foundation.
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
So we are finally protesting the right people.
This is outside of the Heritage Foundation.
This is outside of the Heritage Foundation.
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State criminal prosecutions of immigration enforcement officials may end removed to federal courts, but any conviction would be beyond the president’s pardon power, write Aaron Zelinsky, John Connolly and David Reiser.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/stat...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/stat...
State Prosecutions of Federal Agents and the Presidential Pardon Power
State prosecutions of ICE agents may end up in federal courts, but any conviction would be beyond the president’s pardon power.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
State criminal prosecutions of immigration enforcement officials may end removed to federal courts, but any conviction would be beyond the president’s pardon power, write Aaron Zelinsky, John Connolly and David Reiser.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/stat...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/stat...
Are we to where we could add a constitutional amendment providing for a no-confidence vote yet? Those seem pretty cool.
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Are we to where we could add a constitutional amendment providing for a no-confidence vote yet? Those seem pretty cool.