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The New York Times was more skeptical of the academic qualifications of a black woman who had secured tenure and become the president of Harvard than they were of a white man who washed out of a grad program with a massive scandal and then became a white nationalist troll.
The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/
July 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The New York Times was more skeptical of the academic qualifications of a black woman who had secured tenure and become the president of Harvard than they were of a white man who washed out of a grad program with a massive scandal and then became a white nationalist troll.
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ICE raids in a fire rebuilding zone
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Altadena ICE raid highlights fears that roundups will stymie rebuilding efforts
Immigration raids are threatening to hinder the colossal undertaking to reconstruct the 13,000 homes that were wiped away in Altadena and Pacific Palisades on Jan. 7 — and exacerbate the housing crisi...
www.latimes.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
ICE raids in a fire rebuilding zone
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.
June 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.
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damnit, not only *would* that get me it *does* get me
June 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
damnit, not only *would* that get me it *does* get me
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A 20 year old, working at Walmart, verbally standing up for the older janitor ICE came to drag away, telling the men they need a warrant, getting tackled and shoved into a van and his parents weren’t told where he was.
This is what happened in Pico Rivera (Los Angeles) this week: www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...
June 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
A 20 year old, working at Walmart, verbally standing up for the older janitor ICE came to drag away, telling the men they need a warrant, getting tackled and shoved into a van and his parents weren’t told where he was.
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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.
June 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.
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Gestapo shit.
BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
June 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Gestapo shit.
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This is happening because we do not want families separated. Do not lose sight of that. That is what Trump is calling an insurrection: community members fighting to keep loved ones together.
June 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This is happening because we do not want families separated. Do not lose sight of that. That is what Trump is calling an insurrection: community members fighting to keep loved ones together.
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We’re physicians. Access to GLP-1s saves our patients’ lives.
Also: A Medicare crisis and doctors’ concerns with Kennedy’s new coronavirus vaccine policy
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Also: A Medicare crisis and doctors’ concerns with Kennedy’s new coronavirus vaccine policy
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com
June 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
We’re physicians. Access to GLP-1s saves our patients’ lives.
Also: A Medicare crisis and doctors’ concerns with Kennedy’s new coronavirus vaccine policy
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Also: A Medicare crisis and doctors’ concerns with Kennedy’s new coronavirus vaccine policy
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will
Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.
May 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will
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Regardless of one’s position on abortion, this is legally correct.
May 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Regardless of one’s position on abortion, this is legally correct.
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If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. Trump's self-dealing makes Warren G. Harding’s look like a child shoplifting candy.
From The Archives: You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President theonion.com/you-peo...
May 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. Trump's self-dealing makes Warren G. Harding’s look like a child shoplifting candy.
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Resettling white Afrikaners as refugees is the sort of metaphor for "we are a really racist government" that most editors would remove from a dystopian novel for being way way too ham-fisted.
Props to the Episcopal Church for using its religious freedom to call out this disgusting act.
Props to the Episcopal Church for using its religious freedom to call out this disgusting act.
BREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...
Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, ends partnership with US government
(RNS) — In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step,' the pr...
religionnews.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Resettling white Afrikaners as refugees is the sort of metaphor for "we are a really racist government" that most editors would remove from a dystopian novel for being way way too ham-fisted.
Props to the Episcopal Church for using its religious freedom to call out this disgusting act.
Props to the Episcopal Church for using its religious freedom to call out this disgusting act.
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4/ In Texas, Josseli Barnica’s husband says a hospital told her that it would be a “crime” to help manage her miscarriage.
Days later, she died from an infection that developed after she waited 40 hours for treatment.
Days later, she died from an infection that developed after she waited 40 hours for treatment.
A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital
Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat s...
www.propublica.org
May 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
4/ In Texas, Josseli Barnica’s husband says a hospital told her that it would be a “crime” to help manage her miscarriage.
Days later, she died from an infection that developed after she waited 40 hours for treatment.
Days later, she died from an infection that developed after she waited 40 hours for treatment.
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seems like the administration is objectively pro plane crash www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...
FAA suspends work of independent panel reviewing air traffic control
The FAA ordered an independent panel hired to recommend ways to strengthen oversight of its air traffic control operations to stop work.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
seems like the administration is objectively pro plane crash www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...
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Sen. Schmitt staffer Nate Hochman is now criticizing Rosie Rios, chair of the US Semiquincentennial Commission, for saying Harriet Tubman & Susan B. Anthony are her favorite American heroes.
That’s in addition to almost openly stating that a Mexican-American shouldn’t chair the commission of course
That’s in addition to almost openly stating that a Mexican-American shouldn’t chair the commission of course
May 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Sen. Schmitt staffer Nate Hochman is now criticizing Rosie Rios, chair of the US Semiquincentennial Commission, for saying Harriet Tubman & Susan B. Anthony are her favorite American heroes.
That’s in addition to almost openly stating that a Mexican-American shouldn’t chair the commission of course
That’s in addition to almost openly stating that a Mexican-American shouldn’t chair the commission of course
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Now that Trump has openly admitted he could bring back Abrego Garcia whenever he wants, his lawyer tells me he will use discovery to determine which officials are advising Trump to defy the Supreme Court.
New piece from me with lots of fresh reporting on this case:
newrepublic.com/article/1948...
New piece from me with lots of fresh reporting on this case:
newrepublic.com/article/1948...
How Trump Accidentally Sabotaged His Own Case Against Abrego Garcia
Trump has now admitted twice that he could bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home, but says his lawyers are telling him not to. This was a very dumb move—and also a very revealing one.
newrepublic.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Now that Trump has openly admitted he could bring back Abrego Garcia whenever he wants, his lawyer tells me he will use discovery to determine which officials are advising Trump to defy the Supreme Court.
New piece from me with lots of fresh reporting on this case:
newrepublic.com/article/1948...
New piece from me with lots of fresh reporting on this case:
newrepublic.com/article/1948...
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19 years old and this moral-imbecile is allowed to play with the intricate controls of the ship of state.
DOGE's 19-Year-Old Staffer 'Big Balls' Appears With Elon on Fox News
There's no reason to believe anything these guys say.
gizmodo.com
May 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
19 years old and this moral-imbecile is allowed to play with the intricate controls of the ship of state.
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Never give up. Never surrender.
May 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Never give up. Never surrender.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife has been forced into hiding after the Trump administration posted her address online.
Abrego Garcia’s Wife Forced to Go Into Hiding Thanks to DHS Slip-Up
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife says she fears for her safety since the Trump administration deported him to a prison in El Salvador.
newrepublic.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife has been forced into hiding after the Trump administration posted her address online.
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Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
NSF has posted an “update on priorities.”
They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants.
And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent.
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants.
And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent.
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Updates on NSF Priorities
www.nsf.gov
April 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
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Just spoke with my CDC sources. They were in tears.
Budgets cut. RFJK has ordered them not to publicize bird flu symptoms in exposed workers. Not to test them. Not to speak.
They know people are getting sick. And they’re being forced to stay silent.
This is not just a cover-up. It's cruelty.
Budgets cut. RFJK has ordered them not to publicize bird flu symptoms in exposed workers. Not to test them. Not to speak.
They know people are getting sick. And they’re being forced to stay silent.
This is not just a cover-up. It's cruelty.
April 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Just spoke with my CDC sources. They were in tears.
Budgets cut. RFJK has ordered them not to publicize bird flu symptoms in exposed workers. Not to test them. Not to speak.
They know people are getting sick. And they’re being forced to stay silent.
This is not just a cover-up. It's cruelty.
Budgets cut. RFJK has ordered them not to publicize bird flu symptoms in exposed workers. Not to test them. Not to speak.
They know people are getting sick. And they’re being forced to stay silent.
This is not just a cover-up. It's cruelty.