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Alexa Maeve (she/her)
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Vive la résistance!
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SOUTH AMERICA HEAT WAVE

Another scorching day in Brazil and Bolivia with temperatures up to 41.8C at Goias.
From tomorrow further increase of the heat:
During the next 7 days Bolivia,Paraguay and Brazil will experience a terrible heat wave with up to 44C.

Map H/T:Dr. Ryan Maue
September 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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The simple fact of the world is that the vast majority of mass shooters fit a fairly basic profile: Cishet white men with right leaning but completely incomprehensible politics, bigoted in ways that don't super make sense and driven mostly by delusions of grandeur and petty slights.
September 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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September 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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We have gone from the margin of error to the margin of effort.

On the day before the election, we stand on the verge of toppling a political dynasty and winning a city we can afford. But we can only do it with you.

zohranfornyc.com/gotv
June 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Not to rain on everyone’s ceasefire-not-ceasefire parade, but that wrecking ball of a big dumb bill is still working its way through the Senate and still launching an assault on women, wages, benefits, and the entire working class
June 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Here's the justice department arguing that a law firm is a national security threat because they donated money to a LGBTQ org challenging the trans ban on the military.
May 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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There's no saving this system. It's too thoroughly corrupted. We need to tear down the current constitutional order and begin again.

Nearly half the senate dems were bought off with illicit and corrupt crypto money.
Democrats who voted for the GENIUS Act stablecoin bill: Alsobrooks (MD), Blunt Rochester (DE), Booker (NJ), Cortez Masto (NV), Fetterman (PA), Gallego (AZ), Gillibrand (NY), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Lujan (NM), Ossoff (GA), Padilla (CA), Rosen (NV), Schiff (CA), Slotkin (MI), Warner (VA)
May 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

-Hannah Arendt
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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The new version of the House reconciliation bill expands the medicaid and chip ban on coverage for gender affirming care to ALL AGES. This will decimated access to care for tens of thousands of trans people.

amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/R...
May 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Last week, I launched a new publication called The Dissident. It's an anti-fascist publication focused on the intersection of tech, privacy, and LGBTQ rights in the current authoritarian moment.

Check it out!

www.thedissident.news
The Dissident
Independent newsletter challenging the current authoritarian moment
www.thedissident.news
May 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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we need a Democratic party for the left
May 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Stop calling kidnapping and trafficking people to countries they’ve never been to “deporting.” It’s criminal behavior by a country with no conscience. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US ‘illegally deported’ Vietnamese and Burmese migrants to South Sudan
Immigrant rights advocates say White House violated court order and ask judge to order nearly a dozen people’s return
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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At last it's official! I sold my next nonfiction book, about parties in the ancient world, to the excellent @mattweiland.bsky.social at @wwnorton.com. I'm going to be listening to Kool and the Gang nonstop for the next two years as I do research.
May 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Gerry Connolly is the sixth congressman to die in office in just over a year. All were Democrats.

Let's go there: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/gerry-conn...
Gerry Connolly Dead at 75
Congressman becomes third to die in office this year and sixth in just over a year
www.kenklippenstein.com
May 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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No one experiencing the tragedy of a miscarriage should be arrested, much less abandoned in jail for 5 months with a $100k bond. But that’s exactly what happened to Mallori Patrice Strait in Texas. Women, particularly women of color, in this country are no longer allowed dignity even in extreme loss
May 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.
May 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.
May 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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House GOP is holding a hearing on their tax bill at 1:00 AM because they don't want us to know about their scheme to strip 13.7 million people of health coverage & they think no one will stay awake for it.

I’ll be there, testifying & offering amendments to protect our families.
May 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Trump, Musk, Vance, Vought, etc are systematically destroying:

1. Scientific research in the United States.

2. The talent pipeline for this research.

3. The university system itself.

4. The careers of thousands of people like Dr. Minor

For what? Politics? Resentment? Thiel? Putin?

Thread:
There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
March 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Precisely what I've been saying.
The private sector is enabling the coup.
March 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Last night’s article in the Washington Post about D.C. police responding to a 911 call by illegally letting DOGE onto private property is unlike any news story I have ever read. Every single person should read this article and think about where our society is going.
March 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Remember:

The Most Powerful Crypto Bro in Washington Has Very Weird Beliefs

Coinbase CEO says the U.S. is in “decline” and embraces a cultish tech movement to build “network” societies beyond the reach of nation-states—and he’s got Congress eating out of his hand
newrepublic.com/article/1857...
The Most Powerful Crypto Bro in Washington Has Very Weird Beliefs
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the U.S. is in “decline” and embraces a cultish tech movement to build “network” societies beyond the reach of nation-states—and he’s got Congress eating out of his h...
newrepublic.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Josh Vlasto, formerly a top aide to Schumer, is now a lead strategist for "Fairshake" -- the crypto-funded PAC that took out Sen. Sherrod Brown and Rep. Katie Porter.

Vlasto's wife is Schumer's director of scheduling.

The bread has been buttered, folks.
Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, said he would vote for a Republican-written bill to keep federal funding flowing past a midnight Friday deadline, making a forceful case for why Democrats could not allow a shutdown that many of them have demanded. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
March 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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People were killing themselves and eating their own horses to survive during the Depression. And I never forgot the book The Grapes of Wrath describing how the Salvation Army made people crawl on the dirt and bark like dogs to amuse them in the bread lines.
March 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM