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Antizionist Jew | Chronic pain haver | Perpetual masker
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Since it’s hot right now, want to take a minute to talk about Ghibli and what it even means to “copy” Ghibli. Because lost in everything, as is destined, is what even is Ghibli’s style people are referring to. For instance, here are two images that are quite Ghibli
March 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Since it’s hot right now, want to take a minute to talk about Ghibli and what it even means to “copy” Ghibli. Because lost in everything, as is destined, is what even is Ghibli’s style people are referring to. For instance, here are two images that are quite Ghibli
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trump’s cronies are grabbing UMN grad students out of their apartments.
March 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
trump’s cronies are grabbing UMN grad students out of their apartments.
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Gov. Brian Kemp’s administration is seeking federal approval for Department of Public Safety officials to expand participation in a controversial program to allow those officers to perform some of the functions of federal immigration agents. #gapol ajc.com/politics/kem...
Kemp seeks approval for state law officials to enforce federal immigration law
Gov. Brian Kemp says having state law enforcement assisting in immigration enforcement aligns with the priorities of President Donald Trump.
ajc.com
March 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Gov. Brian Kemp’s administration is seeking federal approval for Department of Public Safety officials to expand participation in a controversial program to allow those officers to perform some of the functions of federal immigration agents. #gapol ajc.com/politics/kem...
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Senate Finance Committee is voting on advancing the nomination of RFK Jr (to burn down what's left of our public health care system) as HHS Secretary on Tuesday at 10AM
StopRFKjr.com makes it incredibly easy to call Senators and tell them "no"— call + send StopRFKjr.com to at least 1 other person
StopRFKjr.com makes it incredibly easy to call Senators and tell them "no"— call + send StopRFKjr.com to at least 1 other person
February 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Senate Finance Committee is voting on advancing the nomination of RFK Jr (to burn down what's left of our public health care system) as HHS Secretary on Tuesday at 10AM
StopRFKjr.com makes it incredibly easy to call Senators and tell them "no"— call + send StopRFKjr.com to at least 1 other person
StopRFKjr.com makes it incredibly easy to call Senators and tell them "no"— call + send StopRFKjr.com to at least 1 other person
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If you want a vision of LA's future post-fires, look to Maui. It's not great!
Maui’s Post-Wildfire Housing Crisis Offers a Warning for Los Angeles
After wildfires devastated the island, homelessness spiked. Advocates fear L.A. could face a similar fate without strong renter protections — and enforcement.
capitalandmain.com
February 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
If you want a vision of LA's future post-fires, look to Maui. It's not great!
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A healthcare worker just told me that all of the COVID data they have submitted to the CDC has been scrubbed from the agency's system. I am wondering if others have had this experience.
February 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
A healthcare worker just told me that all of the COVID data they have submitted to the CDC has been scrubbed from the agency's system. I am wondering if others have had this experience.
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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NEW: In response to orders by the Trump admin, the CDC has taken down the Household Pulse Survey, one of the biggest and most important sources of Long COVID data in the world.
The US government is literally erasing the existence of Long COVID.
The US government is literally erasing the existence of Long COVID.
February 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
NEW: In response to orders by the Trump admin, the CDC has taken down the Household Pulse Survey, one of the biggest and most important sources of Long COVID data in the world.
The US government is literally erasing the existence of Long COVID.
The US government is literally erasing the existence of Long COVID.
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ICE just adopted new policies making it harder for Congress to prevent deportations, per memo leaked to me:
January 31, 2025 at 10:25 PM
ICE just adopted new policies making it harder for Congress to prevent deportations, per memo leaked to me:
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So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.
January 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.
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NLRB's Acting General Counsel just send this memo out to staff saying, "I cannot promise you that everything is going to be OK."
"I know that the past few days and nights have been extremely scary and distressing for some of us."
"I know that the past few days and nights have been extremely scary and distressing for some of us."
January 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
NLRB's Acting General Counsel just send this memo out to staff saying, "I cannot promise you that everything is going to be OK."
"I know that the past few days and nights have been extremely scary and distressing for some of us."
"I know that the past few days and nights have been extremely scary and distressing for some of us."
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StopRFKjr.com is a simple link you can send to your friends, family, colleagues that makes it incredibly easy for them to call their U.S. Senators and tell them to oppose the disastrous nomination of RFK Jr to run all federal health programs.
Please share StopRFKjr.com as widely as you can
Please share StopRFKjr.com as widely as you can
Call TODAY to stop RFK Jr
RFK Jr is a danger to every single American… and Trump wants him to lead Medicare. Help us stop him!
StopRFKjr.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:56 PM
StopRFKjr.com is a simple link you can send to your friends, family, colleagues that makes it incredibly easy for them to call their U.S. Senators and tell them to oppose the disastrous nomination of RFK Jr to run all federal health programs.
Please share StopRFKjr.com as widely as you can
Please share StopRFKjr.com as widely as you can
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they want to erase us completely. do not let them, we will outlive these fascists. create art, take pictures of yourself or your trans friends, make something lasting. we will outlast them forever
‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB".
The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
January 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
they want to erase us completely. do not let them, we will outlive these fascists. create art, take pictures of yourself or your trans friends, make something lasting. we will outlast them forever
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If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not
January 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not
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The USDA has taken down most website pages that have references to climate change.
The Trump administration had ordered USDA workers to identify, archive, or unpublish materials mentioning climate change by "no later than close of business this Friday," according to leaked emails.
The Trump administration had ordered USDA workers to identify, archive, or unpublish materials mentioning climate change by "no later than close of business this Friday," according to leaked emails.
January 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The USDA has taken down most website pages that have references to climate change.
The Trump administration had ordered USDA workers to identify, archive, or unpublish materials mentioning climate change by "no later than close of business this Friday," according to leaked emails.
The Trump administration had ordered USDA workers to identify, archive, or unpublish materials mentioning climate change by "no later than close of business this Friday," according to leaked emails.
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ICE Agent Decides He Wants Kids After Seeing Incredible Love And Devotion Of Parents Begging Him Not To Take Their Child
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January 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
ICE Agent Decides He Wants Kids After Seeing Incredible Love And Devotion Of Parents Begging Him Not To Take Their Child
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I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and-
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
January 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and-
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
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I'm calling on all public health orgs, physician orgs, disability orgs, chronic illness orgs, and patient orgs to publicly and forcefully condemn this unlawful action and direct your GA staff to demand congressional action.
The Trump Regime scrubbing health care data from federal websites is going to directly kill seriously chronically ill and acutely ill children and adults across the United States.
Doctors rely on this information to make life and death treatment decisions.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Doctors rely on this information to make life and death treatment decisions.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies
Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
www.npr.org
January 31, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'm calling on all public health orgs, physician orgs, disability orgs, chronic illness orgs, and patient orgs to publicly and forcefully condemn this unlawful action and direct your GA staff to demand congressional action.
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This is a 5 alarm fire. They're going to pull down all publicly available data, studies, guidance, etc that involves LGBTQ people so when the worst happens to us, no one will know. They're actively trying to erase us.
gizmodo.com/cdc-ordered-...
gizmodo.com/cdc-ordered-...
CDC Ordered to Scrub Website of Words Like 'Transgender' and 'LGBT'
A CDC employee spoke with Gizmodo about the
gizmodo.com
January 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is a 5 alarm fire. They're going to pull down all publicly available data, studies, guidance, etc that involves LGBTQ people so when the worst happens to us, no one will know. They're actively trying to erase us.
gizmodo.com/cdc-ordered-...
gizmodo.com/cdc-ordered-...
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The CDC gender reveal parties are next
January 31, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The CDC gender reveal parties are next
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Frustrated there's not more I can do directly, but for now I can just try to document reality. Elon is bringing his Twitter destruction playbook to the US government, and it's impossible to explain just how serious and bad this is.
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...
Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous
Remember how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by ripping apart its infrastructure without understanding it? Now imagine that same playbook applied to the federal government. It’s happening, and th…
www.techdirt.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Frustrated there's not more I can do directly, but for now I can just try to document reality. Elon is bringing his Twitter destruction playbook to the US government, and it's impossible to explain just how serious and bad this is.
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...
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okay so what legal authority does elon musk have to commandeer the office of personnel management and access reams of sensitive data? www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
okay so what legal authority does elon musk have to commandeer the office of personnel management and access reams of sensitive data? www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...