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Literally the authoritarian playbook:
1. Call your opponents terrorists.
2. Deploy state power against them.
There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.
1. Call your opponents terrorists.
2. Deploy state power against them.
There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.
September 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Literally the authoritarian playbook:
1. Call your opponents terrorists.
2. Deploy state power against them.
There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.
1. Call your opponents terrorists.
2. Deploy state power against them.
There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.
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Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid:
“No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
“No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
August 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid:
“No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
“No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
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I wish Americans would get louder about their opposition to this man in particular; he is damaging global public health for an entire generation and millions of the most vulnerable around the world will suffer and die directly because of him.
A mortality rate equivalent to plagues.
A mortality rate equivalent to plagues.
Promises fail, guardrails fall as Kennedy consolidates power | STAT www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/k...
Amid chaos at CDC, Kennedy consolidates his power
RFK Jr. is reshaping the CDC and rewriting vaccine policies with little opposition.
www.statnews.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I wish Americans would get louder about their opposition to this man in particular; he is damaging global public health for an entire generation and millions of the most vulnerable around the world will suffer and die directly because of him.
A mortality rate equivalent to plagues.
A mortality rate equivalent to plagues.
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Gillibrand and Jeffries and Schumer are not as concerned about what Grok said as they are by what Mamdani did not say.
I almost can't believe that Elon Musk's AI called for the extermination of the Jewish people yesterday, and today not a single Congressional Democrat announced they were leaving his media network.
A party that often claims to act against antisemitism didn't do jack shit about straight up Nazism.
A party that often claims to act against antisemitism didn't do jack shit about straight up Nazism.
July 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Gillibrand and Jeffries and Schumer are not as concerned about what Grok said as they are by what Mamdani did not say.
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Jeffrey Epstein had over 10x as many victims as previously alleged by the Justice Department, memo reveals:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
Jeffrey Epstein Had 1,000+ Victims
Industrial scale abuse enterprise far larger than previously believed is revealed in new document
www.kenklippenstein.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Jeffrey Epstein had over 10x as many victims as previously alleged by the Justice Department, memo reveals:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
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This chart tells you everything you need to know about the NYC mayoral race. Everyday New Yorkers vs money.
June 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This chart tells you everything you need to know about the NYC mayoral race. Everyday New Yorkers vs money.
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Sorry if original post wasn’t entirely clear: ICE had an accountability policy for handling warrantless arrests and now they do not.
SCOOP — ICE employees received an email yesterday telling them the agency's warrantless arrest policy had been rescinded. It's likely part of the Trump administration's efforts to further loosen enforcement restrictions to meet the new quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day.
My report:
My report:
ICE agents get green light to make unjustified warrantless arrests
The agency announced an accountability policy has been rescinded.
www.thehandbasket.co
June 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Sorry if original post wasn’t entirely clear: ICE had an accountability policy for handling warrantless arrests and now they do not.
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"Don't be distracted..."
Babe, I'm in the middle of a 6-month nervous breakdown and still have a full time job. I can handle deriving a little joy from the world's worst 2 men having history's saddest diss track battle and still hate everything Republicans are doing!
Babe, I'm in the middle of a 6-month nervous breakdown and still have a full time job. I can handle deriving a little joy from the world's worst 2 men having history's saddest diss track battle and still hate everything Republicans are doing!
June 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
"Don't be distracted..."
Babe, I'm in the middle of a 6-month nervous breakdown and still have a full time job. I can handle deriving a little joy from the world's worst 2 men having history's saddest diss track battle and still hate everything Republicans are doing!
Babe, I'm in the middle of a 6-month nervous breakdown and still have a full time job. I can handle deriving a little joy from the world's worst 2 men having history's saddest diss track battle and still hate everything Republicans are doing!
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I am so tired of this! Things will happen in the news every day. You need to respond nimbly and incorporate it into your work/messaging if you can. That's how you stay relevant! Telling people not to pay attention to the president essentially doing hostage negotiations on social media is so dumb.
The craziest thing about this fight between Trump and Elon Musk is that Republicans are trying to take away health care from 16 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
June 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I am so tired of this! Things will happen in the news every day. You need to respond nimbly and incorporate it into your work/messaging if you can. That's how you stay relevant! Telling people not to pay attention to the president essentially doing hostage negotiations on social media is so dumb.
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None of the news articles mention this statement or that his dogs were killed by hate criminals who also burned down his house. They’re trying to cover up the harassment he and his husband faced.
June 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
None of the news articles mention this statement or that his dogs were killed by hate criminals who also burned down his house. They’re trying to cover up the harassment he and his husband faced.
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The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.
June 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.
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SCOOP: Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show the Trump admin will now force schools to report international students for broad categories like protests or "antisemitic actions."
Comes the same week the Trump admin welcomed a white Afrikaner who once said “Jews are untrustworthy and a dangerous group.”
Comes the same week the Trump admin welcomed a white Afrikaner who once said “Jews are untrustworthy and a dangerous group.”
SCOOP: Trump Admin Forcing Schools to Report International Students for Protest Activity or 'Antisemitic Actions'
The new requirements are "nudging school officials to be the ‘bad guys’ and give more excuses to terminate student visa records," one school official said.
zeteo.com
May 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
SCOOP: Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show the Trump admin will now force schools to report international students for broad categories like protests or "antisemitic actions."
Comes the same week the Trump admin welcomed a white Afrikaner who once said “Jews are untrustworthy and a dangerous group.”
Comes the same week the Trump admin welcomed a white Afrikaner who once said “Jews are untrustworthy and a dangerous group.”
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I just returned from Antarctica: climate change isn’t some far-off problem – it’s here and hitting hard | Jennifer Verduin
I just returned from Antarctica: climate change isn’t some far-off problem – it’s here and hitting hard | Jennifer Verduin
As an oceanographer, I study how the ocean shapes our world. For Australia and other nations, the lesson is urgent
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 6:49 AM
I just returned from Antarctica: climate change isn’t some far-off problem – it’s here and hitting hard | Jennifer Verduin
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Donald Trump was recorded in the Oval Office happily bragging about how much money his billionaire buddies made off of his shady tariff scheme. (Insider trading amuses and delights this group.)
“He made $2.5 million today, and he made $900 million! That’s not bad,” Trump said, pointing to…
“He made $2.5 million today, and he made $900 million! That’s not bad,” Trump said, pointing to…
April 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Donald Trump was recorded in the Oval Office happily bragging about how much money his billionaire buddies made off of his shady tariff scheme. (Insider trading amuses and delights this group.)
“He made $2.5 million today, and he made $900 million! That’s not bad,” Trump said, pointing to…
“He made $2.5 million today, and he made $900 million! That’s not bad,” Trump said, pointing to…
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This EO is horrific and unconstitutional and the fact that it does not include a birth certificate as proof of US citizenship is a pretty strong signal about what they think of as the future for birthright citizenship.
March 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This EO is horrific and unconstitutional and the fact that it does not include a birth certificate as proof of US citizenship is a pretty strong signal about what they think of as the future for birthright citizenship.
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Call your senators and let them know if they join Schumer here you will never give them another dime or another vote and you’ll devote your time and money to anyone who primaries them.
If the Senate Democrats do this, yes, it’s a massive betrayal of their base and an unconscionable abdication of their duty.
Every single one of them who’s complicit in this scheme needs to be driven out of politics forever.
Every single one of them who’s complicit in this scheme needs to be driven out of politics forever.
The word for what Senate Democrats are doing right now is "betrayal." Not only are they voluntarily surrendering the only leverage they have, the leverage they have spent months promising to use against Trump, they're doing it while lying and pretending they want the opposite.
March 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Call your senators and let them know if they join Schumer here you will never give them another dime or another vote and you’ll devote your time and money to anyone who primaries them.
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I keep having to tell people eugenics didn’t start with Trump.
It’s quite literally the foundation of America and needs to be discussed as such.
It’s quite literally the foundation of America and needs to be discussed as such.
March 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I keep having to tell people eugenics didn’t start with Trump.
It’s quite literally the foundation of America and needs to be discussed as such.
It’s quite literally the foundation of America and needs to be discussed as such.
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Anti-vaccination rhetoric is also a policy failure.
Healthcare is so expensive people turn to alternative healthcare settings and groups which lead them to conspiracy theories and the alt-right.
Healthcare is so expensive people turn to alternative healthcare settings and groups which lead them to conspiracy theories and the alt-right.
March 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Anti-vaccination rhetoric is also a policy failure.
Healthcare is so expensive people turn to alternative healthcare settings and groups which lead them to conspiracy theories and the alt-right.
Healthcare is so expensive people turn to alternative healthcare settings and groups which lead them to conspiracy theories and the alt-right.
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Trump's repeated attacks on "DEI," "wokeness," and the trans community have one clear purpose:
If we are angry at each other, we won't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
If we are angry at each other, we won't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
March 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Trump's repeated attacks on "DEI," "wokeness," and the trans community have one clear purpose:
If we are angry at each other, we won't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
If we are angry at each other, we won't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
https://propub.li/43487Tj
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propub.li
February 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
https://propub.li/43487Tj
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BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants
open.substack.com/pub/populari...
open.substack.com/pub/populari...
BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants
An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.
open.substack.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants
open.substack.com/pub/populari...
open.substack.com/pub/populari...
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If you are upset about the devastating cuts to science, remember to call your elected officials and let them know about it.
Regardless of if they are red or blue, supportive of science or not, they all track calls. Calls matter. Do it!
Find your elected officials: www.usa.gov/elected-officials
Regardless of if they are red or blue, supportive of science or not, they all track calls. Calls matter. Do it!
Find your elected officials: www.usa.gov/elected-officials
![CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS:
www.usa.gov/elected-officials
Script by@sciencewhizliz
Hello, my name is [Your Namel, and I'm a [scientist, researcher, concerned citizen, etc.] from [Your City/State]. I'm calling to urge [Representative/Senator's Namel to support NIH and NSF funding and to immediately reverse the Trump administration's decision to cap NIH indirect costs at 15%.
This decision will cause a massive funding shortfall at research institutions across the country, forcing layoffs, reducing support staff, and jeopardizing critical scientific research. Indirect costs aren't wasteful. They pay for essential infrastructure, maintenance, and support staff to ensure that research can happen. This sudden change undermines years of financial planning and creates a devastating budget crisis overnight.
NIH and NSF funding doesn't just support scientific progress— they fuel the U.S. economy. Every $1 NIH invests results in $2.46 of economic activity. NIH-funded research has led to significant breakthroughs that improve human health. In 2023 alone, NIH funding supported over 400,000 jobs and generated nearly $93 billion in economic activity. Cutting indirect costs will mean fewer jobs, fewer discoveries, and a weakened global standing in science and innovation.
Please publicly oppose this NIH policy change and work with congress to reverse it. I also ask that [Representative/Senator's Namel support sustained, robust funding for NIH and NSF to protect the future of American scientific research and its economic benefits. Can I count on them to take action?
Thank you for your time and for supporting American research and innovation. I appreciate your leadership on this critical issue.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dcpvyzm4ou74j6zcz67il5fk/bafkreicfkiqfqxi6cmripgkhskinaatja6wsolmjc52ssuxqfr665satti@jpeg)
February 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
If you are upset about the devastating cuts to science, remember to call your elected officials and let them know about it.
Regardless of if they are red or blue, supportive of science or not, they all track calls. Calls matter. Do it!
Find your elected officials: www.usa.gov/elected-officials
Regardless of if they are red or blue, supportive of science or not, they all track calls. Calls matter. Do it!
Find your elected officials: www.usa.gov/elected-officials
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NEW: The Department of Education told employees late Friday that they must review and terminate all programs, contracts and policies that affirm the existence of transgender people.
By @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
The Department of Education Told Employees to End Support for Transgender Students
The directive, which continues the Trump administration’s efforts to curb transgender rights, could end school-based mental health services and support for homeless students.
propub.li
February 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
NEW: The Department of Education told employees late Friday that they must review and terminate all programs, contracts and policies that affirm the existence of transgender people.
By @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
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This is good advice we should all try to follow. Messaging is vital when you're battling an authoritarian government.
Call the tariffs the Trump Tax, always.
January 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This is good advice we should all try to follow. Messaging is vital when you're battling an authoritarian government.