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“Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives. In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.”
“In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Trump’s DOJ deleted a study from its site stating right-wing violence ‘continues to outpace all other types of terrorism & domestic violent extremism’ in 🇺🇸 — The study was available online until Friday.” newrepublic.com/post/200537/...
September 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives. In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.”
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They really don't want Americans to do science anymore
Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
May 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
They really don't want Americans to do science anymore
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Palantir is building a master list of personal information on Americans that could give Trump immense surveillance power.
"The push has put a key Palantir product called Foundry into at least four federal agencies, including DHS and HHS."
www.rawstory.com/palantir-tru...
"The push has put a key Palantir product called Foundry into at least four federal agencies, including DHS and HHS."
www.rawstory.com/palantir-tru...
Data firm is building 'detailed portraits of Americans' on Trump's order: report
The data analytics firm Palantir is building a master list of personal information on Americans that could give president Donald Trump immense surveillance power.The president signed an executive orde...
www.rawstory.com
May 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Palantir is building a master list of personal information on Americans that could give Trump immense surveillance power.
"The push has put a key Palantir product called Foundry into at least four federal agencies, including DHS and HHS."
www.rawstory.com/palantir-tru...
"The push has put a key Palantir product called Foundry into at least four federal agencies, including DHS and HHS."
www.rawstory.com/palantir-tru...
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These are crimes against humanity, violating international law and a number of UN Conventions.
There will come a time when trials will happen for these crimes.
There will come a time when trials will happen for these crimes.
NEW: We obtained DHS data that shows the US knew only 32 of the 238 Venezuelans deported to a prison in El Salvador in March were convicted of US crimes, only 6 of those violent. Trump called them “savages,” “monsters” and "the worst of the worst.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes
Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.
www.propublica.org
May 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
These are crimes against humanity, violating international law and a number of UN Conventions.
There will come a time when trials will happen for these crimes.
There will come a time when trials will happen for these crimes.
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“Hamas's military wing remains operational with an estimated 40,000 fighters, roughly the same number it had before October 7…The army estimates that for every militant killed, approximately three uninvolved civilians have died.”
Haaretz’s Yaniv Kubovich reports that Israel plans to seize 75% of Gaza and relocate more than 1,3 million Palestinians in the upcoming offensive, ultimately forcing the entire population into three military zones with food supplies strictly controlled by GHF/Israel. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
May 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
“Hamas's military wing remains operational with an estimated 40,000 fighters, roughly the same number it had before October 7…The army estimates that for every militant killed, approximately three uninvolved civilians have died.”
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The drinking water rules were adopted as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to limit public exposure to PFAS, hazardous chemicals linked to range of serious illnesses.
The EPA estimates that more than 158 million Americans are exposed to PFAS through their drinking water.
The EPA estimates that more than 158 million Americans are exposed to PFAS through their drinking water.
May 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM
The drinking water rules were adopted as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to limit public exposure to PFAS, hazardous chemicals linked to range of serious illnesses.
The EPA estimates that more than 158 million Americans are exposed to PFAS through their drinking water.
The EPA estimates that more than 158 million Americans are exposed to PFAS through their drinking water.
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May 13, 2025
May 13, 2025
While President Donald Trump’s billionaire sidekick Elon Musk has said he is pulling back from his work with the “Department of Government Efficiency,” he is with Trump today in Saudi Arabia, along wi...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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May 12, 2025
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The biggest news over the weekend was silence: the silence of Republicans.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
May 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
May 12, 2025
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Am about to go live on @mrjamesob.bsky.social to talk about Democracy for Sale’s latest scoop, on Palantir’s NHS data platform
🔴 Remember the £330million contract given to Trump donor Peter Thiel's firm Palantir to build an NHS data platform?
Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it - because it's not very good
Scoop on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-...
Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it - because it's not very good
Scoop on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-...
Palantir's NHS data platform rejected by most hospitals
US spy tech firm's £330million software isn't much cop, experts say
democracyforsale.substack.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Am about to go live on @mrjamesob.bsky.social to talk about Democracy for Sale’s latest scoop, on Palantir’s NHS data platform
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Mayor Baraka has been standing up against ICE reopening a detention center in Newark.
Now Homeland Security has arrested him.
Illegal. Unconstitutional. Fascism.
pix11.com/news/local-n...
Now Homeland Security has arrested him.
Illegal. Unconstitutional. Fascism.
pix11.com/news/local-n...
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka arrested at ICE detention center in NJ
NEWARK, N.J. (PIX11) — Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was taken into custody by homeland security at an ICE facility in New Jersey on Friday afternoon, according to Alina Habba, the Interim U.S. Att…
pix11.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Mayor Baraka has been standing up against ICE reopening a detention center in Newark.
Now Homeland Security has arrested him.
Illegal. Unconstitutional. Fascism.
pix11.com/news/local-n...
Now Homeland Security has arrested him.
Illegal. Unconstitutional. Fascism.
pix11.com/news/local-n...
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This is fascism.
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This is fascism.
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The Nazis learned the same lesson in the early days of the Third Reich when the German Supreme Court acquitted the communists they tried to blame the Reichstag Fire on w/o evidence.
They built an external justice system and of course they named it:
The People’s Court
They built an external justice system and of course they named it:
The People’s Court
May 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The Nazis learned the same lesson in the early days of the Third Reich when the German Supreme Court acquitted the communists they tried to blame the Reichstag Fire on w/o evidence.
They built an external justice system and of course they named it:
The People’s Court
They built an external justice system and of course they named it:
The People’s Court
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I knew it! The White House is considering SUSPENDING HABEAS CORPUS. And here I thought I was being paranoid.
May 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I knew it! The White House is considering SUSPENDING HABEAS CORPUS. And here I thought I was being paranoid.
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Read the full list of harmful actions Trump and his administration have taken to destroy American democracy and constitutional order here: zeteo.com/p/this-week-...
This Week in Democracy – Week 15: 100 Days of Damage and Destruction
Zeteo's project to document the ongoing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in the Trump second term.
zeteo.com
May 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Read the full list of harmful actions Trump and his administration have taken to destroy American democracy and constitutional order here: zeteo.com/p/this-week-...
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February 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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This is a really excellent and accurate description of the situation (though I wish they’d tied in long term impact RE innovation and the economy). Some screenshots in the reply 1/4 www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Grad School Is in Trouble
The latest signal that the future of the university is under threat
www.theatlantic.com
February 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This is a really excellent and accurate description of the situation (though I wish they’d tied in long term impact RE innovation and the economy). Some screenshots in the reply 1/4 www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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They are cutting cancer research. They are cutting cancer research. They can deny it all they want, but they are cutting cancer research. These are the cuts being made the DoD CDMRP cancer funding mechanism www.fightcancer.org/sites/defaul...
March 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
They are cutting cancer research. They are cutting cancer research. They can deny it all they want, but they are cutting cancer research. These are the cuts being made the DoD CDMRP cancer funding mechanism www.fightcancer.org/sites/defaul...
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Terrifyingly accurate checklist of how to - break - academia. It’s absolutely the goal of all of this
This has been the plan for years. Rufo laid it all out in 2023.
April 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Terrifyingly accurate checklist of how to - break - academia. It’s absolutely the goal of all of this
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Sounds about right, and this does not even account for the individual impacts on research programs like mine. The amount of time that "crisis management" takes is ridiculous and maddening. We just want to WORK. That's it. Let us do our work.
NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
April 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Sounds about right, and this does not even account for the individual impacts on research programs like mine. The amount of time that "crisis management" takes is ridiculous and maddening. We just want to WORK. That's it. Let us do our work.
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Not the headline I want to post. But for everyone trying to understand what’s happening at UMass Chan, why things are so difficult, this is what’s happening. We are a service institution. We educate; we care; we give; we serve rural MA. We dont make money. Our own govt is crushing us. Link below
April 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Not the headline I want to post. But for everyone trying to understand what’s happening at UMass Chan, why things are so difficult, this is what’s happening. We are a service institution. We educate; we care; we give; we serve rural MA. We dont make money. Our own govt is crushing us. Link below
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@jfallows.bsky.social on group courage
From Academia, a ‘Primal Scream.’
Watch in real time, as American higher ed goes on offense to defend itself.
fallows.substack.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
@jfallows.bsky.social on group courage
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We knew this was coming.
Abolish the death penalty. Period.
Abolish the death penalty. Period.
BREAKING: DOJ formally files its notice of intent to seek the death penalty in Luigi Mangione's federal case, as directed by Attorney General Pam Bondi (see: www.lawdork.com/p/luigi-mang...).
Filing: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Filing: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
We knew this was coming.
Abolish the death penalty. Period.
Abolish the death penalty. Period.
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When the open letter from univ prez against Trump over-reach was released on Tues morning, it had 180 signers. By Tues evening, over 270.
Through the day Wed (yesterday) it went into mid-300s.
This morning, Thurs, starts at more than 400.
This is significant. (Point of my post.)
Through the day Wed (yesterday) it went into mid-300s.
This morning, Thurs, starts at more than 400.
This is significant. (Point of my post.)
April 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
When the open letter from univ prez against Trump over-reach was released on Tues morning, it had 180 signers. By Tues evening, over 270.
Through the day Wed (yesterday) it went into mid-300s.
This morning, Thurs, starts at more than 400.
This is significant. (Point of my post.)
Through the day Wed (yesterday) it went into mid-300s.
This morning, Thurs, starts at more than 400.
This is significant. (Point of my post.)
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I mean this actually makes sense, right
The likes of us talk about this, it doesn't mean much, 'cause it's, y'know, us
The thing that makes it HAPPEN is when someone like David Brooks is saying it
The likes of us talk about this, it doesn't mean much, 'cause it's, y'know, us
The thing that makes it HAPPEN is when someone like David Brooks is saying it
i am going to Lose My Fucking Mind if the seed crystal for an antifascist general strike ends up being david fucking brooks
Opinion | Time for a Civic Uprising (Gift Article)
It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I mean this actually makes sense, right
The likes of us talk about this, it doesn't mean much, 'cause it's, y'know, us
The thing that makes it HAPPEN is when someone like David Brooks is saying it
The likes of us talk about this, it doesn't mean much, 'cause it's, y'know, us
The thing that makes it HAPPEN is when someone like David Brooks is saying it