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This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.
HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts
Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.
www.bloomberg.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.
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Remember that all of this is in defense of a detention center where people are being held in horrible conditions after being kidnapped off the street for no reason.
Again today, local police outside Broadview just aggressively arrested more protesters. Tough to tell exactly how many, but looks like 3-4 people were just detained.
October 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Remember that all of this is in defense of a detention center where people are being held in horrible conditions after being kidnapped off the street for no reason.
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Elon, fresh off attempting to incite race riots in England is now trying to incite pogroms against trans people.
September 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Elon, fresh off attempting to incite race riots in England is now trying to incite pogroms against trans people.
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I know professors personally who have had their lives destroyed by being doxxed by the Professor Watchlist organized by Turning Point USA, for saying the "wrong thing" in class one time. I will not celebrate violence but I also will not pretend this is "practicing politics the right way."
Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I know professors personally who have had their lives destroyed by being doxxed by the Professor Watchlist organized by Turning Point USA, for saying the "wrong thing" in class one time. I will not celebrate violence but I also will not pretend this is "practicing politics the right way."
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The quote appears in an "analysis" in the New York Times by a reporter who seems to be a genuinely lost soul. Thoroughly and completely out of his depth. Like a pet parrot raised inside the paper's DC bureau. The only noises he's ever heard are other DC-based Times employees muttering to each other.
August 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The quote appears in an "analysis" in the New York Times by a reporter who seems to be a genuinely lost soul. Thoroughly and completely out of his depth. Like a pet parrot raised inside the paper's DC bureau. The only noises he's ever heard are other DC-based Times employees muttering to each other.
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NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.
ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com
ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com
Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
projects.propublica.org
July 31, 2025 at 10:40 AM
NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.
ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com
ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com
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The purpose of a system is what it does.
Fears AI factcheckers on X could increase promotion of conspiracy theories
Former UK minister says platform, which will use AI to draft community notes, is ‘leaving it to bots to edit the news’
www.theguardian.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The purpose of a system is what it does.
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NEW — There’s a round of political texts circulating around some wards in Chicago.
The goal? To pressure some progressive alders to override Mayor Brandon Johnson’s veto on the youth curfew ordinance at the July 16 City Council meeting.
thetriibe.com/2025/06/whos...
The goal? To pressure some progressive alders to override Mayor Brandon Johnson’s veto on the youth curfew ordinance at the July 16 City Council meeting.
thetriibe.com/2025/06/whos...
Who’s behind those texts slamming Mayor Johnson and some progressive alders for their ‘snap curfew’ vote? • The TRiiBE
A round of political text messages are circulating in Chicago after the mayor’s veto on a youth curfew ordinance. Experts say these campaigns are only going to increase from here.
thetriibe.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
NEW — There’s a round of political texts circulating around some wards in Chicago.
The goal? To pressure some progressive alders to override Mayor Brandon Johnson’s veto on the youth curfew ordinance at the July 16 City Council meeting.
thetriibe.com/2025/06/whos...
The goal? To pressure some progressive alders to override Mayor Brandon Johnson’s veto on the youth curfew ordinance at the July 16 City Council meeting.
thetriibe.com/2025/06/whos...
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Just a few weeks ago people were pitching Cory Booker as a front runner for the 2028 Dem presidential nomination.
Tonight he was the only Senate Dem to vote to confirm Jared Kushner’s convict dad as ambassador to France.
Sheesh.
Tonight he was the only Senate Dem to vote to confirm Jared Kushner’s convict dad as ambassador to France.
Sheesh.
May 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Just a few weeks ago people were pitching Cory Booker as a front runner for the 2028 Dem presidential nomination.
Tonight he was the only Senate Dem to vote to confirm Jared Kushner’s convict dad as ambassador to France.
Sheesh.
Tonight he was the only Senate Dem to vote to confirm Jared Kushner’s convict dad as ambassador to France.
Sheesh.
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Stand up to defend social security. Time is now.
May 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Stand up to defend social security. Time is now.
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⚠️ Massive Israeli offensive happening in Gaza tonight, including tanks and hours of airstrikes.
![Younis Tirawi |
@ytirawi
Gaza
Heavy reinforcements on the Gaza border tonight, gearing up for what's expected to be a brutal slaughterhouse-like invasion.
@ytirawi
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May 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
⚠️ Massive Israeli offensive happening in Gaza tonight, including tanks and hours of airstrikes.
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BREAKING: Coinbase says it was breached, and customers' personal information stolen.
The crypto giant said the hacker was "paying multiple contractors or employees working in support roles," and contacted Coinbase with a ransom demand this week with stolen data, which Coinbase says is "credible."
The crypto giant said the hacker was "paying multiple contractors or employees working in support roles," and contacted Coinbase with a ransom demand this week with stolen data, which Coinbase says is "credible."
Coinbase says customers' personal information stolen in data breach | TechCrunch
The crypto exchange giant said the hacker bribed contractors and employees in support roles to steal data.
techcrunch.com
May 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
BREAKING: Coinbase says it was breached, and customers' personal information stolen.
The crypto giant said the hacker was "paying multiple contractors or employees working in support roles," and contacted Coinbase with a ransom demand this week with stolen data, which Coinbase says is "credible."
The crypto giant said the hacker was "paying multiple contractors or employees working in support roles," and contacted Coinbase with a ransom demand this week with stolen data, which Coinbase says is "credible."
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As far as its funders are concerned, the purpose of AI is literally and explicitly to oppress labour. If you wanna post how LLMs are useful for something and you ignore the literal reason for all that funding, you’re whitewashing and you know it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them | Ed Newton-Rex
AI will do the thinking, robots will do the doing. What place do humans have in this arrangement – and do tech CEOs care? says Ed Newton-Rex, founder of Fairly Trained
www.theguardian.com
May 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
As far as its funders are concerned, the purpose of AI is literally and explicitly to oppress labour. If you wanna post how LLMs are useful for something and you ignore the literal reason for all that funding, you’re whitewashing and you know it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Prior to the civil war, armed citizens in the north confronted US Marshals and vigilante slave catchers to prevent them from abducting Black people who had escaped slavery. They had the moral clarity to resist the greatest evil of their time.
May 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Prior to the civil war, armed citizens in the north confronted US Marshals and vigilante slave catchers to prevent them from abducting Black people who had escaped slavery. They had the moral clarity to resist the greatest evil of their time.
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If you needed any further proof that the arrest of Judge Dugan was a propaganda opportunity and a fear tactic, here you go.
Nothing about this is normal—it’s authoritarianism!
Nothing about this is normal—it’s authoritarianism!
April 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
If you needed any further proof that the arrest of Judge Dugan was a propaganda opportunity and a fear tactic, here you go.
Nothing about this is normal—it’s authoritarianism!
Nothing about this is normal—it’s authoritarianism!
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This is being done at the behest of Democratic AG Dana Nessel. She's collaborating with fascists to target college students.
www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...
www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...
FBI raids homes in Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor and Canton for vandalism investigation
The Attorney General's Office said they were related to a vandalism investigation.
www.cbsnews.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
This is being done at the behest of Democratic AG Dana Nessel. She's collaborating with fascists to target college students.
www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...
www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...
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it's lovely for people to get out and great for movements to be inclusive but dictators don't bow down to signs
Deeply weird seeing people try to paint the protests in South Korea as family friendly parties when the one that stopped the original coup featured girls doing karate moves on riot cops and guys in the legislature spraying special forces units with fire extinguishers
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
April 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
it's lovely for people to get out and great for movements to be inclusive but dictators don't bow down to signs
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“As of 10:30 p.m., the protest was ongoing. NYPD officers added additional barricades around the protesters.”
Protesters join demonstrators tethered to Earl gate in ‘emergency action’
<i>Updated April 2 at 11:06 p.m.</i>
www.columbiaspectator.com
April 3, 2025 at 3:30 AM
“As of 10:30 p.m., the protest was ongoing. NYPD officers added additional barricades around the protesters.”
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This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out
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t.co/LeABrGqDei
April 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
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NEW: Another Skadden attorney has resigned in protest, citing the law firm’s decision to strike a deal with Trump.
“Skadden is on the wrong side of history. I could no longer stay knowing that someday I would have to explain why I stayed,” the lawyer, Thomas Sipp, wrote in his resignation letter.
“Skadden is on the wrong side of history. I could no longer stay knowing that someday I would have to explain why I stayed,” the lawyer, Thomas Sipp, wrote in his resignation letter.
April 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
NEW: Another Skadden attorney has resigned in protest, citing the law firm’s decision to strike a deal with Trump.
“Skadden is on the wrong side of history. I could no longer stay knowing that someday I would have to explain why I stayed,” the lawyer, Thomas Sipp, wrote in his resignation letter.
“Skadden is on the wrong side of history. I could no longer stay knowing that someday I would have to explain why I stayed,” the lawyer, Thomas Sipp, wrote in his resignation letter.
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there were multiple reporters outside of the institute of museum and library services today as DOGE invaded their headquarters, but not a single elected official.
something to consider when thinking about who’s actually defending democracy.
something to consider when thinking about who’s actually defending democracy.
March 21, 2025 at 4:38 AM
there were multiple reporters outside of the institute of museum and library services today as DOGE invaded their headquarters, but not a single elected official.
something to consider when thinking about who’s actually defending democracy.
something to consider when thinking about who’s actually defending democracy.
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“Unfortunately as we’ve learned time and again, Congressional Democrats’ tolerance for bullshit exceeds the daily recommended dose.”
NEW from me — a beleaguered New Yorker vents her frustration at how the people the Empire State elected to protect us from fascism have become willing accomplices to Trump's agenda:
Heartbreak, New York
How blue state Dems are betraying the people they're supposed to represent
www.thehandbasket.co
March 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“Unfortunately as we’ve learned time and again, Congressional Democrats’ tolerance for bullshit exceeds the daily recommended dose.”
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letter from the biggest federal employee union: "AFGE members have concluded that a widespread government shutdown has been underway since January 20 and will continue to spread whether senators vote yes or no on HR 1968" talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...
March 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
letter from the biggest federal employee union: "AFGE members have concluded that a widespread government shutdown has been underway since January 20 and will continue to spread whether senators vote yes or no on HR 1968" talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...
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Drunk on power and ketamine. This is Musk and the foreign minister of Poland. This is what I mean about Musk as the "over-mighty subject". His power is too great for anyone else to be fully free.
March 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Drunk on power and ketamine. This is Musk and the foreign minister of Poland. This is what I mean about Musk as the "over-mighty subject". His power is too great for anyone else to be fully free.