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So true: If the directors at 'news' media organisations reserve the right to block or sanitize news articles unfavorable to their political friends and family, they are no longer a news organisation but a propaganda machine.
December 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
So true: If the directors at 'news' media organisations reserve the right to block or sanitize news articles unfavorable to their political friends and family, they are no longer a news organisation but a propaganda machine.
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Officials with the EPA have warned their workers not to interfere with arrests by ICE officers in a Manhattan building where the agency has offices, underscoring tension among federal employees as President Trump escalates his immigration crackdown.
E.P.A. Workers Are Unsettled as ICE Makes Arrests in Their Building
As immigration officials ramp up a crackdown in downtown Manhattan, employees at a neighboring federal agency have been ordered not to get in the way.
trib.al
June 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Officials with the EPA have warned their workers not to interfere with arrests by ICE officers in a Manhattan building where the agency has offices, underscoring tension among federal employees as President Trump escalates his immigration crackdown.
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BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year.
Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
April 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year.
Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
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This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record)
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
March 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record)
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
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BREAKING: The S&P 500 has now completely erased all gains since the election, wiping out $3.4 trillion in market value.
Make America great again!
Make America great again!
March 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
BREAKING: The S&P 500 has now completely erased all gains since the election, wiping out $3.4 trillion in market value.
Make America great again!
Make America great again!
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Here’s the clip with audio
March 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Here’s the clip with audio
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Airbnb supports Elon Musk.
Support the alternatives: Vrbo, Homestay, FlipKey, Sonder, Hipcamp, HomeToGo, and Blueground.
Support the alternatives: Vrbo, Homestay, FlipKey, Sonder, Hipcamp, HomeToGo, and Blueground.
February 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Airbnb supports Elon Musk.
Support the alternatives: Vrbo, Homestay, FlipKey, Sonder, Hipcamp, HomeToGo, and Blueground.
Support the alternatives: Vrbo, Homestay, FlipKey, Sonder, Hipcamp, HomeToGo, and Blueground.
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A traitorous meme pairing
February 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
A traitorous meme pairing
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More muzzling of scientific speech bsky.app/profile/cram...
CDC has instructed its scientists to retract or pause publication of any research manuscript being considered by any medical/scientific journal. Move aims to ensure that no forbidden terms appear in the work. Barred terms include gender, transgender, LGBT insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
insidemedicine.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
More muzzling of scientific speech bsky.app/profile/cram...
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A new era of government censorship has begun.
It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A new era of government censorship has dawned
Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?
www.washingtonpost.com
January 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
A new era of government censorship has begun.
It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Scientists at the CDC were ordered late on Friday to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “LGBT” or “pregnant people.”
CDC Scientists Ordered to Withdraw Studies That Say ‘LGBT’ or ‘Pregnant People’
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Scientists at the CDC were ordered late on Friday to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “LGBT” or “pregnant people.”
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What folks are getting a tough lesson in right now: Institutions are people. They are not abstract forces that exist as firewalls or safeguards. They are just people who play a role and who perhaps have abided by norms, but whose decisions minute to minute shape the role those institutions play.
February 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
What folks are getting a tough lesson in right now: Institutions are people. They are not abstract forces that exist as firewalls or safeguards. They are just people who play a role and who perhaps have abided by norms, but whose decisions minute to minute shape the role those institutions play.
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Everyone needs to know that these fires were made possible by global heating, which is caused by the fossil fuel industry, which has lied and blocked action for half a century. And that this will all get much, much, much worse until we end the fossil fuel industry
January 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Everyone needs to know that these fires were made possible by global heating, which is caused by the fossil fuel industry, which has lied and blocked action for half a century. And that this will all get much, much, much worse until we end the fossil fuel industry
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Pierre Poilievre, leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, hit back at Trump:
“I’d remind our American friends that they benefit from our affordable, reliable energy. And the alternative is Venezuela, Iran & other foreign dictatorships…”
“I’d remind our American friends that they benefit from our affordable, reliable energy. And the alternative is Venezuela, Iran & other foreign dictatorships…”
January 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Pierre Poilievre, leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, hit back at Trump:
“I’d remind our American friends that they benefit from our affordable, reliable energy. And the alternative is Venezuela, Iran & other foreign dictatorships…”
“I’d remind our American friends that they benefit from our affordable, reliable energy. And the alternative is Venezuela, Iran & other foreign dictatorships…”
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