Sonya Swanson
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Pull the thread…
February 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Pull the thread…
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We should be writing Project 2029—defining the society we want, clearly and publicly.
Let’s start today.
Let’s start today.
Announcing Project 2029
The Progressive Blueprint for a Fairer, Stronger Future.
www.thegodpodcast.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
We should be writing Project 2029—defining the society we want, clearly and publicly.
Let’s start today.
Let’s start today.
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Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
For more—and to sign— go to
saynotoethniccleansing.org
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
For more—and to sign— go to
saynotoethniccleansing.org
February 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
For more—and to sign— go to
saynotoethniccleansing.org
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
For more—and to sign— go to
saynotoethniccleansing.org
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Crucial SF-50 forms, detailing job titles, salaries, and Social Security numbers, have disappeared from a federal database managed by the Office of Personnel Management.
February 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Crucial SF-50 forms, detailing job titles, salaries, and Social Security numbers, have disappeared from a federal database managed by the Office of Personnel Management.
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I know pointing out hypocrisy doesn’t matter anymore, but if there’s one person I wouldn’t want to be the judge of who goes into locker rooms, it would be the man who openly boasted about walking into dressing rooms of underage girls
February 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I know pointing out hypocrisy doesn’t matter anymore, but if there’s one person I wouldn’t want to be the judge of who goes into locker rooms, it would be the man who openly boasted about walking into dressing rooms of underage girls
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Breaking news: A federal judge in Massachusetts temporarily paused the Trump administration’s buyout program’s deadline, which had been set for 11:59 p.m. Thursday, and set a new hearing for Monday.
Federal judge pauses deadline for Trump administration’s buyout program
The Trump administration gave most of the country’s federal employees just nine full days to decide if they want to resign with pay through the end of September.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Breaking news: A federal judge in Massachusetts temporarily paused the Trump administration’s buyout program’s deadline, which had been set for 11:59 p.m. Thursday, and set a new hearing for Monday.
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Kamala Harris was not planning an ethnic cleansing to pave the way for golf course courses…
Both sides were never the same.
Both sides were never the same.
February 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Kamala Harris was not planning an ethnic cleansing to pave the way for golf course courses…
Both sides were never the same.
Both sides were never the same.
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no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
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They have trashed valuable products your tax money paid for.
More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a NYT analysis found.
The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday
Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
They have trashed valuable products your tax money paid for.
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Oh no, the Chinese plagiarism machine might have plagiarized the American plagiarism machine
search.app/gLKPBELL2weQ...
search.app/gLKPBELL2weQ...
Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data
Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, ...
search.app
January 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Oh no, the Chinese plagiarism machine might have plagiarized the American plagiarism machine
search.app/gLKPBELL2weQ...
search.app/gLKPBELL2weQ...
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If Trump is going to prevent Congress from spending our taxes as dictated by the Constitution, the obvious remedy is to not pay your taxes. For advice on how to do that, contact the Oval Office.
January 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
If Trump is going to prevent Congress from spending our taxes as dictated by the Constitution, the obvious remedy is to not pay your taxes. For advice on how to do that, contact the Oval Office.
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“I’m the Lorax, I speak for the trees, bitch” *racks his shotgun*
January 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“I’m the Lorax, I speak for the trees, bitch” *racks his shotgun*
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Yuuuuuup
The "first they came..." poem gets quoted and quoted and quoted and quoted and you know what, we do in fact know who they're coming for first, right now, and that is trans people, and the answer needs to be "absolutely the fuck not, you motherfuckers," full stop.
January 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Yuuuuuup
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I will be continuing to call it the Gulf of Mexico because I don't cater to the whims of a ridiculous felon
www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...
www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...
Google Maps to rename 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America' for US users
Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, it said in an X post on Monday.
www.reuters.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I will be continuing to call it the Gulf of Mexico because I don't cater to the whims of a ridiculous felon
www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...
www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...
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Second-Semester Senior or Existentialist Philosopher?
1. Why do I even come here anymore?
2. “There’s no point.”
3. “…” (sleeping)
1. Why do I even come here anymore?
2. “There’s no point.”
3. “…” (sleeping)
After Studying Existentialism for a Semester, We Have Jokes
These jokes were written by students in Shannon Barker’s high school English class in Chicago, Illinois. - - -1. DAD JOKES Knock Knock. Who’s ther...
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January 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Second-Semester Senior or Existentialist Philosopher?
1. Why do I even come here anymore?
2. “There’s no point.”
3. “…” (sleeping)
1. Why do I even come here anymore?
2. “There’s no point.”
3. “…” (sleeping)
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“We will build a wall and make the US pay for it.”
Mexico Builds Wall to Keep Out Violent Jan 6 Criminals
"We will build a wall and make the United States pay for it."
www.borowitzreport.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“We will build a wall and make the US pay for it.”
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“The president, perhaps inadvertently, wound up smudging the line between empirical verification and his own boundless optimism.”
New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Lied”
“The president, offering no evidence, insisted upon his version of the story.” “The president extemporized with a blithe disregard for established ...
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January 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“The president, perhaps inadvertently, wound up smudging the line between empirical verification and his own boundless optimism.”
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If you like food you like immigrants.
[Or should.]
[Or should.]
About 75% of immigrant farm workers did not show up for work this week in Bakersfield, California, as the threat of Trump’s immigration raids looms.
Trump’s Immigration Threats Are Already Wrecking the Food Industry
Immigrant farm workers are too scared to show up to work.
newrepublic.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
If you like food you like immigrants.
[Or should.]
[Or should.]
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![What is he saying? Moore spoke to All Things Considered's Scott Detrow about what he thinks the path forward is for evangelicalism in America.
On why he thinks Christianity is in crisis:
It was the result of having multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching — "turn the other cheek" — [and] to have someone come up after to say, "Where did you get those liberal talking points?" And what was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, "I'm literally quoting Jesus Christ," the response would not be, "I apologize." The response would be, "Yes, but that doesn't work anymore. That's weak." And when we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we're in a crisis.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ya7gfadgypyypiva5pboi6mi/bafkreiff2i3pnzps2g7tblasqdoz5s7kqiuanpoxwwhzqk5q4awk35f6um@jpeg)
January 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Charm: A bunch of women who dress like Stevie Nicks.
Ladies: A group of women at a restaurant.
Flock: A group of women who would like to move to Florida, except for the flooding and the politics.
Ladies: A group of women at a restaurant.
Flock: A group of women who would like to move to Florida, except for the flooding and the politics.
Names for Different Groups of Women
Bed: A group of tired women. Coalition: Women who are tired of hearing about their reproductive rights getting trampled on. Guys: Actually, a group...
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November 16, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Charm: A bunch of women who dress like Stevie Nicks.
Ladies: A group of women at a restaurant.
Flock: A group of women who would like to move to Florida, except for the flooding and the politics.
Ladies: A group of women at a restaurant.
Flock: A group of women who would like to move to Florida, except for the flooding and the politics.