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May 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade
May 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
May 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Over the rest of 2025, a lot of people who tell themselves "everything's fine" because they haven't been personally affected by Trump's evisceration of the government are going to find themselves personally affected.
SCOOP— FEMA essential functions are at "high risk" of not functioning properly just days before hurricane season because of staffing shortages, per a recent internal memo obtained by The Handbasket.

These deficiencies "may disrupt life-saving and life-sustaining program delivery."

Full story here:
FEMA at 'high risk' of disrupting 'life-saving' disaster relief, per internal memo
The agency in charge of mitigating disasters is in the midst of its own.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Another excellent big picture take on the Trump admin from Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social - the Trump admin's multi-front attack on knowledge itself, and the horrible consequences that will have: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The New Dark Age
The Trump administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself.
www.theatlantic.com
May 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Devastating. The cowardice and the betrayal of an incomparable news brand.
Scoop: CBS News pulled a "60 Minutes" segment that focused on job losses at the Internal Revenue Service hours before it was scheduled to air, replacing it with a feature story on Cajun music.

Story: www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
May 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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me: they think it should be illegal to have black people in positions of influence

savvy, sophisticated pundits: don't be hysterical

the trump administration:
May 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Severe cuts to the National Weather Service led to the Jackson NWS going without a full-time overnight forecasters.

Warnings for the 3 AM tornado that claimed at least 18 lives were delayed as a result.

DOGE is killing Americans. It needs to be stopped. Science needs protection. MAGA needs a cage
May 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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New: States say the Trump Admin is holding emergency relief and transit funds "hostage" in retaliation for not complying with immigration directives.

"More cars, planes, and trains will crash, and more people will die as a result."
States accuse Trump administration of holding emergency relief hostage over immigration policy
State attorneys general filed two lawsuits on Tuesday accusing the executive branch of withholding essential funds for not complying with federal immigration directives.
www.courthousenews.com
May 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Holy shit, I didn’t realize that Dan Bishop is actually the deputy director of OMB now.

He’s not a member of Congress—he’s a member of the regime.
May 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Republican member of Congress accuses Democrats who inspected an ICE facility of “insurrection” that’s “worse than 9/11.”

These people are fucking insane.
May 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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ICE threatening to arrest congresspeople exercising oversight authority over them is full shark-jumping autogolpe territory
May 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Dems in Congress's fun reward for not expelling all the disqualified insurrectionists who voted to overturn the 2020 election (as the United States Constitution requires) is that Republicans in Congress are now demanding their arrest.
There’s high on your own supply and then there’s fried on your own supply.
May 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Crockett: Instead of the President cosplaying as the next pope, he may want to cosplay as an actual President of these United States. That means he may have to do a little bit of research and understand that he swore a an oath to defend and protect the constitution.
May 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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A group of Christian leaders is denouncing a new Trump White House task force to root out alleged anti-Christian bias. "We reject the proposition that there is widespread persecution of Christians in the United States."
Exclusive: Christian leaders blast Trump's "anti-Christian bias" unit
It's the latest example of divisions between moderate and conservative Christians who are at odds over the administration's free speech and immigration policies.
www.axios.com
May 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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It really hasn’t been over the top, they want to defund the smithsonian over saying jim crow was a system of racial domination and the entire civil rights division is being gutted bsky.app/profile/jame...
this is from a new report on a “third way” on DEI and it is unbelievably naive, which in my view is emblematic of the author, rich kahlenberg, whose willingness to extend good faith to obvious bad faith actors borders on gullibility www.progressivepolicy.org/a-way-out-of...
May 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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“sometimes people say one thing when the intentions are the opposite” is a pretty simple concept, trump did an executive order protecting “free speech” and started threatening broadcasters and deporting people for writing op eds, let’s not be silly about “merit based and colorblind” here
May 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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"By attacking disparate impact enforcement, stripping DEI initiatives, and elevating a false vision of 'meritocracy' these orders do not erase systemic racism," they allow it to thrive, hidden again "under the language of fairness, neutrality, and colorblindness."

open.substack.com/pub/sharidun...
Executive Orders and the Return of Legal Inequality
The New Jim Crow
open.substack.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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…interpretations of American history after the Republican-controlled Indiana Senate passed a controversial “anti-DEI” measure, Senate Bill 289.

From WaPo: The bill “bars publicly funded institutions, like public school districts and universities, from taking actions for or against…
April 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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…an individual based on characteristics like race or religion.”

Historical revisionism and white supremacy are quite common — even revered — within the Republican Party.

As for Indiana, it is a deep red state and was a hotbed of Ku Klux Klan activity in the 1920s.
April 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison
This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail
April 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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April 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Meat isn't the *only* thing that could sicken you in an FDA inspection-free America. But you might really want to reconsider eating meat. Especially ground meat. And runny eggs.
April 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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This should have never happened. U.S. citizens should never be detained for immigration enforcement.
BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.
April 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Trump tried to disappear a U.S. citizen
BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.
April 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM