Tunga Kiyak
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The National Park Service quietly edited its website about the Underground Railroad to remove key references and quotes from Harriet Tubman and soften its language about slavery
Trump’s National Park Service is quietly whitewashing Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
The National Park Service edited its website to replace key facts about Harriet Tubman and slavery with phrases like “Black/White cooperation.”
www.whatimreading.net
April 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The National Park Service quietly edited its website about the Underground Railroad to remove key references and quotes from Harriet Tubman and soften its language about slavery
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This, from my colleague
Brent Neiman says it all.
Trump admin used the results from his paper to justify tariff rates. Except they used the completely wrong number.
Staggering 🤯
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...
Brent Neiman says it all.
Trump admin used the results from his paper to justify tariff rates. Except they used the completely wrong number.
Staggering 🤯
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...
April 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
This, from my colleague
Brent Neiman says it all.
Trump admin used the results from his paper to justify tariff rates. Except they used the completely wrong number.
Staggering 🤯
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...
Brent Neiman says it all.
Trump admin used the results from his paper to justify tariff rates. Except they used the completely wrong number.
Staggering 🤯
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...
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Olivier winner John Lithgow attacks Trump’s second presidency as ‘a disaster’ for US arts
Olivier winner John Lithgow attacks Trump’s second presidency as ‘a disaster’ for US arts
Speaking after his best actor victory, Lithgow said Donald Trump’s administration ‘has done some shocking, destructive things’ especially its takeover of the Kennedy Center
The actor John Lithgow has described Donald Trump’s second presidency as “a pure disaster” for the arts in the US. Lithgow, speaking after his best actor victory at the Olivier awards in London on Sunday, singled out Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center, Washington DC’s national institution for the performing arts. “Our administration has done some shocking, destructive things,” he said, “but the one that grieves me most is taking over the Kennedy Center.”
The US president is now chair of the prestigious cultural complex (which was founded as a government-funded, bipartisan venue) and has installed new board members and a new interim leader, loyalist Ric Grenell. The board had been in the process of selecting a successor to outgoing leader Deborah Rutter, who in January announced her intention to step down after 11 years. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Olivier winner John Lithgow attacks Trump’s second presidency as ‘a disaster’ for US arts
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The FCC is investigating Disney for checks notes…
DEI programs.
The same people screaming about “big government overreach” are now using the government to punish companies for hiring diverse talent.
Totally normal
not hypocritical at all.
#MakeItMakeSense #DEI #Disney
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The FCC is investigating Disney for checks notes…
DEI programs.
The same people screaming about “big government overreach” are now using the government to punish companies for hiring diverse talent.
Totally normal
not hypocritical at all.
#MakeItMakeSense #DEI #Disney
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March 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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The FCC is investigating Disney for checks notes…
DEI programs.
The same people screaming about “big government overreach” are now using the government to punish companies for hiring diverse talent.
Totally normal
not hypocritical at all.
#MakeItMakeSense #DEI #Disney
.
The FCC is investigating Disney for checks notes…
DEI programs.
The same people screaming about “big government overreach” are now using the government to punish companies for hiring diverse talent.
Totally normal
not hypocritical at all.
#MakeItMakeSense #DEI #Disney
.
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Musk complies with Turkish autocracy’s requests to suspend pro-democracy accounts to “ensure X remains available” for Turks.
He didn’t seem to care about X being shut for Brazilians last year when a democracy requested far-right account suspensions, which he rejected on the basis of “free speech”.
He didn’t seem to care about X being shut for Brazilians last year when a democracy requested far-right account suspensions, which he rejected on the basis of “free speech”.
Elon Musk's social media platform X has suspended several accounts belonging to opposition figures in Turkey amid widespread civil unrest in the country.
Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest
Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations.
www.politico.eu
March 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Musk complies with Turkish autocracy’s requests to suspend pro-democracy accounts to “ensure X remains available” for Turks.
He didn’t seem to care about X being shut for Brazilians last year when a democracy requested far-right account suspensions, which he rejected on the basis of “free speech”.
He didn’t seem to care about X being shut for Brazilians last year when a democracy requested far-right account suspensions, which he rejected on the basis of “free speech”.
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A huge anti-Erdoğan protest tonight in Istanbul, defying a four day national ban on protests, to denounce the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.
"Break down those barricades without harming the police. Take to the streets and squares", Ozgur Ozel, an opposition leader, told protesters.
"Break down those barricades without harming the police. Take to the streets and squares", Ozgur Ozel, an opposition leader, told protesters.
March 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A huge anti-Erdoğan protest tonight in Istanbul, defying a four day national ban on protests, to denounce the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.
"Break down those barricades without harming the police. Take to the streets and squares", Ozgur Ozel, an opposition leader, told protesters.
"Break down those barricades without harming the police. Take to the streets and squares", Ozgur Ozel, an opposition leader, told protesters.
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I recently made a comic complaining that NASA refuses to listen to my good ideas for improving the Solar System (xkcd.com/2750).
To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.
To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.
February 22, 2024 at 2:45 PM
I recently made a comic complaining that NASA refuses to listen to my good ideas for improving the Solar System (xkcd.com/2750).
To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.
To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.