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What’s Happening in #Kansas Should Alarm Us All
… #Fascism usually begins with redefining the nation by excluding certain groups, which are branded threats to national health & unity. The #Trump admin has fixated on two groups most of all — #immigrants & #trans people — in just this way, smearing [them]… as predatory, sick, at once subhuman & terrifyingly powerful.
#law #discrimination #bigotry #ignorance #hate #Nazis
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/opinion/kansas-anti-trans-laws-drivers-license.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5VA.uZRz.vbtRn8tPNxX-&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
What’s Happening in #Kansas Should Alarm Us All
… #Fascism usually begins with redefining the nation by excluding certain groups, which are branded threats to national health & unity. The #Trump admin has fixated on two groups most of all — #immigrants & #trans people — in just this way, smearing [them]… as predatory, sick, at once subhuman & terrifyingly powerful.
#law #discrimination #bigotry #ignorance #hate #Nazis
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/opinion/kansas-anti-trans-laws-drivers-license.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5VA.uZRz.vbtRn8tPNxX-&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
The #Trump Admin Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During #Minnesota #Immigration Crackdown
The government conducted expansive #surveillance, infiltrated group chats & obtained financial records of organizations NEVER accused of any crimes.
#law #Constitution #ThoughtPolice #dissent #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/politics/dhs-inquiry-immigration-protests-minnesota.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5VA.i09v.hWC6KV6iZlnt&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
The #Trump Admin Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During #Minnesota #Immigration Crackdown
The government conducted expansive #surveillance, infiltrated group chats & obtained financial records of organizations NEVER accused of any crimes.
#law #Constitution #ThoughtPolice #dissent #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/politics/dhs-inquiry-immigration-protests-minnesota.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5VA.i09v.hWC6KV6iZlnt&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
CW: uspol, fucking clown show, a four year thread
Per WaPo, the second "murder random mariners" program reported earlier* by NYT and HRW is run by the CIA, which certainly seems consistent with available evidence
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CW: uspol, fucking clown show, a four year thread
Per WaPo, the second "murder random mariners" program reported earlier* by NYT and HRW is run by the CIA, which certainly seems consistent with available evidence
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CW: uspol, fucking clown show, a four year thread
"The Trump administration plans to spend at least $900 million for construction projects on the White House grounds … the administration has pieced together funding from other agencies and private donors and directed it to a little-known account that typically holds a few million dollars for routine maintenance of the executive mansion"
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CW: uspol, fucking clown show, a four year thread
"The Trump administration plans to spend at least $900 million for construction projects on the White House grounds … the administration has pieced together funding from other agencies and private donors and directed it to a little-known account that typically holds a few million dollars for routine maintenance of the executive mansion"
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Covert #CIA program said to be behind mysterious attacks on #Galápagos boats
A surveillance plane flew from El Salvador toward the #FishingBoats before #drones attacked, flight data shows.
#Trump #MafiaState #law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Ecuador #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #InternationalLaw #imperialism #geopolitics
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Covert #CIA program said to be behind mysterious attacks on #Galápagos boats
A surveillance plane flew from El Salvador toward the #FishingBoats before #drones attacked, flight data shows.
#Trump #MafiaState #law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Ecuador #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #InternationalLaw #imperialism #geopolitics
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CW: uspol, fucking clown show, a four year thread
NYT reports that in addition the declared US program of murdering random seafarers with missiles, there appears to be a second program involving gringos with American flag patches but no clear affiliation murdering random seafarers with low end drone dropped explosives
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CW: uspol, fucking clown show, a four year thread
NYT reports that in addition the declared US program of murdering random seafarers with missiles, there appears to be a second program involving gringos with American flag patches but no clear affiliation murdering random seafarers with low end drone dropped explosives
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#ChatGPT, #Claude and #Gemini respond like China’s censored chatbots when asked some sensitive questions – WSJ #giftarticle #AI #artificialintelligence https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chinese-censorship-is-leaking-into-answers-from-american-ai-62abeca5?st=HRnELg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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#ChatGPT, #Claude and #Gemini respond like China’s censored chatbots when asked some sensitive questions – WSJ #giftarticle #AI #artificialintelligence https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chinese-censorship-is-leaking-into-answers-from-american-ai-62abeca5?st=HRnELg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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The wheels of #justice turn slowly but they turn.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge on Wednesday for throwing an activist to the ground near #Chicago last year during the #Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the region.
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The wheels of #justice turn slowly but they turn.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge on Wednesday for throwing an activist to the ground near #Chicago last year during the #Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the region.
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The first frame of the video #CarolinaMolina posted across her social media accounts shows a masked #ICE agent pointing a gun at the camera.
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #immigration #CBP #Sturmabteilung #StateSponsoredTerrorism #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState
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The first frame of the video #CarolinaMolina posted across her social media accounts shows a masked #ICE agent pointing a gun at the camera.
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #immigration #CBP #Sturmabteilung #StateSponsoredTerrorism #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState
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The threat to #AirForceOne was seen as so dire that they sneaked #Trump off the jet in a catering container to keep him safe. But the same dire threat did not stop them from then sending Air Force One into the skies anyway with a planeful of government employees, #reporters & #military personnel serving as decoys.
#HumanShields
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/us/politics/trump-air-force-one-decoy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.41A.KyQv.OlarGnnrTjcG&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
The threat to #AirForceOne was seen as so dire that they sneaked #Trump off the jet in a catering container to keep him safe. But the same dire threat did not stop them from then sending Air Force One into the skies anyway with a planeful of government employees, #reporters & #military personnel serving as decoys.
#HumanShields
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/us/politics/trump-air-force-one-decoy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.41A.KyQv.OlarGnnrTjcG&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
…the “Spirit of ’76 at Freedom Plaza” exhibition centers on a large equestrian statue of Caesar Rodney, a Founding Father from Delaware & an enslaver….
…The installation gives the controversial Rodney statue, which was taken down from its original site in Wilmington, DE, during the 2020 #BlackLivesMatter protests, a prominent new home, perhaps temporary, in the symbolic center of the nation’s capital.
#Trump #WhiteSupremacy #slavery #racism #PublicSpace
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…the “Spirit of ’76 at Freedom Plaza” exhibition centers on a large equestrian statue of Caesar Rodney, a Founding Father from Delaware & an enslaver….
…The installation gives the controversial Rodney statue, which was taken down from its original site in Wilmington, DE, during the 2020 #BlackLivesMatter protests, a prominent new home, perhaps temporary, in the symbolic center of the nation’s capital.
#Trump #WhiteSupremacy #slavery #racism #PublicSpace
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That's a lot of impact from science funding basic research and a researcher from another country originally.
Also: #VaccinesSaveLives and #HPV is a great example.
Those were the days. Great work, Dr. Gillison. Important legacy.
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That's a lot of impact from science funding basic research and a researcher from another country originally.
Also: #VaccinesSaveLives and #HPV is a great example.
Those were the days. Great work, Dr. Gillison. Important legacy.
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Music as an ingredient in beer and sake.
Sound is vibration, and those 'good vibrations' might be encouraging yeast to ferment more efficiently.
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Music as an ingredient in beer and sake.
Sound is vibration, and those 'good vibrations' might be encouraging yeast to ferment more efficiently.
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CW: uspol, fucking clown show, a four year thread
Interior spokes Katie Martin "President Donald J. Trump is an expert builder who fixed the Reflecting Pool permanently before deranged people vandalized it" - Leaving aside the lack of evidence for vandalism and the abundant evidence of other problems, that's an interesting definition of "permanently fixed"
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CW: uspol, fucking clown show, a four year thread
Interior spokes Katie Martin "President Donald J. Trump is an expert builder who fixed the Reflecting Pool permanently before deranged people vandalized it" - Leaving aside the lack of evidence for vandalism and the abundant evidence of other problems, that's an interesting definition of "permanently fixed"
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Remind me to get something like this into my #digitalSovereignty course, @thehertieschool
“Not to build another Patriot, but to create an ecosystem in which no single manufacturer, factory or state determines the fate of the entire system.” #giftArticle
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Remind me to get something like this into my #digitalSovereignty course, @thehertieschool
“Not to build another Patriot, but to create an ecosystem in which no single manufacturer, factory or state determines the fate of the entire system.” #giftArticle
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#ElonMusk’s #DOGE made big errors in claims of government savings, #GAO finds
The #government #watchdog found that billions of dollars in DOGE’s public tally could not be verified & that some claimed cuts never happened.#FactCheck #TrumpLies #Musk #InfoSec #PublicDisservice #law #regulation #CivilServants #CivilService #PublicService #MassFirings #FederalAgencies #Trump #USpol
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#ElonMusk’s #DOGE made big errors in claims of government savings, #GAO finds
The #government #watchdog found that billions of dollars in DOGE’s public tally could not be verified & that some claimed cuts never happened.#FactCheck #TrumpLies #Musk #InfoSec #PublicDisservice #law #regulation #CivilServants #CivilService #PublicService #MassFirings #FederalAgencies #Trump #USpol
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TBH I just don't think the Democratic Socialists of America are as influential as "moderate Democrats" seem to think they are, at least not in #Michigan. #AbdulElSayed has never been a member, and his support came from a pretty wide range of voters, most of whom have probably never even heard of DSA. I'm not a member either, but if "moderate Democrats" keep up with this nonsense I'll probably join. #Vote2026 #GiftArticle #Politics #USPol https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/us/politics/democratic-party-socialists-moderates.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3VA.oH54.Y4m6oaASrW0S&smid=url-share
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TBH I just don't think the Democratic Socialists of America are as influential as "moderate Democrats" seem to think they are, at least not in #Michigan. #AbdulElSayed has never been a member, and his support came from a pretty wide range of voters, most of whom have probably never even heard of DSA. I'm not a member either, but if "moderate Democrats" keep up with this nonsense I'll probably join. #Vote2026 #GiftArticle #Politics #USPol https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/us/politics/democratic-party-socialists-moderates.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3VA.oH54.Y4m6oaASrW0S&smid=url-share
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CW: Iran war
Trump "demanded answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on why he had apparently been misled on extreme munitions shortages that now threaten to limit military options with Iran" - Who could have predicted that surrounding yourself with sycophantic yes-men might lead you to a less-than-accurate perception of your situation?
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CW: Iran war
Trump "demanded answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on why he had apparently been misled on extreme munitions shortages that now threaten to limit military options with Iran" - Who could have predicted that surrounding yourself with sycophantic yes-men might lead you to a less-than-accurate perception of your situation?
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I don't own Google stock because I worked with them too much (even though they never gave me money! Not even for research...) but it seems like a Hassabis thing must be news -- and Jeff Dean! #giftArticle
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I don't own Google stock because I worked with them too much (even though they never gave me money! Not even for research...) but it seems like a Hassabis thing must be news -- and Jeff Dean! #giftArticle
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@nazokiyoubinbou the folks at the top have all fallen for a dietician who is telling them they don't need to wipe their behind after pooping because they subsist on steak and sauerkraut. Standards don't mean anything in that kind of environment.
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@nazokiyoubinbou the folks at the top have all fallen for a dietician who is telling them they don't need to wipe their behind after pooping because they subsist on steak and sauerkraut. Standards don't mean anything in that kind of environment.
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#AIPAC, One of the Biggest Spenders on #US #Elections, Faces Its Biggest Test
The lobbying group has more than doubled its spending on political campaigns, while rarely mentioning #Israel. It has placed a large financial bet on today’s #Michigan #Senate #primary.
#money #power #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/08/04/us/politics/aipac-israel-funds-spending.html?unlocked_article_code=1.21A.uNju.eeBNfD6NvtEu&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
#AIPAC, One of the Biggest Spenders on #US #Elections, Faces Its Biggest Test
The lobbying group has more than doubled its spending on political campaigns, while rarely mentioning #Israel. It has placed a large financial bet on today’s #Michigan #Senate #primary.
#money #power #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/08/04/us/politics/aipac-israel-funds-spending.html?unlocked_article_code=1.21A.uNju.eeBNfD6NvtEu&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Interesting
Inside the Oval Office Showdown Between #Trump & #JeaninePirro
Jeanine Pirro, the #USattorney for DC, told Trump that his #interior secretary, #DougBurgum, had misled him with a self-serving cover story for his own mistakes.
When Pirro is the sanest most capable person in the room, well, get the hell out of that room.
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Interesting
Inside the Oval Office Showdown Between #Trump & #JeaninePirro
Jeanine Pirro, the #USattorney for DC, told Trump that his #interior secretary, #DougBurgum, had misled him with a self-serving cover story for his own mistakes.
When Pirro is the sanest most capable person in the room, well, get the hell out of that room.
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The New England #contradance community has lost a legend, apparently. Although I have #contra danced around here, I didn't know of him.
The obit reads like time travel; quite a life.
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The New England #contradance community has lost a legend, apparently. Although I have #contra danced around here, I didn't know of him.
The obit reads like time travel; quite a life.
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I didn't expect to laugh that hard at this article.
Well, at least the #AI boss is keeping her hands off the staff as far as I can tell from this. So there's that.