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Beneath all the funny memes, the actual outrage here is that the same people who whine constantly about "DEI hires," lack of "meritocracy" and "cancel culture" are themselves the most pathetic, thin-skinned incompetent nepo babies you've ever met
March 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Beneath all the funny memes, the actual outrage here is that the same people who whine constantly about "DEI hires," lack of "meritocracy" and "cancel culture" are themselves the most pathetic, thin-skinned incompetent nepo babies you've ever met
Fascinating linguistic shift on the right: the anti-trans movement has become so incensed by "pronouns" that the word has lost all gramatical meaning and now just means any gendered word. (The misgendering used by the lawmaker was the word "Mister" which is not grammatically a pronoun.)
March 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Fascinating linguistic shift on the right: the anti-trans movement has become so incensed by "pronouns" that the word has lost all gramatical meaning and now just means any gendered word. (The misgendering used by the lawmaker was the word "Mister" which is not grammatically a pronoun.)
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This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.
I'm appalled by the USDA's decision to pause funding to the University of Maine System.
This will hurt our farmers, halt critical research, and impact students throughout Maine.
Once again, our state is being targeted for retribution—all because our officials are standing up for the rule of law.
This will hurt our farmers, halt critical research, and impact students throughout Maine.
Once again, our state is being targeted for retribution—all because our officials are standing up for the rule of law.
USDA halts more than $100M in funding for University of Maine System programs
The move temporarily pauses USDA funding for Maine's university system after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off the state over Maine's decision to allow transgender athletes to compete in sp...
www.pressherald.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.
He was right about one thing. I am tired of all the winning.
March 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
He was right about one thing. I am tired of all the winning.
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here is the thing about the “argument” that democrats should have run roughshod over the law when they had the chance: it is much easier to break the law to destroy a program than break the law to create one.
February 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
here is the thing about the “argument” that democrats should have run roughshod over the law when they had the chance: it is much easier to break the law to destroy a program than break the law to create one.
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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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i do not understand what elon and trump would be doing differently if there weren’t themselves actual agents of beijing and moscow
NEW: A week after Elon Musk's DOGE gained access to Treasury's payments system, funds to the National Endowment for Democracy have been inexplicably frozen.
The move is a huge win for Beijing, imperilling Chinese civil society groups around the world.
www.thewirechina.com/2025/02/12/d...
The move is a huge win for Beijing, imperilling Chinese civil society groups around the world.
www.thewirechina.com/2025/02/12/d...
DOGE's Latest Target is Seen as a Gift to the CCP - The Wire China
The National Endowment for Democracy has long been a thorn in the CCP's side. On Tuesday, its funding was frozen.
www.thewirechina.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
i do not understand what elon and trump would be doing differently if there weren’t themselves actual agents of beijing and moscow
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All kidding aside, the reason he is doing this is to establish some kind of culpability by @profgalloway.com and I. We never threatened these people but it is all in service of getting his supporters to think we did. It’s not a random tweet — all planned for a larger effort to silence us or worse.
February 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
All kidding aside, the reason he is doing this is to establish some kind of culpability by @profgalloway.com and I. We never threatened these people but it is all in service of getting his supporters to think we did. It’s not a random tweet — all planned for a larger effort to silence us or worse.
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The almost explicit position of these groups is that anything more than a token number of black and Hispanic students in an elite institution is de facto evidence of anti-white racial discrimination.
The University of California Increased Diversity. Now It’s Being Sued.
The state’s elite campuses, prohibited from using race-based admissions for decades, are now admitting more Black and Hispanic students. A new group is suing, arguing the university system is cheating...
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The almost explicit position of these groups is that anything more than a token number of black and Hispanic students in an elite institution is de facto evidence of anti-white racial discrimination.
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Go. To. The. Treasury. And. Demand. Entry.
You are the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee.
You are the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee.
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
February 2, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Go. To. The. Treasury. And. Demand. Entry.
You are the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee.
You are the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee.
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So much of this cultural shift discourse reminds me of the propaganda campaign against opponents of the Iraq War
There’s been a kind of…fashion of late to view anti-Trump libs as lame and cringe and just annoying, aesthetically. I remember this exact same aesthetic judgment in the run-up to the Iraq war. The earnest libs were right then and they’re right now.
February 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
So much of this cultural shift discourse reminds me of the propaganda campaign against opponents of the Iraq War
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the literal fuck
The NTSB has announced that it will only post updates for plane crash investigations on Elon Musk's website.
What next? They will only have their Christmas parties at Trump resorts?
What next? They will only have their Christmas parties at Trump resorts?
February 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
the literal fuck
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they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
February 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
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This enthusiasm for finding proof that the pilots in the crash were white men has the unintended consequence of lending weight to the racist/sexist idea that their qualifications could be called into question if they weren’t.
January 31, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This enthusiasm for finding proof that the pilots in the crash were white men has the unintended consequence of lending weight to the racist/sexist idea that their qualifications could be called into question if they weren’t.
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i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve
January 31, 2025 at 3:15 AM
i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve
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Trump doesn't care if the economy crashes and communities suffer. His goal is to force you and your family to accept a lower standard of living while he and his friends get richer. Cutting support for law enforcement, schools, small businesses and firefighters is chaos by design.
President Trump’s order freezing trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans sent officials at schools, hospitals, nonprofit organizations and many others into a frantic scramble to understand the extent of the directive. Here's what to know.
Order to pause federal spending creates deep uncertainty for schools, nonprofits and companies.
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Trump doesn't care if the economy crashes and communities suffer. His goal is to force you and your family to accept a lower standard of living while he and his friends get richer. Cutting support for law enforcement, schools, small businesses and firefighters is chaos by design.
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"considerable flak" = "people accurately noted that these guys are segregationists and biological racists"
January 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"considerable flak" = "people accurately noted that these guys are segregationists and biological racists"
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it’s becoming increasingly clear the goal of the far right is to defund and buy up every source of reliable information until there is no more objective reality to counter them
January 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
it’s becoming increasingly clear the goal of the far right is to defund and buy up every source of reliable information until there is no more objective reality to counter them
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The only acceptable Krypto Bro
December 19, 2024 at 3:19 PM
The only acceptable Krypto Bro
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They may as well lop off the top of the Empire State Building next if they go through with this. www.curbed.com/article/rock...
The Slow Death of Neon
Rockefeller Center is proposing to rip out its glowing glass signage in favor of LEDs. It joins a heap of others.
www.curbed.com
December 18, 2024 at 2:58 PM
They may as well lop off the top of the Empire State Building next if they go through with this. www.curbed.com/article/rock...
They say men think about the Roman Empire once a week. I don't. I think about the Soviet Union once a week.
This week, I've been thinking about the collpase of the Soviet Union every day.
This week, I've been thinking about the collpase of the Soviet Union every day.
November 14, 2024 at 2:55 PM
They say men think about the Roman Empire once a week. I don't. I think about the Soviet Union once a week.
This week, I've been thinking about the collpase of the Soviet Union every day.
This week, I've been thinking about the collpase of the Soviet Union every day.