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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 15h

Trump crudely mocks transgender people in front of Canadian Prime Minister, one of whose children is nonbinary. Keep it classy, America. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Donald Trump mocks transgender people in Oval Office meeting with Canadian PM, whose child is nonbinary

Mark Carney sat silently as the U.S. president went on an anti-trans diatribe.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 21h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 3d

Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow!

These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:

eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

eeb.msu.edu

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Steph likes the outdoors @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 1d

FYI High Country News is letting current and former federal employees access their online content for free right now.

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🎃 Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

did image search for him and literally the first one was him and Andrew Tate

Newest White House sex pest pictures with notorious professional misogynist Andrew Tate

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 1d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

I would vote without question for anyone with the fucking stones to do this while refusing to 1) throw trans people under the bus and 2) fund Israel's genocide

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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Rebecca @phytoseiid.bsky.social · 3d

I read this: www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Then your posts popped up.

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

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pumpkin spice itati|agnostic to the optics @itativcs.bsky.social · 3d

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pumpkin spice itati|agnostic to the optics @itativcs.bsky.social · 3d

But most of you won't and I can't even really be mad at it. You have been indoctrinated your whole lives to believe that assimilation into the frameworks given to you will get you what you want. And for a limited some of you, doing that under the current regime *will* work.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 3d

Lawless Russell Vought thinks he can nullify a law by deleting it from an FAQ

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

www.govexec.com

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pumpkin spice itati|agnostic to the optics @itativcs.bsky.social · 3d

I feel sad that your assimilation guarantees the creation of a necropolitics you hope you never fall prey to. That it will guarantee we will spend a long, painful time surviving until the imperial boomerang runs out of room to fly against its own citizens.

But anyways, I have writing to do.

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pumpkin spice itati|agnostic to the optics @itativcs.bsky.social · 3d

But most of you won't and I can't even really be mad at it. You have been indoctrinated your whole lives to believe that assimilation into the frameworks given to you will get you what you want. And for a limited some of you, doing that under the current regime *will* work.

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pumpkin spice itati|agnostic to the optics @itativcs.bsky.social · 3d

and before, "but itati, what else are we supposed to do?" you are supposed to counter organize. you are supposed to pressure your universities to stop accruing capital in endowments and use that money to actually invest in itself and not football. You are supposed to engage in conflict.

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pumpkin spice itati|agnostic to the optics @itativcs.bsky.social · 3d

University presidents are flying to DC and lobbying to be the first to lick boots until they shit eyelets but some of y'all are still acting like a DOGE employee with ChatGPT open in the background isn't going to be the one awarding NSF grants to the same 20 institutions that play ball.

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pumpkin spice itati|agnostic to the optics @itativcs.bsky.social · 3d

Your job is just a way to accrue the capital to survive. "careers" are the playgrounds of the elite&their failed children and are not in fact meant to advance society. everyone has to opt into a shared reality AND relationality for society to work. The West is collapsing and we will not get it back

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pumpkin spice itati|agnostic to the optics @itativcs.bsky.social · 3d

I have found that accepting the new meta (neoliberal economies falling to fascism to keep the elite in power) and making choices accordingly (participating as little as possible in the maintainence of empire) has helped my mental health immensely.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d

Do you even hear yourselves?

NPR @npr.org · 3d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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pumpkin spice itati|agnostic to the optics @itativcs.bsky.social · 4d

yes

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 4d

“She achieved this without climbing the typical journalistic career ladder, and with no experience directing television coverage. She is richer in social clout than in Emmys or Pulitzers.”

LOL, goddamn.

How Bari Weiss Won

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 4d

I'm genuinely starting to think that the people who say they want to see American's really fight back are really saying they want a specific kind of visible, stereotypical depiction of protest, and have zero zero tolerance for the kind of groundwork it takes to make change happen.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

everyone says it for a reason: really important to lock in when it comes to fitness and health. just establishing good habits — regular exercise including strength training, eating a balanced diet — will pay huge dividends

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 7d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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