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NOBODY IS SAFE.
“While in the interrogation room, Makled said, a man in plain clothes entered and began speaking to him. He said he recalls the man telling him: ‘We know you're a lawyer. We know you take on big cases.’”
Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family
Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.
www.freep.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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This congressionally-mandated institution is how we know about the state of education in America. Literally turning off the lights.
I just heard this as well. The entire staff of the National Center for Education Statistics, created in 1867, has been fired.
March 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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If speech is only free if you say things those in power agree with, speech is not free
March 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.

They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.

Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.

I think about it a lot in moments like this.
January 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Right out of the gate they are detaining U.S. citizens and saying their “papers”are fake. It was always a lie.
January 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Make good trouble
Our creativity matters. Our mischief matters. The tools that are used against us are more porous and fallible than they seem. The building blocks of resistance are waiting for us everywhere.

techcrunch.com/2023/04/21/m...
Missouri trans 'snitch form' down after people spammed it with the 'Bee Movie' script | TechCrunch
Concerned citizens armed with fanfiction and the "Bee Movie" script took down a government-run website in Missouri.
techcrunch.com
January 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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we are the adaptation

no oppressor can imagine



we are building our stamina

we dream of the real world

we carry god, and see god, in each of our faces

your holiness is not too heavy, not for me

adriennemareebrown.net/2025/01/20/i...
it is our turn to carry the world – adrienne maree brown
adriennemareebrown.net
January 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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JUST IN: Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement on a multiphase ceasefire that commits them to end the war in Gaza, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman James Risch said.
Israel and Hamas reach a Gaza ceasefire agreement
Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement on a multiphase ceasefire that commits them to end the war in Gaza, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman James Risch said.
www.npr.org
January 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Erin In The Morning is hiring!

Earlier this month, I made the decision to hire my first full time writer. I'm currently considering candidates. That said, if you or anyone in your network has experience writing and covering LGBTQ+ legislation, science, and more, please send in your resume!
January 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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1. Happening Now, Montana is hearing a bill that would ban transgender people from bathrooms across the state.

Listen live with me.

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January 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM