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We’re back in the age of McCarthyism — but instead of the Red Scare, it’s the *DEI-scare*
Health and Human Services (HHS) just blasted out an alarming agency-wide email:
They want us to report on each other.
(Pretty sure that’s called “snitching.”)
DEI-scare Survey ➡️ rb.gy/fnrbgc
We’re back in the age of McCarthyism — but instead of the Red Scare, it’s the *DEI-scare*
Health and Human Services (HHS) just blasted out an alarming agency-wide email:
They want us to report on each other.
(Pretty sure that’s called “snitching.”)
DEI-scare Survey ➡️ rb.gy/fnrbgc
Microsoft Forms
rb.gy
Go spam the tip line folks
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Trump’s not just golfing in Scotland, he’s intentionally bulldozing democracy. His Fed stunt wasn’t “official.” It was a power grab full of lies, intimidation, and ego.
Wait A Damn Minute!
This is authoritarianism on full blast.
Watch. Share. Spread facts over the fiction. #WePersist #WADM
Wait A Damn Minute!
This is authoritarianism on full blast.
Watch. Share. Spread facts over the fiction. #WePersist #WADM
July 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Trump’s not just golfing in Scotland, he’s intentionally bulldozing democracy. His Fed stunt wasn’t “official.” It was a power grab full of lies, intimidation, and ego.
Wait A Damn Minute!
This is authoritarianism on full blast.
Watch. Share. Spread facts over the fiction. #WePersist #WADM
Wait A Damn Minute!
This is authoritarianism on full blast.
Watch. Share. Spread facts over the fiction. #WePersist #WADM
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A USDA spokesperson just told me that out of the 1,400 USFS staffers with firefighting qualifications who took voluntary resignations and retirements this year, they were able to get only 65 back into active duty.
July 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A USDA spokesperson just told me that out of the 1,400 USFS staffers with firefighting qualifications who took voluntary resignations and retirements this year, they were able to get only 65 back into active duty.
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A video showing Trump commenting on the legs and breasts of his 1-year-old daughter resurfaced and went viral this week amidst Epstein chaos.
1994 Video Shows Trump Commenting on Baby Daughter’s Breasts
The clip from “Inside Edition” circulated during the 2016 campaign—and reemerged this week.
trib.al
July 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A video showing Trump commenting on the legs and breasts of his 1-year-old daughter resurfaced and went viral this week amidst Epstein chaos.
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Othering of vulnerable groups ✅
Arresting minorities ✅
No due process ✅
Ignoring judges orders ✅
Calling media fake news or 'lying press' ✅
Funding personal paramilitary✅
Hyper militarization ✅
Controlling academic institutions ✅
Building concentration camps ✅
State control of media ✅
It's fascism
Arresting minorities ✅
No due process ✅
Ignoring judges orders ✅
Calling media fake news or 'lying press' ✅
Funding personal paramilitary✅
Hyper militarization ✅
Controlling academic institutions ✅
Building concentration camps ✅
State control of media ✅
It's fascism
Beyond the 60 Minutes payoff & Colbert cancelation, an unprecedented capitulation: as part of merger agreement, new parent company agrees to install an official to "monitor bias" at CBS’s news division. CBS news will essentially be state controlled media.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
July 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Othering of vulnerable groups ✅
Arresting minorities ✅
No due process ✅
Ignoring judges orders ✅
Calling media fake news or 'lying press' ✅
Funding personal paramilitary✅
Hyper militarization ✅
Controlling academic institutions ✅
Building concentration camps ✅
State control of media ✅
It's fascism
Arresting minorities ✅
No due process ✅
Ignoring judges orders ✅
Calling media fake news or 'lying press' ✅
Funding personal paramilitary✅
Hyper militarization ✅
Controlling academic institutions ✅
Building concentration camps ✅
State control of media ✅
It's fascism
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"limited form of immunity"
This is truly insane. We are witnessing one of the most corrupt cover-up schemes in history—and it's all playing out in plain view.
July 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
"limited form of immunity"
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Social media companies not liable for 2022 mass shooting, New York appeals court rules reut.rs/4l8dR44
Social media companies not liable for 2022 mass shooting, New York appeals court rules
Several social media companies should not be held liable for helping an avowed white supremacist who killed 10 Black people in 2022 at a Buffalo, New York grocery store, a divided New York state appeals court ruled on Friday.
reut.rs
July 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Social media companies not liable for 2022 mass shooting, New York appeals court rules reut.rs/4l8dR44
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Conservatives who claimed Obama was using FEMA to build concentration camps really quiet now that it’s real
FEMA is preparing to send $608 million to states to construct immigrant detention centers as part of the Trump administration’s push to expand capacity to hold migrants.
FEMA to send states $608 million to build migrant detention centers
FEMA is starting a “detention support grant program” to cover the cost of states building temporary facilities, according to an agency announcement.
nbcnews.to
July 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Conservatives who claimed Obama was using FEMA to build concentration camps really quiet now that it’s real
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POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.
July 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.
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Homelessness is a policy failure.
President Trump's embrace of cruel and ineffective approaches to homelessness won’t solve the crisis.
President Trump's embrace of cruel and ineffective approaches to homelessness won’t solve the crisis.
Trump orders crackdown on homeless encampments nationwide
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order urging cities and states to clear homeless encampments and move people into treatment centers - a move that advocates for the homeless said would worsen the problem.
www.reuters.com
July 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Homelessness is a policy failure.
President Trump's embrace of cruel and ineffective approaches to homelessness won’t solve the crisis.
President Trump's embrace of cruel and ineffective approaches to homelessness won’t solve the crisis.
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NEW: A federal court again found the Trump administration breached our settlement agreement requiring the government to provide critical legal and social services to families it cruelly separated under Trump's first presidency.
July 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
NEW: A federal court again found the Trump administration breached our settlement agreement requiring the government to provide critical legal and social services to families it cruelly separated under Trump's first presidency.
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The Trump administration has failed to provide access to attorneys for people detained in horrid conditions at “Alligator Alcatraz.”
Representation is a legal right — we’ll see Trump in court.
Representation is a legal right — we’ll see Trump in court.
Immigration rights groups, ACLU lawsuit alleges Alligator Alcatraz preventing detainees from having attorney access
The lawsuit also alleges that lawyers have been barred from entering the facility in the Everglades and that officials have "made it virtually impossible for detainees, or their counsel, to file documents required to contest their detention with the immigration court."
www.cbsnews.com
July 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The Trump administration has failed to provide access to attorneys for people detained in horrid conditions at “Alligator Alcatraz.”
Representation is a legal right — we’ll see Trump in court.
Representation is a legal right — we’ll see Trump in court.
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Surge in AI-generated child sexual abuse images alarms advocacy groups and investigators
Surge in AI-generated child sexual abuse images alarms advocacy groups and investigators
The number of images created by artificial intelligence is proliferating, presenting unprecedented challenges for law enforcement agencies.
www.lemonde.fr
July 24, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Surge in AI-generated child sexual abuse images alarms advocacy groups and investigators
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Actually, in 2016, Trump repeatedly and falsely denied Russia was intervening in the election. He was covering for Putin—that is, aiding and abetting a foreign adversary that was assaulting the USA with information warfare. So....
“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” U.S. Const. Art.III, S. 3, Cl. 1.
So Obama was levying war against the U.S.? Giving aid and comfort to Russia…by accusing them?? Confused
So Obama was levying war against the U.S.? Giving aid and comfort to Russia…by accusing them?? Confused
Gabbard accuses Obama of “treasonous conspiracy”
July 24, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Actually, in 2016, Trump repeatedly and falsely denied Russia was intervening in the election. He was covering for Putin—that is, aiding and abetting a foreign adversary that was assaulting the USA with information warfare. So....
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Is it me or is the discover algorithm becoming terrible? Just feels like relevant posts are not being shown to me in a timely manner. Still seeing posts about ozzy but hardly anything by accounts I directly follow that are major posts. It's starting to make bluesky unusable.
July 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Is it me or is the discover algorithm becoming terrible? Just feels like relevant posts are not being shown to me in a timely manner. Still seeing posts about ozzy but hardly anything by accounts I directly follow that are major posts. It's starting to make bluesky unusable.
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BREAKING: Columbia University agrees to pay more than $220 million in deal with the Trump administration to restore federal funding.
Columbia agrees to pay more than $220 million in deal with Trump to restore federal funding
Columbia University has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than $220 million to the federal government to restore federal research money that was canceled in the name of combating antisemitism on campus, the university announced Wednesday.
bit.ly
July 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
BREAKING: Columbia University agrees to pay more than $220 million in deal with the Trump administration to restore federal funding.
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Noooo…
~25% of employees left this year with the Fork, early retirement, and/or the buyout. Refuges were underfunded before that happened, with annual funding around 25% what is needed.
Recall, refuges also help protect people & infrastructure by helping curb impacts of hurricanes and floods.
~25% of employees left this year with the Fork, early retirement, and/or the buyout. Refuges were underfunded before that happened, with annual funding around 25% what is needed.
Recall, refuges also help protect people & infrastructure by helping curb impacts of hurricanes and floods.
BREAKING: The House just moved to slash $22M from the Refuge System in its FY26 budget bill—along with dangerous riders that that weaken protections for wildlife, public lands, and the endangered species they support.
📰 Read our response ⬇️
#RefugeStrong #ProtectOurRefuges #WildlifeRefuge
📰 Read our response ⬇️
#RefugeStrong #ProtectOurRefuges #WildlifeRefuge
House Funding Bill Chips Away at National Wildlife Refuges with Deep Cuts & Damaging Riders — The National Wildlife Refuge Association
Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee advanced its Fiscal Year 2026 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies spending bill— and while it wasn’t the slash-and-burn bill the President ha...
www.refugeassociation.org
July 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Noooo…
~25% of employees left this year with the Fork, early retirement, and/or the buyout. Refuges were underfunded before that happened, with annual funding around 25% what is needed.
Recall, refuges also help protect people & infrastructure by helping curb impacts of hurricanes and floods.
~25% of employees left this year with the Fork, early retirement, and/or the buyout. Refuges were underfunded before that happened, with annual funding around 25% what is needed.
Recall, refuges also help protect people & infrastructure by helping curb impacts of hurricanes and floods.
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Bradley Edwards, attorney for Epstein survivors, says on MSNBC that the executors of Epstein's estate are in possession of the birthday book containing Trump's letter and would be willing to turn it over to authorities
July 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Bradley Edwards, attorney for Epstein survivors, says on MSNBC that the executors of Epstein's estate are in possession of the birthday book containing Trump's letter and would be willing to turn it over to authorities
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Thai and Cambodian soldiers fired at each other in a contested border area after downgrading their diplomatic relations in a rapidly escalating dispute. A video from Thailand’s side showed people running from their homes and hiding in a bunker. It was not immediately clear if the clash was ongoing.
Thai and Cambodia soldiers fire at each other in disputed border area
Thai and Cambodian soldiers have fired at each other in a contested border area after the nations downgraded their diplomatic relations in a rapidly escalating dispute.
bit.ly
July 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Thai and Cambodian soldiers fired at each other in a contested border area after downgrading their diplomatic relations in a rapidly escalating dispute. A video from Thailand’s side showed people running from their homes and hiding in a bunker. It was not immediately clear if the clash was ongoing.
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Yes, Trump’s focus on Obama is meant to distract from the Epstein files, but he is also serious about targeting Obama.
A primary drive for malignant narcissists is pursuit of revenge for perceived (although usually imagined) narcissistic injury or betrayal. They often will pursue revenge for years.
A primary drive for malignant narcissists is pursuit of revenge for perceived (although usually imagined) narcissistic injury or betrayal. They often will pursue revenge for years.
July 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Yes, Trump’s focus on Obama is meant to distract from the Epstein files, but he is also serious about targeting Obama.
A primary drive for malignant narcissists is pursuit of revenge for perceived (although usually imagined) narcissistic injury or betrayal. They often will pursue revenge for years.
A primary drive for malignant narcissists is pursuit of revenge for perceived (although usually imagined) narcissistic injury or betrayal. They often will pursue revenge for years.
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Russ Vought: “We wish to destroy government as you all know it, including medical research and universities, and we will crush Democrats to do it“
Schumer: “Please be our bipartisan partners so we can be maximally bipartisan and pretend things are normal”
Schumer: “Please be our bipartisan partners so we can be maximally bipartisan and pretend things are normal”
Democrats are holding a news conference right now to highlight they want to have a bipartisan appropriations process, but Schumer says "Republicans are making it extremely difficult to do that" by "talking about rescissions, pocket rescissions, and impoundment"
July 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Russ Vought: “We wish to destroy government as you all know it, including medical research and universities, and we will crush Democrats to do it“
Schumer: “Please be our bipartisan partners so we can be maximally bipartisan and pretend things are normal”
Schumer: “Please be our bipartisan partners so we can be maximally bipartisan and pretend things are normal”
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We thought this was an @theonion.com headline at first, but no...
Children's Health Defense (the anti-vax group founded by good ol 🧠🪱 himself)
...is suing RFKJr for failing to establish a vaccine safety task force
www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/h...
Children's Health Defense (the anti-vax group founded by good ol 🧠🪱 himself)
...is suing RFKJr for failing to establish a vaccine safety task force
www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/h...
Anti-vaccine group that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. founded files lawsuit against him over vaccine safety task force | CNN
A nonprofit anti-vaccine group founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is suing him, in his capacity as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, for failing to establish a task force to p...
www.cnn.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
We thought this was an @theonion.com headline at first, but no...
Children's Health Defense (the anti-vax group founded by good ol 🧠🪱 himself)
...is suing RFKJr for failing to establish a vaccine safety task force
www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/h...
Children's Health Defense (the anti-vax group founded by good ol 🧠🪱 himself)
...is suing RFKJr for failing to establish a vaccine safety task force
www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/h...
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Bill Scher has a better plan.
(Ps scientists should read @washingtonmonthly.com - it’s a great news source for politics.)
(Ps scientists should read @washingtonmonthly.com - it’s a great news source for politics.)
“Democrats should immediately announce that all talks about Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations are over.”
“It’s not the Democrats’ job to keep the government open and have no say in how the federal government functions.”
My case in @washingtonmonthly.com
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/22/d...
“It’s not the Democrats’ job to keep the government open and have no say in how the federal government functions.”
My case in @washingtonmonthly.com
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/22/d...
Democrats Should Get Tough and Quit Negotiating Spending Bills | Washington Monthly
Republicans broke the budget deal. Democrats should stop negotiating and let them keep the government open alone.
washingtonmonthly.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Bill Scher has a better plan.
(Ps scientists should read @washingtonmonthly.com - it’s a great news source for politics.)
(Ps scientists should read @washingtonmonthly.com - it’s a great news source for politics.)
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Heartbreaking. “At this point, women have been cleared out of all of the military’s top jobs. They are not likely to be replaced by other women: Of the three dozen four-star officers on active duty in the U.S. armed forces, none is female”
A special Daily with a remembrance of my mother in the PS at the end on what would have been her 91st birthday:
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Administration Wants Military Women to Know Their Place
Pete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces.
www.theatlantic.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Heartbreaking. “At this point, women have been cleared out of all of the military’s top jobs. They are not likely to be replaced by other women: Of the three dozen four-star officers on active duty in the U.S. armed forces, none is female”
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Can't believe I had to issue a request like this, but apparently news outlets are printing completely fabricated quotes now
July 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Can't believe I had to issue a request like this, but apparently news outlets are printing completely fabricated quotes now