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OMG. Tom Homan was reportedly under FBI investigation for taking $50,000 in cash allegedly in exchange for a commitment to steer government contracts to a specific company. The entire thing was recorded, as it was an FBI sting operation.
The Trump admin dropped the investigation entirely.
The Trump admin dropped the investigation entirely.
Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
www.msnbc.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
OMG. Tom Homan was reportedly under FBI investigation for taking $50,000 in cash allegedly in exchange for a commitment to steer government contracts to a specific company. The entire thing was recorded, as it was an FBI sting operation.
The Trump admin dropped the investigation entirely.
The Trump admin dropped the investigation entirely.
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The amount of steps between the late night hosts being fired to minorities, LGBTQ, and strong female characters being forbidden is a lot less than we want to believe.
Each step is just a relatively small concession for these giant media conglomerates.
Each step is just a relatively small concession for these giant media conglomerates.
September 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The amount of steps between the late night hosts being fired to minorities, LGBTQ, and strong female characters being forbidden is a lot less than we want to believe.
Each step is just a relatively small concession for these giant media conglomerates.
Each step is just a relatively small concession for these giant media conglomerates.
This is wild! It's like something a doctor on a sci-fi show dreams up in the last five minutes of the episode
TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...
Man, 34, is no longer blind after tooth is implanted in eye in 'crazy' surgery
Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it's like.
www.nbcboston.com
September 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This is wild! It's like something a doctor on a sci-fi show dreams up in the last five minutes of the episode
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A tenet of Fascism is keep repeating lies and people will become so confused about what is the truth that they’ll start to believe them. We all have a responsibility to keep repeating the truth in the face of politically-motivated lying. Don’t just roll your eyes, speak up.
September 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
A tenet of Fascism is keep repeating lies and people will become so confused about what is the truth that they’ll start to believe them. We all have a responsibility to keep repeating the truth in the face of politically-motivated lying. Don’t just roll your eyes, speak up.
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Law enforcement officials removed a peace vigil that had stood outside the White House for more than four decades after President Donald Trump ordered it to be taken down as part of the clearing of homeless encampments in the nation’s capital: https://cnn.it/3HWaOhL
A decades-long peace vigil outside the White House is dismantled after Trump’s order | CNN Politics
Law enforcement officials on Sunday removed a peace vigil that had stood outside the White House for more than four decades after President Donald Trump ordered it to be taken down as part of the clea...
www.cnn.com
September 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Law enforcement officials removed a peace vigil that had stood outside the White House for more than four decades after President Donald Trump ordered it to be taken down as part of the clearing of homeless encampments in the nation’s capital: https://cnn.it/3HWaOhL
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“I fooled myself. I had to. Everybody has to.” — An ex-Nazi.
A chilling reminder that ordinary people often choose comfort over conscience. Complicity isn’t always active—it’s the everyday refusal to truly see evil.
A chilling reminder that ordinary people often choose comfort over conscience. Complicity isn’t always active—it’s the everyday refusal to truly see evil.
September 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
“I fooled myself. I had to. Everybody has to.” — An ex-Nazi.
A chilling reminder that ordinary people often choose comfort over conscience. Complicity isn’t always active—it’s the everyday refusal to truly see evil.
A chilling reminder that ordinary people often choose comfort over conscience. Complicity isn’t always active—it’s the everyday refusal to truly see evil.
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You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
September 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
US government orders 46 states to destroy trans education materials
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
US government orders states to destroy trans education materials
The US government has ordered 46 states and territories to destroy education materials referencing trans people.
www.thepinknews.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
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Losing my mind seeing anyone try to argue that AI has sentience. It does not!!! Stop confusing it with fiction. The androids and robots in sci-fi have feelings because HUMANS wrote those stories. In reality our AI isn’t actually intelligent, it’s vastly inferior to what we’ve imagined.
August 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Losing my mind seeing anyone try to argue that AI has sentience. It does not!!! Stop confusing it with fiction. The androids and robots in sci-fi have feelings because HUMANS wrote those stories. In reality our AI isn’t actually intelligent, it’s vastly inferior to what we’ve imagined.
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The assertion of technology “rights” and the systematic removal of human rights are part of the same fascist project.
No. It’s not sentient, you clowns. Stop selling this garbage in “news” articles.
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
August 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The assertion of technology “rights” and the systematic removal of human rights are part of the same fascist project.
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The phrase “ parents have a legitimate concern about integration of races in schools and as a party, we haven’t done a very good job of listening to those concerns.” would shock and offend I would hope. A similar statement about trans kids should also shock and offend.
August 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The phrase “ parents have a legitimate concern about integration of races in schools and as a party, we haven’t done a very good job of listening to those concerns.” would shock and offend I would hope. A similar statement about trans kids should also shock and offend.
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New from me: LinkedIn quietly removed references to deadnaming and misgendering from its hateful content policy this week. The company says it's underlying rules have not changed but advocates say it's part of a trend to loosen rules meant to protect vulnerable users.
LinkedIn quietly removed references to deadnaming and misgendering from its hateful content policy
LinkedIn quietly changed the language of its hateful conduct policy this week, removing a line that referenced a prohibition on misgendering and deadnaming of transgender individuals.
www.engadget.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
New from me: LinkedIn quietly removed references to deadnaming and misgendering from its hateful content policy this week. The company says it's underlying rules have not changed but advocates say it's part of a trend to loosen rules meant to protect vulnerable users.
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As an alum, a parent, and an expert on kids and families, I'm furious and deeply disappointed to see Brown abandoning trans kids in a moment when they're already facing so much hate.
Just read the Brown University agreement and this really jumped out.
"The University will not perform gender reassignment surgery or prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to any minor child for the purpose of aligning the child's appearance with an identity that differs from his or her sex."
"The University will not perform gender reassignment surgery or prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to any minor child for the purpose of aligning the child's appearance with an identity that differs from his or her sex."
July 31, 2025 at 1:04 AM
As an alum, a parent, and an expert on kids and families, I'm furious and deeply disappointed to see Brown abandoning trans kids in a moment when they're already facing so much hate.
Getting very tired of learning about cool things the US gov't has or does in the context of their demise
My latest: Polar scientists warn that the White House and NSF are planning to terminate the Nathaniel Palmer, the only US research icebreaker capable of handling Antarctic extremes, this October.
So far the plan has seen minimal pushback from Congress.
So far the plan has seen minimal pushback from Congress.
NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker
Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists
www.science.org
July 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Getting very tired of learning about cool things the US gov't has or does in the context of their demise
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The general lack of concern or urgency from university leaders about most of the fascist assault on higher education has been incredibly disheartening. We’re about to have every one of our Title VI National Resource Center area studies programs defunded & eviscerated, & it seems no one cares at all.
As I continue to stew over a terminated grant, I'm increasingly disappointed with the lack of concern by my university, esp as grants are officially given to universities, not PI's
July 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The general lack of concern or urgency from university leaders about most of the fascist assault on higher education has been incredibly disheartening. We’re about to have every one of our Title VI National Resource Center area studies programs defunded & eviscerated, & it seems no one cares at all.
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When you strip away humanity
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
When you strip away humanity
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"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
www.theatlantic.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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According to this Supreme Court, President Biden's Department of Education was exceeding its power by trying to forgive peoples' student loans.
President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.
President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
From Sotomayor's dissent:
July 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
According to this Supreme Court, President Biden's Department of Education was exceeding its power by trying to forgive peoples' student loans.
President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.
President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.
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in a crowded field this has to be one of the stupidest things ive read about LLMs and it astonishes me that this quote is from a humanist, a historian! by definition, what these tools cannot do is original novel research of the kind we do in monographs!
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
June 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
in a crowded field this has to be one of the stupidest things ive read about LLMs and it astonishes me that this quote is from a humanist, a historian! by definition, what these tools cannot do is original novel research of the kind we do in monographs!
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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No one has been more consistently wrong about the state and trajectory of American politics than the stable of self-anointed Very Serious People whose primary concern throughout the Trump era has been to scold people for being “alarmist,” for “overreacting,” for being “irrational” or “unserious.”
June 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
No one has been more consistently wrong about the state and trajectory of American politics than the stable of self-anointed Very Serious People whose primary concern throughout the Trump era has been to scold people for being “alarmist,” for “overreacting,” for being “irrational” or “unserious.”
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Hey, I know the people who need to hear this are probably not on this site, but here’s a free tip:
Stop resigning. Make the fascists fire you. Make them own their actions, then fight it with whatever legal remedies you can find.
We can’t win if people don’t fight.
Stop resigning. Make the fascists fire you. Make them own their actions, then fight it with whatever legal remedies you can find.
We can’t win if people don’t fight.
June 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Hey, I know the people who need to hear this are probably not on this site, but here’s a free tip:
Stop resigning. Make the fascists fire you. Make them own their actions, then fight it with whatever legal remedies you can find.
We can’t win if people don’t fight.
Stop resigning. Make the fascists fire you. Make them own their actions, then fight it with whatever legal remedies you can find.
We can’t win if people don’t fight.
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Saying 'people get things wrong too' is making a false category comparison between embodied, relational beings and an instrument of manipulation that's been tuned to fool people.
June 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Saying 'people get things wrong too' is making a false category comparison between embodied, relational beings and an instrument of manipulation that's been tuned to fool people.
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New signage encourages visitors to report any depictions of U.S. history that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living” or fail to highlight the “beauty, abundance or grandeur” of the landscape. www.sfgate.com/california-p...
Signs to police 'negative' history went up at Manzanar. Historians are nervous.
"It sends a pretty clear message that your story is not welcome here."
www.sfgate.com
June 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
New signage encourages visitors to report any depictions of U.S. history that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living” or fail to highlight the “beauty, abundance or grandeur” of the landscape. www.sfgate.com/california-p...
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The fact that so many people think celebrating the end of slavery in the US is “DEI” is actually clarifying of what they mean when they use DEI. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/...
Juneteenth: How cities are scaling back celebrations after Trump-era DEI rollbacks | CNN
Despite Juneteenth’s status as a federal holiday, celebrations across the country are being scaled back or canceled, as organizers cite safety problems and mounting resistance to diversity, equity and...
amp.cnn.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The fact that so many people think celebrating the end of slavery in the US is “DEI” is actually clarifying of what they mean when they use DEI. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/...