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@lifesrichbouquet.bsky.social
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Journalist. Questioner. Researcher. Leguminati. 🫘 Talking Feds fan. Feminist. Domestic Abuse survivor. University of Wisconsin-Madison grad. Proud ex-Cardinalista. Sometime smartypants. Dog lover. Not giving up in advance.
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kabulykos.bsky.social
Cecil Rhodes made for an amazing episode of "Bad Gays"
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Cecil Rhodes — Bad Gays
A British colonist and mining magnate who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony. An ardent white supremacist – no matter what revisionist historians and the right-wing press claim – he rose from...
badgayspod.com
January 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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lioneltrolling.bsky.social
As Trump prattled on about Mars, expansion, and "manifest destiny," I could not help but think of Cecil Rhodes's quote: “Expansion is everything...these stars . . . these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could.”
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Returning to Origins
Trump's Inauguration and the Ideology of Endless Expansion
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January 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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mattdpearce.com
the stuff about Mars and the Panama Canal, from a political coalition of billionaires mingling with J6 rabble, is practically ripped from Arendt’s chapters on imperialism in “Origins of Totalitarianism”
January 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
We've finally defeated cancel culture. Now people only get fired for criticizing the government
January 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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kleinman.bsky.social
John Carreyrou
January 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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tusk81.bsky.social
“Frankly I have difficulty understanding how a member of the Bar could state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order,” Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, a Reagan appointee, told the Trump DOJ attorney. “It just boggles my mind.”
tusk81.bsky.social Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · Jan 23
Federal judge blocks Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship nationwide, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional.”

“I’ve been on the bench for over four decades, I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is.”

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Judge in Seattle blocks Trump order on birthright citizenship nationwide
Washington Attorney General Nick Brown had sued to block the executive order, calling it “unconstitutional, un-American and cruel.”
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January 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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mattdpearce.com
Members! Plural!
January 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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mattdpearce.com
Is “sexual favors” some sort of umbrella euphemism for total sex pest behavior, or was there actual transactional stuff in here??

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Before that meeting, a Johnson aide told Loudermilk's staff that multiple colleagues had raised concerns with the speaker's office about the potential for public disclosure of "sexual texts from members who were trying to engage in sexual favors" with Hutchinson, according to correspondence produced at the time that detailed the conversation. Separately, a member of Johnson's staff told Loudermilk aides that Hutchinson could "potentially reveal embarrassing information," according to an email reviewed by The Post.
January 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING, via The Seattle Times: Trump's executive order to restrict birthright citizenship is blocked for at least the next two weeks by a Reagan appointee in Seattle who eviscerated the Trump lawyers present defending the order. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on Thursday was blistering in his criticism of Trump’s action as he granted a temporary restraining order that blocks Trump’s executive order from taking effect nationwide. “I’ve been on the bench for over four decades, I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” Coughenour, an appointee of Ronald Reagan, said from the bench. “There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?” Coughenour interrupted before Brett Shumate, a Justice Department attorney, could even complete his first sentence. “In your opinion Is this executive order constitutional?” he asked. Shumate said, “it absolutely is.” “Frankly I have difficulty understanding how a member of the Bar could state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order,” Coughenour said. “It just boggles my mind.”
January 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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mattdpearce.com
Amen. Bezos was the only legacy media guy sitting in the front row of the inauguration, and it sure wasn’t because he owns the Washington Post.
willoremus.com Will Oremus @willoremus.com · Jan 23
people are still far too worried about whether cnn or the new york times are becoming too liberal or too conservative and not nearly interested enough in all the other online spaces where the majority of americans are getting their political information and cultural cues.
January 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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shashj.bsky.social
Our cover this week
January 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Going on @majorityreport.bsky.social in five minutes to talk about decentralized social media and resisting the tech oligarchy - come hang out!

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Resisting The Tech Oligarchy; Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Blitz w/ Jason Koebler, Nayna Gupta
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
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January 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
The Social Security Administration's site about changing gender on social security info now says “you are not authorized to access this page.”

www.404media.co/trumps-admin...
Trump’s Administration Is Taking Down Sites About Gender Identity All Over the Internet
After Trump signed an unscientific, transphobic executive order deeming there to be "two sexes," several informational websites about gender identity went offline.
www.404media.co
January 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
You can watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole with employee policies and public websites on GitHub, which is automatically cataloguing all of the changes the 18F agency is frantically making to its internal and external webpages:

www.404media.co/github-is-sh...
GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time
Watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole on this government agency's GitHub page.
www.404media.co
January 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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annamerlan.bsky.social
If you’re a federal employee and want to talk about DOGE, my Signal username is annamerlan.30 and I simply love to chat with people on their non-work devices
January 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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mdcarling.bsky.social
Looks like the following programs in #NSF BIO have been 'archived':
BRC-BIO - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
BIO-LEAPS - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
PRFB - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO)
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January 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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pamelamarrache.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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thealexknapp.bsky.social
New from me - the National Institutes of Health has cancelled communications and meetings, including those that approve grant funding for crucial cancer research and approve clinical trials.

www.forbes.com/sites/alexkn...
Trump Administration Delays Funding To Cancer Research
A temporary freeze on meetings on the National Institutes of Health could lead to delays in disbursing research grants and in approving crucial clinical trials.
www.forbes.com
January 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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texaspublicradio.bsky.social
U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour issued a ruling on Thursday temporarily blocking President Trump's executive order that aimed to end birthright citizenship for children born to migrants in the U.S. temporarily or without legal status.

Read more at: www.tpr.org/government-p...
January 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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emmynawjoopinga.bsky.social
Trump attorneys’ call into question U.S. citizenship for Native people. They state because Indians “owe ‘immediate allegiance’ to their tribes, they are not ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States and are not constitutionally entitled to Citizenship.” www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
MSN
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January 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
lifesrichbouquet.bsky.social
What's up? Certainly not the standards of conduct of our Republican lawmakers, that's for sure. Good grief!
sorayanadiamcdonald.com Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · Jan 23
No wonder they're confirming sexual harassers, they're all doing it
January 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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yooperdoc.bsky.social
I’m really glad to see the CDC implement this recommendation. It will help identify/quantify people with 5N1, as well as alert us to potential human-human transmission. At least they implemented this before 1/20/25.
Health Alert Network (HAN) - 00520 | Accelerated Subtyping of Influenza A in Hospitalized PatientsMinusSASstats
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January 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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galaxyrabbit.bsky.social
Ok #booksky, let’s talk.

👎🏼Goodreads, owned by Amazon, fuels its monopoly on books.

👍🏼StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform, offers an ethical, ad-free alternative with mood-based recommendations, user control over data, and a focus on inclusivity. Support diversity over corporate power!
January 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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yooperdoc.bsky.social
This will definitely be a tool for tracking women who are trying to get to a different state or country for health care. This is not a drill!
Delete Ovia.
#gilead
#womenhealth
#resist
January 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM