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Mike Saunders
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Body in Boston, heart in the Bronx | Tolerant of everything except intolerance.
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The parallels are chilling. Reading Lewis in college doesn’t prepare you for experiencing the speedrun into dictatorship of the past month.
bookknife.bsky.social BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · Feb 19
$5000 is the exact amount the fascist dictator promises to hand out to each American worker in “It Can’t Happen Here” (Sinclair Lewis, 1935). The money never materializes, of course. The country gets secret police and concentration camps instead.
February 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Trump has seized the archives, the article explains, because he feels the prior archivist played a role in revealing he had classified documents piled up in an unsecured bathroom at his tacky golf club.

Once again, we all have to suffer because he got caught criming.
February 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.
X post: Elon Musk @elonmusk We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead. U.S. policy was to help bring an end to apartheid and establish a nonracial, democratic government. In response to this policy and the Act, USAID/South Africa was responsible for financing projects that apartheid victims viewed as critical in promoting social, political, and economic change through peaceful means. The mission enabled community consultation and ensured that the United States did not impose foreign-defined solutions to local problems. USAID created projects and activities to respond to the priorities of the black community and its leaders, maximized black participation and leadership, and ensured activities had a linkage to the general objectives of U.S. policy. First-year funding for the program was $25 million, which was raised to $50 million the second year. The main project areas were community outreach and leadership development to redress the repression of black-led institutions; educational support and training to address the educational crisis in South Africa; black private enterprise development to combat the inhibiting effects of apartheid–induced discrimination in private enterprise; university grants to help create a new generation of economic and political leaders; human rights; legal assistance; labor union training; and health and nutrition
February 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Same old playbook. [2019]
February 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
An unelected, erratic, ketamine-addled billionaire with far right/white nationalist views has taken control of the personnel and payment systems of the United States government. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole.
January 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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ddiamond.bsky.social
New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH.

No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts.

And no indication how long the pause will last.

With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.
Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review
The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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geauxgabrielle.bsky.social
BLUESKY! I’M GIVING AWAY $80,000 IN SCHOLARSHIPS TO WOMEN AND GIRLS NATIONWIDE!

APPLICATIONS OPEN TOMORROW! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REPOST/SKEET! thurmanperryfoundation.org
November 14, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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dionnewarwick.bsky.social
Me every time a new person is announced on that man’s team.
November 15, 2024 at 4:41 AM