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Everyone who pays alot of attention to politics right now is losing their mind because it’s really difficult to understand how the majority of people are just like “yep living my life, oh a program to hire more women? Idk sounds good to me, I voted Trump to lower inflation hopefully he’s doing that”
Favorability of DEI Programs:
Favorable: 45%
Unfavorable: 36%
Net: +9%
YouGov / Feb 11, 2025 / n=1595
Favorable: 45%
Unfavorable: 36%
Net: +9%
YouGov / Feb 11, 2025 / n=1595
February 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Everyone who pays alot of attention to politics right now is losing their mind because it’s really difficult to understand how the majority of people are just like “yep living my life, oh a program to hire more women? Idk sounds good to me, I voted Trump to lower inflation hopefully he’s doing that”
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This is the policy of people who fervently believe in eugenics. They are going to sell this as a thing that impacts Black and Brown people. But it's really designed to get rid of the poor white people (disabled, elderly, substance abuse issues etc.) that rich white people loathe.
BREAKING: House Republicans have released their budget resolution. They are aiming to cut Medicaid by at least $880 billion, and cut SNAP by at least 20%.
February 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This is the policy of people who fervently believe in eugenics. They are going to sell this as a thing that impacts Black and Brown people. But it's really designed to get rid of the poor white people (disabled, elderly, substance abuse issues etc.) that rich white people loathe.
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One of the defining features of our current moment of lumpenfascism is a preoccupation with symbols of strength, power, or prestige, while being totally uninterested, or even actively opposed to learning about, the actual reasons why those symbols came to be in the first place. Cargo cult ideology.
February 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
One of the defining features of our current moment of lumpenfascism is a preoccupation with symbols of strength, power, or prestige, while being totally uninterested, or even actively opposed to learning about, the actual reasons why those symbols came to be in the first place. Cargo cult ideology.
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While university presidents are huddling w/ teams of communications consultants and lawyers, carefully crafting statements to respond to the attack on science, the Trump administration is making massive, rapid-fire moves. An asymmetrical battlefield, where consequences only flow one way.
February 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
While university presidents are huddling w/ teams of communications consultants and lawyers, carefully crafting statements to respond to the attack on science, the Trump administration is making massive, rapid-fire moves. An asymmetrical battlefield, where consequences only flow one way.
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While this comparison is actually too *generous* to Facebook (see my reply for why), even as presented here is appalling how clearly our legal system applies a double standard to corporations and billionaires vs. progressive activists fighting for justice.
Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
February 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
While this comparison is actually too *generous* to Facebook (see my reply for why), even as presented here is appalling how clearly our legal system applies a double standard to corporations and billionaires vs. progressive activists fighting for justice.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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In 2011, I talked with Larry Kramer in his Manhattan apartment, about his play The Normal Heart — but also about history, equality, and the future.
It’s an Obama-era interview with a man who died in 2020 that remains extremely current, in many parts, today. www.metroweekly.com/2011/11/an-a...
It’s an Obama-era interview with a man who died in 2020 that remains extremely current, in many parts, today. www.metroweekly.com/2011/11/an-a...
February 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
In 2011, I talked with Larry Kramer in his Manhattan apartment, about his play The Normal Heart — but also about history, equality, and the future.
It’s an Obama-era interview with a man who died in 2020 that remains extremely current, in many parts, today. www.metroweekly.com/2011/11/an-a...
It’s an Obama-era interview with a man who died in 2020 that remains extremely current, in many parts, today. www.metroweekly.com/2011/11/an-a...
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You kan not treate educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys ther to make a profit. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.
February 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
You kan not treate educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys ther to make a profit. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.
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Republicans want to turn this country into a fascist theocracy. As Democrats, we must put aside our differences and work with them to help achieve this reality.
February 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Republicans want to turn this country into a fascist theocracy. As Democrats, we must put aside our differences and work with them to help achieve this reality.
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we live under the most authoritarian government in the world
February 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
we live under the most authoritarian government in the world
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75% of the people on food stamps are white and red states overindex on government aid. Sorry to everyone that didn't vote for this, but you're going to have to feed your neighbors if you can
freezing food stamps and WIC for almost 20 million white people in America.... I guess he's working on the groceries now...
January 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
75% of the people on food stamps are white and red states overindex on government aid. Sorry to everyone that didn't vote for this, but you're going to have to feed your neighbors if you can
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it says a lot about an industry if a free and open source alternative to every product on the market can destroy 1 trillion dollars of “value” in one day lol
January 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
it says a lot about an industry if a free and open source alternative to every product on the market can destroy 1 trillion dollars of “value” in one day lol
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The threat of ICE has tons of people on high alert, the result is claims of ICE seen without firm or specific info people can actually use — & sometimes, no ICE at all.
It’s never “ICE spotted in Queens,” but “4 SUVs labeled DHS seen parked on 57th & 59th in Maspeth at 2:34pm.”
Be specific!
It’s never “ICE spotted in Queens,” but “4 SUVs labeled DHS seen parked on 57th & 59th in Maspeth at 2:34pm.”
Be specific!
January 25, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The threat of ICE has tons of people on high alert, the result is claims of ICE seen without firm or specific info people can actually use — & sometimes, no ICE at all.
It’s never “ICE spotted in Queens,” but “4 SUVs labeled DHS seen parked on 57th & 59th in Maspeth at 2:34pm.”
Be specific!
It’s never “ICE spotted in Queens,” but “4 SUVs labeled DHS seen parked on 57th & 59th in Maspeth at 2:34pm.”
Be specific!
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For the past decade we were told canceling events at colleges over private protests was the harbinger of totalitarianism but now a right wing government is doing it so it’s fine bsky.app/profile/adam...
An HBCU conference at Rutgers was cancelled following Trump's EO:
“Unfortunately, due to President Trump’s Executive Orders … we have been asked to cease all work under the auspices of the DEIA HUB at Jobs for the Future, which the U.S. Dept. of Labor funds” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
“Unfortunately, due to President Trump’s Executive Orders … we have been asked to cease all work under the auspices of the DEIA HUB at Jobs for the Future, which the U.S. Dept. of Labor funds” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Rutgers cancels HBCU event to align with Trump DEI orders
The Rutgers University Center for Minority Serving Institutions announced Thursday that it has canceled an upcoming virtual conference about registered apprenticeship programs as a result of President...
www.insidehighered.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
For the past decade we were told canceling events at colleges over private protests was the harbinger of totalitarianism but now a right wing government is doing it so it’s fine bsky.app/profile/adam...
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We can stop reading the NYT and WaPo any time and support independent journalism instead.
January 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
We can stop reading the NYT and WaPo any time and support independent journalism instead.
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So much said in so few words.
Hindsight by Stephen K. Kim — AC | DC A Journal for the Bent
Micro Fiction
Www.acdclit.com
December 24, 2024 at 8:03 PM
So much said in so few words.
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nj is the next gay mecca mark my words
December 1, 2024 at 12:18 AM
nj is the next gay mecca mark my words
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how can they still be called pod save america when they’ve done the opposite of that
November 27, 2024 at 8:19 PM
how can they still be called pod save america when they’ve done the opposite of that
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Every single thing described here — criticism of politicians, boycotts, protests, requests for updated language — is a normal tactic for social change.
These accusations could have been levied (and were!) against suffragettes, the Civil Rights movement, gay marriage campaigners, you name it.
These accusations could have been levied (and were!) against suffragettes, the Civil Rights movement, gay marriage campaigners, you name it.
November 27, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Every single thing described here — criticism of politicians, boycotts, protests, requests for updated language — is a normal tactic for social change.
These accusations could have been levied (and were!) against suffragettes, the Civil Rights movement, gay marriage campaigners, you name it.
These accusations could have been levied (and were!) against suffragettes, the Civil Rights movement, gay marriage campaigners, you name it.
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"Almost a quarter of renters report skipping meals to make their monthly rent payments... An astonishing 75 percent of swing-state voters said housing costs were the most stressful economic issue for their families."
A powerful call to action by Charlie Dulik in @nplusonemag.bsky.social
A powerful call to action by Charlie Dulik in @nplusonemag.bsky.social
The Renters’ Republic | Charlie Dulik
In a majority-homeowner nation, the rental crisis alone cannot explain Harris’s defeat, especially since the concentration of renters in cities means that as a group they likely still tilted toward he...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 27, 2024 at 3:46 AM
"Almost a quarter of renters report skipping meals to make their monthly rent payments... An astonishing 75 percent of swing-state voters said housing costs were the most stressful economic issue for their families."
A powerful call to action by Charlie Dulik in @nplusonemag.bsky.social
A powerful call to action by Charlie Dulik in @nplusonemag.bsky.social