Diane Davis

DHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism

DHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism https://theonion.com/dhs-warns-any-action-by-americans-will-be-treated-as-domestic-terrorism/

Western States Issue Their Own Vaccine Recommendations to Counter Kennedy

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How’s your Saturday goin’?

"Former UT President Jay Hartzell initiated a review of the program in February, warning faculty that Republican legislators were scrutinizing it. Two months later, the program was suddenly dropped, effective immediately." I ran that program for 23 years. It taught students to write.

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Attorney General Alerted Trump His Name Appeared in Epstein Files

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We’re hiring ! The Department of Rhetoric & Writing (DRW) at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the theory/history of rhetoric to begin in Fall of academic year 2026-27. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/167807

Opinion | We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.

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Full weekend.

All these — rat a rat

Congrats, hot shot!

There have been 426 school shootings since Columbine The Washington Post for years has tracked the number of students affected by school shootings. Since 1999, over 300,000 children have experienced gun violence during school hours.

Gift Article. Yesterday in Wisconsin, it was a 2nd grader who called 911.

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These people will absolutely try to topple the 14th amendment, which is the keystone on which Brown v Board rests. Remains to be seen whether SCOTUS goes along but I don’t feel hopeful about American freedom and equality. This has been a long project by the Federalist Society and their ilk.

“I’ll stop drinking if you let me run the Pentagon” is maybe the most alcoholic thing anyone has ever said

Same with women at hotels attending conferences?

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Is there any way to keep TFG from following us?

Trump Picks Stanford Physician Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to Head N.I.H. As the director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya would oversee the world’s premier medical research agency, with a $47 billion budget and 27 separate institutes and centers.

Breaking News: Donald Trump has picked Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, an author of a pandemic-era anti-lockdown treatise, to lead the National Institutes of Health.

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meanwhile.... Trump....Musk....and on and on. This is not a real argument.

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This is why nobody likes you. Miss the big picture much?

Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.

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of course he did...

Trump picks and why he picked them:

L - Loyalty
R - Retribution
D - Deal made in exchange for support
Ru - Russia wanted it
C - competency/expertise

Chief of staff: Susie Wiles (L, D)
Secretary of state: Marco Rubio (L, Ru)
Attorney general: Matt Gaetz (R)
Deputy AG: Todd Blanche (L)

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WATCH @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Trump testing Senate Republicans with his Matt Gaetz pick: "He basically wants them to crawl through the Capitol in their underwear and eat dog food out of a can in front of everyone like some fraternity hazing ritual. This is a humiliation exercise."