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

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All these — rat a rat

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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."

Both democrat and republican senators are calling for the House Ethics committee to release the Gaetz report.

RFK announcement puts a fine point on something I've been trying to articulate and is a theme of the Trump years. It's something I've wrestled with and that a lot of Dem messaging has gotten wrong. Part of what Trump does is constantly divide the country along the lines of pro-system and anti-system

The Onion wins auction to take control of Alex Jones’s Infowars The sale ends Jones’s 25-year run controlling the conspiracy theorist website that peddled claims the Sandy Hook school shooting was a “hoax.”

Sprinkle of delightful news.