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Fool's Gold Parachute.

State Department visa policy could bar trans people from traveling to U.S. Violations could result in travel bans beyond just athletes

Finally.

A major media outlet has finally reported on Trump’s total travel ban for transgender visa applicants seeking the United States.

I had to scream for two days to get someone else to report on it.

It is NOT just for athletes.

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The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control and is awarding the work to Musk’s Starlink. Follow the money and see where it goes.

Ah, that old chestnut.

Fealty to Donald Trump will not spare you from his cruelty.

It's strength — not weakness — that curbs his baser instincts.

Now is the time for us to be strong.

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Each day this week, I am doing a thread to signal boost creators that are being targeted for marginalization by jerks.

If you are a creator with a disability, please post below and include a link/sample of your work.

You DO NOT have to disclose your disability!

Support these folks, everyone!

Civil Service Strong: Resources for Civil Servants Effective. Impartial. Resilient. The civil service comprises dedicated, nonpartisan federal employees who work tirelessly across the country and around the world to ensure the effective delivery of go...

If you’re a government employee, thank you for your service & here’s a resource you may find helpful. Stay strong. www.civilservicestrong.org

ATTN FEDS: I'm working away today, looking into "Fork" memo implementation and any funding/disbursement changes being made (DOGE-related or not).

If you have information about what's going on, please reach out. Contact me using a non-work phone or computer — my email and Signal are in my bio.

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

At OPM, Musk’s staffers won’t leave—they work around the clock and have even installed sofa beds in the office. Our access to data systems has been restricted, raising serious concerns about cybersecurity and a complete lack of oversight. We are keeping our heads down and documenting everything.

America is being dismantled and destroyed by Robber Baron Brown Shirts!

No one is coming to save us!

We must stand United and fight them at every turn!

Pass it on!

I don’t care if you’re a relative, a fantasy novelist, or an elected official, transphobia is manufactured outrage and transphobe are trash.

None of America’s problems are cause by trans people. None.

But a LOT are caused by bigots.

OpenAI: China stole our tech!!

Luddites: Oh weird how'd you make your tech in the first place

OpenAI: 😡

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Oh yeah, absolutely! I know its origin and how it operates as a dungeon, and even got to attempt a speed run through it DM'd by Luke Gygax. But I'm also not wrong: It's the worst *module* ever written, however it arrived at that format. 30 Helens agree!

HOT TAKE: Tomb of Horrors is the worst D&D module ever written.

And by "Hot", I mean "Exactly 100% with no Question Accurate".

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Gritty continues to be a real one

We'll fight like hell for as long as we need or as long as we're able, whichever comes first.

Rockwell was right -- we weren't fierce.

It's long past time to be fierce.

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"With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs... Yet... intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."

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"We are not fierce, and the truth will not frighten us. Trust us, for we have given you our trust. We are the governed, remember, but we govern too."

They DID watch us more closely. And we showed them that we were more like H.G. Wells's humanity in relation to the Martians.

4/6

"Your voice must be ours, and ours speaks of cities that are not safe, and of wars we do not want, of poor in a land of plenty, and of a world that will not take the shape our arms would give it."

3/6

"But watch us more closely from now on, for those of us who stand here mean to watch those we put in the seats of power. And listen to us, you who lead, for we are listening harder for the truth that you have not always offered us."

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Painting depicting more than twenty people standing and looking expectantly at the viewer. An executive chair with its back to the viewer is in the foreground, and a desk is between the people and the chair. The people are representative of a variety of ages, ethnicities, and financial and cultural backgrounds. The painter, Norman Rockwell, is one of those people depicted. The text in this post's thread is shown under the painting, which was commissioned by Look Magazine for one of its issues.

Norman Rockwell's "The Right to Know", from 1968:

"We are the governed, but we govern too. Assume our love of country, for it is only the simplest of self-love. Worry little about our strength, for we have our history to show for it. And because we are strong, there are others who have hope."

1/6

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Time to dust off this old chestnut.

I think this post should be banned.

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SURPRISE! I am now saving this post!

I AM A HERO.

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Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day, National Coffee Break Day, Elementary School Teacher Day, Goru Gobind Singh Jayanti, International Day of Acceptance, Penguin Awareness Day, Take a Walk Outdoors Day, and National Cheese Lover's Day!

Other events need not apply.

Vintage, distressed cover of the book "Biggles Defies the Swastika". James Bigglesworth, nicknamed "Biggles", is a fictional pilot and adventurer, the title character and hero of the Biggles series of adventure books, written for young readers by W. E. Johns.

Fuck yeah, Biggles.

Aspirations.

Emo stalker Superman was a difficult sell.