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Crazy how long this conversation has been going on

After Jailing of Newark Mayor, DHS Official Warns of “More Arrests Coming” This comes as the administration is also considering suspending habeas corpus. The message is loud and clear: There is no rule of law.

After the mayor of Newark was arrested for protesting outside of a new immigration detention facility, a DHS official is threatening to arrest three members of Congress who were also present.
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Pope Leo XIV Calls for End to War in First Sunday Blessing as Pontiff

Pope Leo XIV used his first Sunday address to the faithful to call for peace. “Never again war,” he said to a roar from the crowd in St. Peter’s Square.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

What do you call humans being kidnapped and sent to another country to be imprisoned in shackles and forced to perform intense physical labor while living in horrid conditions under the threat of daily physical violence and rape?

Open a history book. You can do it. I believe in you.

SHAME

No More Female 4-Stars: Franchetti Firing Leaves Top Ranks Filled by Men Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's first female chief, last week without any clear explanation -- part of a purge of top uniformed leadership that included the Joint...

NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership

This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny

JUDGE KOLLAR-KOTELLY: The executive order states that agency heads shall select DOGE team members in consultation with the USDS administrator. It seems there’s no administrator to consult with. Who did the Treasury Secretary consult with when he hired Mr. Krause? And the executive order states the USDS administrator shall commence a software modernization initiative. Has the initiative been commenced? By whom? If there's no administrator, who did it? HUMPHREYS: The team is going about modernizing and improving legacy systems— JUDGE KOLLAR-KOTELLY: What team??

BY WHOM INDEED

🚨🚨🚨 Closing Social Security offices! Dammit, it's all hands on deck and where are the Dems? fElon's team works weekends, folks. This is just the beginning...

@propublica.org comes through again.

my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory

What?! Like, where the fuck are we?!

'Chilling effect': Arts organizations react to end of DEI initiatives from fed agency The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.

The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.

Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie holding up the Vince Lombardi trophy like a winner while Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts stands behind him.

There’s something very America about the rich old white guy who didn’t do shit holding up the trophy like a hero while standing in front of the Black man who actually did everything.

This seems like good advice to share.

1. Getting word that we have another anti-trans EO tonight, this time targeting teachers.

It directs the federal government to work with state AGs to put teachers who use trans kids pronouns in jail through "sexual exploitation" laws or "practicing medicine without a license."

From a RW source:

alright you wanna know how to support trans people?

hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.

Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

wake up babe, a "hating the cybertruck is ableist" take just dropped

It was a goddamn brilliant and beautiful show.

The Firehose Effect Don’t let Trump’s deluge daunt you

Trump's firehose of executive orders is meant to inundate you and make you stop trying to keep up. I encourage you to keep up. Keep reading. Keep watching.

Oh dang. That’s true.

On this dark day it's crucial to follow #feminist journalists, activists, scholars, artists, and comics who help us understand our structural problems and offer solutions--roadmaps toward freedom, justice.

@veronicaeye.bsky.social & I have you covered! We've worked with or vouch for all #writers 👇

Do not do the devil's work for him. Until there are legally enacted rules under the APA that are upheld by the courts, do not obey in advance. These are meant to intimidate trans people. It won't work.

We will not go away or disappear. Deal with it.

I had already gotten a RedNote account, but this was definitely the nail in the coffin for my TikTok.

So the press will report on this with the same fervor they did with the Cass review right…?

….right? 😅