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Trump threatens to withhold federal funding from NY if NYC elects Mamdani. An impeachable offense for any other president in any other era. In this one it’s just another Monday.

5 More Faculty, Staff Removed for Kirk Comments Republican politicians and other conservatives are calling for employees, including those in higher ed, to be terminated for their social media posts about Kirk's killing.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The free speech crusade will continue until complete conformity and submission are achieved.

I warned about General Tata when I wrote about what would happen if Trump came back.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The @washingtonpost.com has changed its slogan again, from “Democracy Dies In Darkness” to “Know Your Place.”

All because a MAGA candidate in a Republican district tried to out-MAGA the incumbent with the anti-immigrant idiocy.

Politicians in Republican primaries have every incentive to push things as far right as imaginable and we're all going to suffer from it. Another problem with gerrymandering here.

I would be ashamed not to stand up for trans folks, not just because there are trans folks I like and love, but because everyone should get to live with the same personal freedom and dignity I get simply for existing. Who are we if we do not wish for others every right and privilege we have.

"We were kidnapped" On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.

NEW: Story from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and me based on interviews with families of the men returned to Venezuela tonight after Trump disappeared them to El Salvador in March.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The girls? Oh they are fightingggggh

Every time I see RFK on tv

#WtfHoggle

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.

We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

They own what happens next.

What are you willing to do?

I think a lot of us need to be asking ourselves this very question right now.
What are you willing to do?
How uncomfortable are you prepared to make other people?
How uncomfortable are you prepared to make yourself?
What are you going to do?

If any Texan in my family refers to it as the gulf of america, you’re a yankee.

#gulfofmexico

Some lady just said that the only qualified person Trump has ever hired was Stormy Daniels and you know what?

This is going to be pretty niche but listen up

Artax LIVES

And the reason Artax lives is because when we see a G’mork around here, we beat its ass.
The Nothing ain’t got nothing on you
Because we are losing a lot, but believing that we can turn this shit around is what’s going to make it happen.

Defund Tesla

Everything Trump and musk are doing right now is illegal. They don’t care so why should you?

STRIKE

Calling your congressperson works. Keep filling those inboxes. #FightForDemocracy

Nancy Mace whining about people supposedly calling her “Ice Barbie” in the news this morning. You fugly ass heaux, ain’t nobody calling you that. You ain’t even “Ice Skipper”.

This administration y’all.

#fedworkersrights

Remember back in the first administration when we spammed the ICE tip lines and created a whole mess? That was fun and we should do it again.

A shocking Chinese AI advancement called DeepSeek is sending US stocks plunging | CNN Business US stocks dropped sharply Monday morning after a surprise advancement from a Chinese artificial intelligence company, DeepSeek, threatened the aura of invincibility surrounding America’s technology in...

Oh no the Chinese are doing the useless thing that gives wrong answers cheaper

www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/t...

Oof

Far-right pundit rails against women in law enforcement: ‘It’s an absurdity!’ ‘If we’re being honest, female cops are absurd. It’s an absurdity. I’m sorry. It’s just ridiculous. It’s cartoonish,’ Matt Walsh ranted on his podcast this week

This entire project is *very expliclty* about fully purging black people and women from huge swaths of public life, employment and education.

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Lol

European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.

"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"