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as a millennial of a certain age i can't really dislike Jon Stewart but come the fuck on man, a bunch of people knew. we tried to warn everyone. you and a lot of other media luminaries told us to calm down

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is being decimated right now. Mass layoffs happening across agencies (NIH, FDA, CDC etc).

Some employees found out by security badge being denied. Others got email.

Line outside Health Resources and Services Administration this AM shared with me:

Bathroom bans harm all women because they reduce people down to their appearance They reduce people to an assessment of their appearance based on gendered norms, and give excuses to those who want to inspect people's genitals.

🚽 "The trouble with bathroom bans is they don’t do what they purport to do. The argument is they're created to 'protect women', but they usually do the opposite."

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/bathroom-bans-harm-all-women-because-they-reduce-people-down-to-their-appearance/

Stuff like this is perfect because it shows how utterly devoid of creativity genAI evangelists are.

Great you recreated a photo that already exists in a drawing style that only has currency because of who you're stealing it from giving the world something with absolutely no value or meaning.

If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media.

But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.

2. So much of the conversation in Democratic circles and in parts of political media has been about messaging.

'Oh, Democrats just need better messaging,' I hear folks say.

Wrong. Even if Dems had the perfect message, it wouldn't get anywhere. This isn't messaging problem; it's a media crisis.

centre and centre-left media companies have been laundering transphobia for quite some time, framing it as a conflict between trans people and women (or some other group,) to reassure cis people (especially cis men) that their transphobia isn't conservative, that they Just Have Reasonable Concerns

Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.”

The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

This is why people need to stop saying "This isn't who we are" and start saying "We have to be better, we need to be so much better."

Quoting only to reiterate that the ICJ, ICC, Amnesty International, B'Tslem, Lemkin Institute, Human Rights Watch, United Nations, Doctors Without Borders, and multiple other organizations have all called what Israel is doing to Palestinians WITH OUR WEAPONS a genocide.

Because it's a genocide.

One annoying thing about the "run the government like a business" guys is that they also are terrible at running businesses. I run my podcast "like a business" in the sense that things are made to a high quality and shipped on time, but it seems their only version of "good business" is "layoffs"

Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years.

Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.

Eeeeee!!!!!!

"rescind acceptances"

the kind of thing that absolutely destroys trust and reputation for a supposedly world class institution

A Brief History of Kids Today Have Too Much Freedom

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the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting Kluwe, a Huntington Beach resident, made comments against a MAGA plaque proposed for installation at the Central Library, then approached the dais and was arrested.

Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting

www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

DOGE Has ‘God Mode’ Access to Government Data The president’s special commission now has an unprecedented ability to view and manipulate information at many federal agencies.

NEW: Two weeks ago gov't IT experts warned us that the worst case scenario would be if DOGE got full admin access to agency systems. We can report at at least one agency DOGE has unfettered "god mode" access. Our latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Top Social Security Official Leaves After Musk Team Seeks Data Access The departure of the acting commissioner is the latest backlash to the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to access sensitive data.

He's getting access to literally everything about everyone, IRS records, social security records, health records etc. No one can have any sense of privacy after this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...

Patriotism is the united interest of a privileged class over an under class. It is merely an expression of the values of those in power, and the expression of those values in turn are shaped by the economic and political systems.

“Forty-one U.S. senators could use the filibuster to block most legislation that enables the funding of Musk’s companies. With 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats, and two independents in the Senate, such a push is numerically possible, though politically difficult.“

The Generative AI Con It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st ...

Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all.

www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

Democrat political leaders when asked how they’re going to respond and fight back:

Please mask up out there 🙏

What's old is new again: www.indybay.org/newsitems/20...

If you are pissed about this but weren’t pissed about them cutting off medical care to trans children you are on step two of the “first they came for” poem

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