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Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland including a Native American sacred site, to Resolution Copper a mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP. The land holds deep spiritual significance for the Western Apache tribe.

confessed to my colleagues I didn’t start out funny, but when you’re the weird autistic kid you tell the truth in unexpected ways & that’s the same basic format as a joke, so at some point I just started confidently pretending I was doing it on purpose & confidence changes laughing AT to WITH

Some federal employees have been identified after Attorney General Pam Bondi began seeking records and testimony from journalists.

Potential art-book/project thread! Please read below!! 👇👇

Can i first ask that you please retweet and comment your thoughts on this? I need as many eyes on this as possible to gauge if its a viable side project worth pursuing!

RETROGRADE - A catalogue from from a future that never was!

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Calling neurodivergence like autism a “disease” (rather than the genetic neurological condition that it is) that should be “cured” is ableist and dehumanizing. The only way to “cure” a genetic condition in a society is to eliminate those that have it from the gene pool. And that’s called genocide.

Starting a registry of “others” so you can monitor and track them based on their “other-ness” is a facilitating step toward getting rid of said “others” — see Japanese internment camps, see yellow armbands with stars of David.

Was it the person taking this photo? ;)

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

I do know one thing… 🙏🔥🍾

If you see this, share a skeleton

And you're including those eggs gratis! Eggs! In this economy!

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump.

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In my murder mystery, there’s a scene where her mother tells her not to be a rock, to be water. Water only looks gentle, passive. It goes around, it finds away. But water cuts stone. With time, water will bring down a mountain.

Be like the water.

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

Gov. Spencer Cox has signed HB267 which strips Utah public employees of their collective bargaining rights.

As someone with some serious concerns about AI and ethics, this little interaction felt emblematic (and made me chuckle)—no substance behind the scenes for those inclined to look.

I'm told Utah has joined this lawsuit to END PROTECTIONS AND ACCOMMODATIONS FOR DISABLED STUDENTS. You read that correctly.

Become a better magician than that dork ass loser by imagining a better reality than this hellscape he wants because he only cares about being a big boy king

Stories are magic, and all of us can start telling new ones right now

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attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

Hi all, I'm a WIRED journalist on the science desk. If you're a government scientist or federally funded researcher with info to share about the Trump transition, please feel free to contact me securely on Signal: emullin.06

🔥 CULTURAL MEMORY: CHERUBIM AND A FLAMING SWORD 🗡️
LED neon, 2024

Based on a rumor that there used to be a neon flaming sword on the wall of the Salt Lake temple.

Please reshare! I’m trying to rebuild my art audience 🫶

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.

If you are a straight, cis person and you feel that fucking knot in your stomach about what the administration is doing right now to trans people and trans children, you have to at the very fucking least say out loud in front of your friends and peers in real life "this is fucked up."

Red Cards / Tarjetas Rojas- it lets people know their rights. ilrc has it for free to print on their website. It’s a small thing to do, to place them around your town