SR Long

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My dream is for it to happen like it does to vampires.

When the leader kicks the bucket, the rest of them burst into flames.

Oh look, it's Elmo's World--but in hell.

“The shooter was either sick or believed he was sick, and blamed his illness on COVID vaccine — which is why he was targeting the CDC.”

Fascism - rule by dictator
Oligarchy - gvt by wealthy few
Theocracy - ruled by religion
Kakistocracy - gvt by least qualified

America has produced a most unique system of government

A theofascoligkakracy

Points for honesty or maybe style, I guess? There's really no quiet part now, is there?

Everyone needs to understand what Elon and DOGE are building, an AI driven panopticon that will know everything about you and will be used to ensure compliance with their fascist agenda. They are creating a unified database of everything the federal government has on every single American.

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Time Travel? Wow. That IS efficient.

This isn't even "deportation" extralegal or otherwise, so much as it's looking a heckuva lot like HUMAN TRAFFICKING. 😒

When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.

Big rectangle over the flights' timeline between 7:26 and 11:39, labeled "In the air or in Honduras"

Washington Post's timeline is clearer than the one I made.

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials.

Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.

I've been asking this, too. I want to listen to people whose predictions about reality are CORRECT instead, because they are the ones who have useful insights. Miss me with the pandering and patronizing feel-good crap, legacy media.

All that’s going on now is what I meant when I said this in 2019.

A pretty key effort to break resistance. The key here is that if you're going to defend the rights of people in the nat sec world you need lawyers who themselves have clearances and thus can dig into the facts the legal questions turn on. that's what this is about. I'm not saying Mark won't be ...

Wait … they … 𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙙 ???

They want to destroy the universities because they believe that it's the universities that are turning kids away from far-right reactionary cultural preferences. Thus they want the universities either indoctrinating young people into far-right beliefs, or they want them gone.

"The United States is in a constitutional crisis"

Agree: 54%
Disagree: 27%

Unsure: 19%

YouGov / Feb 6, 2025 / n=1106

This is starting to feel like 1917; Russian in complexity, only the HeritageF zealots are actually Nazis, and they're thinking that the FedSoc faction are 🍬🍑🚼 who don't have RealGuts. Strange times to be a peasant, I will say that.

Same. It's DEEPLY unfortunate, but MMWR is not going to serve as any kind of genuine digest of need-to-know in this regime.

The Outdoor Recreation Roundtable told Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee leaders the group supports the confirmation of Interior secretary nominee Doug Burgum. In a letter to ENR Chair Mike Lee (R-Utah) and ranking member Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), the advocacy group said the former North Dakota governor's "support for outdoor recreation, the outdoor recreation economy, and the protection of public lands and waters makes his leadership critical for the Administration and the Department." The group, comprising dozens of outdoor recreation advocacy entities, praised Burgum for establishing the North Dakota Office of Outdoor Recreation - making it the 22nd state to create such an agency. The group also praised Burgum's commitment to supporting outdoor recreation.

I’ve been an REI customer (co-op member) for ten years, so I guess “email the REI Board to tell them how I feel about their signing off on Burgum” is another thing to add to tomorrow’s to do list (also they should allow their stores to unionize)

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Almost as though the REAL problem was education and scholarship all along, yk?

Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out.

Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.

Say equity, which a just society should pursue.

Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.

Republicans reveal the real reasons they love Trump as FOTUS.

He is pro-financial crime,

This IS Project 2025.

So let me get this straight-- Peter Thiel is Musk's staffing agency? The world's creepiest tech high priest, who collects a certain "type" as his extra special friends--? (Musk and Vance are BOTH his type, btw).

Worst remake of Sleepers ever.

Two lawyers, one Yale educated, one Harvard educated; one the VP, one a senator, suggesting that decisions made by courts aren’t legitimate if they don’t like the outcome. This is dangerous territory.

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

Trust me, bro.

Under fascism, no one is safe.

Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.

Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.

Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

The NIH’s drastic cut to indirect cost rates is a critical threat to U.S. research infrastructure The drastic reduction in indirect costs is not a path to innovation or cost savings — it’s a threat to U.S.’s position as global leader in medical research.

My #Yale colleague Harlan Krumholz explains why the cuts to indirect costs are a disaster for biomedical research in the United States. Want to do something about it? I'll list those who have to hear from us below. Share, recruit friends and family to help. 1/ www.statnews.com/2025/02/08/n....

Listen to @oniblackstock.bsky.social. Your silence will not protect you. Stand up. Find others to stand up with. There is safety in numbers.