Matt Hardwick, Public Policy Wonk

First, they came for our DEI grants & we were advised to keep our grants "clean" of DEI words.

Then, they came for Harvard & many thought this was an elitist problem.

Now they are demanding that a PUBLIC university (UCLA) pay a BILLION DOLLARS.

We need to pay more attention to that damn poem.

In addition to the cruelty, the grift is always the point.

Blinken, Who Told Congress That Israel Was Not Blocking Aid in Gaza, Joins CAP’s Board Antony Blinken was quietly added to the board of the Center for American Progress. His 2024 certification, overruling two U.S. government bodies, kept weapons flowing to Israel in the war in Gaza.

Only in Washington - someone like Blinken keeps getting to operate without any accountability for what he has done.

Loveland Closing Shelter, Struggling to Find Solution for Homelessness | Westword The northern Colorado city wants to stop spending millions to operate homeless shelters, but doesn't want to sweep encampments without them.

"The City of Loveland is wrestling with how to solve homelessness after deciding to eliminate nearly all of its city-funded shelter space." #denver

I’m kind of in a book club. My coworker read a book, tells me about it and I say Hmm, that sounds interesting.

Might be some free clicks left here? bsky.app/profile/kati...

Yes. Which should be a #CivMil #Profession and #Ethics 5 alarm fire.

Normally states do the Guard b/c it comes with a ton of federal funding and support, that's the deal for the state-federal hybrid of it. But they don't have to. They can, and some do on a small scale, have State Defense Forces not subject to federalization. States should be rapidly spinning up SDFs.

do you think that, 6 months from now, a bunch of blue wave resist accounts are going to be screaming at cis gays for saying they won't vote for anyone who compromises on gay marriage

This is how the press has been treating right wing terrorism for almost a decade.

Shootings at gay clubs, shootings at protesters, shootings at power stations, bomb threats at children's hospitals - all of it gets a brief mention, for a day, and then it's done.

They are complicit.

yea, they can miss me with that. I've been out here. Their lateness does not constitute an emergency when I've been calling out the emergency for years.

And we about to see a lot of this.

Now it hits folks they think “matter” they want to come back to people talking about it for years

And demand they expose themselves to unsupported harm to “help”

Obviously everyone he names will have been prescreened for their guaranteed approval, so there won't be any scandals of refusal. Beyond that, I shudder to imagine.

Trump makes Kennedy Center Honors announcement. It caught the staff off guard President Trump says that the announcement of this year's Kennedy Center honorees will come Wednesday.

Man oh man this shitshow is gonna be a shitshow.

r/Lollapalooza 3 yr. ago DaL 028 Join [deleted] I'm excited for Limp Bizkit, but I'm a little worried about Antifa... Question I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

The philosophical justification for what’s happening in DC is basically this Reddit post

When I reached out to DHS for comment, they remarked "what a silly little story." The White House, in their response, said they wouldn't apologize for "posting banger memes"

THE COMPTROLLER

Exactly. I googled "Which Way, American Man" and you'd not be surprised to learn almost no one has ever used that reference before, making the connection to the book even more obvious. bsky.app/profile/tink...

The propagandists running the @DHSgov account are deliberately pushing thinly-veiled neo-Nazi material through the official communications channels of the U.S. government. Their goal is stirring outrage (to which they will express fake outrage) and signaling to their followers where they're going.

it’s going to be a taylor swift autumn thank god😭🙏

I’ve listened to a lot of the post debate analyses with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and thought this interview got into some questions that other interviews haven’t. I really enjoyed it!

this got a lot of new replies overnight. good times. feels like the old comics internet in bits, before people started saying "discourse 🙄" all the time whenever two people had different opinions

One of the most thorough discussions of the pros and cons of free buses in a North American context.

The Trump Administration Is Using Memes to Turn Mass Deportation Into One Big Joke Memes shared by the White House, DHS, and ICE have used catchy TikTok tunes to normalize mass deportation and Christian nationalist narratives. Experts say that's the point.

"While WIRED runs cover for criminal illegal aliens, we won’t apologize for posting banger memes.”—actual statement the White House actually gave for @tessowen.bsky.social's latest

Liberalism for the 21st Century We must stop shadowboxing old enemies and focus on reactionaries holding the daggers to our throats today.

"The actual assault on free speech is entirely from the right, with real individuals hounded out of their jobs or abducted off the streets for expressing ideas unpopular with the regime. Political correctness and cancel culture were always moral panics concocted by the right."

Nuclear fallout: Denver’s mini-reactor plans delayed after pushback, council member says Council member for northeast Denver says she wasn’t consulted about feasibility study.

Some fallout from that DIA nuclear power proposal

[Councilwoman Stacie] "Gilmore said she had not been consulted before Mayor Mike Johnston and airport leadership announced the plans for a feasibility study of nuclear power," writes @zialcita.bsky.social:

Anyone downplaying what is going on in this moment by claiming correct analysis is “alarmist” is not a safe person to be around especially as people grasp for any kind of stability they can in the rising tide of open fascism and its accompanying ambiguity, atomization and unreality.