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Governments telling professors and students what they’re not allowed to talk and think about. Nakedly authoritarian and also, should work great. There are few things young people respond to more obediently than having politicians tell them what they’re allowed to think about. s/

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office.

This is looting.

Proposed cuts to libraries, parks, CUNY, housing + health, while keeping NYPD + Corrections intact; proposed real property tax increases disproportionately affecting Black owners + most tenants; homeless encampment sweeps.

Why is Z proposing these regressive measures, and how best can we respond? 🧵

Trump post: "Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and any and all other information connected to these highly complex but extremely important, matters. GOD BLESS AMERICA!" - President Donald J. Trump

Literal desperation.

In Major Breakthrough, Volkswagen Auto Workers Reach Tentative Deal Volkswagen had dangled a treat: a ratification bonus of $4,000, sweetened by $1,500 if a first contract at its assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was approved by Halloween 2025. But auto worker...

Breaking: Volkswagen workers have voted by 96 percent to ratify their first union contract.

labornotes.org/2026/02/majo...

Grift all the way down

Large banner of Trump unfurled at Justice Department headquarters The DOJ has traditionally operated with a degree of separation from the White House to prevent the department's powers from being abused for political purposes.

“I will scale the building myself to tear that shit down in three years," says a former J6 prosecutor. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

a government for, by and of degenerates

The inspector general’s office is investigating a formal complaint that Ms. Chavez-DeRemer was having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a subordinate — a member of her security detail — and abusing her office by taking staff to strip clubs, drinking alcohol on the job and taking personal trips at taxpayer expense.

Meanwhile, the Labor Secretary herself:

"Robin Vos, who spent the last decade demonizing people in Madison/Milwaukee, disenfranchising Democratic voters, & nullifying elected Democratic officials statewide, all while serially lying about & defunding one of 🇺🇸 greatest public university systems" announces he won't seek re-election.

Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented.

Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

A one-man tour-de-force of corruption, using his money and connections everywhere he went to build networks which would prevent anyone from holding him accountable.

Once again, I am promising Democrats there are literally thousands of former department of justice people who will crawl over broken glass to prosecute this administration given the chance

Epstein sympathized with Kavanaugh during supreme court confirmation, emails show Files show convicted sex abuser messaged with Ken Starr and others about Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford

That doesn’t surprise me.

he's stealing billions of dollars of taxpayer money for his personal slush fund

the most corrupt, criminal administration in history and despite how high a bar that is it isn't particularly close

the only place this should happen is academic conferences

Hmm. The US is giving $10 billion in taxpayer dollars, not appropriated by Congress, to a fake board set up by the President and which he put himself in charge of *for life*... seems very, very illegal.

The medical model of disability is harmful, sure, but Im not sure the moral/religious model of disability doesn't come a close second.
Im not a parent, but this feels monstrous to me.
Monstrous.

Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.

a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing

crazy what happens when you do journalism based on how people actually are instead of writing “reported fiction” about how you imagine them to be

Whenever someone insists we can’t elect a woman president I think about how we went 219 years without electing a Black president and then we did. After all this shit I still believe in America.

I want to emphasize that this memo and policy is NOT about asylum seekers, who come to the US first and then seek legal status after.

Refugees seek legal status outside the United States, are granted protection, and then come here fully legally.

Opinion | How California Is Damaging Faith in Government

Imagine writing (paraphrasing) "California's efforts to be meticulous & make sure all votes are counted accurately produces a lag that Trump will be able to fill with lies" in the context of a column that is meant to criticize ... California!

I know the US has done a ton of atrocities globally, but it’s really something to get so mad about one *good* thing we were doing that you turn it into a new atrocity. They KILLED MILLIONS OF CHILDREN with a keystroke and a grin, not a second thought. Unimaginable evil. Vought/Musk Hague 2027 Tour

Federal Judges Can Barely Conceal Their Disgust For the Trump Administration’s Lawlessness When federal judges are appending Bible verses to their signature blocks, that is generally a sign that democracy is not in a good place.

"In the administration’s imagination, [adverse court] rulings are evidence of a biased judiciary. In reality, what the administration perceives as open hostility from judges is an objective response to open authoritarianism."

A dose of sanity from @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social:

These numbers seem low.

the main reason to go after the rich is that if you don’t the entire structure of your society is predicated on the whims of people who are entirely disconnected from ordinary life

billionaires are simply too dangerous to exist, and any budgetary stuff that comes out of it is just a bonus

I grew up Catholic, and never in a lifetime of Ash Wednesdays did I ever see anyone with this level of performative marking.

Looks like he drew it on himself with a Sharpie.

If you’re an American service member who gets killed in a retaliatory strike, your family can take comfort in the fact that it was done in service of making the host of Celebrity Apprentice feel like a big man for a minute, before he moved on to something else and forgets about this forever

this is classic #brexit economics....