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Civil Servants Demand: Impeach Russell Vought The Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is the central architect driving the destruction of your government. Russell Vought created lawlessness in every part of the Trump administ...

Civil Servants Demand Impeachment of Russell Vought

Feds, state, and all citizens are asked to sign the form below.
Vought is wrecking your gov from the inside out. Help us stand against him & bring accountability to those subverting the Constitution.

Barrage of Emails From AI Politics Platform Defeats Clean Air Initiative A zero-emissions regulation was defeated thanks to the efforts of CiviClick, a platform offering AI powered astroturfing.

Powered by CiviClick, a "Disruptive Digital Advocacy Software."

this is it, the demand for all electeds, all the time every time.

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

This is a fantastic suggestion for every politician who's unwilling to stop posting on X altogether.

It really beggars belief how so many journalists have been so incurious and unaware - but that’s how it’s been with moral panics in the modern era.

Transphobe: Trans inclusive sport is against SCIENCE!

Me: OK So would you agree to sport-by-sport rules based on scientific evidence?

Transphobe: NO

Awe..... #2026MMM vibes here

I keep telling folks that the notable increase in tech problems we've experienced over the last year-ish is definitely the accumulated effects of AI coding errors. We can definitely feel it in retail e-commerce.

Photographer is behind three soldiers on the escalator at Trader Joe’s

siiiiigh

two days? this kid is getting to play video games for a couple days and walking back in to a standing ovation

This doesn't seem worth having a Discord account

John Miller’s building materials company is also downtown. He and others formed a group called One Circle Community Coalition last July with concerns about plans to bring datacenters to the area. The group of about 150 locals includes “liberal Democrats and staunch conservatives”, he said. The coalition held a public meeting 6 January on ICE’s plans, and sent a four-page letter to the homeland security department on 29 January.

anti-data center groups pivoting to anti-ICE concentration camp groups. we love to see it.

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On April 29, 1986, I stood on the corner of Fifth Street and Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles and watched black smoke pour from the windows of L.A.'s Central Library. The big library, which I loved, and in which l wrote my first novel, was a victim not only of arson, but of years-decades-of neglect, political bickering, and short-term think-ing. Ironically, by the time of the fire, the building's long-needed renovations had finally been scheduled. This year, those ren-ovations, made all the more urgent by the fire, will be com-piete-Just in time for another, broader library crisis. All over the country now, public libraries are in as much danger from shortsighted budget cuts, political expediency, and neglect as the old firetrap Central Library ever was from fire. The L.A. Library fire was a metaphor for what's happening to libraries in Some libraries have al- ready been closed. Others have had to cut hours, staff, services, and acquisitions. This is not sensible! We Americans of the 1990s are sending our unskilled and semiskilled jobs away to low-wage countries just as fast as we can. We're hoping that the long-term result of this will be to stimulate enough of an increase in trade to create new, better-paying jobs. Of course new workers will need more education to get those jobs, and displaced workers will need job-market information and retraining. But meanwhile, we're saving money by cutting school budgets, closing school libraries. raising university tuitions and fees, and diminishing or closing public libraries In my most recent book, my main character, who lives in a poorer, dumber near-future time, writes, "Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability." And "Civilization is ... a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptability." Just so. And in the present time of great change, public libraries, like public schools are among the best tools of adaptation and civilization that our society has. Public libraries in parti…

In 1993, Octavia E. Butler wrote a defense of public libraries.

“Public libraries in particular are the open universities of America. They're free; they're accessible to everyone… I'm a writer at least partly because I had access to public libraries.“

Aaron Rupar @atrupar X.com Trump notes his crowd is more enthused about bigotry than they are for tax cuts: "It's amazing how strongly people feel about that. I talk about cutting taxes, people go like that, I talk about transgender everybody goes crazy. Five years ago you didn't know what the hell it was" LIVE GREENSBORO, NC cc # 45 our Children. 5:45 PT LIVE BREAKING NEWS TRUMP SPEAKS IN NORTH CAROLINA 'UNABOMBER' TED KACZYNSKI, 81, FOUND DEAD IN PRISON. GO TO NEWS 5:49 PM • 6/10/23 • 14M Views

George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor."

Donald Trump in 2023⬇️

You would think that finding out the whole heroin chic waif look and ubiquitous fatshaming of women in the 90's was influenced by a handful of elite pedophiles as both their preference and a way to sex traffick more easily, would have made a bigger splash in the news.

Trans people for the past decade: This isn't actually about sports or ensuing there's appropriate screening before someone starts medically transitioning. The goal is to effectively criminalize the existence of all trans people.

Very Reasonable Journalists: You're crazy

And then stuff even back with Nixon, it’s still like “Oh Reagan was pushing for this bad thing that is now common”

Are you an early career biologist seeking a position (Masters up to faculty)? I have talked to so many people who feel alone, like they don't have resources, or who are seeking community during this difficult time in the job market. I created a Discord community to help. discord.gg/nmktHJhUPH

Earth Diver

let's dream of #solarpunk and not give up on the future just yet...
[from 2021]
#pixelart #dinchenix

Other MAGA metaphysical certainties are that every person Trump fires or is forced to resign is always replaced with someone worse, and his response to every loss in court is to do something worse than the behavior just prohibited by the court.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.

The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

I hope for more research that focuses not on how to "cure" autism, but how to help autistic folks thrive.

It is crucial that Democrats read such things as they consider DHS funding. It is an affront to the entire idea of America. Operating like the secret police of the worst totalitarian societies. Unless it completely changes, funding it is an abdication of their Constitutional duty.

Women’s Rights Are Democratic Rights The global authoritarian backlash to gender equality.

“Misogyny is an ideological cornerstone and political tool of authoritarianism. Autocrats often promote a zero-sum vision of gender, insisting that any gain for women comes at men’s expense.”

#womensrights
#feminism
#genderequality
#masculinitysofragile

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait. But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds of thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions, would have been sufficiently shocked…But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all of the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

I thought it would be easy to find my "red line" as a federal worker working for a fascist regime. It's not. Change is happening little by little. We "still do good work". None of us wants to be alarmist or defeatist

This interview of a professor living through the holocaust is worth a read👇

Night

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Oops, someone forgot to feed their robot

art drawn in blue, white, black and orange. it depicts a large labrys, a double-headed axe, in the center. on the left axe-head is a stallion, and on the right is a bull. On top of the axe is a young man holding the bull mask.

The King Must Die

#berensart