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🧵Carl Sagan wasn't religious, but he was prophetic.

Working together, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, and countless aids built the greatest diplomatic and economic structure the world has ever seen. This enraged religious fundamentalists.

Carl Sagan saw them coming.

Schrödinger’s cat turd is the lesser known of his two most famous observations, still quite germane given the current context.

Their stupid is starting to hurt my head.

Federal Investigators Were Preparing Two Texas Housing Discrimination Cases — Until Trump Took Over The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey,…

HUD concluded a Texas state agency had steered $1B in disaster funding away from Houston and nearby communities of color after Hurricane Harvey.

On Jan. 15, HUD referred the case to the DOJ.

On Feb. 13, it rescinded that referral with no explanation.

'This Town Has Nothing': Rural Texas' Mental Healthcare Crisis Against long odds, Sweetwater’s public hospital recruited counselors to help address a wave of mental health crises in rural Texas—yet struggles continue.

“If any changes are going to happen in mental health, we’re going to have to [address] the generational issues.”

Our top story: A deep dive into the mental health crisis in Sweetwater, a Texas town of 10,000 searching for solutions to an emergency that affects many like it nationwide...

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In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?

Being MAGA means trying to look like a 90s porn star while also trying to criminalize adult media www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Stop discoursing start organizing

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

A distant pair of great Crested grebes performing the weed dance face to face and upright on the water

Great Crested Grebe weed-dance! 😍
I've never had any luck photographing this special courtship, and this pair of Grebes were a long way away when they decided to share their mutual love, but I like the golden setting. 😀
Taken last weekend at RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset. 😊🐦♥️
#Birds 🪶

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ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical deta...

“The evidence linking James Rodden to the online accounts in question is strong, with significant biographical consistencies spanning over a decade. … The depth of the investigation leaves little room for doubt.”

It’s never been more important to stay tuned in | Margaret Sullivan I’m far from certain that staying engaged will make a difference. What I do know is that if we all tune out, there’s no hope at all

It’s never been more important to stay tuned in | Margaret Sullivan

There's no way Elon Musk’s job is legal "Checks and balances, at the moment, seem to be neutralized.”

There is simply no legal architecture that would allow Musk, the richest man in the world, to remake the entire federal government without running afoul of criminal conflict of interest laws.

The entire problem with the mainstream media distilled into one glaringly oblivious headline.

These people really do think they are not part of America.

“Elon Musk is a walking conflict of interest” Federal law forbids any Executive Branch employee from "participating personally and substantially" in matters "that will affect his own financial interests."

“Elon Musk is a walking conflict of interest,” Craig Holman, the government affairs lobbyist at the consumer watchdog Public Citizen, said. “Over and over again, he’s just involved in governmental actions that directly and substantially impact his own financial wellbeing.”

Democrats are so used to bailing out Republicans. This enabling behavior must end.

Republicans must burn themselves on the stove. They want to touch it. Let them.

Federal Workers Can Defeat Elon Musk’s Coup. Here’s How. Elon Musk would like you to think he is invincible right now. But the world’s richest man is actually extremely vulnerable to public pressure at the moment — public pressure that federal workers and t...

If you know someone who is a US federal government employee, this is a great list of ideas of how you can resist Elon Musk's criminal plundering: jacobin.com/2025/02/musk...

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The madness of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The depth of his extremism has not been fully conveyed to the public.

The madness of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The party of Ronald Reagan overwhelmingly voting to confirm foreign agent Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence tells you everything you need to know about the Republican party.

Whatever shred of conservatism that existed within the party has been tossed into the trash can.