Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I donβt necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of β¦
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by freezing all federal grants, trump is fundamentally transforming the relationship between the executive and congress. he is asserting dictatorial authority over federal spending, transforming congress's lawmaking powers into advisory authority. it is a constitutional crisis
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This. This is what overthrew the elite enslavers in the 1859s and the robber barons in the 1890s. We need these new papers everywhere.
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How can we use the internet to encourage us to collectively go deeper into conversation & knowledge and more internet-literate instead of shallower and less internet-literate?
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ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back
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The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on!
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