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A weird thing about working a lot all of a sudden is that i still feel like i MUST be FORGETTING to work on something in my down time.

The one on the right.

Yes exactly. This is exactly what they are doing. Everyone responding as though they don’t know exactly what they are doing and what their goals are are not getting it: they are doing exactly what they mean to do for the ends they mean to get.

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.

It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

What they are doing is directly against the stability of our United States, it only benefits outside powers. They are actively and on purpose destabilizing the United States for the long term regarding food stability, health stability and economic stability.

Brown University Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge’s Order (Gift Article) Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.

Another potential showdown re: rule of law.

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Oof. Yeah. Vibes are generally pretty accurate for people who literally spend their lives managing emergencies.

Which is all things because he’s stupid, amen.

Which is all things because he’s stupid.

Amen

Lol.

We have three branches of government and freedom of the press for a reason. We need to remind them why.

NO KINGS

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

This is horrifying. Why is Panama allowing this??

That’s how you write a headline, people.

ICE attorney James Rodden: “My WWII vet grandfather didn’t get a chance to kill asians, so he volunteered for Korea. He’d be asking for a short term job with ICE kicking doors and swinging a baton.”

Brazil Charges Bolsonaro With Attempting a Coup Brazil’s attorney general charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with trying to overturn the vote. He now faces potential arrest.

Jealous

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Are going to lose chocolate. Which means i need to revisit my business and see if i should even keep doing it.

But also, on to of everything else: WE’RE GOING TO LOSE CHOCOLATE TO CLIMATE CHANGE DENIERS.

I live in Kansas. Shutting down USAID will damage this entire state and hurt not only huge swathes of farmers that provide crops for aid but also the land grant universities and the country going into a climate crisis by halting key food sustainability research.

Also you WANT mothers to participate, there is NO ONE as organized or fierce as a group of mothers on a tear towards justice. We support one another with a fierceness And we will do the same for all if we know our kids are safely tucked away.

DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."

He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

5calls.org app makes it so easy to call your reps and tell them what you want them to do. Call them every day. Hold them accountable to you the people that they represent.

Also if your movement doesn’t include some form of safe shared free childcare then don’t be surprised if you don’t have many mothers participating.

Please remember that most women’s liberation movements were led by either childless or post-menopausal women. Women who are still taking care of children might not be as able or willing to put their bodies into potentially dangerous protest situations. That doesn’t mean they aren’t organizing.

One of the only good coffee shops in town just announced they are open until 4pm instead of closing super early.

* doesn’t.

Also why is it only Trump that does this EO barrage? And why do we accept it? He is completely messing us up on day one and we’re what? Just going to let him?

Everyone’s sex at conception is *checks notes * female …… so, yeah. The government Durant get to decide what gender anyone is.

No.

No. It’s time to get serious about not letting Nazis, oligarch nazis, run this country. Please stop talking and just fight them.

Elon Musk 'salutes' during Trump inauguration speech Elon Musk 'salutes' during Trump inauguration speech Reuters

This is a nazi salute. Please, everyone stop using autism as an excuse for this man doing bigot things. He is a bigot on multiple levels and needs to be held accountable.

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I think we’ve forgotten that it’s ok to punch nazis.

Like hey America. We aren’t perfect. But at least can we go back to fighting Nazis not becoming them.

Don’t be good American. Cause these nazis trouble.

Trump's new crypto token jumps ahead of his inauguration Donald Trump's newly minted cryptocurrency soared on Monday to top $9 billion in market value, drawing in billions in trading volume just hours ahead of the U.S. President-elect's return to the White House.

The people who made this happen are paying for his fines to the woman he raped, and they are funding his failures. So gross. Grifting. He should have to sell off all businesses to be president. www.reuters.com/technology/t...