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very excited to see what happens when you make a deeply compromised addict the leader of the department of defense and subordinate to a madman

There’s been 10+yrs of debunking the “ironic nazi” double game popular on the far right. There is no such thing as “just trolling” when conveying nazi beliefs, symbols, or gestures. All there is is what can be observed. permitting this effectively puts no limits on public displays of nazi propaganda

Calling for a moratorium on people replying to stories with "The cruelty is the point."

Yes, we all know. What is smugly stating it supposed to achieve?

spent some time digging into the nashville school shooters manifesto and found out he and the femcel school shooter from a few months ago knew eachother. i’m slowly becoming convinced we need to ban websites like 4chan or possibly most of the internet for children. it’s destroying them

Cannot count the number of articles that I've seen that act like Kennedy just didn't exist before his failed run for president. Like he didn't create and get rich of the modern anti-vaxx movement. Like he hasn't been slow walking us to this moment for two decades.

these people are so easy to turn into whiny babies. thats why we get so mad at democrats for being scared to challenge them. they fold like cheap tables at the slightest push back.

Having ordinary civil servants turn against one another is a critical aspect of the authoritarian project.

Again, the gateway is racism.

Hades - Noclip's 'Developing Hell': The Making of Hades Blu-ray How did the mega-hit dungeon crawler Hades come to be? This one-of-a-kind video documentary takes you inside developer Supergiant Games for every step of the game’s journey: from before its surprise a...

Noclip's video documentary chronicling how we created the original Hades is now available on Blu-ray via Fangamer.com!

This is a new director’s cut of the original six episodes, and takes you from before the game's announcement to beyond its launch:
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The Attack on Birthright Citizenship Is a Big Test for the Constitution Does the text mean what it plainly says?

Trump's attempt to nullify the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship provision is an attempt to reverse one of the most important outcomes of the Civil War, the idea that American citizenship is not based on race www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

New podcast episode: 'Fractured: Race, Class, Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics'. Discussion ranged from borders to Black feminism and how class analysis must be grounded in the historical experience of how the working-class is (dis)organised. Listen here: patreon.com/posts/e101-r...

The architects of the DEI purge -- Rufo and Hanania in particular -- are straight-up white nationalists who are engaged in a systemic project to dismantle as much of the Civil Rights Act as possible without having to explicitly admit what they're doing.

Philly has beautiful murals all over the place. Here is one you can’t see from the ground - only from our hotel window

by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

Spotify Hosts Trump Inauguration Brunch and Makes $150,000 Donation to Ceremony The company, which hosted Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, and others, called the event “business as usual”

Spotify is drawing attention after the company hosted a Trump inauguration brunch featuring Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro, among others.

The streaming giant also made a $150,000 donation to the new president's inauguration ceremony.

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ChatGPT is down? Huh. Crazy how that doesn't affect my life in literally any way at all

Some fascinating things happening on Reddit. 22,000 upvotes on the subreddit dedicated to posting pictures of houses that are over 100 years old.

Libraries & librarians have never been more important. If we care about the future, we must make sure every school, every community, every child has access to a library & a librarian. And we have to give them all our support, so they can do their vital work, which benefits us ALL! #SaveLibraries

I believe the general internet tradition on these kinds of things is well known.

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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

republicans want to re-segregate america

I know you're exhausted from fighting, I am TOO. You're not alone. Your voice STILL matters. The only time it doesn't is when we don't use it. We need to fight for Democracy. They want us to think they have all the power and it's just NOT true, UNLESS we absolutely give up BUT we will NEVER GIVE UP!

The first time I tried to watch Contagion I found it so terrifying it took me three tries to get through it

After 5 years of Covid…I now realize it was aspirational. Governments all over the world working together. People respecting science & helping their fellow man

Truth is stranger than fiction

Most Black folks knew this nonsense was coming. It's wrong, but we've always had to hustle, so I feel like collectively we'll be all right. But I also can't help thinking that a whole lot of white people, deprived of the "DEI" excuse, are about to get a wake-up call about their own mediocrity.

Whole departments are on administrative leave until they figure out what to fire them for , shame on you who voted 45 and shame on those who did not vote, you are responsible for this , you are hurting innocent families. Shame on you all .

These emails, sent across agencies, compel all federal employees to snitch on any colleague whose work might have some vague DEIA inflection. Those who refuse to snitch will be disciplined.

Seems designed to put all workers who aren’t white men under a cloud of suspicion. Truly vile stuff.

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie the war on DEI

as we’re seeing the endpoint of the anti-DEI hysteria is just opening the door to rampant employment discrimination

I just spent some time searching "diversity equity and inclusion" in the federal government contracting and grants database. Wiping out these initiatives and this language is going to throw all sorts of things into complete disarray -- from contracts with big companies to research grants esp. in 1/x

I've been wondering about this: The list of countries involved in this arrest was quite long.

i bumped into a mannequin at target and said "oh sorry girl" and a lady standing near me scoffed. first of all it's called manners