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Tracing the Roots of the Christian Nationalist Movement That’s Influencing Modern Politics The Christian right has become an increasingly powerful force in American politics at every level, from school boards to the presidency. Its roots trace back decades.

The beginnings of Christian nationalism date back decades.

This is how the movement has evolved since the 1970s — and how it has become a powerful force in American politics today.

By @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social
(Published Oct. 2024)

A University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural…

Many students at Southern Illinois University come from families that are poor, or barely middle class, and depend on scholarships.

Vice Chancellor Paul Frazier says the way DEI has been politicized ignores what it actually does: “Poor doesn’t have a color.”

(Published March 2025)

Concerned About Your OB-GYN Visit? A Guide to What Should Happen — and What Shouldn’t. As we’ve reported on sexual misconduct by OB-GYNs, many women told us they didn’t know what was normal. With the help of providers, patients and experts, we created this guide.

As we’ve reported on sexual misconduct by OB-GYNs, we’ve learned that many women felt they didn’t know what was normal during a visit, or didn’t know what they could do to speak up.

We created this guide to help fill this gap.

One of the UNG associates deans sent this to me.

everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky

Trump Order Shifts the Financial Burden of Climate Change Onto Individuals The change would effectively transfer financial responsibility from oil drillers, auto manufacturers and others and leave Americans to face greater direct costs as warming continues.

Canceling the measurement of economic impacts from climate change doesn't make the costs go away, it puts them on citizens who will see their expenses for everything from housing to food rise higher and faster than they otherwise would

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The Pentagon will fire 5,400 civilian workers next week.

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Colleague description of the current political environment: It's like watching monkeys throwing hand grenades.

Exactly right

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and…

Out of the 12,000 civil rights complaints the Education Department has put on hold since Trump took office:
• 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students
• 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence
• 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination

A USER ASKED THE NEW CHINESE AI DEEPSEEK A QUESTION AND IT ANSWERED WITH "I AM WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TRY TO CARVE GOD OUT OF THE WOOD OF YOUR OWN HUNGER"

Skynet is coming sooner than we think.

Bluesky 1.98. Improvements: You can now restrict replies to "Followers only". New settings page: Post Interaction Settings. Added "Search posts" to user profiles. Improvements to the search page. New translation: Interlingua

📢 App Version 1.98 is rolling out now, including: (1/5)

• a new option for who can reply to your posts
• search posts by a user
• lots of little improvements to make the app feel better!

Thousands are out on the streets of downtown Portland protesting Musk and Trump's coup, and the crowd is growing by the minute. I don't care if the media isn't covering it, there are protests all over this country and the people are resisting tyranny.

Pray for no civil war. A new civil war will not resemble the 19th century civil war with standing armies. It will be a factional war similar to Syria or Congo. Factions will battle each other and attrition will result in a leader. It will be a tragic, bloody mess

The CFPB was dismantled over the weekend, with all activities suspended, its funding reduced to zero, and its headquarters temporarily closed—removing a crucial layer of oversight for consumer-facing financial companies. Staff members ordered to cease all ‘supervision and examination activities.

Judge Halts DOGE Access to Treasury Payment Systems (Gift Article) The order came in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 attorneys general accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation’s laws when he let DOGE comb through federal computer systems.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/n...

yes!!!

Just received my university issued laptop back from being reset to Microsoft 11. The MS photos are always a hopeful distraction, places we will never see. Only hope to leave the office walls that enclose us.

For years, my sister encouraged me to apply for federal jobs.

With the turmoil under Trump/Musk, she recently said "I'm happy you are employed with the state."

I can see it now. First you build hotels in Gaza. Then of course you go to the Ukraine. Find nothing but the best land and rebuild. ..

You can train the staff at Mar a Lago ....

When I was on pre-Musk Twitter, I never really posted. So I guess this is like that.