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That the entire burden of childrearing has fallen to the private sphere, and to individual mothers in particular, is pretty much the core problem identified in the Jacobin piece, and it prescribes removing much of this burden from mothers as a sine qua non of slowing or stopping population decline

Pam Bondi Instructs Trump DOJ to Criminally Investigate Companies That Do DEI Civil rights advocates may well file suit immediately against the Justice Department to secure an injunction.

Breaking from me and @mjsdc.bsky.social : Newly installed AG Pam Bondi sent out more than a dozen memos in a 15 minute period on Wednesday. One of them told staffers to come up with "proposals for criminal investigations" of large companies that have DEIA initiatives. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Elon Musk Quoted tweet: Career Treasury officials are breaking the law every hour of every day by approving payments that are fraudulent or do not match the funding laws passed by Congress. This needs to stop NOW! Mario Nawfal Quote tweet: Should the treasury be put on the blockchain so this doesn't happen? Elon Musk Reply: Yes!

We are in such, such profound danger. They are doing the Reichstag fire to the most crucial and foundational payments layer of the Federal Government.

Hedge fund bros who supported Trump and are now eyeing the US economy

Garden of Earthly Delights

Garden of Earthly Delights

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!

“Raging Misogynist” Now Federal Government H.R.’s Top Lawyer The Office of Personnel Management’s new general counsel has a history of racist and sexist social media posts.

The federal government's new top HR attorney has said "Consent is probably modern society’s most pernicious fetish" and "Slaves owe us reparations," according to a new report from @pogo.org. www.pogo.org/investigatio...

Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Policy

is it uncharitable to say, i hope the new york times leadership gets not one moment of peace after this

Absolutely -- this and not the silly thing I said is probably the real effect 😂

I've watched this video maybe 20 times in the last day

Incumbent disadvantage now starts within days of taking office

Less than 10 days and MULTIPLE CASES already where ICE under Trump's hyper-charged enforcement orders have arrested Puerto Rican citizens!

This man's family was sent to an ICE detention center in Milwaukee. Once ICE confirmed they were citizens, all they got was a "sorry."

Inshallah

The basic problem is that bullying journalists is still way more fun on the other site

Twitter is still where it's at unfortunately -- I expect its final collapse will come rapidly and without warning, and it will be difficult to fully transition away from it until then

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In a war full of absurd, easily falsifiable claims by the IDF, this one blows past all the others in terms of how laughably false it obviously is.

Israel has entered southern Gaza, images show, setting the stage for a possibly decisive battle.

Breaking News: Israel has begun an invasion of southern Gaza, according to a New York Times analysis of satellite imagery. The ground operation could decide the fate of the war with Hamas and create more peril for Palestinian civilians.

Hisham Awartani, one of three Palestinian students who were shot in Vermont, is paralyzed from the waist down his mother says in a statement to CNN.

I have verified with GoFund Me that this fundraiser has been setup by his family.

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‘Horrific and appalling’: Israel attacks 2 UN schools sheltering thousands Al-Fakhoora school in Jabalia refugee camp bombed followed by another UN shelter in Tal al-Zataar.

Witnesses describe being ordered out of al-Shifa Hospital, despite Israel’s contention that patients, medical staff and war-displaced people left voluntarily: ‘We left at gunpoint. Tanks and snipers were everywhere inside and outside.’

Not using this much. How’s it going

How banning one Palestinian slogan roiled Etsy The company secretly banned the phrase “from the river to the sea” on sellers’ wares. Some employees aren’t happy

New from me: Etsy secretly banned the phrase “from the river to the sea” on sellers’ wares, and some employees aren’t happy.

A story about content moderation in wartime: www.platformer.news/p/how-bannin...

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"Christian conservatives have always had more moral vanity than moral conviction. But now, Johnson’s ascent to the head of the thoroughly Trumpist House Republican caucus marks the groundbreaking for a new party order. The Republican party is rebuilding itself: it’s building on misogyny."

kinda feel like we're gearing up for another round of "muslims and commies"

Worms

I've seen enough: GOP candidate Tarp Bumpass, a sunburned chiropractor who rose to national notoriety after firing a rocket launcher into a blimp with the word "gender" written on it, injuring 312 bystanders, has been defeated in his race for a Pennsylvania Supreme Court seat.