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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 02/04/2026
If you want to understand history - real history - ChatGPT and other LLM AI are NOT reliable sources. [Subscribe over on Substack - free or paid - to support our writing, and to ensure you never miss our history newsletters!] substack.com/@beforewewer...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/05/2025
When the Cass Review came out last year, the NYT rushed to cover it complete with post notifications. After reviews in Germany and Utah came out supporting gender affirming care for trans youth, dead silence. You can be just as biased in what you don't cover as what you do.
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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Of course they know this, and they have no magical plan to do all the core functions but this time Efficiently(TM). The plan is to break things, so government can’t help you anymore. So yes, absolutely you should worry about your financial aid being affected. It appears to me that is the intention.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget. Really think about how twisted this all is.
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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Bernie Sanders is holding MASSIVE rallies in packed venues, bigger crowds than Trump was getting, and legacy media is practically silent. Bernie is talking to workers rather than hanging out with socialites with mediocre plastic surgery at Mar-a-Lago, and it's just not interesting to corporate media
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/03/2025
JD Vance claimed on X that “Slava Ukraini” protesters followed him & shouted at his daughter. Guess he didn’t realize it was caught on camera. No one yelled at his kid, and they didn’t follow them. Vance & Musk need to quit using children as shields. The public isn’t backing down—we want answers.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I honestly don’t hate the picture of all the Chicago cops protecting Tesla because showing a bunch of armed agents of the state openly enforcing Elons will is revealing the truth of our situation much more clearly than anything protestors could show
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Pretty sure he has a security detail and some sense of where people might be protesting. Time Magazine says hundreds are dead; the Trump-Vance plan is for far more Ukrainians to die, and Ukraine to lose its sovereignty and become a colony of Russia, aka permanent loss of rights and nationhood.

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Updated: MAR 8, 2025 2:11 PM PT
MAR 7, 2025 10:37 AM PT
“Hundreds of Dead”: Inside the Fallout from Trump’s Ukraine Intel Pause
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Simon Shuster/Kyiv
SHUSTER IS A SENIOR CORRESPONDENT AT TIME.
The U.S. decision to suspend the flow of military intelligence to Ukraine this week has aided the Russian advance along a critical part of the front, weakening the negotiating position of President Volodymyr Zelensky and killing many Ukrainian soldiers in recent days, according to five senior Western and Ukrainian officials and military officers familiar with the situation.

“As a result of this pause, there are hundreds of dead Ukrainians,” one of the officers told TIME in an interview on Friday in Kyiv, asking not to be named when discussing sensitive military operations. “The biggest problem is morale,” he added, as the armed forces of Ukraine are being left to fight without some of their best weapons systems, not as a result of Russian attacks but American pull backs. “It’s really causing an advantage for the enemy on the front line.”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The perfect metaphor for what the Supreme Court did to this country with Citizens United v. FEC.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Some Democratic member of Congress should propose a bill saying that a POTUS may golf at government expense no more than, say, once every 14 days, and must reimburse the Treasury for anything beyond that.
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
The median household income would be DOUBLE what it is today if income inequality had remained the same as it was in 1975. Read that again. Decades of trickle-down tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations did that. And Donald Trump wants to do it again.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I’d like to hear from voters of any race who were evacuated from polling places due to bomb threats and never voted.
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Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
At least 20 Ukrainian civilians have been killed just this night by Russian missiles and drones. Hundreds of soldiers were killed on the frontline in recent days. These are the first results of the US suspension of military aid and intelligence to Ukraine: more deaths time.com/7265679/sate...
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Hundreds Dead: Inside the Trump Ukraine Fallout
The US intelligence pause has undercut supply lines to Kursk, cut satellite imagery and tanked morale.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/03/2025
A couple of golf outings could pay for over 300 federal jobs for an entire year.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/03/2025
“By firing us, you’re going to cut down on how much revenue the country brings in,” said an axed IRS specialist who’d been brought in to audit complex tax returns filed by large corporations and wealthy individuals. “This was not about saving money.” By @andykroll.bsky.social
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How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save
The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would…
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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Senator Megan Hunt @meganhunt.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Enough about the price of eggs, from everyone. Cut the shit. The economy isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as they designed it—to keep you desperate, distracted, and exhausted while they cash in.
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Juanita Jackson 🇨🇦 @westcoastbclife.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This is what @hcrichardson.bsky.social suggested today: Ask another politician to run a town hall if your “elected” scaredy cat GOP Reps are too afraid to.
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Elvis-it's a nickname @zolascola.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This made me happy.
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Matthew Champion @matthewchampion.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
when Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE last November, he said the work would be “tedious” and “compensation is zero" now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
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Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries
Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary. It can't get a distributor in the US. Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 02/03/2025
Hope to see you there
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Wyden to skip Trump’s first speech to Congress, hold town hall instead
Democratic Oregon U.S. Sen/ Ron Wyden has announced he will be skipping President Trump’s first first speech to Congress in his second term to hold an online town hall.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/03/2025
The last time Missouri took control of St. Louis’ police force, the Civil War was underway and the state’s secessionist-leaning leaders were trying to protect slavery and prevent officers from taking up arms against the Confederacy. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
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Missouri GOP’s Effort to Take Over St. Louis Police Hearkens Back to Civil War
City officials say the state’s plan to wrest back control of the police department is an attempt by white conservatives to weaken Black political influence. It’s part of a broader pattern of Missouri…
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Wrote about that here:
These would-be dictators are rushing about severing alliances, sabotaging support, undermining cooperation within the nation and across the world. It seems to be in their nature to segregate, isolate, and disconnect. They cut the United States off from the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Treaty. They cut off the countless beneficiaries of USAID programs as they left USAID workers stranded across the world. They cut off crucial parts of the federal government with reckless disregard for how those parts contribute to the functioning of the whole--or maybe with enthusiasm for its malfunction, perhaps because they're bought into the  rightwing idea that all this stuff is unnecessary, obstructive. It's certainly in the way of some of their ambitions.
Hannah Arendt described men like them well long before this era. A few days ago, the Arendt scholar Lyndsey Stonebridge called my attention to this passage from Arendt's On the Origins of Totalitarianism: “What binds these men together is a firm and sincere belief in omnipotence. Their moral cynicism, their belief that everything is permitted, rests on the solid conviction that everything is possible.…Yet they too are deceived, deceived by their impudent conceited idea that everything can be done and their contemptuous conviction that everything that exists is merely a temporary obstacle that superior organization will certainly destroy.”
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Here's what the idiots in the White House utterly fail to comprehend. They and the US came out of that argument weaker. Zelensky came out stronger, with Europe rallying behind Ukraine more than before. They came out looking like petulant idiots; he came out looking like a leader with integrity.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
@lizcheney.bsky.social : "History will remember this day--when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
In 2016, I wondered what our NYC atlas had to say to the threat of Trump. Here's the answer: lithub.com/new-york-cit...
I wonder if you have ever actually explored the New York City you claim to live in. I recommend it, because it has beauties and splendors that undermine so many of the assertions that I have heard you make during your campaign, particularly in the final debate. For starters, its eight million-plus population includes a huge percentage of immigrants, Muslims, blacks, Mexicans, and some lovely people who are black, Muslim, and immigrant all at once. Only a third of its residents are white. You talk as if should lots of undocumented immigrants and Muslims show up here, there’ll be trouble. I have news for you: they’re here, and it seems to be working out rather well.

Do you ever come down from your tower, other than to stuff yourself into a limousine en route to a jet? In the course of a few years of working with New Yorkers on a book, Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, coauthored with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, I came to love and admire the genius of diversity and diversity of genius that makes this city remarkable, glorious, and emblematic of some of the best of this complicated country.

You rail against immigrants, but more than a third of New York City residents are immigrants—37 percent. About 500,000 residents are undocumented, and they are some of the hardest workers making this city go. If you drove them out, the restaurant and hotel industries would collapse into crisis. Unlike you, 75 percent of undocumented New York City residents pay taxes, according to former mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also points out the low crime rate among that population. Overall, whether they’re janitors or doctors, immigrants energize and enrich this city.

You should check out Queens, the borough in which you were raised. It is now the most linguistically diverse place on earth. It’s the part of the city where most of the 800 languages to be found here are spoken. A lot of the languages here are vanishing tongues...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
They can't eliminate the diversity of this country. It was always here and it always will be here in these places, whether or not the USA itself endures. They can create hierarchy and repression, and we can oppose it by embracing equality and diversity. Si se puede and sic semper tyrannis.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Trump is expected to declare English the nation's official language. America is an Italian word. California, Colorado, Nevada, Montana, and Florida are Spanish, and a bunch of other states have Indigenous names.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Look at this leader. Lift her up.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Jasmine Crockett speaks for me (and multitudes, and oy, WATCH THE VIDEO!)
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Chef KahunaDan @kahunadan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/02/2025
Rather than reject climate science like many on the right, some have followed the path laid out by environmentalist and white nationalist John Tanton, using concerns about population growth and scarce resources to rationalize their hateful agendas. (Published Oct. 2024)
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Far-Right Extremists Embrace Environmentalism to Justify Violent Anti-Immigrant Beliefs
Climate change and anti-immigrant hate are colliding, foretelling a volatile future.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA): “A program is not waste just because it doesn’t help the richest man in the world. It is not fraud just because he doesn’t like it."
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Stephen F. Knott @stephenknott.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
When incompetence and mastery of bull-shitting conjoin the results are breathtaking.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 23/02/2025
Is Donald Trump going to respond to Musk’s email and report on what he did last week? To help, I’ve gone ahead and done it for him. A thread:
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Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Are there any Republicans left who are uncomfortable with the idea of being on the same side as the fascists and Putin vs. the democratic free world? If so, they better speak up now or live forever in infamy.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
> @ironstache.bsky.social
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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 24/02/2025
In today's long-form essay, we look at the way in which USA citizens have spent decades, centuries, in blissful ignorance or denial of their country's true history. beforewewerewhite.substack.com/p/schuldgefu...
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"Schuldgefühl"
American authorities insisted in the aftermath of the Second World War that Japanese and German schoolchildren be forced to face into the facts of what their governments had done in their name.
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Beth Hawkins @bethhawkins.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Such a long week I haven't circulated my own work! Minnesota lawmakers are taking up thorny question of creating minimum safety & quality standards for a questionable autism 'therapy' that appeals more to private equity than to #actuallyautistic people. @autistictyping.bsky.social has thoughts.
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Minnesota Autism Activist on Money, Power and What Special Ed Kids Really Need
Jules Edwards of Anishinaabe Eagle Clan told lawmakers just setting standards for providers misses a larger issue: Growth of applied behavior analysis
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Welcome to affirmative action for white male mediocrity, which has a long, long history but is all ramped up and shouty and sulky right now.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Senate Minority Leader, has launched a new online portal for individuals to report corruption, abuses of power, and threats to public safety, with the legal protections afforded to whistleblowers.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
So does this mean Trump is running a black site at Guantanamo? If not, what is this? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/02/2025
And it looks like it’s official. Trump is ignoring court orders. The rubicon has been crossed.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...
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