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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

As Trump prattled on about Mars, expansion, and "manifest destiny," I could not help but think of Cecil Rhodes's quote: “Expansion is everything...these stars . . . these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could.” www.unpopularfront.news/p/returning-...

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Returning to Origins

Trump's Inauguration and the Ideology of Endless Expansion

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 20/01/2025

the stuff about Mars and the Panama Canal, from a political coalition of billionaires mingling with J6 rabble, is practically ripped from Arendt’s chapters on imperialism in “Origins of Totalitarianism”

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We've finally defeated cancel culture. Now people only get fired for criticizing the government

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

John Carreyrou

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

“Frankly I have difficulty understanding how a member of the Bar could state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order,” Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, a Reagan appointee, told the Trump DOJ attorney. “It just boggles my mind.”

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 23/01/2025

Members! Plural!

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 23/01/2025

Is “sexual favors” some sort of umbrella euphemism for total sex pest behavior, or was there actual transactional stuff in here?? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Before that meeting, a Johnson aide told Loudermilk's staff that multiple colleagues had raised concerns with the speaker's office about the potential for public disclosure of
"sexual texts from members who were trying to engage in sexual favors" with Hutchinson, according to correspondence produced at the time that detailed the conversation.
Separately, a member of Johnson's staff told Loudermilk aides that Hutchinson could
"potentially reveal embarrassing information," according to an email reviewed by The Post.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

BREAKING, via The Seattle Times: Trump's executive order to restrict birthright citizenship is blocked for at least the next two weeks by a Reagan appointee in Seattle who eviscerated the Trump lawyers present defending the order. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on Thursday was blistering in his criticism of Trump’s action as he granted a temporary restraining order that blocks Trump’s executive order from taking effect nationwide.

“I’ve been on the bench for over four decades, I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” Coughenour, an appointee of Ronald Reagan, said from the bench. “There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?”

Coughenour interrupted before Brett Shumate, a Justice Department attorney, could even complete his first sentence.

“In your opinion Is this executive order constitutional?” he asked.

Shumate said, “it absolutely is.”

“Frankly I have difficulty understanding how a member of the Bar could state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order,” Coughenour said. “It just boggles my mind.”

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 23/01/2025

Amen. Bezos was the only legacy media guy sitting in the front row of the inauguration, and it sure wasn’t because he owns the Washington Post.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Going on @majorityreport.bsky.social in five minutes to talk about decentralized social media and resisting the tech oligarchy - come hang out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcdV...

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Resisting The Tech Oligarchy; Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Blitz w/ Jason Koebler, Nayna Gupta

YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The Social Security Administration's site about changing gender on social security info now says “you are not authorized to access this page.” www.404media.co/trumps-admin...

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Trump’s Administration Is Taking Down Sites About Gender Identity All Over the Internet

After Trump signed an unscientific, transphobic executive order deeming there to be "two sexes," several informational websites about gender identity went offline.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

You can watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole with employee policies and public websites on GitHub, which is automatically cataloguing all of the changes the 18F agency is frantically making to its internal and external webpages: www.404media.co/github-is-sh...

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GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time

Watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole on this government agency's GitHub page.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

If you’re a federal employee and want to talk about DOGE, my Signal username is annamerlan.30 and I simply love to chat with people on their non-work devices

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Matt Carling @mdcarling.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Looks like the following programs in #NSF BIO have been 'archived': BRC-BIO - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... BIO-LEAPS - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... PRFB - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO)

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Alex Knapp @thealexknapp.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

New from me - the National Institutes of Health has cancelled communications and meetings, including those that approve grant funding for crucial cancer research and approve clinical trials. www.forbes.com/sites/alexkn...

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Trump Administration Delays Funding To Cancer Research

A temporary freeze on meetings on the National Institutes of Health could lead to delays in disbursing research grants and in approving crucial clinical trials.

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour issued a ruling on Thursday temporarily blocking President Trump's executive order that aimed to end birthright citizenship for children born to migrants in the U.S. temporarily or without legal status. Read more at: www.tpr.org/government-p...

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Emmy Scott @emmynawjoopinga.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Trump attorneys’ call into question U.S. citizenship for Native people. They state because Indians “owe ‘immediate allegiance’ to their tribes, they are not ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States and are not constitutionally entitled to Citizenship.” www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

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West of Warsaw (WoW!) @lifesrichbouquet.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

What's up? Certainly not the standards of conduct of our Republican lawmakers, that's for sure. Good grief!

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Holly R @yooperdoc.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I’m really glad to see the CDC implement this recommendation. It will help identify/quantify people with 5N1, as well as alert us to potential human-human transmission. At least they implemented this before 1/20/25.

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Health Alert Network (HAN) - 00520 | Accelerated Subtyping of Influenza A in Hospitalized PatientsMinusSASstats

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Leia @galaxyrabbit.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Ok #booksky, let’s talk. 👎🏼Goodreads, owned by Amazon, fuels its monopoly on books. 👍🏼StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform, offers an ethical, ad-free alternative with mood-based recommendations, user control over data, and a focus on inclusivity. Support diversity over corporate power!

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Holly R @yooperdoc.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This will definitely be a tool for tracking women who are trying to get to a different state or country for health care. This is not a drill! Delete Ovia. #gilead #womenhealth #resist

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 23/01/2025

New federal hiring guide leaked.

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The Biden/Buttigieg Infrastructure act funded public projects in all 50 states with an eye to restorative justice. Trump just rescinded all the funding. Are we great yet, MAGA?

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West of Warsaw (WoW!) @lifesrichbouquet.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Here we go...! Time to congratulate all your friends and relatives and co-workers who voted for Trump and down-ballot Republicans. (sarcasm, which I don't employ often)

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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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NewsNut @newsnut.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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Mark T. Dickins @markdickins.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Chicago seemed like a strange choice to me, for the first city. Then I remembered that Barack Obama is there, working on his Presidential Library.

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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

How could we outgun the likes of a pathological liar + Faux News (etc.) + Musk + Putin, etc.? I think this was a perfect storm. We need a legal fix to combat disinfo, but it won't be happening during Trump's term. We just have to fight to survive. sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/trump-didn...

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Trump didn't win. Disinformation did.

First amendment law needs to catch up with weaponized media.

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Ekoloji @direnekoloji.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

bsky.app/profile/them...

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Reporter Sam Husseini was just physically dragged from Blinken’s briefing. “Why aren’t you at The Hague?” Remember when this sort of thing only happened in oppressive regimes and we thought it was never happen here? Western so-called democracies have become authoritarian

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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Spot on.

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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

This is brilliant!! 😂✊🏼

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SlightReturn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @slightreturn.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The neo-liberal mindset. "When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist." Dom Helder Camara

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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Be ungovernable

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West of Warsaw (WoW!) @lifesrichbouquet.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

@slightreturn.bsky.social is that a very happy Airedale under all that hair? Bears a resemblance to my own (much-missed) rascal...

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Jane Doe @waywoke.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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Silence is assent @stef47.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

If that was a NASA project, guys like Musk would have howled like monkeys about cost and failure. And they did back when. The success of the Moon landing scared the crap out of the anti-democracy, anti-government, anti-America right wing. NASA had to be demolished.

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West of Warsaw (WoW!) @lifesrichbouquet.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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jamie39.bsky.social @jamie39.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Living in America 😩 #DonaldTrump

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

They’re all eating each other. Very funny to watch.

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Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 @terrencewilliams.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Remember when Elon Musk, aka #SpaceKaren, #CissySpacex, #Elmo, acquired Twitter and promptly shut down the Child Exploitation Team Don't let this 'man'; and I use the term closely, whitewash his record www.independent.co.uk/tech/elon-mu...

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Twitter team responsible for removing child exploitation cut in half, report claims

Musk declared removing child exploitation “priority 1” just a week ago

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