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Early-teen girl carrying a WITCHES AGAINST FASCISM sign.

View of the march filling Broadway, looking south from 13th Street.

Union Square anti-Trump rally is on the move.

I did a walkthrough, here’s a timelapse. This is probably the biggest demo in D.C. so far post-inauguration, brought together by the 50501 Movement which originated on Reddit.

Everyone was chanting “fire Elon!” while I was filming this.

Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

right? like are they angling to become the next walmart? bc the whole reason we shop there is to feel good about *not* being at walmart, so…

haven’t spent money at target in about a month … which is a big deal for our household. 🤷🏻

Suddenly thinking about all the SpaceX rockets that have blown up, with Elon saying things like "we meant to do that, that's how we learn."

This. And holding as @profblmkelley.bsky.social noted, the federal workforce has a large amount of Black folks, one can see how the idea that "federal workforce is doing nothing and getting paid well to do so" is built on anti-blackness. Using racial capitalism allows our analysis to become sharper

People in tech talk about the idea of a “10x programmer” — someone whose work is worth that of 10 others. I get the impression Musk etc think they can apply it all over the federal workforce but like… there’s no such thing as a 10x ATC navigational aid maintenance worker. Some jobs just need people.

it’s the same as the USPS, as education, as healthcare, etc etc etc.

Trafficking is a central theme of the QAnon worldview, with the idea that Trump would act to stop it when in office. Instead...

JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington state, who blocked Trump's executive order re: transgender health care, says it is unconstitutional in multiple ways, including usurping Congress' power of the purse storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The judge says Trump's EO on transgender health care would create a perverse situation in which a cisgender person could get puberty blockers to treat cancer but a transgender person could not get puberty blockers to treat cancer. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

After Censorship, Santa Rosa Students Write Their Own Play — and Take the Gold | KQED A state festival awarded top honors to ‘REDACTED,’ which ruthlessly lampooned district officials.

School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content".

In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival.

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i will be humming this all week: “Rut-tut-tuh-duh!”

🚨 Update: we were able to track down Yesenia, the mother picked up with her 2 kids in Tucson.

After a night of interrogation at Border Patrol station, the Venezuelan mother of 4 was deported to Mexico.

Her husband and two of her kids remain in US.
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A screenshot of an email notifying Spotsylvania parents that funding for a program for youth with disabilities has been canceled

the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs

we pulled the trigger & got a costco membership this morning.

trying to cut target out of our shopping.

it’s definitely never going to be the same shopping experience but it’s still worth it to us to cut ties to target.

During the nazi regime, there was a common saying of "if only Hitler knew." The negative repercussions of his dictatorship were never his fault, and if he knew, he'd rectify it.

People will build elaborate fantasies to protect their cognitive dissonance and act out in weird ways.

This is the Great Deconstruction. They want to dismantle everything they think enabled the Obama coalition and America's impending multiracial majority. They're preparing for white minority rule. They even hired a white South African expert consultant...

Eric Adams’ law-breaking and shady alliance with Trump have destroyed his mayoral legacy.

by Rudy Giuliani

If someone on national TV asked you "What has Trump done in the last 4 weeks that you find most concerning?" would you just say, "He hasn't lowered prices." Or is there anything else you might mention about the last month?

Comic strip by Jen Sorensen mocking cars becoming humongous

Mandatory repost. Barely a parody now

I appreciate summary, I really do. I summarize constantly. It’s one of the quintessential skills of thought and communication. But if someone reads a summary and assumes they fully understands the thing being summarized, I think they’ve fundamentally misunderstood the tool they’re using.

I'm not against going after waste in the government and the Pentagon is the biggest offender! Nearly $900 billion a year in spending and has never passed an audit.

I wonder if Elon Musk will take on the Military Industrial Complex or if he’s scared he’ll lose all those Pentagon contracts?

An underappreciated danger in school voucher schemes is families may take on new debt—to private schools or other vendors—beyond what vouchers cover.

HS degree grantors and for-profit microschools can hike tuition and all but force families to take out top-off loans to complete.

Trump admin threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.

If colleges comply with this letter by the Trump administration, all affinity orgs, affinity graduation ceremonies, and cultural centers funded by the schools could be forced to be shut down before the end of the month.

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Over the past week, russia sent at Ukraine 1,220 glide bombs, 40 missiles and more than 850 drones, including a couple against the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.

If russia stops fighting, there will be no more war. If Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no more Ukraine.