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THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!
- Reposted by jigIt is bracing to reread the Framers’ bone-deep fears about foreign corruption of the presidency and realize Trump is exactly what they were trying to prevent. slate.com/news-and-pol...
- Reposted by jigFired a black person who was qualified, hired a white person with no qualifications whatsoever. The Trump administration in a nutshell bsky.app/profile/axio...
- Reposted by jigSōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books
- Reposted by jigOur trade deal so far is no tariffs on Rolls Royces and Bentleys and our refugee policy is white South Africans only.
- Reposted by jigDonald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis. It's surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.
- Reposted by jigABC not putting “the constitution expressly forbids this” in the headline is itself a bribe.
- Reposted by jig"The judge overseeing the case against the Defense Department's firing of transgender service members revealed that the military spends eight times more on erectile dysfunction medication than on gender affirming care." www.newsweek.com/us-military-...
- Reposted by jigThe man checked out 50 books on topics that included Jewish history, African-American history and LGBTQ education. Then burned them. www.cleveland.com/community/20...
- Reposted by jigIt's not only breathtakingly corrupt, it's manifestly illegal, no matter what permission is received from a cowardly and compromised Department of Justice.
- Reposted by jigWelcome to the DOGE Subcommittee—this is what it has become. They can gavel me all day—but I will always fight for what is right—at home and in Washington.
- Reposted by jigYou MUST watch this exchange from today’s Tx House debate on anti-library HB3225. “This is about your desire to make sure that children have access to sexually explicit materials,” says the bill’s author. “Rep Alders, do you know what I have done for a living?” Says @voteannjohnson.bsky.social
- Reposted by jigToday I learned that the author of this 1977 op-ed was the most important college mentor for the current head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.
- Reposted by jigNEW: A Defense Dept employee passed me an internal list of *dozens* of books that have been banned in DOD's K-12 school libraries because of Trump's anti-DEI orders. "Quarantined" kids' books include multiple award winners. All touch on race or LGBTQ+ issues. www.huffpost.com/entry/defens...
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- Reposted by jigGirls can only have 2 dolls but boys can lose 4 F-18s in the Red Sea
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- Reposted by jigJust amazing: Trump grew angry over a Biden-era program with the word "equity" in its name, so he ended it. But a key part of the program was sending money to red states to expand internet access in rural/MAGA country. Now they might not get it. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1950...
- Reposted by jigToday is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
- Reposted by jigI'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.
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- Reposted by jigWell, without an ankle monitor, what is to stop her from co-authoring another op-ed? 
- Reposted by jigCato Institute’s Director of immigration studies 👇🏽
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- Reposted by jigAlan Moore from a new interview. alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2025/05/long...
- Reposted by jigThe National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans with autism, using insurance claims, medical records and smartwatch data.
- Reposted by jigExclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
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- Reposted by jigWith each passing day, the decision of several big law firms to cut deals with Trump is looking worse and worse for them. Clients are steering business away from them and they are losing lawyers and the ability to recruit top talent. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
- Reposted by jigGovInfo Day(s) Spring 2025 brought together librarians, archivists & digital stewards to champion long-term access to government info. Hosted by Internet Archive Canada, SFU & UBC. Inspiring sessions on digital preservation & public access. 🔗 internetarchivecanada.org/2025/05/07/r... CC @archive.org
- Reposted by jigNot to be too pro technocrat, but it is astounding how much this country depended on the selflessness of like a few hundred thousand highly educated public servants who, for peanuts, made sure our food and medicine and environment etc were safe. And in return these servants were demonized.
- “When it comes to .. raw milk, I want to be free to form a relationship with a local farmer, look him in the eyes, pet his cow, and then decide if I feel safe to drink the milk from his farm.” — Casey Means, Trump’s latest surgeon-general nominee. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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- excellent style choice.
- hate the sheer tonnage of stupidity
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- Reposted by jigA 25-year-old DOGE bro oversaw the termination of lawyers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last month, just days after they warned him certain stocks he owned were prohibited by employees.
- Reposted by jigA Texas neo-Nazi who I unmasked in 2023, David Bloyed, was found guilty on one count of communicating a threat online for posting an image of Nashville District Attorney General Glenn Funk with the caption "getting the rope." He faces up to five years in prison. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
- Reposted by jigIt is so darkly funny that the MOMENT unitary executive theory escaped containment from the Federalist Society lab and got exposed to the real world, it was revealed to be a farcical disaster
- Reposted by jigThis is genuinely insane
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- Reposted by jigPer @thorbenson.bsky.social, I will now be calling her "the Vanna White of shitters"
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- Reposted by jigTANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
- Reposted by jigIt's important to understand the position of the US government in this case. They are arguing no court can have habeas corpus jurisdiction while they are randomly moving political prisoners about the country. These are the actions of a secret police. These are the actions of a Gestapo.
- The 2nd circuit panel reached the right result for Özturk. Their recitation of the chilling facts is worth reading. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...
- Reposted by jig9th Cir. holds that it is not clearly established law that it violates the First Amendment for public official to retaliate against a person in retaliation for that person's close family member's speech. And declines to establish such law now. QI for official. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
- Reposted by jigSalt Lake City, Utah, and Boise, Idaho, adopted official Pride flags on Tuesday in response to state laws barring the display of any nonofficial flags at schools and government buildings.
