Gazpacho is not a chili, but it is a chilly soup

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Had the same reaction, one of disgust, when I saw this being shared, earnestly:

I work in the best university in the world, less than 3 hours from my rural hometown, yet superstar students travel here from all over the world… if we keep treating them badly, will centers of excellence move elsewhere?

"If my kids excel, will they move away?"

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flipping through browser tabs and open spreadsheets trying to piece together what i was working on before the long weekend like i'm guy pearce in memento

I know I'm not the first person or even the millionth person to point this out; it's not even the first time *I* have said it, but this is what actual First Amendment violations look like and the fact that none of the supposed free speech warriors are saying anything about it tells us everything.

i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan

SNL, you know what you gotta do.

American. Citizens. Cannot. Be. Deported.

I know we all want to be concise, but we simply cannot use the shorthand terms of the fascists when they describe wildly illegal & unconstitutional things.

Extrajudicial renditions. Kidnappings. Wildly unconstitutional fascism. All right there as options.

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

Trump Preparing Executive Order Declaring Chiefs Rightful Super Bowl LIX Champions

We’re in a situation now where the president is unilaterally expanding his own authority beyond anything the constitution recognizes, and then we wait to see whether his deeply compromised judges will decide to change the law in his favor post-hoc.

The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire

O Batman, Where Art Thou?

i think my position on this is that if it happens, it's unconstitutional. if the supreme court affirms it, it's still unconstitutional. it's an illegitimate and unlawful action and should be treated as such.

man i miss tressie mcmillan cottom

it's so fucking bleak that she came so early and got driven off before the better controls kicked in

anyway, this is extremely worth watching

Every word here. We have journalistic organizations which will tell the truth in this moment, and we should amplify them. www.theverge.com/24282022/kam...