He’s a fascist and a Nazi so that tracks

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In two months, Trump’s Cabinet has lost three women Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi were ousted by the president; now the Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who has been embroiled in scandals, is resigning.

All three women former Cabinet members had received public blowback for various aspects of their performance in their roles.

Sexual misconduct by lawmakers is widespread — but often goes unreported New data from the nonprofit National Women’s Defense League, shared first with The 19th, comes on the heels of the resignations of two members of Congress.

The majority of the allegations of workplace sexual harassment against members of Congress, 77 percent, involved misconduct against congressional staff, while 9 percent involved lobbyists and another 9 percent involved those not in formal political roles.

A ‘Hamilton’-Style Prison Rap About the Risks of Pride A ‘Hamilton’-Style Prison Rap About the Risks of Pride

On May 12, men who served time at Sing Sing prison will put on a concert in Brooklyn to celebrate the first album from Musicambia, a non-profit that teaches music behind bars.

One track channels the Broadway rap style of Lin-Manuel Miranda:

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America Goes Psychedelic, Again - Reveal For 50 years, the idea of making psychedelic drugs legal again was unthinkable. Now, even conservative lawmakers are supporting efforts to approve psychedelics as a treatment for veterans with PTSD.

For more than 50 years, the idea of making psychedelic drugs legal again was unthinkable. Now, the Trump administration is loosening its restrictions on the substances.

How did we get here? Check out our 2024 episode on the subject.

1978 California Proposition 13 - Wikipedia

Implementation started with Prop 13, which decimated public education. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_Ca...
"By severely curtailing the ability of community college districts to levy property taxes, Proposition 13 shifted the state's contribution to community colleges from 38% to 78% of their revenue."

I mean Reagan basically admitted as much.
And the valorisation of STEM over the humanities to kill communism and ensure a steady supply of engineers to keep the military-industrial complex thrumming along

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AI is about to make the global e-waste crisis much worse As demand for AI hardware surges, much of the resulting waste will end up in non-Western countries.

The AI boom could generate up to 5 million metric tons of e-waste by 2030. Much of that hardware will likely end up in informal scrap yards across India and Africa restofworld.org/2026/global-ewaste-crisi...

in honor of The Onion officially taking over InfoWars, what’s a conspiracy theory you 100% believe?

Michael Jordan was doing the exact same shit as Pete Rose (gambling on games his team played in) during his playing career and Nike+the NBA have…done what it took to keep that quiet.

@genesndiseases.bsky.social blocking you back!

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@shawnhuckabay.info blocking ya back!

"Men Are Scary." I have never been an “all men” person.

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After building the best public education system in the world brought us the Counterculture and the Anti-War Movement, conservatives in the US began a 50+ year assault to destroy public education.

What’s behind the US Army’s decision to raise enlistment age to 42? Changes in US Army enlistment standards could be an effort to boost recruitment as numbers have lagged in recent years.

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parents and trans youth cannot be expected to know they are being lied to. your governor and attorney general and mayor all say they've got your back. your mainstream lgbtq orgs are silent. your cis friends repeat it to reassure you. the truth barely gets coverage, and rarely fully when it does.

Families left reeling after hospitals in blue states drop transgender care for youth Massachusetts passed laws and joined lawsuits to protect access to gender-affirming care for minors. But faced with the Trump administration's threats, some hospitals voluntarily stopped care.

"It just felt like the floor had fallen out. Like all the support that I thought we had was gone. Maybe this is naive, but I didn't think that would happen in Massachusetts."

there is functionally a conspiracy to gaslight you into believing that, so it's understandable
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one reason i have been pushing for things like laws requiring their states to step in with local funding for trans care is not because they would do it but because it would create opportunities for radicalization when they didn't anyway

same effect as accelerationism without doing accelerationism!

"Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses"

Wait Zach Branch is like significantly smaller than I am holy shit

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

When my doctor chides me for the cholesterol spike resulting from the last few months of my apocalyptic dread diet, I'll simply counter by pointing out that my cholesterol is in fact on the rebound.

Username checks out lol

Polymarket courts Chinese users despite strict online gambling ban The crypto-based prediction platform is hiring Mandarin-speaking staff and adding Lunar New Year bets, even as it remains blocked in China.

Polymarket is blocked in China, but it’s still targeting Chinese users through language, hiring, and culturally specific bets restofworld.org/2026/polymarket-china-be...

3D-Printed Homes, an Abandoned $590,000 Deposit, the FBI: What Really Happened in This Small Town? Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix Cairo, Illinois’ housing crisis. More than a year later, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. And the more we asked questions, the weird...

When I first met Jamie Hayes, the car dealer who bought the 3D printer for the housing project, I didn’t know his company had abandoned a $590K deposit — or that there was no real housing plan.

I didn’t know Hayes’ firm had drawn the FBI’s attention.

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In the Gulf, GPS jamming leaves delivery drivers navigating blind The war has led to mass GPS-jamming, forcing drivers to rely on memory, landmarks, and phone calls.

After 20 years of driving in Dubai, one delivery driver has started ignoring his phone entirely because GPS spoofing has begun turning a five-minute trip into a 40-minute detour restofworld.org/2026/gps-disruption-gulf...

Oil prices rebound 7% as Strait of Hormuz is closed again Brent crude futures jumped $6.56 to $96.94 ​a ​barrel.

There's a pathology in a certain strain of business/finance journalism that sees no problem with framing the latest surge in oil prices as a "rebound"...

A Protester Threw a Snowball. Federal Agents Responded With Tear Gas and Pepper Balls. A new investigation from ProPublica and FRONTLINE examines federal agents’ response to protesters and bystanders at the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps. “We see, just, use of excessive force...

On Jan. 12, a protester in Minneapolis threw a snowball toward federal immigration agents, who responded by tossing a tear gas canister and firing pepper balls into the crowd, hitting ProPublica & @frontlinepbs.bsky.social correspondent A.C. Thompson in the face.

USDA cuts programs to aid new and Native American farmers LOWER BRULE, S.D. – In his dual roles as a cattle rancher and chairman of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Boyd Gourneau was hopeful that a new federal program would help fulfill the dreams of tribal m…

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