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Cosmic Cleric

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  • FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies

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  • Trump to order a plan to shut down the US Education Department

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  • Trump to order a plan to shut down the US Education Department

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  • Trump to order a plan to shut down the US Education Department

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  • So would that look like pulling all say from the states and putting all funding, policy, etc. at the federal level?

    I'd say funding would be dual-leveled, depending on what is being funded.

    Policy mandates at the fed level would be funded with fed dollars. Meal and health programs too.

    Things like physical building maintenance and teacher salaries would be at the state level (with help with fed funds for poor states).

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  • Soldier featured in movie 'Glory' scrubbed from Pentagon website

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  • Trump to order a plan to shut down the US Education Department

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  • Is the DoE the answer or could it be handled better at the state or regional level?

    My belief is that if we are to be a single nation, then it had to be handled at the federal level by the DoE, and not at the various states level.

    At the states level its just an easy prelim/prep for a future civil war.

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  • Video Game Workers Launch Industry-Wide Union with Communications Workers of America

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  • Great to hear! Way overdue. That industry really needs some of those protections.

    From the article ...

    The launch will be formally announced at the 2025 Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, Calif., the world’s largest industry event for video game professionals, where workers will be joined by other CWA members to launch this powerful new organization.

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  • Trump to order a plan to shut down the US Education Department

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  • Soldier featured in movie 'Glory' scrubbed from Pentagon website

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  • From the article ...

    Sgt. William Carney, a member of the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry Regiment, was the first Black American to earn the Medal of Honor.

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  • Denzel Washington reenacted the heroics of Sgt. William Carney in the movie "Glory." The Pentagon removed a story about him for DEI reasons.

    Would love to hear what Denzel Washington would say about this.

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  • French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

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  • It’s “voluntary” in the sense that either you allow it or you don’t get into the country.

    Was that explicitly said to him? Did they tell him that if he refused the inspection that he would be denied entry?

    BTW, what you described is a mandatory inspection.

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  • US ‘deletes evidence’ of Russia’s kidnap of thousands of Ukrainian children

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  • DOD says it 'mistakenly removed' Jackie Robinson, other content from website amid DEI purge

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  • US ‘deletes evidence’ of Russia’s kidnap of thousands of Ukrainian children

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  • French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

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  • immigration officers at an airport searched his phone

    There's no mention in the article if this search was voluntary, or not.

    Edit: For the downvoters, please point out where I was wrong; I'd honestly really like to know if it was voluntary or not.

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  • US ‘deletes evidence’ of Russia’s kidnap of thousands of Ukrainian children

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  • From the article ...

    A Yale source said the US state department deleted the evidence which would have been used as part of rescue efforts to get the children home to Ukraine. It would also have been used to prosecute those behind their abductions – including Russian president Vladimir Putin.

    ”It is unclear whether it was by accident or intent, but it may reveal or it may cause potential criminal liability for the Trump administration, given international prohibitions against the destruction of war crimes evidence,” the Yale insider told The Independent.

  • Zelenskyy agrees to a limited ceasefire as Trump floats US ownership of Ukraine's power plants

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  • Texas Starts Arresting Abortion Providers

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  • Hot take, but the GOP has been using the technicality of shitty laws they pass to give cover for your hot take.

    Vote them out. And if you can't, then deal with it (protest verbally, etc.), or move to another place without those lawmakers.

    Parsing up the fine details of this completely avoidable, ridiculously stupid action taken by Texas officials is important to having an honest conversation

    I have no problem talking about it. Seeing back alley abortions be a thing again, not so much.

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  • Texas Starts Arresting Abortion Providers

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  • Do you make all your moral choices based on the written law of Texas?

    No, but I do make them based on the written law of wherever I'm at.

    And as I've mentioned already (further down), morally, life is greater than law.

    But you can't open the floodgates to anybody practicing surgery on others for protest reasons. We were there before, with back alley abortions, many that went bad. The laws are there for a reason. (Politicians abusing laws is a different matter.)

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