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In a world of Stephen Millers, be *anyone* else.

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

There is no mass-deportation campaign going on right now. Deportation is a process. This is kidnapping and human trafficking.

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Trump is an extremely dangerous man--stupid, vindictive, fixated on payback for his enemies. This country will be lucky to survive him.

Government decided not to regulate tech, so tech is delighted to not regulate itself

Dear Greenland: I invite you to look into how the United States has "cherished" and "protected" Puerto Rico, especially after Hurricane Maria. You'll thank me.

Stay focused on protecting norms and institutions and not on the “gulf of America.”

After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers. Science works, y'all. www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

Please read this from @davidfrum.bsky.social. "It is a very ominous thing if our leading forums for discussion of public affairs are already feeling the chill of intimidation and responding with efforts to appease." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

@goodwilllibrarian.bsky.social