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Burma Shave Protest in Portland OR! RUSH HOUR RESISTANCE EVENT! @indivisible.org @coin-indivisible.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @meidastouch.com @timothysnyder.bsky.social @jeff-merkley.bsky.social @maxinefororegon.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com

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I watched a screener of this from PBS — it airs next week. Highly recommended. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

submitted 8 days ago • 150 comments

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No Kings Day Protest from Croatia. @maddow.msnbc.com @indivisible.org @hcrichardson.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social @meidastouch.com

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Reposting this in honor of the Republican Senators who have allowed Trump to usurp Congress's right to determine tariffs www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 29 days ago • 38 comments

May 30, 2025

submitted 29 days ago • 57 comments

Stunning details now emerging: this was an operation planned a year and a half in advance, involved smuggling drones into Russia, placing them in containers on top of trucks, arranging for them all to open simultaneously and to strike.

submitted 27 days ago • 166 comments

A federal trade court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.

submitted 31 days ago • 23 comments

In what is shaping up to be a huge day for democracy in the lower federal courts, at least, Judge Chutkan rules that the case against DOGE can proceed.

submitted 32 days ago • 75 comments

Two exclamation points in the opening paragraph of a fed'l judge's opinion is unusual. Judge Leon enjoins Trump's entire EO against the Wilmer Cutler law firm, going beyond the relief they asked for. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 32 days ago • 57 comments

Trump's DOJ has granted Boeing a non-prosecution agreement over the 737 MAX crashes, despite the company's repeated attempts to deceive regulators. Boeing donated $1M to Trump's inauguration and has paid AG Pam Bondi's former lobbying firm at least $480K. Follow the money.

submitted 32 days ago • 175 comments

Does the color of your skin determine how laws are applied? That certainly seems the case in Alabama where a US Citizen was pulled from the workplace by ICE. They kept insisting that his identification card was fake. This is not justice!

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Our justice system is built to protect everyone equally. Who is benefiting from proposed new laws that deport people, no violent history or criminal record? Can’t be about justice or safety. It’s about gaining power with propaganda. Our leaders must defend us, not just chase headlines. #TruthBrigade

submitted 36 days ago • 9 comments

"House Republicans worked through the night to advance a massive piece of legislation that might, if enacted, carry out the largest upward transfer of wealth in American history," writes Jonathan Chait: https://theatln.tc/cGoxeShf

submitted 37 days ago • 34 comments

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Trump’s EPA is planning to roll back rules that limit the amount of “forever chemicals” allowed in drinking water. This comes after chemical companies donated generously to his inauguration fund. See how this works?

submitted 42 days ago • 183 comments

Walmart's CEO announced this week it will pass the cost of Trump's tariffs onto consumers by raising prices. As I've been saying, tariffs aren't paid by other countries. They're eventually paid by us at the checkout line. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfVGUiet39E

submitted 42 days ago • 88 comments

Donald Trump’s attacks on courts “follow a clear pattern seen in backsliding democracies around the world,” writes Andrew O'Donohue. “To undermine public support for the judiciary, political leaders adopt policies that are popular but very likely illegal”:

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The GOP’s “big beautiful bill” includes a clause giving Donald Trump the ability to revoke the tax-exempt status of any group the Treasury Department says is a terrorism supporter. The bill is in the reconciliation process, meaning it only requires a simple majority in the House and Senate to pass.

submitted 46 days ago • 79 comments

Homeland Security is "Out of Control"........ youtu.be/EwZWCk1ytPU?...

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submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

Breaking News: A federal judge ordered the North Carolina elections board to certify the Democratic incumbent’s victory in a contested State Supreme Court race.

submitted 54 days ago • 59 comments

I may be the only lawyer targeted by Trump willing to speak on camera, but for me it wasn't a choice. All of us have an obligation to speak out against what Trump is doing. All of us have an obligation to fight for democracy. I am fortunate to be a lawyer and to have a platform -- and I will use it.

submitted 55 days ago • 1193 comments

250 years ago, the American people made it clear that they weren’t going to be ruled by kings. On June 14, we’re taking to the streets in a nationwide day of defiance to reject authoritarianism and show the world what democracy really looks like.

submitted 55 days ago • 74 comments

Join a May Day mobilization on Thursday to remind Trump and the oligarchs controlling our government of working people’s power. We’ve teamed up with organized labor, immigrants’ rights groups and Hands Off! allies for a nationwide show of working people’s solidarity: maydaystrong.org?utm_source=i...

submitted 60 days ago • 18 comments

@indivisiblepdx.bsky.social @indivisible.org @democracymattersor.bsky.social JB speaks our language

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First they came for the socialist, then.... www.americaamerica.news/p/how-much-i...

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“Today, right now—and I mean right this second—you have the most power you’ll ever have in the current fight against authoritarianism in America,” writes @adriennelaf.bsky.social. If you wait to speak out against autocrats, you have already lost:

submitted 67 days ago • 21 comments

With Trump defying the Supreme Court to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia (along with hundreds of others) imprisoned in El Salvador, we find ourselves in a moral and constitutional crisis. Calls and emails to Congress aren’t sufficient to end these crises, but they are necessary.

submitted 68 days ago • 22 comments

"Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management." snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

submitted 70 days ago • 65 comments

Signalgate 2.0 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

submitted 69 days ago • 105 comments

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Our health, safety, and data security on the brink. bsky.app/profile/wire...

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Trying to suppress women’s votes.

submitted 81 days ago • 20 comments

2800 people turned out in Youngstown Ohio last night for a town hall with Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Local GOP congressman Michael Rulli won't do events like this with his constituents, so Democrats are doing so in his district: www.youtube.com/watch?v=krWH...

submitted 81 days ago • 180 comments

Hands Off Rally, Portland OR. Portland shows up by the thousands!

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“These professional podcasters stand in front of a bunch of career scientists and say ‘What has science ever done?’ I don’t know, science eradicated measles until two months ago...” www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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