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Feral Midwestern Gen Xer, #BLM, #ChristianLeft, anti-fascist, well armed pacifist, patriotic in spite of U.S. history in a Barbara Jordan kinda way
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I endorse this. Snatch a #ProudBoy. www.youtube.com/shorts/ULg3_...

Several sources tell me a passel of high profile tech and also finance leaders is making a trip to Mar-a-Lago to read Trump the riot act — um talk common sense — to him on the tariffs. Their million dollar donations to the inauguration is turning into billions in losses.

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TODAY: A Maryland court will hear a lawsuit from the city of Baltimore seeking to block Trump’s efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — the nation’s financial watchdog agency. Get background.👇

What's the end game of Musk and the other libertarian oligarchs? Bernie explains it in 1 minute. Privatization of Social Security, and Medicare to benefit the 1%. www.youtube.com/shorts/_2zkO...

No Kings! Around the Partisan Bend on DOGE [sic] and Ukraine www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/23/n...

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

Boycotts have been an important tool to counter repressive regimes. The point of these rolling blackout boycotts is to demonstrate our collective power by tanking sales in a noticeable way one day at a time - & meanwhile gather our power. This one checks out. Pls. share. #EconomicBlackout

Today! Join us at 9pm ET/6pm PT for a Democracy Forward Town Hall—where we can come together in community, find courage, & work to build a better future. Speaker info to follow soon. Topic: One Month In - What We've Learned, How We Are Responding, What You Can Do. YouTube Live link: bit.ly/4i9BQ1l

Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

While you were sleeping

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Trans people were on the front lines at Stonewall. Don't let Trump, Musk, or a bunch of Vichy gays and TERFs tell you otherwise. My latest for Slate on what happened to the Stonewall monument website, why autocrats always destroy history, and where it can lead slate.com/news-and-pol...

It does not matter who is being sent to Gitmo -- people deserve to be free regardless of whether they have criminal histories or not. But the fact that most of the people sent there don't seem to have any histories of arrests means Noem and Homan are just liars. migrantinsider.com/p/venezuelan...

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

When a judge stops the president from doing something illegal, that’s not a “threat to democracy,” that’s a check on the president’s power. That's the whole damn point.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

I see more criticism here of Democrats in Congress than I do condemnation of Republicans. And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump. It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other. Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.

Not my area of expertise but this sure seems like a five-alarm fire. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

In San Diego a protest against Trump's ethnic cleansing was attacked by police in first major escalation against protestors since the Trump took power. “We're here to speak for the people who cannot speak, and we're here to stand up for their rights” #3E #USprotests www.10news.com/news/local-n...

"DOGE does not have power over established government agencies, and Musk has no role in government. It does not matter that he is an ally of the President. Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

This one goes out to my newest friend here on BlueSky, who is also one of my oldest friends IRL. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KisH...

NEW Public Resource Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions A catalogue compiling all the legal challenges facing the #TrumpAdministration’s executive orders and actions.

I read the "1776 Report" behind Trump's EO compelling schools to erase race, gender, and class. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/patriotic-...

#Jan6th #Archive #TrumpCoup

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

Bernie bringing the 🔥

Catherine Cortez Masto just casually exposing that RFK Jr. has no idea what HHS does or how it works.

Old Mikey boy fired up the bullshit machine yesterday by signing an EO saying that law enforcement will fully cooperate with deportation and report suspected illegal immigrants. He thinks they are "flooding" into our state 🙄🙄 www.tiktok.com/t/ZT221ktmT/

We need new terms. Access journalism is a gamble, a bet that what you get will be worth more than what you get up. It can work; &, obv, it can fail. Worse is what I call “complicity journalism.” Even that is self-deceiving. But it’s on the way to “collaborationist journalism.”

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The Nepenthes malware sends AI crawlers down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they "get stuck" and "thrash around" for months, according to its anonymous creator.

⚡️JUST NOW IN TENNESSEE: Grandmothers, mothers, clergy CARRIED OUT of the GOP immigration crackdown bill committee hearing (chaired by Rep Chris todd ) by troopers after sitting quietly with signs 👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DFanr7j...

this is what the youth need to understand, this can and does happen fast, it happened to a marginally more competent president with a much stronger base of support and a much stronger republican party *during wartime*

The Democrats, who currently have zero say in DC, should reorganize into a party that does nothing but talk and communicate. FLOOD THE ZONE WITH REAL TALK DIRECTED AT ALL AMERICANS THAT IS CLEAR, CONSICE, AND STRONG. The Democrats need to figure out how to fight and communicate TODAY!