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#HandsOff Patchogue, NY

Reminder that Congress can stop this shitshow anytime they want.

Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.

I don't think universities realize that the time to go all in on protecting your students is now.

They have been doing it for years, but it should alarm everyone that Republicans are rolling back child labor laws at the same time they are defunding public schools…

Lest we forget, Hegseth had his Venmo set to public until reporters called him out: prospect.org/politics/202...

This conversation just makes me feel like Im going crazy. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...

We’re doing Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo again, except both at once, and to random dads and barbers abducted off the streets of America for the crime of being Latino

We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.

What an episode of television. #severancespoilers #severance

I'm still putting the story together. I'm sharing limited info and request for more info anyone seeing this message might have. I understand that DOGE showed up today at the Institute of Museum and Library Services and rapidly began sending employees home. This was presaged in an executive order...

The contempt they have for disabled children is rooted in a mistaken belief that there aren't too many of them. Estimates show that between 1-in-8 and 1-in-5 students in America have some kind of learning disability. There are an awful lot of SPED families out here, and we will *fight* this shit.

This is definitely one to read, even within a zone flooded with sh*t.

Spoilers!

I'm honestly running out of words I can use on the air to describe what's happening in and to this economy

Personal liberties and free makrkets. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

AOC is showing what resistance looks like; Schumer, Hochul, and the rest of D leadership not so much. www.publicnotice.co/p/aoc-homan-...

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

ou know what’s weird? “You know what I can’t figure out? Why would a party that loves the working class… want to roll back every last iota of progress in worker rights? It just doesn’t make sense. Huh. Weird.”

Please stop with the generative AI. It's garbage, theft, making us less capable. Image by www.nobodyssweetheart.com

Cant help but think the story from the Super Bowl last night was NOT the dancer with the flag. It was Uncle Samuel Jackson. It was Serena Williams. It was THE SONGS, themselves. But for white, older audience, they dont want to go there.

Trump's flurry of anti-trans executive orders is justified as "protecting women." In reality, they are an attack on all women and girls, cis and trans. They make sexual abuse easier. And they're targeting research into women's health care for defunding. www.salon.com/2025/02/10/w...

I said what I said. www.thewrap.com/chris-hayes-...

These people protects us and theyre being taken away from us without our say-so. open.substack.com/pub/howthing...

LGBTQIA minors make up 40% of the endangered minor runaway population. They are 120% more likely to be unhoused. They are also uniquely at risk for exploitation and trafficking. This is breathtakingly evil.

Exactly this.

Well put by Naomi Klein in Doppelgänger. (Even before Trump 2)

High Line views, Manhattan.

done. to other college parents: I found the financial aid office's email and wrote: "What can you tell us about the FAFSA information leaks? What is [college]'s position on keeping our children’s (okay, our adult children!) information protected? Thanks for letting us know!"

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

If you wanted to decrease the cost of homes, one thing you wouldn’t do is put a flat tariff on your main source of timber.

"A private citizen with zero Constitutional authority is effectively seizing control of critical government functions. The Constitution explicitly requires Senate confirmation for anyone wielding significant federal power" www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...

Obvs the solution is to further reduce staffing and replace the FAA chief with someone who won't hold EM accountable. "In 2023, a panel of experts released a report that found that the increasing reliance of overtime to staff air traffic control facilities was putting air safety at risk."

in case your company uses Google Workspace and is despairing at how Gemini A.I. is getting pushed into everything—fear not! Slate's indefatigable IT chief embarked on a successful journey to get it removed from our end and wrote a detailed guide for the curious: slate.com/technology/2...

From what I can tell around the time of the collision the new SecDef was doing a Fox hit about the woke mind virus.