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Proud of my Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov. #leadership

Virtual briefing on the new Community of Contrasts website, a data-rich, interactive web-based platform featuring disaggregated data illustrating diversity of the Asian American Pacific Islander community. Tuesday, April 29 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. (PST) 2 pm - 4 pm (EST) Sponsored by AAAJ-SoCal 1/4

Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are split on #massdeportations by generation, according to a recent poll by AAPI Data @aapidata.bsky.social and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research @apnews.com. Nearly 3/4 of AANHPIs are first generation immigrants.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social who quit The Washington Post after it refused to run her draft political cartoon will be speaking on Thursday May 29 from 8 to 9:30PM ET. Virtual, free event. RSVP at www.mobilize.us/mediademocra...

The targets of an authoritarian government are the intelligentsia. - #Harvard holds firm against administration demands, giving hope to #academic institutions. - Nine major research universities and three university associations sued the administration to restore $400 million in funding.

A list of the 86 American colleges and universities (p. 8-9) that signed on to an amicus brief in support of the AAUP's lawsuit against "Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful Speech." Among them are Rutgers, Michigan State, and the whole Maryland system

The EEOC is weaponizing civil rights laws to attack the next generation lawyers, and law students are fighting back with a lawsuit with the help of Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org.

Major law firms had nearly $1 billion they could’ve used to defend the rule of law. But instead they chose to capitulate and pledged $940 million in pro bono legal services for conservative causes. Support those that stood firm. #biglaw #lawfirms #ruleoflaw

We have received clarification for April 19th! @50501movement.bsky.social has posted that April 19th is a general “day of action.” substack.com/@50501/note/.... This could include protests, meetings, making #CreateToLiberate art, participating in the economic blackout, or any resistance action.

The executive targets his opponents w/bogus investigations. His government disappears people w/out due process and vanishes them beyond reach. He usurps legislative power, controls public funds at will, & consolidates power. Loyalty is expected — or else. Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.

H/T @apiavote.bsky.social Asian Americans surveyed by AAPI Data & AP-NORC, show: 1️⃣ A majority of AAPI adults (76%) agree that Elon Musk, the head of the new Department of Government Efficiency, has too much influence on the U.S. federal government. Read more: aapidata.com/press-releas... 1/4

Tomorrow WHAT: Rally to Say NO to Tax Breaks for Billionaires & Corporations WHEN: Thursday, April 10, 12pmET-1:30pmET WHERE: Upper Senate Park, next to the U.S. Capitol Building. **MomsRising members will meet in advance—info upon RSVP

Will April 19 be the last day people can assemble?

What the public lost when thousands of health workers at the #CDC and #FDA lost their jobs:

#CoryBooker

Quippy explanation on how you can be involved in #politics and dislike it at the same time.

I expected law firms to similarly band together but instead they are getting picked off one by one. Why?

The reason DEI exists is so that competent, qualified people don't get passed over in favor of mediocre incompetent white men who had a well-connected buddy. Or so that utter morons who share war plans on the group chat don't hire their brother and get away with it bc they're white dudes.

Women #veterans in #Congress are saying, We are NOT safe under this Administration. @duckworth.senate.gov

Rep. Ted Lieu served in the Air Force reserve command and as JAG. He calls for the end to the breaches in #nationalsecurity. @reptedlieu.bsky.social

#HandsOff holds planning meeting on April 1, 8-9 pm ET for #April5 #protests!

Look how widespread the impacts that proposed federal cuts to scientific research will have on science, the economy, and healthcare: scienceimpacts.org #science #federalfunding

Raskin: "There's an absolute attack on the Constitution taking place by an administration which views the Constitution as just inconvenient furniture that's gotta be kicked out of the way."

America, this week, you are holding 540 #protests across the country! Submit any here to get counted! open.substack.com/pub/thepeopl...

The anti-Tesla movement anted up with this ad

Day of action - Saturday, April 5! Handsoff2025.com #handsoff

Everyone: Be like Rep #JohnLarson

Today, Evan Glass @evanmglass.bsky.social announced his campaign for Montgomery County Executive! Join me in endorsing Evan! I’m proud to say that I’ve known Evan since he invited me for coffee before he ran for county council years ago. 1/4

The executive order against the law firm is about YOU having 1st Amendment protection to hold the views you have - a constitutional right. Don’t dismiss it because it’s not only about this law firm.

@alsobrooks.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @repaprildelaney.bsky.social VOTE NO on the CR. There is no other choice. Don’t be bullied Here’s the reasoning

Musk’s AI Grok software estimates with 75-85% likelihood that T is a Russian asset. www.instagram.com/reel/DG6w6OV...

Dear European friends, “…YOU MUST REMEMBER— half of Americans (and growing) are in complete agreement with you. The epoch-making historical miracles that happened in Philadelphia in 1776 and 1788, 1/3

European journalists demonstrate opposition to Musk in a big way. #freepress

"The memos outline the intention to replace the American Constitutional democracy with a monarchy led by Musk, as CEO-King." america2.news/the-four-mem...

Need help keeping track of the news? Zeteo's project @zeteo.com to document the ongoing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in the Trump second term.

#Democratic response to the State of the Union #SOTU BY Sen Elissa Slotkin @senelissaslotkin.bsky.social