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Retired from Dept. of English at Eastern Oregon University. Author of “Sailor” and “The Book of Sympathetic Magic.” Navy vet, and unapologetic liberal. Please, no DMs
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Yes. I also plan to repeat this action every month, along with targeted boycotts in between. Next month it will be three days, the month after that four days.

Who is ready to bring it?

1. I taught some democracy. 2. I wrote some democracy. 3. I talked some democracy. 4. I thought some democracy. 5. I read some democracy. cc: I refuse to be managed.

You fire all the JAGs if you don’t want to be held accountable for your actions. The pattern expands.

Is he dead yet?

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

We need to create a culture of solidarity. Boycotts and strikes are effective. February 28th, join us.

Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope. THIS is good trouble! Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.

This gets my vote for tweet/post of the year. This is a RED ALERT post. This is exactly why he’s doing it.

I attended a town hall meeting yesterday with Congessman Cliff Bentz of Oregon’s second district, a rural, conservative district. He was met with a buzz saw of angry constituents who simply weren’t having it. If you remember the angry town halls with angry Tea Partiers, you have an idea.

Good morning and Happy Thursday to everyone who agrees with General Milley that Americans do not owe our allegiance to a King, Queen, or a wannabe dictator. We owe our allegiance to the Constitution. Fuck the nonsense trump says about being a king.

Musk is nothing more than a parasite. He is invading his host and taking over from inside.

Happy President's Day from Union Square in NYC, which is filled with protesters preparing for a march down Broadway This picture is a fraction of the people in the park, and many people have already started marching It's a beautiful day. Let's do this 🧵

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

Here is my Federal Employment Termination story:

Authoritarians don’t announce themselves. They corrupt the system slowly—until one day, it’s too late. We are running out of time to stop them.

Our team reviewed the entire DOGE website. Nothing they have identified constitutes evidence of fraud or corruption—both of which are crimes. Feel free to audit us. The funds were allotted by Congress, and OIGs regularly reviewed expenditures for fraud.

Where law ends, tyranny begins.

Spoken like a true dictator.

Oh no! They sent a strongly worded letter!

Two points: first, parents have until their kids are about 5 to instill strong values, including curiosity . Second, you can teach students a lot, but you can’t teach curiosity. Retired college professor.

You know, I’m happy to just stay home, buy nothing for six months (food excepted), and watch as Trusk flames out, saying “tried to warn you” to every Trusk voter who dares open their mouth to complain.

We can’t say this enough: When people in Trump‘s orbit deliberately lie about how our constitutional democracy works, they violate the oaths they take to uphold the law. & they violate the trust the American people place in them.

Monday thought:

A solid agenda.

There was a game?

This is an important thread, including many of the comments. Newspeak anyone? I’m biased toward diversity, inclusion, and avoiding confirmation bias. If our “intelligence” agency can’t live in the real world, we are at great risk from our adversaries.

Just saying…

PLEASE SHARE.

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

Corporate media with their wall to wall Trump coverage is by design making Trump seem all powerful. In reality Trump had a horrible week and the voices opposing Trump are growing. That is why WE must amplify the Profiles in Resistance. My new article: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/more-profi...

He says that as if he has any style. Whatsoever.

The Super Bowl was today? Huh.

Our president is so lost in the head he has no idea what he’s signing. People just stick something in his face, he scribbles with a sharpie and holds it up like it’s the Magna Carta.

(1/X) I still want this account to be mostly jokes, but I think we need to be realistic about what we’re facing. It’s likely going to take mass protests stop the country from devolving all the way into fascism

I would seriously be in favor of this as a national policy applied to all billionaires.

I stand with the trans community. Pass it along.

When the Constitution says that the president shall faithfully execute the law, he thinks it means to put the law in front of a firing squad.