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Just because you're a blue dot in a red area doesn't mean you're alone — a movement is rising right where you are. Join our Rural Caucus and find out how you can push back against Trump, Musk, and MAGA in your own backyard: secure.everyaction.c...

Why did Congressional Republicans jam through an unpopular budget with the largest Medicaid cuts in history? It could be because nearly 70% of them would financially benefit from the bill's extension of Trump's tax cuts for the rich. Reverse Robin Hood.

Recurring theme for Musk, now promulgated by Donny and the Muskrats at the agencies that have been protecting us.

Make no mistake, removing the CDC recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines for kids and pregnant women is going to kill people, and it will disproportionately affect people who cannot afford to pay for vaccines out of pocket. Do not forget that this decision was made without a confirmed CDC Director.

A new brand of meritocracy, eh?

The public health and safety infrastructure is being crippled creating a decline in life saving knowledge.

Last week, President Trump issued an EO directing federal agencies to scrap Scientific Integrity Policies & undermine science-based decision making. ”The Trump administration intends to weaponize science to undermine public health and safety protections," said UCS President @gretchentg.bsky.social.

Extreme heat + deadly air pollution = a crisis hitting Coachella Valley communities hard. Heat pumps can help tackle BOTH problems while cutting energy bills. @southcoastaqmd.bsky.social: pass rules Rules 1111 & 1121 to expand access to this life-saving tech.

Colorado Sierra Club contributed to a new report finding the state is potentially breaking it's own laws by allowing oil and gas companies to not reveal the chemicals they use.

Trump seems to have entered into a new and wilder stage of authoritarian neofascism. No holds barred. Nothing out of bounds. But tyrants cannot succeed where people refuse to submit to them. And we will not submit. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/donald-trump-and-fascism

Biting of his nose to spite his face.

Musk has stepped out of the limelight, but DOGE is still gutting countless government programs and services that millions of Americans rely on. Here are seven ways that DOGE is ruining your life.

New blog from my @ucsclimate.bsky.social colleague Kate Cell shows how the fossil fuel industry is using the American Energy Institute as a front in seeking a free pass for climate devastation blog.ucs.org/kate-cell/ho...

The Make Polluters Pay campaign is exposing Trump’s oily inner circle, and calling out the billionaires who want to profit while the planet burns. Learn who they are:

With the peak of wildfire season approaching, the impacts of these cuts from the Trump administration are top of mind—particularly the broad reduction in force and early retirements at the National Weather Service (NWS). Here’s what these cuts mean for the upcoming and future fire seasons.

A recap of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill": Kids go hungry so Jeff Bezos can buy a 3rd yacht. Kids lose health care so Zuckerberg can buy a 2nd Hawaiian island. Seniors lose their nursing home care so Elon Musk can go to Mars. We must fight back with all we've got.

Join the conversation on May 28 at 3 p.m. ET to share stories and discuss the serious impacts of the Trump administration’s recent funding freezes and cuts—from farms to cities across the U.S.—and how we can work together to take back our future.

Is it time to give up the idea that every young person has to go to college? Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/four-years-of-college-shouldnt-be

Trump’s Tax Scam will kick nearly 14 million Americans off their healthcare to give billionaires even more tax cuts. If you’ve got a GOP senator, call and demand that they stand up for the families they were elected to serve: act.indivisible.org/...

Donny and the Muskrats greedily grabbing our public lands for private profit. Speaking from both sides of their mouths: we have no authority so don't need to be transparent and ordering cuts to decimate protections. Shameful. 🚫👑 Keep up the resistance.

The public deserves clear information on the safety of the US's 54 nuclear plants, especially the poorest performers. But the NRC doesn’t make that easy, and Trump admin efforts to deregulate could make it worse. UCS’s Ed Lyman breaks it down in a new post:

Keep breathing and keep speaking up. The ramifications of this type of behavior is deadly.

One would think so ....

Decision made without the normal process of getting advice from experts. Ongoing theme from this administration: The dead don't resist.

As Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill moves to the Senate, we must make it clear: There is nothing “beautiful” about giving huge tax breaks to billionaires while cutting health care, nutrition and education for working families. It is grossly immoral and, together, we must defeat it.

A new analysis estimates the Trump/GOP budget's rollback of clean energy tax credits will eliminate nearly 830,000 jobs by 2030 and raise energy prices by 50% by 2035.  Just another way the "big beautiful bill" will make the economy worse and your life more expensive.

Join us Tuesday, May 27 at 8pm EST for an exciting artful organizing training with the incredible team at Backbone Campaign 🎨💥 They’ll walk us through how to create reusable, eye-catching banners for June 14th and beyond. 🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #50501Movement #June14 #NoKings

I’ll say it again - when *any* politician uses the ‘I haven’t read that story’ lie about something they knew they would get asked about, the interviewer has a duty to say ‘Okay, in that case I’m going to terminate this interview and you can come back when you’re better prepared.”

Wow! Deranged.

Find yours! It is our turn to stand up for democracy. 🚫👑 ⚖🇺🇸🕊 🙏🏻

Remembering the reason we're remembering. 🚫👑 ⚖🇺🇸🕊 🙏🏻

His assignment was to destroy US.

Palestinians to raise flag at WHO for the first time after vote reut.rs/4dyKi9i

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

It is our turn. Remember and do your part for democracy.

Wonder who the next trophy wife will be?

Apparently not.

Voters in Missouri passed a ballot initiative enacting paid sick leave and raising the minimum wage. In response, the Republican state legislature repealed paid sick leave and scrapped a key provision of the wage increase. Hello? Do Republicans ever listen to the will of their voters?

What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime? Words with Wings and Magic Things, a book of illustrated poems for kids.

If they're gonna post, they oughta follow.

Can't really say we have a national president based on his behavior: targeting funding for blue states (incl the Republicans living there). We have a president for the wealthy donors and to hell with everyone else. After all, the dead don't resist, right? youtu.be/CsxXU-tKXXY?...

“Each part of NOAA plays a role in monitoring, understanding, and predicting how the environment in which we live, work, and play is doing, and how it affects each of us.” Dismantling NOAA would be bad for weather forecasting, bad for our economy, and bad for public health.

The biggest story on June 14 won’t be Trump’s $100 million birthday parade in DC — it will be what happens everywhere else. We’re mobilizing nationwide on No Kings Day with more than 1,000 events planned in all 50 states. Sign up to join our national day of defiance: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Thanks to @theguardian.com and @rachelleingang.bsky.social for spotlighting the work of our grassroots movement!

“An analysis found that the claim that 1.4 million undocumented migrants were on Medicaid was false. People living in the US without immigration papers are not eligible for the federal program other than to receive emergency medical treatment.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thank you, Ohio!