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I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

Where are they? In a crisis, they have ceded the public stage to Musk and Trump. It is shameful.

Is it too much to ask to want the government to stop the president from doing the illegal stuff?

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

Trump 45’s VP Pence posted: “Mr. President, Ukraine did not ‘start’ this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The Road to Peace must be built on the Truth.”

Truth

Here is the ad the Washington Post accepted and then rejected:

They told us long ago they would do everything in Project 2025. During the campaign, Trump pretended he didn’t know any of the guys behind it. The press repeated his lies. After winning, he appointed Russ Vought, a leader author of the “unitary executive” theory in Project 2025, to head the...

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Exactly 😡

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

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Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

He’s right again.

National Nuclear Security Administration officials are attempting to notify some employees who had been let go that they are now due to be reinstated — but they're struggling to find them because they don't have their new contact information. nbcnews.to/4104StF

Judge Nathan 2021: "The Court remains of the view...that the disclosure failures and misrepresentations in this case represent grave derelictions of prosecutorial responsibility." Acting deputy A.G. Emil Bove's repeat legal ethics problems. via @weissmann11.bsky.social substack.com/inbox/post/1...

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Resist. Oppose. Defy.

I love this idea!💙

👀 “I understand my duty as a prosecutor to mean enforcing the law impartially, and that includes prosecuting a validly returned indictment regardless whether its dismissal would be politically advantageous, to the defendant or to those who appointed me.” - Former Acting USA, SDNY Danielle Sassoon.

RFK Jr. will not make America healthy again. But his ignorance may make people sick again. Deprive them of the treatment they need again. Cause hospitals to close again. We have to vote like our lives depend on it. Because for many Americans – it will.

I miss how nice and normal the last 4 years were. It was nice to have a president who's a kind, benevolent grandpa who likes ice cream, not a criminally insane Nazi who likes to torture people.

I believe the new HHS leadership will act on antipsychiatry beliefs, and I’m worried for current patients.

8. Use your town square Every one of us has a town square. It may include our social media accounts, our local book club or dinner table. Use your town square to speak out in favor of democracy and against what Republicans are doing. Do not shy away from difficult conversations; seek them out.