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Since Musk is spending millions of dollars to undo democracy and abortion access in Wisconsin, I urge anyone who can to donate to Susan Crawford’s campaign. The election is April 1. www.crawfordforwi.com?

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Proud of the work my law firm did in this case! "An Arizona judge dismissed a lawsuit seeking to upend election policies in Yavapai County. The decision delivered a blow to a right-wing organization founded by Stephen Miller which brought the challenge." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 5 days ago • 887 comments

"daddy, what did you do in the war" son, i archived all 6,793 videos from the Kennedy Center before they disappeared from the internet we all did our part

submitted 5 days ago • 759 comments

💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes. Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out

submitted 5 days ago • 1360 comments

After 3 surgeries, a blood clot, infection & being hospitalized for over a week, the moment I was discharged I rushed to the airport so I could get on a plane to DC & vote NO on Republicans’ disastrous budget plan. Rep. Pettersen traveled from Colorado with her newborn son so she could vote NO. 🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 865 comments

The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card. Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks  The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

💥 BREAKING: At Apple's 2025 annual meeting of shareholders today, proposal entitled “Request to Cease DEI Efforts" is rejected by shareholders. Right-wing nonprofit National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) proposal was also rejected by Costco shareholders 98-2 percent.

submitted 6 days ago • 688 comments

Just in one year, just the clean air act, prevented hundreds of thousands of early deaths. The lowest possible estimate of the benefits found that benefits outweigh the costs by 3 to 1. The most likely estimate is 30 to 1. The high estimate is 90 to 1. Ninety. Nine Zero. www.epa.gov/clean-air-ac...

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

The most urgent item in @nevadaag.bsky.social new Model Immigration Policies is actually not new: Under Nevada law, police cannot arrest or detain people on immigration grounds, even if ICE asks. This has been NV law for more than a century, and the bipartisan NV AG interpretation for 40+ years.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Great from Dr. Shaun Harper: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

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Death is not the only outcome that matters when it comes to infectious disease. In the TX measles outbreak, 16 people have been hospitalized so far, which can be traumatizing for kids and financially destructive for their parents. Measles can also cause a variety of adverse outcomes such as…

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

Shout out to Egypt, Jordan, Maine governor Janet Mills, U. Maryland students, and everybody else who said FU to the wannabe dictator this week. Links below.

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

This month, Pope Francis wrote a powerful letter urging US bishops to defend immigrants and refugees. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has followed up w/action, suing the Trump admin over its halt of mandated funding for the US refugee program 👇🏽 americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/us-confere...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night. 800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream. There is a movement to be harnessed here. @sanders.senate.gov (📸 Anna Bahr)

submitted 9 days ago • 727 comments

On Wednesday I was the first to report Leland Dudek was on the verge of losing his job at the Social Security Administration when he was suddenly promoted to acting commissioner by Elon Musk. Thursday I published a story with more details. I’ll let you guess if I got any credit in this Post story:

submitted 9 days ago • 75 comments

This is what obeying in advance looks like. The NSF fires 10% of its total staff in a move that went beyond what was requested by the current regime. The NSF is the flagship of US basic research infrastructure. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 10 days ago • 50 comments

😂😂✊🏾✊🏾

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Guadalupe sent this pic to us from the Soledad CA area on a cold rainy day. Farm workers were out pruning the grapevines despite the weather. #WeFeedYou

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

submitted 10 days ago • 42 comments

I feel like we're going to see a lot of stories like this.

submitted 40 days ago • 64 comments

The Trump/Musk War on Diversity has claimed the jobs of federal sign language interpreters becuase they work in programs labeled “DEI" Now there aren’t enough ASL interpreters and Deaf federal workers, including many who are veterans with service-related hearing loss, are screwed.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Elon and DOGE are firing thousands of hard-working federal workers who do vital work for our communities and keep the programs that working families rely on running. We want to hear your story. How have you been impacted? act.aflcio.org/forms/share-...

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Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

Happy Congressional recess week! In honor of it, I put together a tracker of every vote the US House has taken so far this year. Which Democrats are standing up to Trump's agenda and which are being willful accomplices? docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 15 days ago • 41 comments

The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...

submitted 15 days ago • 66 comments

There’s a Project 2025 tracker to follow their progress and to see what’s ahead. The project Trump and the GOP disavowed because it was so unpopular and then began immediately to put in place. www.project2025.observer

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments

We have Musk protest events popping up at Tesla showrooms and plants all over the country and many more here and worldwide. Join or create your own event at Teslatakedown.com

submitted 18 days ago • 155 comments

Farmers who signed contracts w USDA under IRA programs paid upfront to build fencing, plant new crops, install renewable energy systems w guarantees that feds would issue grants/loan guarantees to cover at least part of their costs. Trump has frozen that money www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 19 days ago • 81 comments

mass deportations are some of the most economically inefficient cruelty known to man paying millions of dollars to detail & expel employees, fathers, grandmothers, caretakers, etc. is a double cost: not only is it expensive but it also eliminates a productive members of our society and economy

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

On a day like this, it’s important to say THANK YOU to all the science and public health communicators for all you do. Your work will be even more critical in the coming years. Keep going! You are very much needed and appreciated. ❤️

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

The University of Virginia has created a website of archived government websites—bookmark it—you’re going to need it later. guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=1451...

submitted 19 days ago • 74 comments

Some good news at least. All webpages do look like they're currently back online 🥳 "The order includes more than a dozen CDC and FDA webpages that were specifically mentioned in the lawsuit. That includes the social vulnerability index and environmental justice index ..."

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

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"Illinois also became the first state to outlaw private immigrant detention centers in 2019; two years later, the state further limited the number of beds available for ICE to detain immigrants in the state with a law that blocked sheriffs from contracting with ICE..."

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In addition to the good news THIS IS A SIGN THAT PRESSURE WORKS Don’t give in to fascists when you still have the option of resisting 🧪

submitted 21 days ago • 10 comments

Because in the United States, it’s legal to feed chicken shit to cattle. That’s why. That’s literally the reason www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

submitted 23 days ago • 273 comments

I’m here at Pasadena City Hall, where hundreds of Pasadena high school students across multiple campuses self-organized a rally after a collective mass walkout and march against deportations. Now chanting “From Palestine to Mexico, All the walls have got to go” 🇵🇸🇲🇽🔥

submitted 24 days ago • 13 comments

Good to see: Unions representing USAID workers are suing Trump, Rubio and the State Department, seeking a halt to the mass removals of USAID workers, which appears to be unlawful in multiple ways and is already having terrible humanitarian consequences around the world:

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

Richmond, VA #3E #USProtests #Feb5 #r/50501

submitted 26 days ago • 52 comments

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden

submitted 26 days ago • 47 comments

Georgia Republicans propose a drastic voter suppression bill. If this is enacted, Georgia will be sued and it will lose.

submitted 26 days ago • 206 comments

Importantly, these are civil actions under the Privacy Act of 1974, i.e. individuals can file suit and Trump can’t pardon defendants.

submitted 27 days ago • 36 comments

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

submitted 30 days ago • 232 comments