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Two special elections on April 1 could end Trump's control of Congress. If there was ever a race that needed even your smallest donation... it's this one. @joshweil.bsky.social is running against Trump/DeSantis' hand-picked ultra-maga extremist, Randy Fine, who will be a Trump rubber stamp.

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There are two people in Congress-the chairs of the Senate & House Appropriations Committees-who have enormous power over the illegal impoundment of funds appropriated by Congress, which is sowing chaos across the US. They need to be relentlessly contacted at their offices, in person and by phone. 1/

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@historynewbie.bsky.social Will Rosie Peeper get her own account?

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Last night MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell said Trump was the first U.S. president to “switch sides during a war.” That aptly describes Trump’s betrayal but it can’t begin to convey the depravity of what Trump did in throwing our ally overboard and lying about every facet of Putin’s criminal aggression.

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Tonight at 7:30pm on BBC radio 3 you can hear @gavhiggins.bsky.social wonderful 'A Monstrous Little Suite' with music from our Royal Opera House production of 'The Monstrous Child.'

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Missouri to Create Registry of Pregnant Women to Watch: There are times in writing this column when one reads of a new underlying initiative with utter disbelief, almost disembodied – impersonal, and then there are ones that are even more difficult, go even deeper, that come with both the same…

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Can’t wait to hear and be back with the gods!

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For the first time in my life I’ve regretted speaking French. I’ve just been forced to endure someone on the bus playing a French tutorial on how to embalm a corpse…

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Anyone interested in understanding what’s happening in the USA right now should be reading these letters open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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What a wonderful initiative! Buy any children's book from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social this month, and as part of their #ReadItForward campaign, they will donate 10% of every sale to the children's reading charities @booktrust.org.uk & @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social! uk.bookshop.org/contributors...

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USAID cutoff is "leaving people around the world with experimental drugs and medical products in their bodies, cut off from the researchers who were monitoring them, and generating waves of suspicion and fear" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

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Tomorrow on my live webcast: “History Matters:” The Department of Education: Why It Matters Wondering about its history and what it does? Join us! It’s…timely, to say the least. Friday 10AM ET NCHEteach.org/conversations

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@jbf1755.bsky.social Where is the good millet report?!

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www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Horrendous

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SCOTUS gave Trump immunity. Trump has given everyone who works for him immunity though his pardon power. They are now all uber men, not bound by laws, norms, separation of powers. Little people things. Unsurprisingly, they go on a world-altering crime spree. bsky.app/profile/simo...

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If you voted Republican, and you care about your country, please act rather than rationalize. Unless you cast your ballot so that South African oligarchs could steal your data, money, country, and future, tell your elected officials that you wanted something else. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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@jbf1755.bsky.social Update us on today’s 🐦 developments!

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Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

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‘we risk battening closed the doorway to imagined lands for millions of children.’ Wonderful article by Katherine Rundell on the importance, beauty, and joy of children’s books www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Donold is blaming a plane crash that killed 67 people on “DEI” with zero evidence. He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials. It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.

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We are watching Project 2025 come to life. Thankfully, pro-democracy groups are fighting back in the courts and winning. @democracydocket.com's 17-person team tracks these lawsuits so you don't have to. Support their work. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

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Off to @royalpalacepod.bsky.social to judge #500words! See you soon @malorieblackman.bsky.social @charliehigson.bsky.social @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social @lennyhenryofficial.bsky.social

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@jimacosta.bsky.social, signing off, with calm and dignity: "Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope"

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by freezing all federal grants, trump is fundamentally transforming the relationship between the executive and congress. he is asserting dictatorial authority over federal spending, transforming congress's lawmaking powers into advisory authority. it is a constitutional crisis

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It wasn’t enough that they paused new grants; now all Federal grants have been suspended. Trump has declared war on science and Universities, on Biotech and other startups that depend on SBIR grants, and on so much more. The chaos across the US will be Earth shattering if not immediately reversed

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I wrote the libretto for @gavhiggins.bsky.social The Faerie Bride, and here is a wonderful review of Gavin’s forthcoming CD! musicwebinternational.com/2025/01/higg...

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Trump Import Tax. Repeat again and again.

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By 51-50, we now have a deeply compromised, unqualified, D-list Fox host running the US military at the command of a convicted felon who once hosted a reality show. Just as the Founders intended.

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This is awesome. This is how to fight them, at every turn, with those who can stepping up. Thanks to The Skimm.

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Fox Lane Books also have loads of signed books as well. www.foxlanebooks.co.uk

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Trump is deporting the guy who mows your lawn but releasing the guy who bashed a police officer’s head in back to your community.

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Put simply, shared reading is an effective, economic health intervention that should be available to all.” All children deserve and need books. Could not agree more. My son’s first memory is being read to. All children deserve books and reading

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Imagine if the headline was, "Trump puts hundreds of violent criminals back on the streets"?

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