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🔥🔥🔥 Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe was arrested for civil disobedience after speaking against a MAGA display that the city council of Huntington Beach agreed to put up at the public library…..that’s what’s up….every word👇

Not all heroes wear capes 🤣🔥

Never forget.

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In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

I just wanna congratulate @meidastouch.com for beating Joe Rogan, and thank them for recommending my Substack. Indie media FTW! Check theirs out here: www.meidasplus.com

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...

Dark Pence is back.

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

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We must flood the media with the sobering reality!

Planes didn't crash when this guy ran things.

Last Fall, the Washington Post allowed a right wing group to run a full page ad falsely attacking me for protecting voting rights. Today, Bezos' paper won't accept ads criticizing Elon Musk. Support pro-democracy media. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

“The head of the Social Security Administration has resigned after she refused to by DOGE staffers access to sensitive information. Your information.”

I hate to break to Trump but Two-Spirit (trans) people have existed here in North America for thousands of years. They predate the arrival of white people and their “Christianity.” Trans people will be here long after Trump is dead and gone.

Today at the state house in Rhode Island #3E #USProtests #PresidentsDay #fiftyfiftyone #NDOP

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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“[SSA] has our bank information, our earnings records, the names and ages of our children, and much more.” “Warning about the risks of Mr. Musk's team accessing the data, Ms. Altman added, ‘There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is.’” (🎁 link)

One of the greatest tricks that Donald Trump and Elon Musk ever pulled is to convince millions of people that DOGE is about government efficiency. It's about narcissistic, resentful destruction: The Death of Government Expertise. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I can't resist sharing because of the graphic.

Republicans are planning to ram through passage of the SAVE Act, which would bar Americans from registering to vote with their driver's licenses! This is a blatant attempt to suppress votes and undermine our democracy! #StopTheSAVEAct social.demcast.com/s/nTRHSahG

It’s not about “government efficiency.” It’s about autocratic power.

Physically incapable of taking responsibility for his own actions.

An important point to keep in mind.

Could someone out there write a definitive guide on convenient alternatives to using Amazon.com for goods and books and whatnot? Asking for some folks who don’t want to see democracy die in darkness.

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

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.

I know some of you donated to help Tiz when I posted his fundraiser last fall. He was in tragic shape then and I just wanted to make sure everyone saw him running and jumping in the snow today!

Have you heard about the SAVE Act? It's the newest effort at voter suppression by the House GOP & it's important for all of us. If you're a married woman or someone who doesn't have their birth certificate/passport handy, you're especially going to want to see this. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

1. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information. The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled"

And media is now well aware of Elon’s shenanigans removing posts that are critical of him, changing the algorithm to favor his posts, taking down Community notes that embarrass him. So why continue describing him as a “free speech absolutist,” we must ask.

Unreal.

Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

Yes, indeed — what the fuck!!! 😡

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“If men were angels, no government would be necessary” James Madison, Federalist 51 www.politico.com/news/magazin...

This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.

Ocean moon

This is what oligarchy looks like.

The measles outbreak is spreading. In Gains Co., Tx. 1 in 5 ppl there do not have the MRI ( measles, mumps rubella) vaccine. Current 48 cases are mostly children. All the cases are unvaccinated ppl. Now cases in New Mexico. Can lead to blindness, pneumonia, swelling of brain, death.

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social so far, is not the man for the moment. He’s weak.

Money talks