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Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities. That means: 🚫 No gas from corporate giants 🚫 No fast food chains 🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)

Here’s an opportunity to help some kids and get some cookies 🍪 digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/sixk34....

This is probably the most accurate take.

Said every tyrant and dictator in human history to justify his actions.

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

The Trump Administration has rolled back almost EVERYTHING the Biden Administration has done, EXCEPT, there are STILL 4 FREE Covid tests per Household AVAILABLE. Get them while you can, before they get rid of them too! Please SHARE far & wide: special.usps.com/testkits

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

Government-wide censorship, freeze in funding, data compromise. Let's call this what it is: an authoritarian takeover. Nobody voted for this. They will take as much power as we give them. CALL your politicians now. Emails/letters are often ignored. www.senate.gov/senators/sen... 5calls.org

“Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the F.B.I. and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and F.B.I. policy.” -- James E. Dennehy, NYC’s top FBI agent. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

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Senate needs to respond to mass firings of Jan 6 attack prosecutors by rejecting Trump nominees. Have a spine and stand up to this autocratic effort to rewrite history and embolden political violence. Block Bondi and Patel.

Senator Adam Schiff goes off about Kash Patel at his Senate confirmation hearing: "How did we get here?!?! Where we are defending a nominee like this, who makes songs with convicts who attack law enforcement? How did we get here?!?" 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

I'm ENRAGED RFK Jr. made it this far as a nominee & might be confirmed. As HHS Secretary he'll manage programs that my LIFE depends on as a disable patient with chronic illness who lives on a fixed income who is immunocompromised. There are MILLIONS more like me in our country. He is UNFIT to serve!

NEW: “Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture [Phyllis Fong] out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration.” www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...

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BREAKING: Trump has moved to fire the dem members of the EEOC and the NLRB - two independent agencies that provide protections for unions and workers. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

DEI programs were created to give everyone who meet objective standards a fair shot at serving our country. Diversity has changed America for the BETTER. Rolling back these programs and offices with an executive order is completely disgraceful. www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/p...

YASSSS

In the first day of his second presidency Trump has done nothing to make housing affordable, lower grocery prices, or cut prescription drug costs for seniors. Instead he's diminished the country's place in the world, pardoned people who violently assaulted police officers…

New Jersey’s attorney general, Matthew J. Platkin: “Presidents are powerful, but [Trump] is not a king. He cannot rewrite the Constitution with a stroke of the pen.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

Informative and terrifying

This morning was a rude awakening. My eyes opened and my mind quickly began to assemble the first few seconds of my day when a terrible interruption broke in and I remembered: Yes, that unhinged madman is actually our President again. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/how-to-men...

Pam Bondi, last week on pardons for Jan 6 offenders: "I will look at every case on a case-by-case basis" Donald Trump, yesterday: "Full pardons" No review. No accountability. Nothing.

January 2025 as a meme

"Choosing who fills the three roles would allow Trump's team to divert resources to and from parts of the State Department, control the information gathered by the numerous bureaus and embassies and manage personnel decisions..." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The Hegseth hearing is doing one thing incredibly well: it’s establishing that when his leadership at DoD fails, it’ll be clear that GOP Senators knew, excused it, and they own it. Serious concerns about experience & judgment are literally being laughed off.

If Donald Trump hadn’t won the presidential election in November, the Justice Department would have had ample evidence to convict him at trial of trying to obstruct the 2020 election results, special counsel Jack Smith said in a report released Tuesday.

"Indeed, but for Mr. Trump's election and imminent return to the Presidency... "The Office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial." Special Counsel Jack Smith. January 7, 2025.

Posting this @iwriteok.bsky.social episode for absolutely no reason

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"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." Thomas Mann

It me

Pete Buttigieg just released this video about America's supply chains

First ever image of another multi-planet solar system captured by ESO Telescope

Lee: When Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was up for confirmation or when VP Harris was added to the ticket, they called them DEI hires. They want you to believe that Harvard graduate with over 20 years of experience is not qualified but Fox personality is qualified to run the DOD

Word of the day. Or week. Or next four years.

Ages ago, one of my journalism mentors cautioned me about the astronomic level of propaganda in the field and suggested the following reminders as a way to ground against it: 1) Who, and what, is being emphasized? 2) Who, and what, is being ignored? 3) Who, and what, is considered expendable?