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I want to help people learn to filter good info from the endless stream of information online. Amusing Ourselves to Death is the true danger to democracy.
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The People’s Hotline is blowing up on social media. Clips of YOUR CALLS are reaching MILLIONS of Americans. 🚨 We are looking for real, personal stories about how the Trump Administration is impacting you and your family. 🚨 These calls are cutting through the noise. Please call & PASS IT ON!

BREAKING NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing First Amendment.

The Republican war on health care is alive and well. Republicans have one goal in mind: rip away coverage for millions in order to provide tax breaks for their billionaire friends. #DontCutMyMedicaid

Cuts to the FAA. To the CDC. Dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Trump & Musk have declared war on everyday Americans. WATCH & SHARE: #TheDangerousOnes

There’s something happening in this country.

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.

The talent drain will be immense.

I have solved Bird Flu. Give the chickens ivermectin. Have the chickens practice Earthing. The problem with their immune systems is they are not touching the soil enough. Coffee enemas for all chickens. Also we must stop reading them Ibram X. Kendi. Eggs will be back and most importantly not gay.

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

There’s no time like now to volunteer for @gayforcongress.bsky.social! And, you don’t have to be a Floridian to do it! Electing #Valimont4Congress helps everyone in the country! #DCFL www.mobilize.us/gayforcongre...

This is very inspiring. What can you do today?

JB Pritzker NAILED it! "We don't have kings in America, and I don't intend to bend the knee to one." 🙌

This is a new level of madness. I don't know how it can be stopped

There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

New FBI Director Kash Patel has published an enemies list of Americans he wants to “come after” for opposing Trump.

Our care shouldn’t be a partisan issue. We made the latest #MedicaidMinute to remind Republicans of the Bipartisan history of Medicaid – as they contemplate $880 billion in potential cuts. Protecting and expanding Medicaid has benefits for all of us – we won’t accept cuts. #SaveMedicaid

"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

This is my surprised face www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

In honor of Black History Month, resharing this fascinating piece on the first Black state supreme court justice, Jonathan Jasper Wright. He briefly sat on the South Carolina Sup Ct in the 1870s. It was almost 100 years before we saw another Black justice. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Whoa…. Welcome back to the era of lead poisoning of kids

Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options. Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.

Hey all, we've gotten a *lot* of tips since this post. Keep 'em coming. The deep-dive investigations we tend to do will often take longer to source, report, corroborate, fact-check and publish, but our reporters are hard at work following up on leads you’ve sent. Thanks for your trust in us.

Last year, we talked to air traffic controllers and found out they’re working 10-hour shifts, 6 days a week, with mandatory overtime. Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce and push to privatize air traffic control could make matters even worse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyN6...

Welch: Can you say the words "Joe Biden won the 2020 election?" Patel: "Joe Biden was president" (again, cannot say the words that Joe Biden won). Trump's candidate for FBI director is a dangerous election denier and a conspiracy theorist.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

MMR vaccines are safe and effective, but fewer children are getting them www.wsj.com/health/healt... via @wsj.com

📌FYI: Less than 0.5% of the 1.8 million cases in immigration courts over the past fiscal year included deportation orders for alleged crimes other than entering the US illegally Officials documented just 425,000 noncitizens w/criminal convictions on ICE's "non-detained docket” in the past 40 YEARS!

LFG Senator Bernie Sanders!! Bernie burns RFK Jr’s blatant flip flopping on his so-called pro-vax stance when RFK Jr is SELLING onesies on his website that read: UNVAXXED UNAFRAID and NO VAX. NO PROBLEM FOH with the gaslighting.

NEW Public Resource Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions A catalogue compiling all the legal challenges facing the #TrumpAdministration’s executive orders and actions.

Trump is going through our tax dollars like the money is his. This is government waste. Trump IS the swamp.

Speaking of healthcare. Let's make @bsky.app the platform that fights misinformation. Some great follows are @drsusanoliver.bsky.social @jsm2334.bsky.social @therealtruther.bsky.social Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home

Preparing mass layoffs of civil servants in order to replace them with loyalists is another move from the authoritarian playbook www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

"Ads featuring fake CBC articles have inundated the social media platform X in recent weeks. The ads are designed to lure Canadians into a sophisticated scam that uses Russian internet infrastructure, CBC News has found." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

You knew it was coming . . .

It's not possible to constantly react to everything this administration says. By "flooding the zone with sh!t" they are trying to distract and exhaust us. Take time to remember what you love, so you will remember why you fight.