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Reason #4575335531 that my boycott is permanent. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...

Kamala Harris on “the big, beautiful bill:” “It’s an agenda...a narrow, self-serving vision of America...where they punish truth tellers, favor loyalists, profit from their power, and leave everyone else to fend for themselves.” Nailed it! 🔥

MusicChallenge #MusicSky #MayMusicMasterpieces May 27 Artwork: The Swing by Fragonard Song: I Want Candy by Bow Wow Wow open.spotify.com/track/2FMcDU...

#MAGALies #TrumpLies #Resist #YouAreNotProlife

Mad Magazine got it.

The Department of Veterans Affairs, the government’s second-largest agency, serving some of America’s most vulnerable citizens, is set to lose 83,000 employees under the Trump administration’s cutbacks.

Remembering history is the best way to honor those who gave their lives for #freedom. How did a democratically elected politician incite an entire nation to genocide? Why did people allow it to happen in plain sight? And why do some still deny it ever happened? #MemorialDay #Resist

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #MayMusicMasterpieces May 3 - catching up on missed days! Artwork: Composition VIII, Kandinsky Song: Once in a Lifetime, Talking Heads open.spotify.com/track/38Ngie...

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

Congressional Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Powerful

As agencies lose talent, DOGE insiders - often underqualified - earn inflated salaries and reshape policy via code. Public services are stripped. Instead of government reform, it's consolidation of power through data - dismantling the very infrastructure meant to serve the people. #3E

Trump told West Point cadets at their graduation that he wouldn't be able to shake their hands, a tradition among US presidents, because he had urgent matters to deal with on China and Russia. This was him "dealing" with China and Russia moments later. He went golfing.

Russia unable to retaliate against France has enabled its massive propaganda network to push a story about Macron being slapped by his wife. The narrative is pushing transphobic and homophobic tropes copy and pasted from their anti-Michelle Obama trolling template.

This will cost the American people $4 trillion.

Maybe choosing someone who is one of your NY real estate investor pals with no diplomatic or military experience to be the special envoy to deal with Putin, who refuses to bring any help with him from the State Dept & uses Kremlin translators, wasn’t the best plan to end the war.

Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw

This Memorial Day weekend, the best way to honor the soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice is to honor and protect the freedoms and the democracy they died for.

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #MayMusicMasterpieces May 26 Artwork: “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat Song: As We Go Along by The Monkees open.spotify.com/track/0n7K8j...

Public pressure works! Keep it going.

Tell your friends, forget your family. Full speed ahead. #VoteBlue Iwillvote.com

He never stopped. He laughed at Trump and continued the killing, because Trump is an international joke and his foreign policy team is filled with bumbling, weak, appeasing incompetents.

Wouldn’t have paid more than $500k for that meal.

Well payed, Harvard, well played. Harvard offers FREE American Government course.

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #MayMusicMasterpieces Artwork: The Night Watch by Rembrandt Song: Born for This by The Score open.spotify.com/track/7uCBGN...

Conservatives have selective nostalgia.

Nazi propaganda wasn't just posters and films; it was a calculated assault on truth, manipulating art, media, and education to dehumanize and incite. It fueled a climate where genocide became conceivable, cloaked in the guise of national pride and cultural defense. #3E

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #MayMusicMasterpieces May 24 Artwork: The Kiss by Gustav Klimt Song: All I Want Is You by U2 open.spotify.com/track/34sL4e...

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

“It’s a lot easier to destroy a thing than to build a thing.”

…wonder why Trump hates Harvard so mu…oh, yeah. Barrack Obama, Harvard Graduate.

Donald Trump is attacking Harvard for refusing to carry out his political agenda. Now, innocent students are caught in the crossfire. Harvard is right to fight back. But this isn't just about Harvard — anyone who crosses Trump could be punished. It's a threat to all of us.

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #MayMusicMasterpieces Day 23 Artwork: Two Sisters and a Brother of the Artist by Sofonisba Anguissola Song: Brother by Lord Huron

Boyle: We just verified with the congressional budget office and of 13.7 million Americans who will lose their health care because of their bill, exactly zero are undocumented immigrants

The Bible on the anti-Christ: “The king shall do according to his OWN will: he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god, shall speak blasphemies against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the wrath has been accomplished; for what has been determined shall be done.” - Daniel 11:36

#DrainTheSwamp