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An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.

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Here’s how to stay in the fight: 📱 Use the 5 Calls app or Resist Bot to contact your elected officials daily. 🎤 Demand town halls. Show up at their public appearances. 🚫 Boycott evil corporations. 🗣️ Talk to your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors. 🌳 Build community power. #FiftyFiftyOne

submitted 8 days ago • 126 comments

West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.

submitted 9 days ago • 1203 comments

Demonstrations took place across the country, uniting a myriad of criticisms of the Trump administration under one message: "Hands off."

submitted 9 days ago • 80 comments

#handsoffrally2025

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To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

submitted 9 days ago • 1969 comments

The National World War Two Museum and the Gary Sinise Foundation celebrate the trailblazing women who worked in the American defense industry in the 1940s, and preserve their stories for future generations.

submitted 16 days ago • 69 comments

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

submitted 23 days ago • 4501 comments

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

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Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today, local activists say they're still fighting stubborn segregation, poverty and gun violence.

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What a different world we could have.

submitted 37 days ago • 804 comments

To achieve true reproductive freedom, we need to include queer, trans, nonbinary and intersex people in the conversation. This #IWD, we’re celebrating aaaallll the trailblazing folks who have tirelessly worked to protect reproductive rights. 💙

submitted 38 days ago • 6 comments

Very heartening to see foreign officials mocking him for being a fucking clown. Feels like the garlic to his vampire

submitted 38 days ago • 1011 comments

The massive income and wealth inequality that exists in America today is literally a matter of life and death. People in wealthy counties live SEVEN years longer than people in poorer communities. That’s unacceptable. EVERYONE has the right to a long, happy and productive life.

submitted 38 days ago • 123 comments

My daughter's daycare just sent out an email about potentially needing to layoff staff because new babies about to start withdrew because of parental job losses. So if you're wondering how government layoffs and mass contract cancellations will affect the economy, here's an example

submitted 38 days ago • 256 comments

"town hall night in america" -- every congressional district, once a month, all on the same night: oldgoats.substack.com/p/lets-creat...

submitted 38 days ago • 536 comments

BREAKING: SpaceX's Starship EXPLODES, causing FAA to halt flights at 4 major airports The previous Starship also exploded, in January THIS is why FAA probed SpaceX for safety And THIS is why Musk has been trying to kill FAA - and why he should NOT get any more govt contracts

submitted 39 days ago • 34 comments

In Minnesota, we value the people who care for our veterans, even if DOGE doesn’t. If Trump fired you, come work for the State of Minnesota and help take care of our vets.

submitted 39 days ago • 293 comments

We just walked out of the state of the Union. My shirt showed Trump an important message: NO KINGS LIVE HERE. In the spirit of student protestors from the Civil Rights Movement, I’m proud to have protested and walked out with many of my colleagues. This is NOT a normal time.

submitted 41 days ago • 1984 comments

Conscience of Congress Removed: Al Green Walked Out: Jasmine Crockett, Maxwell Frost, Maxine Dexter, Andrea Salinas, LaMonica McIver, Sydney Kamlager-Dove, and several others Refused to Attend: AOC, Chris Murphy, Ron Wyden, Patty Murray, Gerry Connolly, Don Beyer History will honor these names 🔝

submitted 41 days ago • 605 comments

Speaker Johnson, the folks speaking out at GOP town halls across the country aren’t paid protesters. They’re Americans who are mad as hell at an administration that doesn’t care about them. Grow a spine.

submitted 41 days ago • 160 comments

Someone allowed a Cybertruck to be a part of a Mardi Gras parade tonight….it didn’t go well 🤣 I 💜💚💛 NOLA

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112 years ago today, thousands of women marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in the first national suffrage procession, demanding the right to vote. Learn about the march and other key events that paved the way for women's suffrage:

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

We just want to remind you: You’re not alone. We’re all in this together, and we’ll get through it together. We’ve seen so many people sharing their feelings of anxiety and stress—please take a moment for yourself. Your well-being matters. Sending you hugs—you are amazing, and we love you all! 💚

submitted 43 days ago • 956 comments

A reminder for these times.

submitted 44 days ago • 674 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 44 days ago • 3305 comments

This is so fucking tragic. Today Europe is completely united behind Ukraine and the cause of freedom. Meanwhile the United States is sitting this one out along with Russia and Iran. Make it make sense.

submitted 43 days ago • 779 comments

Happy Sunday!

submitted 43 days ago • 840 comments

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.)

submitted 46 days ago • 297 comments

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 52 days ago • 581 comments

Eyyyy some actual good news (gov of Maine politely tells Trump to get fucked)

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TELL YOUR STORIES! Post on social media, write to local newspapers, talk on the radio. We are real people who do real good for the country we love. If you’ve been fired, don’t go quietly. If you haven’t, hold the line as long as you can. #fedstrong #holdtheline www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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So they told us what they were going to do to ALL of us. Here is a tracker on their progress in destroying our country: www.project2025.observer

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NEW: Minnesota was just ranked a top state both to retire and to raise a family. By investing in the things that matter – economic opportunity, health and safety, and strong communities – we’re building the best state for all Minnesotans from childhood through retirement.

submitted 53 days ago • 805 comments

It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

submitted 54 days ago • 1197 comments

This is only the beginning. Follow us and join the movement! #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #BuildTheResistance #PoliticalRevolution #NoVoiceUnheard #NoKings #VoicesOfFlorida #VoicesUnheard #ImpeachTrump #NoKings #NoKingsDay @polrev.bsky.social

submitted 55 days ago • 82 comments

In 1988, the FAA required new aircraft seats to withstand 16x the force of gravity — 16g. It is likely that because of that decision, in part, that everyone survived today's Delta crash. As @PeterGoelz said tonight it was an instance "where a government regulation saved lives."

submitted 56 days ago • 16 comments

Today marks exactly 4 weeks - 28 days - since Inauguration. For those who lived through it, this has felt much like watching the 2nd plane hit the tower - over and over and over. The pattern is clear. This is an attack on our liberty. #Resist

submitted 57 days ago • 22 comments

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.

submitted 57 days ago • 2257 comments

Trump's creation of DOGE and appointment of Elon Musk to lead it is unconstitutional. It is unacceptable that Musk is using this unconstitutional appointment to try to cut the federal government to the bone. Today, I filed a lawsuit to shut this illegal power grab down.

submitted 60 days ago • 42 comments

Heartbreaking news… Tonight, many of our friends were let go, and tomorrow, even more will follow. Word is that all probationary employees at NPS will be let go. 😭

submitted 60 days ago • 1942 comments