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Jilltopia is a tiny micronation completely surrounded by the United States, having seceded from the U.S. in early 2017. We have a small self-governing population, and our constitution simply requires that everyone here has to be nice to each other.
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SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

NOAA announced Thursday that it is decommissioning several databases, including its widely reported annual compilation of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters. cbsn.ws/4iUkkyp

Big crowd marching at the Indianapolis May Day protest this afternoon. #50501 #protest #mayday #indianapolis #indy @indiana50501.bsky.social @artcandee.bsky.social

While you're watching your 401k's shrink due to Trump's reciprocal tariffs, watch this great explanation of how they arrived at the tariffs they're imposing on each country. youtu.be/PWhv-06DNjE?...

Great signs at the protest in Indianapolis yesterday! #HandsOff #Indianapolis @hcrichardson.bsky.social

There were huge protests against the Trump agenda all over the U.S. today, and there were protests across Europe, as well. And there was was even a protest in far away Heard Island! @heardislandgov.bsky.social #HandsOff #HeardIsland

Great turnout at the protest in Indianapolis today, in spite of the cold and rainy weather. #handsoff

Indianapolis Indiana 🙌 #50501movement #HandsOff #Resist #HoosierSky #LetsGo

Cory Booker, still going strong after 17 hours. www.youtube.com/live/v2utlMx...

Ominous clouds as stormy weather moved in to Indy late this afternoon. #stormclouds #indy #indianapolis

Donald Trump would rather stop funding medical research, medical & food aid, education, food assistance, school lunch, Social Security than make the rich pay taxes. And that’s all you need to know about the convicted felon, charity thief, insurrectionist, fraudster. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...

Friends, it's been a confusing week for all of us at #USAID as DOGE and the braintrust at State/F defy court orders, demonstrate total incompetence in handling complex systems, and issue orders that sound like they're from a Monty Python sketch. But it's not funny- here's our latest update 🧵 1/

Victoria Spartz held a town hall in Westfield, Indiana this evening, and suffice it to say that it did not go well for her. (Town hall stars about 30 mins into this video.) @msnbc @cnn @atrupar.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p3R...

The situation at the NIH and for all biomedical and cancer cure research in the United States is MUCH MUCH WORSE than you realize.

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

Stephanie Nolen reporting that 1,200,000 children will die because of this decision. Unconscionable.

Here's a gift link. Share far and wide. wapo.st/4hM5MAn

Not surprising. The Trump administration is very clearly against civil rights.

👀 New billboards spotted in Indianapolis!

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NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.

The world's worst humanitarian crisis today is in Sudan, facing famine and atrocities that the US has already concluded are genocide. Sudanese refugees crossing the border told me what's happening--and meanwhile, the US is aggravating the crisis. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o...

NEW today from @miamiherald.com: more men sent to El Salvador on Saturday have been identified by their families, including a 27-year-old who entered legally at a port of entry in 2023 through the CBP One app and a 29-year-old father of a baby born here last year. Neither have any criminal record.

The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Johns Hopkins to Cut More Than 2,000 Workers Funded by Federal Aid [Gift link] nyti.ms/4iPRMpU

Jasmine Mooney is a Canadian citizen being detained by ICE. She was arrested at the San Ysidro border crossing between Mexico and San Diego — as she was trying to obtain a new visa. Jasmine was kept in a cold room at the border by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) before being arrested…

Some local news coverage of the Women's Day march in Indy this afternoon. #WomensMarch #InternationaWomensDay #Indianapolis www.indystar.com/picture-gall...

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So many great signs at the International Women's Day march in Indy today! #WomensMarch #InternationaWomensDay #Indianapolis

Huge crowd in Indy for #WomensMarch #InternationaWomensDay #Indianapolis

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It was nice to see a good turnout and some local news coverage at the Stand Up For Science rally in Indianapolis today. Many thanks to the organizers for doing such a fantastic job! #standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social www.wrtv.com/news/local-n...

Tomorrow is the Stand Up for Science Ralky (Indy’s version) 12-2, South lawn of the statehouse Great speakers Dress warm but it’ll be awesome

2 DAYS until we STAND UP FOR SCIENCE! More information on local sites available at www.standupforscience2025.org ☀️ #standupforscience2025

If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

Did Putin stay back at the White House as the designated survivor?

This GOP’s agenda is a moral abomination .. If there is anything worth taking to the streets for peaceful protest, it is this sort of massive, regressive redistribution from the already-struggling to the no-amount-is-ever-enough billionaire class. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

The Indianapolis event will take place Friday March 7 from 12-2 on the South Lawn of the Statehouse All the cool nerds will be there

Horrific: One of the USAID programs Trump just terminated was set to deliver lifesaving treatment to hundreds of thousands of starving kids abroad. Much of it is now sitting in a Georgia warehouse. Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1921...

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

Amazing letter from the 18F tech team, who actually had been making the federal government more efficient, that Musk just fired. They ended by saying they were focused on “making government work better” and they “weren’t done yet.” Can’t wait to see what they have planned.

Reminder there will be a @standupforscience.bsky.social rally in Indianapolis on March 7 from 12-2 on the South Lawn of the Statehouse Come join others to celebrate science www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...