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“we will work to stop something that isn’t happening and then take a victory lap because the thing that wasn’t happening still isn’t”

Important for all of us but especially journalists.

Insurrection Act is coming soon.

The best people

"Governors can assist now .... They can activate their National Guards to address housing and affordability crises or assist with the depleted efforts of FEMA and CDC from DOGE’s cuts. This is both tactical and reframes the issue." @governorwalz.mn.gov @demgovs.org

Bluesky is LIT today! Fuck Trump.

Still

Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history

This museum is amazing. I'm not religious, but the slavery exhibit nonetheless felt like a sacred space of remembrance. It is profoundly moving. So of course these evil contemptible fools would attempt to desecrate it.

As predicted, they’re coming for NMAAHC www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

Just to be clear here, Trump wants to send people without any due process to be tortured offshore, and he also wants to give money to people who were found guilty by a jury of beating up police.

I hope people realize that Trump is trying to make it illegal to criticize his regime. They are trying to give themselves the ability to spy on, target, and arrest anyone who criticizes them. They want to end freedom of speech in America. Let’s be clear about what they’re doing.

How is this even a fucking thing? How in the fuck did we get here. JFC

So it appears DOGE has decreed that Social Security administration will no longer provide phone support. At all. This is in addition to shutting down a ton of local SSA offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...

BORG

youtu.be/geWv3oZkF-0?...

A must watch: youtu.be/hycoCYenXls?...

This is huge and monstrous. The nasal vaccines are our only hope of getting back to a world where you don't have to fear getting covid indoors. I would like to stop masking some day, and they're going to make it impossible.

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

SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

With both RFK Jr and Gabbard confirmed, two people who rose to prominence spreading conspiracy theories about public health and national intelligence will now run the U.S. government agencies in charge of those areas. For someone studying these conspiracy theories for a decade... this is nauseating.

We need to be working on election integrity. These motherfuckers will not go quietly in the midterms or general.

Great song, Bob! We used to sail against you years ago when you had Lightning. Good times!

As governor of Illinois, I’ve made it my mission to make our state the best to call home including for our LGBTQ+ community. No matter who you are or who you love, everyone deserves dignity and equality. Hate has no home here.

Word up, brother!

Fuck the (f)elon

if you're a democratic senator and you're still voting to confirm trump nominees despite him allowing elon musk to gleefully dismantle the government then your brain has fallen out of your ass.

The definition of insanity is putting a guy with six bankruptcies in charge of the country and expecting different results.

So much for no doom-scrolling on Bluesky. Sheesh.

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.

Let's be clear about what's happening. Trump is freeing the violent paramilitary wing of his movement from prison in order to: 1) demonstrate that violence committed in service of his objectives will go unpunished, and 2) facilitate future acts of violence in service of his regime.