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Resist authoritarianism.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

NEWS: Mack Trucks has announced layoffs at Lehigh Valley, PA plant, due to Trump's tariffs.

“We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.” - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

NEW: The Trump administration’s lack of transparency about tariff exemptions has experts concerned that some firms might be winning narrow carve-outs behind closed doors. “It could be corruption, but it could just as easily be incompetence,” one lobbyist said. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social

A horse therapy program in Namibia brings joy to children with learning disabilities

This is what Republicans do. Don't be a Republican.

No truer words…

History repeating itself.

A front line soldier in the fight for Democracy.

Live Updates: Supreme Court, for Now, Blocks Deportations of Venezuelan Migrants www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

Maine Governor, Staring Down Trump, Says She Is Unfazed by ‘Loud Men’ Janet Mills ladies & gentleman. A profile in courage. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04.... “I know what the hell I am doing” - Donald Trump

Justice Dept. Accuses Top Immigration Lawyer of Failing to Follow Orders www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...

Going to the nearby "Hands Off" rally in my community to protest against Trump and Authoritarianism. There are scores of Hands Off protests in cities and towns across the country. Find one near you.

Republicans Plan to Skirt Senate Rules to Push Through More Tax Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

Spelling and grammar are woke.

There were four Republican-backed extreme constitutional amendments on the ballot in Louisiana yesterday. The voters REJECTED them all (in a state Trump won by 22 points in November). Keep the pressure on.