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julie9040x.bsky.social
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Talked with @andersoncooper360.bsky.social about what is, and what IS NOT, DEI. And what Trump & his confederates are trying to accomplish with erasing the accomplishments of non-white people, women and LGBTQ people.

submitted 13 hours ago • 69 comments

I've gotten such great feedback about this conversation. Hope you'll take a look and listen! www.joyannreid.com/p/the-messag...

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

This is SUPERB. It is the best summation of where our country stands. THANK YOU, @sifill.bsky.social, for writing this.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

There is nothing here beyond cruelty, vindictiveness, silencing. Underneath all of it, is fear of collective action from engaged, well informed, safe, connected people

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

“People think of a protest as something angry, or earnestly hopeful, but it can also be something quite meditative + healing…being part of something bigger. A kind of selflessness, in the true sense of the word. The way a herring must feel swimming in a school w her fellows.” @matthaig.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

submitted 16 days ago • 1200 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 17 days ago • 3335 comments

Column: It's a break-glass moment just weeks into Trump's term, amid the constant, cruel and unconstitutional chaos at home and abroad. Yet nothing seems to be behind the glass -- none of the responders is proving up to the emergency. That leaves one group. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Heads up Los Angeles #knowyourrights #santamonica www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 26 days ago • 32 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 31 days ago • 186 comments

Watching poppies pop #californiamoment #exhale #gratitude

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you @katiecouric.bsky.social And @hcrichardson.bsky.social

submitted 33 days ago • 12 comments

The goal of our nation-leading Child Tax Credit is simple: lift kids out of poverty and get money back to working families.   Last year, nearly 225,000 families claimed the Child Tax Credit and saw an average total credit of $2,500.

submitted 42 days ago • 220 comments

Yes, I understand that we can’t consume all the news but remember: some of us are firstborn children and knowing things is our entire personality.

submitted 54 days ago • 3 comments

Helpful summary to kick off week 3

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

"Do not lose hope", says @mariaressa.bsky.social to journalists who continue to report the truth even in the hard times of a corrupt government. "Collaborate, collaborate, collaborate. Reach across. Stand by your values." And most important: "Hold the line." www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtST...

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments

Ignorance & arrogance - move fast, break things and by the time the law catches up, people are dead, institutions are destroyed ... fait accompli ... that's the strategy. The impact will be felt in decades: that's what we learned in the Philippines. www.amazon.com/How-Stand-Up...

submitted 43 days ago • 11 comments

Absorbing this in real time “Theirs is a logic of destruction. It is very hard to create a large, legitimate, functioning government. The oligarchs have no plan to govern…will take what they can, disable the rest…destruction is the point…They want disorder in which their relative power will grow”

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

What folks are getting a tough lesson in right now: Institutions are people. They are not abstract forces that exist as firewalls or safeguards. They are just people who play a role and who perhaps have abided by norms, but whose decisions minute to minute shape the role those institutions play.

submitted 45 days ago • 58 comments

Trump’s tariffs are a tax increase for Minnesota families, plain and simple. While Trump raises prices, I’m proposing the first sales tax rate cut in our state’s history to help Minnesotans weather the storm.

submitted 45 days ago • 390 comments

Thinking abt social connection, belonging, purpose and how these relate to #bonding #bridging #civiclife #socialcapital + more Reflecting on two thought provoking podcasts this week (highly recommend) 🎯Trevor Noah w/ #BowlingAlone Bob Putman 🎯Fresh Air interview w/ Atlantic writer Derek Thompson

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

Gotta admit, after a just beginning to poke around on Bluesky, it feels a lot like what I enjoyed about Twitter for the first few years I was on it 🤔

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments