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Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Encourage them pay taxes, assure them their info is confidential, then give it to ICE so they can be kicked out of the US. Enormous, evil betrayal. And just the latest unbearable act by this administration hellbent on destroying my country. www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/20...

I just reskeeted @prisonculture.bsky.social saying people don't know. I'm telling you people don't know. I keep having conversations, even conversations with people who are in media who are missing huge chunks of what's happening. People are busy and aren't directly impacted so they don't know

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Every morning, look at your reflection and visualize what you want to be.

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

a bit of good news!

DO THE THINGS YOU KEEP SAYING OTHER PEOPLE SHOULD DO.

So much energy, fury, sadness marching through downtown NYC and dying-in outside the NYSE. While our NY Senators have abandoned us, we will keep fighting back! @indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @maketheroadny.bsky.social @popdemocaction.bsky.social @workingfamilies.org @1199seiu.org

I feel ya, Mr. Cookie. I do.

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Absolute 🔥🔥 from Sarah McBride: "We will not take a lecture on decorum from a party that incited an insurrection. I appear to live rent free in the minds of some of my Republican colleagues. The Republican Party is obsessed with culture war issues. It is weird and it is bizarre.”

the authoritarianism is bad, but the loser energy is absolutely intolerable

Make America Healthy Again! www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Why take a perfectly safe vaccine to prevent getting sick when you can just get sick from a preventable disease and probably be fine but maybe die.

Let's Create "Town Hall Night in America" washingtonmonthly.com/2025/03/07/l...

even our bird’s a dick

FRIDAY: Join @standupforscience.bsky.social rallies around the US to protest funding cuts, illegal firings, and censorship of scientists. In response to the attacks, the most important thing we can do is to visually show that science has strong support in this country, so please show up if you can!

great examples here of how the pipeline for new treatments works

A German word for being embarrassed by the actions of someone else is Fremdscham, or “foreign shame.” A similar word from Icelandic is aulahrollur, which is quite tricky to translate but basically means something along the lines of “cringe quake” or “douchebag chills”

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

Now that’s an opening argument for foreign aid: This is Literally How You Get Ebola

House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

Republicans just dropped their first open attack on women's right to travel. jessica.substack.com/p/montana-bi...

I wish more people knew about the 1920s Klan because they—perhaps more than European fascists—are the model for Trumpism. This is a good summary and a nice reminder that they do a lot of damage, but in the end, fascists always lose.

Do this. Say this. 👇🏻

Incredible journalism.

Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.