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“I couldn’t care less” should be his new slogan.

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EXCLUSIVE: Tonight at the Kennedy Center, Guster brought on cast members from Finn, an LGBTQ+ kids musical that was recently canceled when Trump took over the center. They performed the band’s song “Hard Times” to a standing ovation. Full story, exclusive quotes and video on The Handbasket:

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I’m an American, and I stand with Greenland. 🇬🇱 #StandWithGreenland

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When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'

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Car salesman at a local Hyundai dealership today, after I asked him about the tariffs: "It's terrible. The price of every vehicle is going to go up five or six thousand dollars... And here's the thing, even after they go away, think about it, they're not going to come back down again."

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Rebellions are built on hope.

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"The issue with canceling these grants, and all of the others, is that it is incredibly shortsighted. Science, at its root, is about exploring the unknown and learning how the world works... fromthescienceclass.substack.com/p/defunding-...

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Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks… “The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government. 🧵

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Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

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Breakfast of champions! Our chickens have the darkest sweetest yolks!

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Friends

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Spring is here

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"Over the years, extensive research has consistently shown that vaccines do not cause autism. This conclusion is supported by numerous large-scale studies." theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/a-comprehe...

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We have to remember to keep grabbing crumbs of joy! Continue to dream big. No matter what’s happening in our country. We have to scrape out positive events and feelings right now.

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📌BREAKING: -"Such a dramatic move would be unprecedented in the agency’s history and would immediately begin halting payments for millions of Americans." -“For almost 90 years, Social Security has never missed a paycheck — but 60 days into this administration, Social Security is now on the brink.”

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whether you like AOC or not, that's a fucking bar bsky.app/profile/acyn...

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Love my boxwood n ficus #bonsai

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I want to remind folks that Indigo Girls teamed up with our friends at The T-Shirt Deli, Co. to raise funds for several orgs involved in the Hurricane Helene recovery effort. They designed a special Indigo Girls' shirt to uplift the recovery efforts. Buy it here! tshirtdeli.com/products/ind...

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Welcome to the resistance! Over 1 million brave souls have answered the call this week. The Empire—Trump’s administration and Musk—may believe its grip is unbreakable, but every day, more join our ranks. We’ve always known—tomorrow, there will be more of us.

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February 8, 2025

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Congress was denied entry to both the U.S. Department of Education and the Treasury, where Musk staffers blocked the doors. Along with its appropriations responsibilities, Congress holds oversight authority over federal agencies. Blocking congressional access to these agencies is illegal.

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The answer is yes www.vanityfair.com/news/story/i...

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Musk’s staffers are heading to the Pentagon, while Trump continues his attempted purge of Washington. He recently announced on Truth Social that he is appointing himself as head of the Kennedy Center and plans to remove multiple members from its board of trustees.

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We have to remember to keep grabbing crumbs of joy! Continue to dream big. No matter what’s happening in our country. We have to scrape out positive events and feelings right now.

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Elon Musk’s 20-year-old staffers are not only demanding access to highly restricted information but are also displaying aggressive behavior—shouting at anyone who stands in their way, resorting to name-calling, throwing tantrums, and even hitting objects in anger.

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*endorsed

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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before.

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Bonsai, a horticultural art form originating in China and Japan, involves cultivating miniature trees in shallow containers through specialized techniques to evoke the aesthetics of natural tree forms.

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and all of this leading up to the inevitable "Well, they were just following orders..." Sound familiar?

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That people now see the typical person Silicon Valley has produced through decades long juvenilizing and coddling of young men and the persistent sidelining of women is an important thing except it’s also too late. These toxic adult toddlers are grown and cloning more.

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“He’s unqualified, and I daresay that everybody here knows it.” We need more principled senators like Warnock.

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The unsung beauty of the Trump's cronies pushing to actively destroy any instance of diversity... They are ensuring there are more of us than them. Doesn't fix it today, may not fix it tomorrow but... We aren't in here with them, they are in here with us.

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Okay, pardon us, but F this. America, you’ve got to stand up.

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Yeah, let's start a trade war

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As I wrote yesterday, where you at Fitch/Moody's/Standard and Poor's? stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/will-the-r...

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Life my new #bonsai Lawson cypress and super cute copper pole

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There is still beauty in this world

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I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

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Read "Trump’s return to the office order prompts 20,000 federal workers to quit in favour of ‘buyouts’" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-iDv62Ip/FA...

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Please share, share, share my friends. We have our trans community counting on us to love & support them! We can’t let the bastards win!

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Happy anniversary to us! Thank U family, friends, community for loving n supporting us 30 years! Married 2/2/16 Marriage Equality is being threatened right now! Please remember us and help us keep our rights! 💕🌈💕🌈💕🌈💕🌈💕

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Focus on 1 or 2 things. Go deep on those. Focus on "news" about those things first and foremost. Think about the concrete actions you can take to impact those ONE or TWO things.

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