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At a time of massive inequality, Trump's budget is breathtaking in its degree of cruelty. It slashes funding for health care, housing & education that the working class desperately needs in order to pay for more tax breaks for billionaires & the Pentagon. That is morally obscene.

Know your rights!

Thank you @booker.senate.gov 🙌🏽 We needed this boost of inspiration. Thank you for your light and your dedication to the people of this country~

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Portland pilot Hazel Ying Lee's bravery was eventually recognized with veteran status and a congressional gold medal, but the legacy of all WASPs faces the threat of erasure, especially under the Trump administration’s federal purge and ban on diversity, equity and inclusion.

trillium time ✨

Today's episode of Sounds of Survivance on KEXP , Trans Native, is now up on the archive. We shared native knowledge relating to gender and sexual identities while playing nothing but music from Native artists whose identities exist outside the colonizer’s “binary” construct. kexp.org/indigenous

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

NEW: AOC in Vegas. Major challenge to Dem leadership🔥 “If you’re willing to fight for someone you don’t know, you’re welcome here. But I will say this: Those leaders on either side of aisle willing to put their fellow Americans down so they can get ahead; they may best find a home somewhere else.”

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

Pro tip for Democrats: if Trump is congratulating you, you fucked up.

Utah could soon become the first state in the country to ban Pride flags from all public property. LGBTQ people are here to stay, and no amount of hateful legislation can change that.

the metronomes tho…