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#ResistanceRoots #Voices4Victory #BlackHistoryMonth Today in history, 1956: Civil rights activists, including MLK, Rosa Parks, Ralph Abernathy and Jo Ann Robinson, are arrested for organizing the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. They were accused of violating a 1921 statute forbidding boycotts. /1

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This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 20 days ago • 963 comments

Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

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Trump and Republicans are continuing the years-long effort to attack civil rights & dismantle any policy that uplifts Black folks. Our #HR40Reparations bill would push back and help America address the legacy of slavery and its shameful history of systemic racism. youtube.com/shorts/EIxRF...

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Kamala Harris is to be honored at NAACP Image Awards. Former Vice President Kamala Harris is set to receive the NAACP's Chairman Award during the 56th annual NAACP Image Awards ceremony Saturday. #MOMSky share.newsbreak.com/bkqqz90e?s=i16

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States are being ravaged by floods, thousands of federal employees were fired for being collateral damage of revenge, food aid rots in ports, bird flu/measles are spreading, inflation/prices are surging, yet the orange felon wasted millions riding around Daytona 500. I hate him.

submitted 6 days ago • 285 comments

There’s an immigrant taking people’s jobs… his name is Elon Musk. He’s snatching farms, government jobs (even those in which they manage our national security), and definitely those whose jobs are to root out fraud (inspector generals),

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ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...

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Standing Together #7, #8, #9 now ready to fly. I love the fact that the creations in this series are flying across the country. I hope they bring strength, joy, and a bit of magic. I appreciate the enthusiasm so very much. #ArtYear #art #painting #watercolor #abstract #mixedmedia #whimsicalart

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Help us get to 7,000 letters sent to Congress demanding no cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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😑

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Why did Trump have himself put in charge of the Kennedy Center? Because he knows that the educated and cultured people who patronize it despise him. So he seeks revenge. And he knows that his being in charge of the center will destroy it.

submitted 10 days ago • 1432 comments

This is truer than you realize.

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They think if the corruption is public and in your face, it will be perceived as legal and totally cool.

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

That’s nothing. I found 13 contracts awarded to SpaceX since December totaling $77M. 1/

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If you thought the Afghanistan withdrawal was bad (as I do), the #USAID withdrawal is magnitudes worse. Thanks to @anneapplebaum.bsky.social for succinctly explaining the rapidly developing global consequences, including starvation of children on the brink.

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www.npr.org/sections/sho... NIH announces new funding policy that rattles medical researchers

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So many friends I know with medical and dental research grants will take a direct hit. This will bring so much harm to our health and economy. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

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This article gives an excellent overview of the impact on universities and US research will be if the announced cuts to NIH indirect cost rates hold. Not good www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

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Help us get to 10,000 letters sent to Congress today in support of the bill that would stop this Treasury takeover for good:

submitted 15 days ago • 79 comments

Have you heard? There’s a new bill that makes it harder for millions of eligible Americans to vote. Join me and @standupamerica.bsky.social in urging Congress to vote NO on the SAVE Act: act.standupamerica.com/letters/no-o...

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Out of 510,000 athletes competing at the collegiate level, there are fewer than 10 who publicly identify as transgender, Charlie Baker, the NCAA president, said in January, 2025—but yeah, today Mr. Baker folded like a cheap suit.

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Call them want they really are: HACKERS This "DOGE engineers" thing is bullshit! They are boy hackers! Plain and simple This is 2016 Cambridge Analytics bullshit on steroids

submitted 19 days ago • 1314 comments

📽️ WATCH: At ProPublica, we’ll be devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing the second Trump administration. If you are a federal employee and have tips, documents, data or stories you can share that the public should know about, reach out: www.propublica.org/tips/

submitted 28 days ago • 52 comments

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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“Listen to ‘Oh Bondage! Up Yours!’ by punk band X-Ray Spex in its entirety and tell me you aren’t ready to destroy the patriarchy…” open.substack.com/pub/feminist...

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Seeing lots of people here looking for documents related to the OMB/Executive order funds freeze. All of the key docs -- the lawsuit, OMB memos, court orders, etc. are in the story below. Democracy Docket always provides free links to underlying court docs. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 20 days ago • 119 comments

I love you ❤️

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There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

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Transgender vet discharged from VA psychiatric hospital in Syracuse the day after inauguration killed themselves in the hospital parking lot, wrapped in a trans rights flag. Just horrifying. www.syracuse.com/news/2025/01...

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Republicans don't want to remove guns from schools, just pronouns from emails. #Priorities We are living in petty times. abcnews.go.com/US/federal-e...

submitted 22 days ago • 125 comments

They’re nuts.

submitted 23 days ago • 258 comments

Please call your senators. This is the worst nomination of all.

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Is anybody going to ask the entirely relevant questions of Trump and his DEIA for incompetent Americans transportation chief Duffy if the freeze in hiring of these critical functionaries contributed to the accident? Or is the mainstream “free press” gonna roll over for Trump like saps, again?

submitted 24 days ago • 64 comments

Perhaps Pete Hegseth should spend less time on Fox News and more time doing his actual job. This is what Donald Trump's inept leadership looks like.

submitted 24 days ago • 39 comments

One week apart.

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It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

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Yeah, how about not dissolving the air safety advisory commission at the FAA. As your team did last week.

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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget INSURRECTIONIST TRUMP!

submitted 27 days ago • 69 comments

Excellent post

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