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Request for Action: Elon Musk is seeking access to Fort Knox’s gold reserves. Congressional oversight is requested to ensure transparency during the audit, with bipartisan participation. Fort Knox gold reserves undergo annual audits.

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True.

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

If you didn't know... • Exxon • Moulton/Coors • Walmart Have funded Heritage Foundation (#Project2025) for YEARS #Boycott

if you need me I'll be shouting this from the nearest rooftop

a maximalist strategy of opposition against every nominee as unqualified would have stood a better chance of creating the kind of public outrage that might have led to more republican defections, but i'm sure the imaginary family that chuck schumer relies on to guide his decisions disagreed

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

Here’s what we did today

Just a reminder: One of the billionaire owners of the Kansas City Chiefs spent several hundred thousand dollars on a disinformation campaign against abortion rights in Missouri.

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

Just spitballing, but things that could happen today: *Court injunction protecting USAID *Dems demand hearings on Musk's role *Someone introduce articles of impeachment *Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers *Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

THIS

NEW: At least 6 senior FBI officials have been ordered to resign or be fired by Monday. They include those that oversee cyber, national security and criminal investigations. www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/p...

If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it. Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice. But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word. They aren’t firing for a reason.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

Warren: "He can stand there, smile at you and say, 'anybody can vaccinate their kids who wants to,' but he literally could bankrupt the vaccines manufacturers with the power he will have. And since he's got a financial incentive to do that, we cannot trust him in that job."

Trump to House Republicans at his Doral club: "I've raised a lot of money for the next race that I assume I can't use for myself, but I'm not 100 percent sure. I think I'm not allowed to run again. I'm not sure."

You know how during an election we always say "if you're in line, STAY IN LINE"? Here's the new version: If you're in a federal job, STAY IN YOUR FEDERAL JOB. Don't quit. That's obeying in advance. Make them fire you. Then sue them to stop it. Keep fighting. Do NOT surrender.

"The US should use military force to obtain new territory like Greenland and the Panama Canal" Disagree: 71% Agree: 9% Ipsos / Jan 21, 2025 / n=1077

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Went to Costco today. I can’t really complain about the price of eggs — because there weren’t any. Not a single one. Because Bird flu, but 🤫 were not supposed to talk about it. Day 4: Things are going well.

Only saying once on bsky b/c I know it is not entirely useful, but it is totally exhausting that in 2016 some of us said “they’re Nazis,” some of us screamed “they’re segregationists,” and a whole lot of very serious people now posting about them being Nazis and segregationists gaslight us for years

The past several days have proven without a shadow of a doubt that Project 2025 is real and underway. And those who warned America about it were right.

Every fucking MAGA cultist who fucking assured me that Trump had no fucking plans whatsoever to implement fucking Project 2025 can go fuck themselves.

Dems would get much more traction finding and promoting people saying what they know and experience. What has more impact, This man speaking his mind or the Dems speaking “in unison “ ?

The exact number of federal employees working in DEI roles appears to be unknown, or at least not publicly disclosed. This raises questions: does the Trump administration even know who these employees are or how many exist? If not, how exactly do they plan to identify them? 🤔 (1/2)

TikTok: *shuts down* Me: My shaylaaaa 😫😭😭 TikTok: *returns* Me: who r u TikTok: Your shayla Me: mmm nah seems sus bye

Right out of the gate they are detaining U.S. citizens and saying their “papers”are fake. It was always a lie.

I need you to understand that when conservative politicians called for Bishop Budde’s “deportation”, despite the fact she was born here, it means that “deportation” no longer just means “deportation”. What are they going to do with all the “enemies” that have nowhere to be deported to?

one reason democrats should cut the “we just want to work together” shit is that you lose the opportunity to do things like, for instance, hold a loud press conference on the fact that trumps ICE thugs arrested a veteran www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...

Iowa activists, activate. ICE is rounding up “suspected” undocumented immigrants. No due process for American OR undocumented human beings. 🙏🏽

The Trump administration directs federal health agencies to pause communications. Bird flu is part of that.

Sometimes it’s things that fall totally under the radar that scare me the most about Trump 2.0. 👇 This one should send chills up your spine. “First they came for the journalists… we don’t know what happened after that.”

I think a lot of us, white people especially, have suddenly come to the horrifying realization that our family members are Nazis. Perhaps not frothing at the mouth Nazis, perhaps not dedicated Nazis, but Nazis nonetheless.

BREAKING | Meta says that people have been automatically left following Donald Trump’s account – and admitted that some of them are unable to stop.

The actions of an autocrat, not a president. Firing them isn’t meant to send a message to others. Obey in advance or else.

TODAY: We’re expecting a House vote on the Laken Riley Act, a dangerous bill that would shred constitutional rights and let MAGA extremists gut legal immigration. 48 House Democrats recently voted for this bill, so we really need you to call your representative ASAP: indivisible.org/resource/tel...