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NEW: The Justice Department now says Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 rioters covers unrelated gun charges some faced after the FBI searched their homes. It’s moving to drop felony charges against Daniel Ball and Elias Costianes. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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@votevets.org is going to do everything possible to help veterans and military families during these perilous times. If you are affected, please fill out this form. It will remain confidential. votevets.org/doge-tipline

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"working to swiftly rectify the situation..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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Why is this not exactly the sort of “waste, fraud, and abuse” they claimed to be attacking? #ProudBlue

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Top Social Security official steps down after disagreement with DOGE over sensitive data www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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Trump Admin fired all of the US Attorneys appointed by Biden, informed them by email, and sent the messages to the wrong email addresses. Not just classless, but incompetent, too.

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The iconic Mabel Hampton was a very well-known dancer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance. Mabel was also a fierce advocate for the rights of African Americans, an activist for LBGT+ rights, and a pillar of the lesbian community in New York.

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At the nation’s scientific and public health agencies, panic set in as officials braced for a wave of layoffs. The Trump administration is now embracing forced resignation of officials at CDC and NIH.

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This administration has convinced half the country that the real problem isn’t billionaires who evade taxes and collect government handouts but the working class who pay taxes and get nothing in return.

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after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans: www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...

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Never froget it.

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Gutting the Department of Education—which Donald Trump has tasked his Cabinet nominee Linda McMahon with doing—would deliver a terrible blow to public schools, and have an immediate and tangible impact on students with disabilities.

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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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What can you do? Stand with others.

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Starbucks is being sued because its workforce ‘has become more female and less white’

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The National Endowment for the Arts is telling arts groups not to use federal funds to promote “diversity, equity and inclusion” or “gender ideology” in ways that run afoul of President Trump’s executive orders — causing confusion and concern. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/a...

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you can’t advocate for mental health without also advocating for 1. housing 2. food justice 3. health equity 4. education 5. job security 6. ethical tech 7. LGBTQ+ rights 8. disability rights 9. social justice SPEAK. THE. F*CK. UP.

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All teachers should be trained on special educational needs to help end 'postcode lottery', report says

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This is a great piece.

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"It feels like a dark time is ahead."

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Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

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President Trump has delivered on a bold promise, signing off a proclamation whilst flying in Air Force One to the SuperBowl that, from now on, today shall be known as Gulf of America Day

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NIH has cut billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Instead of cutting costs for working families, Donald Trump is slashing the federal investments that fund their lifesaving care, fuel their local economy, and lower their health care costs. It’s cruel, short-sighted, and will cost jobs and devastate millions of families.

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On Feb. 7, 1926, Carter G. Woodson initiated the first celebration of Negro History Week which led to Black History Month, to extend and deepen the study and scholarship on African American history, all year long.

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If you have family members, work associates, church friends, and/or neighbors who are LGBTQIA, non-Christian, women, non-white immigrants, or their families, AND you VOTED for #dtrump, OR didn't vote for Pres., you should be apologizing to those people... art by en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakedpa...

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"Do not be alone and do not be dismayed." #ResistCoup

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Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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