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maroggi.bsky.social
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We are arms dealers to terrorists.

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter! buttondown.com/5calls

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Propublica got the dirt on DOGE Spending.

Great essay not just on #takedowntesla but how it's working and how it exemplifies direct action (Waging Nonviolence is always worth checking out):

Keep joining in the protests and actions. Keep asking people to come with you. We need them to grow from 'huge' to 'immense' to 'unstoppable'.

Hundreds of artists rebuked the National Endowment for the Arts in an open letter after the agency imposed new requirements for grant applicants not to operate DEI programs or use federal funds to “promote gender ideology.”

I find Brian to be the most informed, trenchant, fearless, and literate tech critic/journalist and have a paid subscription to BLOOD IN THE MACHINE and everyone should.

Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

We know who the villains are in this coup. But so many heroes are showing up to oppose them, and many of them are federal employees, including judges. I give you supreme boss-hero champion Judge Ana Reyes, telling Team Trump they don't know shit and schooling them in the facts about gender and sex.

Mel Bochner’s work, which centered linguistics and mathematics, turned the traditional understanding of visual arts on its head.

5calls.org

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Jay Peak yesterday

Reposting as Sagan is so prescient from 30 years ago.

President Trump campaigned on lowering costs. But he’s letting billionaire Elon Musk and Project 2025 Architect Russ Vought kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. If they succeed, CEOs on Wall Street will once again be free to cheat you out of your savings.

Basically, humans and our food are 96% of the mammal species. That's way too much. Eat your beans and greens, folks. (And look up resource consumption for meat production. Don't argue in the comment thread.)

Washington, D.C. yesterday. "Shut down the Senate, Shut down the Senate." Chanted for hours. More massive #USprotests, ongoing. Sources here report, "Millions of people are getting ready as we speak to take this country back and save the USA. Their days are numbered. Stay tuned." #3E

My pup is over his head in snow now

#BestSongHeardToday #MusicChallenge Helene Cronin, Copperhill From her forthcoming album, Maybe New Mexico We never learn: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFnZ...

Artists Coco Fusco, Pablo Helguera, and Noah Fischer came up with the sanest response they possibly could for these utterly insane times: a new publication, “The Siren.”

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

#HateIsBadForBusiness

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

Powerful excerpt from @eoinhiggins.bsky.social's new book on Musk and Taibbi, about how Musk went way, way right, wrecking twitter on his way to trying to wreck the world lithub.com/the-making-o...

Yesterday’s live is now on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?featur...

A face numbing but gorgeous sunny day

This is very good. Clear and succinct.

Beautiful snow.

Some good news americansofconscience.com/some-good-ne...

Please Participate If You Can. Kindly Repost! 💙😎

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The only way we can defend our parks at this point is to protest. Take to the streets and protest like your lives and loved ones depend on it. Because they do

#MuskMustGo

Hey kids! Anyone plan on participating in LPs Ignored No More with me these next ten days? Would love to have you explore your shelves & share- I am using a random number generator to find my picks because...well, let's just say I may get lost otherwise. #LPsIgnoredNoMore #10albums10days to Feb 9.