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You know what makes programs efficient and effective? When they are funded well and staffed with people who have hard earned expertise. #dogescam

San Francisco/Bay Area folks: I am going to speak on a panel on Project 2025 and healthcare for KALW on March 11 at 6pm. Happy to be engaging in conversation about how this playbook is hurting disabled and sick people. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-bay-ag...

A new art exhibit at the Oakland Main Library profiles the stories of immigrant students

Astonishing crowd inside Manhattan Criminal Court two hours before Luigi Mangione’s follow-up appearance. Organized chaos, people are in cordoned-off gaggles down the full length of the hall, chatting casually. Feels reminiscent of fans waiting for a concert ticket line to open.

Trump's plan to reclassify 50,000 federal workers would make them easier to fire for political reasons. Critics say this threatens the merit-based, politically neutral #civilservice that 87% of Americans support. A public affairs professor explains: #polisky

Another Trump voter having regrets part #7362727

This is leadership. Not saying there is nothing you can do because you don’t hold the voting bloc. Talk to Americans. Help them, change their minds, fight for them, organize, put yourself on the line. @jeffrieshakeem.bsky.social @senatoradamschiff.bsky.social

Every liberal "paper of record": maybe the fascists have a point Eater: Know your rights

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

If you still have friends/family who think this administration will help them, talk to them about money....

keep doing the things that you can do.

there has been so little honoring of those lost because of all the administration’s distractions - to read.

More: “At Lafayette & Canal St. in NYC tonight, a digitized billboard showed Free Luigi for a few hours.”

No amount of executive orders can make us cease to exist.

Elements within Israel's gov't “itching” to return to war on Gaza in an effort to "eliminate" Hamas, even though that goal is “not really attainable”, says Colin Clarke, from the New York-based Soufan Center think tank. 🟥 Read analysis: aje.io/fjrsiw

@senatoradamschiff.bsky.social @jeffrieshakeem.bsky.social

This is getting at why I appreciate #TeslaTakeDown - wagingnonviolence.org/ipra/2025/02...

Musk is peak apartheid energy - eliminate choices by force, then say you are the best

www.citizen.org/news/musk-do...

#TeslaTakedown is now expanding to other countries! We have many upcoming #TeslaTakedown protest events, including the UK's flagship Tesla store in London! Join an event or create your own at TeslaTakedown.com!

My colleagues and i worked day and night to save lives through the C-19 pandemic. We received a small pin to commemorate because we had to be ethical and frugal with taxpayer monies. Meanwhile DOGE has a $40 mil budget & less than a hundred people on payroll. All US taxpayer money.

DOGE budget $40 mil for 100 employees and zero accountability or efficiency

Everyone needs to see this. Be ready to deny access, even if you don't know any immigrants. Let them waste time and you might save a family somewhere else. #Disobey #blue #fotus #FBR #immigrants #TruthWarriors #theresistance #resist #FBPE #FuckICE #SaveOurDemocracy #sanctuary #organize #fucktrump