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If you want to run for school board, @runforsomething.net will help you. We will desperately need good leaders for public education at the local level everywhere. runforwhat.net

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🤝 WHEN WE’RE IN CHARGE: The Next Generation’s Guide to Leadership 🤝  is now available for pre-order & will be out on May 13!! It's a book for & about millennials & gen Z on how we can break the cycle of bad boomer leadership to make everyone’s lives a little bit better. whenwereincharge.com

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At some point, somebody that just lost their government job will decide their next one will be as an elected official and I will be HERE for it. @runforsomething.net #civictech

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Yep. We’re here to help ‘em all. runforwhat.net

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A 4 year old child became the 2nd person to die of #Ebola in Uganda in a setback for health officials who had hoped for a quick end to the outbreak that began at the end of January as the Trump administration dismantles USAID and distances itself from the WHO. apnews.com/article/ugan...

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

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As climate scientists, seeing climate protests is a boost that makes us realize that people care about the knowledge that we generate. We should join protests now to show all those fighting the coup from inside the US government that they're doing what the people want and they have our support.

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Why? Why??

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"Darkness RISING Project's Find Me a Therapist program is now offering FREE therapy for Black people. Thanks to support provided by the Roy A. Hunt Foundation, we're providing 10 FREE therapy sessions to Black community members." mailchi.mp/darknessrisi...

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BREAKING WAPO: Elon Musk's DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country — sparking alarm within the tax agency. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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New—The Food & Drug Administration (FDA), an agency that falls under RFK Jr.’s purview, just mass fired probationary employees via an email reviewed by me. They’re citing performance issues as the reason, even for employees who had great performance reviews. Don’t know how many people affected yet.

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I hate all of this.

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Seattle's tech wealthy waged a frenzied war against it. Seattle's quisling city council moved the ballot to February to suppress turnout. Nonetheless, the voters of Seattle have overwhelmingly approved a measure funding a social housing agency by taxing the rich. www.cascadepbs.org/politics/202...

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Protect this law at all costs ! www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"

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Blumenthal: "It would be one thing if we had some disinterested, impartial business person -- highly successful -- looking at ways to make our govt more efficient and save money. That's not what's happening here. Elon Musk is doing a power grab & information heist, the biggest in American history"

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Joyce Vance: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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While billionaires measure their knob-rockets and politicians debate who deserves to live, communities are quietly building something they can't control, can't co-opt, and can't stop. Here's your guide to finding (or starting) mutual aid networks near you:

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Some good news for climate journalism as MacArthur rolls out $6 million in grants (with Society of Environmental Journalists on the list!). It's exciting to see how many of these outlets prioritize accountability journalism. www.macfound.org/press/press-...

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ICYMI they’re targeting Energy Department contracts over “DEI” (They’re actually targeting language in the contracts helping local labor and municipalities) heatmap.news/politics/tru...

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Welcome to our new BlueSky followers! We've put together this handy Heatmap starter pack for you all. Follow our news team for the latest on climate and clean energy:

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narrator: “the pushback didn’t really work. many resources still remain offline, including those most geared toward society’s most vulnerable in this moment. and it remains unclear if/how data sources were tampered with.”

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

pushback works, part infinity +1 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/h...

submitted 28 days ago • 281 comments

"Trump is demanding protection money. Pay him, and you won’t be subject to the president using the weight of the federal government to wreck your company. Pay him, and you won’t be subject to ceaseless frivolous litigation filed in Trump-friendly courts."

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Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

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Raskin: “Who’s gonna stop him? WE ARE!”

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Climate change data is now under attack. abcnews.go.com/US/usda-orde...

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pushback works, part infinity: apnews.com/article/immi...

submitted 28 days ago • 574 comments

Thanks. This clarifies nothing.

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exactly. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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"The free speech crisis hiding in plain sight isn’t about whether individuals can ever criticize powerful figures — it’s about whether institutions can withstand the pressure to self-censor in the face of legal and political intimidation..." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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