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Done & done!! You know what to do!

Heads up.

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

How to Control the Electorate 101 open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...

"The all-blue male Indigo Bunting sings with cheerful gusto and looks like a scrap of sky with wings. Sometimes nicknamed 'blue canaries'..." (AllAboutBirds) #birds #birding #indigobunting #birdphotography #bluecanaries #scrapofskywithwings

"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action. "It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us." www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

The people tasked with keeping the country safe from foreign government hackers and cybercriminal gangs say they feel like they’re under attack from the administration they work under.

There we go. Support this man.

Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that"

Bernie Sanders made a surprise appearance at Coachella 2025 last night. So he went from the LA rally to Coachella. He's 83 and fighting like this. This should be an inspiration to all of us. If he can do this, we can all do a little more.

Today El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukeke will visit the White House - no doubt to advance plans to imprison incarcerated U.S. citizens in El Salvador.We need to stop this before it happens. Call both your Senators and your Rep. & tell them NO! 202-224-3121 open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Today is the 93rd birthday of Angelo Torres, born April 14, 1932. The last surviving artist to do work for EC Comics, he is probably best known for his several decades with Mad magazine.

Marco Rubio just announced 10 more people were sent to be imprisoned in CECOT. They were flown there from Gitmo to be imprisoned potentially for life based not on any crime for which they were convicted, but on unproven allegations of gang membership with no due process. This is not lawful.

A president who has the power to send an innocent human being to a foreign concentration camp, but claims he lacks the power to bring them back, is committing the crime of false imprisonment.

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

No. You’ve been watching stock market fraud.

“Waste, fraud, and abuse”? Let’s talk about what that really means. A beloved grocery store in Maine is at risk of closing because of a $10 mistake. We need common sense—not punishment that shuts down community lifelines.

#NationalLibraryWeek #LiteracyMatters

Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...

It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.” — Karl Marx

Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador

And there it is.

"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (April 8, 2025)

he did this just *after* going to the funeral of an 8 year old girl. he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Feel like this story didn't enough attention -- US attorney Ed Martin was just at a fundraiser with Oath Keepers who were convicted of seditious conspiracy and did NOT receive pardons. They're currently appealing their convictions with Ed's office!

NOAA provides notices of extreme & fast-moving weather threats like haboobs, monsoons, flash flooding and wildfires. Trump's cuts at NOAA are dumb and dangerous—they give emergency responders less time to act and put lives at risk. www.kjzz.org/politics/202...

Thug-ocracy in action. Executive Privilege 101 says (a) that the President himself must assert it, and (b) it cannot be used to shield misconduct. Easy stuff these “top lawyers” seem to have missed.

This is hugely horrifying.

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

Where is our humanity?

More heartbreaking betrayal.

The energy from April 5th is a sign of what we can accomplish together. We’re bringing that fire to a Mass Organizing Call on April 9 at 8PM ET — and we need you to be there. Hear from Women’s March, @50501movement.bsky.social + our partners, and find your role in what comes next.

Two of the most vile creatures in existence.

West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.

Thousand Oaks, CA: INDIVISIBLE protest crowd attendance was fantastic!

a friend sent me this one

Pasadena knows.

A little rain wasn’t going to stop NYC. #handsoff

Massive cuts to NIH will wreak havoc on UCSD and institutions all over the country. Our regional economy will suffer. Listen to UCSD researcher Srividya explain the real cost of these cuts, and help us spread the word. 🚨

CHICAGO…

100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!