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Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines. Hurting Tesla is stopping Musk, and stopping Musk will help save lives and our democracy. The stakes couldn't be higher and no one is coming to fix this- not our politicians and not our media. It's up to collective effort.

i think what's particularly demoralizing is that there is just no courage or principles behind the words of republicans who style themselves as serious conservative national security and constitutional thinkers, absolutely zero. its not surprising but my GOD these people are pathetic

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information. This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

We’re gonna have to march.

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

It’s worth noting that the president of the United States today made more racist comments than we’ve seen any president make publicly in, what, a century? More publicly racist comments than many presidents who were, with history’s eye, virulently racist humans, but ones who at least knew their role.

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

one extraordinary thing is that no one is discussing the fact that a foreign billionaire bought control of the US government by being more or less Donald Trump's sole donor as being anything particularly scandalous

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

Boy, these last eight days feel like a good reminder why democracies generally avoid letting people who attempt a coup come back to power….

@ocasio-cortez.house.gov

we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.

January 27th marks 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation. Use the wisdom of the Holocaust survivors, their numbers are dwindling and lack of their personal accounts contributes to re-emergence of the fascist ideology. "Never again" used to be indisputable - today it sounds hollow.

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Attn: Target we are done!!! Black folks, do not spend a dime here. Do not spend money where you will not be hired—or where they will not carry your products. Target is spitting in your face!

No foreign power has ever posed as massive and immediate a threat to the United States as the current administration.

Simple Solution #BoycottTarget

You don't know anyone but natural born American citizens, full stop. And if you're white and border patrol or ICE starts asking questions, you ask to see their warrant. Don't you do nazi shit.

The Democrats should use this as a chance to radicalize regular people in favor of, uh, the idea of a functional government. Every time that an important but unnoticed federal department fails because Trump fired everyone they should make a big deal out of it.

I’m certain that republicans hate Americans. 💯

I don't think we can share the side-by-side of Elon Musk doing the Nazi salute next to Nazis doing the Nazi salute enough.

Oh, yeah, that’ll do it.

AOC: "I want folks at home to look at what members of Congress are invested in private prisons companies, and look at the votes on this bill. It is atrocious that people are lining their pockets with private prison profits in the name of a horrific tragedy."

🚨 🚨 🚨 HOMEWORK 🚨 🚨 🚨 The email address for federal workers to inform on their colleagues is [email protected]. Would be a real shame if folks flooded that inbox, rendering it useless.

The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research! That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?

If you are a visa holder/temp resident in the U.S., and your child was born here and doesn't have a passport, GET A PASSPORT FOR THEM IMMEDIATELY. Like, make the appointment this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.

For those saying it wasn't a Nazi salute. Keep posting it. Keep sharing it.

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

Stop using Spotify already. Sheesh.

well what a lot of awful news for one single day. I don't encourage anyone to disconnect entirely but I do strongly urge you to take care of your mental health. If that includes unfollowing obsessives like me, no worries! I get it.

Back on the grind tomorrow

I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.

"This is all happening because everyone — every one — who was supposed to protect the American people from this failed in the most miserable, unforgivable ways."

BREAKING: The convicted felon who incited this January 6th insurrection just took an oath that he has no intention of keeping. Today is a day of mourning for America.

I assure you: “The resistance” has not “faded into the resignation.” Regardless of what the media is now saying. They wish.

In 2017, Snoop Dogg asked who the first "Uncle Tom" performing at Donald Trump's inauguration was gonna be. Last night, Snoop performed at the Crypto Ball.

The bottom line wrt to TikTok flip flops is that Trump actually does not give a 💩 if there is a national security threat to the United States — even from a hostile country that wants to destroy us — as long as there is something in the “deal” that benefits him politically or financially.

And there it is. Scam and grift revealed. Watch who gets rich off this. Interested also to see how legacy media covers this, which has been putrid so far.

what do you even do with this information how do you get people to even pretend to go back to caring about things like “divesting” or “bribery” after this