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justice seeker poet just another vibration on the magnetic spectrum deep blue Democrat Healthcare Accreditation Living in Massachusetts but my heart belongs to Maine and Vermont.
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They want us to be afraid. They want us to hesitate. They want us to fear their next move. Fuck that shit. We are just getting started fighting.

📌Our Park Service Rangers have flagged the warning on El Capitan. We are under threat by an America-attacking felon.

Pete is still on the job.

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." ~ James Madison

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Let's participate and please, spread this around...

📌EVERYTHING Trump is doing right now is to protect himself. He is installing loyalists -- expertise or clearances be damned -- in every govt. agency, and has control of our nation's armed forces. 📌This is a full-on coup, and it needs to be framed this way IMMEDIATELY in the press. We are in DANGER.

Amplifying, because we have to tell the stories of the good works done that msm pays no attention to.

odh.ohio.gov/media-center...

If you have not watched this yet, but you are concerned about the path Musk and Trump are on, you need to watch. Then rather than panicking, we need to counter with shared vision of what our future looks like. And we have to figure out if we can stop this specific trajectory. youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no

Politics Girl asking LOUDLY what many others of us are wondering.

Roger Waters and Bernie Sanders are on the same page. #AmusedtoDeath

100% agree.

Parkersburg, West Virginia today: www.wtap.com/2025/02/11/d...

HAHAHAHAHA.

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This would be a start.

We need marches, ongoing, everyday we can pull them off.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

This Super Bowl Sunday, here's a reminder of what real courage looks like.

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Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

Announcing the Data.gov Archive lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

WOW! @booker.senate.gov NAILED IT! "There can be no bystanders in this fight. It is time that we understand the only thing necessary for wrong to triumph is for right to do nothing, for right to be silent."

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@sanders.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov we would appreciate your vocal opposition NOW to this move announced yesterday.

From ProPublica "The new target, the sources said, is a database that tracks the flow of money across the government, from the Treasury to specific agencies and then to the ultimate destination of the funds."

If you are a public servant, or know one, this may be useful. A new organization, the Public Service Alliance, is offering advice on privacy and cybersecurity, physical safety, access to legal counsel and more. thepublicservicealliance.com/introducing-...

Several U.S.A.I.D. officials noted that Google’s artificial intelligence system, Gemini, had been activated on their internal communications systems recently, and that internal video calls conducted on the Google platform were suddenly set to automatically record.

A street artist in DC is putting up these posters all over the city. I’d love to get one.

In Massachusetts NIH funds affect >131,000 jobs. These are the top funded institutions: Massachusetts General Hospital Partners Healthcare System, Inc. Harvard University Boston University (Charles River Campus) University of Massachusetts System

OHIO Nazis in broad daylight

This is a de facto massive budget cut to research universities. We are talking Great Recession size impacts.

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...