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BREAKING: The Interior Dept just used a fake “energy emergency” to greenlight gas and mining projects on public lands. It’s a lie. There is no energy emergency. This is a giveaway to big oil.

We're pumped to announce that our collaboration with our friends at @publicintegrity.bsky.social and @revealnews.org, 40 Acres and a Lie, won a Webby Award! 🎉 In this historic series, we found 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans who were given land, only to see it returned to their enslavers.

We’re turning the massive energy from the Hands Off! protests towards one of our biggest fights yet: Stopping the GOP reconciliation plan that guts Medicaid, crushes SNAP, and shovels trillions of dollars to billionaires. To win, we need to be louder and more organized than ever before.

There is, as they say, a lot going on here.

Happy #Easter

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A friend texted this photo from the tiny Oregon coast town of Manzanita today. 200 or so out protesting along the highway #protest @maddow.msnbc.com

Very creative, San Francisco! 8647 ✊

People from coast to coast, and city to city, are standing united against the Trump regime and billionaire backed government takeover. Our #PeoplesMovement is growing stronger every day as more people wake up to the constitutional crisis. Join us at www.FiftyFifty.one. 🤝 #50501Movement #April19

📍Salt Lake City, Utah Protest footage is starting to roll in. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Comment where and how you took action today, and tag us in your best pics and videos for a reshare! Join us at www.FiftyFifty.one. 🤝 #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #50501Movement #April19 @meidastouch.com @polrev.bsky.social

We the people are PISSED!📍NYC / April 19 Join the People’s Movement at www.FiftyFifty.one. #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #50501Movement #April19 #NYC @polrev.bsky.social @meidastouch.com

The Gestapo is here: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

russia invaded Ukraine. Twice. russia launches missiles at Ukrainian cities. Daily. russia murders, tortures and kidnaps Ukrainians. Hourly. Unprovoked and unjustified. Stand with the victim, blame the aggressor. We are stronger when united. #StandWithUkraine

Israel's military is expanding buffer zones inside the Gaza Strip and taking over more areas of the territory, shrinking land Palestinians can access by more than half.

A really emotional, powerful piece on how trans kids and families are handling the total assault on their right to exist www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

‘Israel has returned to full-scale slaughter in Gaza. Western outlets have returned to the same disastrous coverage of the past 18 months.’ www.thenation.com/article/worl...

BS

Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.

This is not right

This week, the House GOP passed their voter suppression bill — the SAVE Act.   It's essentially a poll tax on married women.   It doesn't secure elections — it just makes it harder for citizens to vote.   It's another shameful attempt by the GOP to silence women and grab power from the people.

F this

It is darkly hilarious that the US lacks a compulsory national identification card (closest we have is SSN, which is not supposed to be used for ID - says so right on the card) because people go bonkers over privacy and other items, yet this is going on behind the scenes right now:

The House made it so privileged resolutions to cancel the February tariffs were no longer privileged, but they didn't do it for all national emergencies used to impose tariffs. So House Dems could introduce this one and expect a vote in 18 days (for now).

The message is: crowd large. Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift. Events like this puncture that delusion.

At the #handsoff in Toms River. I am shocked to see this in my ruby red county

🔥 New reaction video: We unpack Business Insider’s bird flu exposé and the egg price crisis in CA’s Central Valley. Mass culling, dairy’s role, broken biosecurity—and why it’s time to rethink animal protein production. 🎥 youtu.be/yq0P8qWJVJM?... 🐓💸🐄🌿

Damn it

@revlara.bsky.social FYI

🎯 #MariannMonday truth: @marisul.bsky.social calls out how the animal agriculture industry relies on government bailouts while refusing to fix their broken business model. Another incisive observation from this week's episode 🎧 ourhenhouse.org/ep794

This hasn't gotten enough attention. Very effective questioning by Rep. @crow.house.gov in span of 3 mins 1. exposes how Hegseth endangered servicemembers' lives 2. shows that a scandal upon the scandal is the failure to take responsibility Crow is a U.S. Army veteran (Bronze Star Medal)

Meet Margaret, a survivor of the dairy industry. 🐄❤️‍🩹 👉 Tell Costa Coffee to Make Oat Milk the Default to Save Cows from Cruelty 🐮 https://drove.com/.2JpN ☕️ 🎥: uncleneilshome (IG) #dairy #survivor #animalrescue #rescuestory #animalsanctuary

The Trump administration has targeted at least eight foreign academics in America for deportation, often sending officers to snatch them off the street and shipping them halfway across the country—increasingly in apparent defiance of court orders against their rendition.

A few things to know about Trump's Trevor Milton pardon: - he was convicted of crimes related to defrauding investors - he was represented Pam Bondi's brother - he started generously donating to Republicans late last year - Trump seems to know very little about his case www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.

HIPAA violation because of Trump

Asses

🎧 NEW EPISODE: Why do people who care about animals continue to eat them? @jasminsinger.com & @marisul.bsky.social explore the fascinating psychology of animal advocacy with @kristofdhontphd.bsky.social & Jared Piazza from @phair-society.bsky.social. Check it out: ourhenhouse.org/ep793

Republicans want you to think that Finland, Denmark, and Norway's high-performing education system is the result of perceived racial hegemony, as opposed to reality, which is that progressive taxation, wealth taxes, and higher marginal rates for the rich greatly improve society.

Compared to Hungary, Turkey, Venezuela, Poland, Trump is moving MUCH faster, more aggressively, and with broader claim to power. We're not in danger of becoming those autocracies--we're very quickly surpassing them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...

Not getting fully reported

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

The thing about this that absolutely kills me is that this will only embolden Republicans to stuff *even worse* stuff in future spending bills, knowing that there are enough Dems who will vote yes on cloture no matter what.

Feels like a great afternoon to remind you that as soon as Schumer, Gillibrand, Fetterman, Schatz, Durbin, Hassan, Shaheen, Cortez-Masto, Peters, and King are done helping Republicans get this Trump-Musk coup-empowering government funding bill over the finish line, the Senate goes on recess.