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Thanks to @nature.com for featuring Stand Up for Science! ☀️🧬🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

For those in the UK...

Attend boycotts. Sign petitions. Call businesses and question their stances. Putting pressure comes in many forms and we can use all of them. Despair makes you give up your power before they even need to take it from you. We are not helpless!

A really clarifying question that I think should be asked of basically every politician out there is "what do you imagine power to be and why do you want it?"

BOYCOTT SWASTICARS Demonstrators gathered outside Tesla stores across the U.S. Saturday to protest against Elon Musk and his push to slash government spending on behalf of Trump. The demonstrations are part of a growing backlash in North America and Europe to Musk’s disruptive role in Washington.

"If we want leadership, we've got to count on citizens. We've got to count on ourselves. We are the leaders we have been waiting for." [email protected]

Check for your state!

We just want to remind you: You’re not alone. We’re all in this together, and we’ll get through it together. We’ve seen so many people sharing their feelings of anxiety and stress—please take a moment for yourself. Your well-being matters. Sending you hugs—you are amazing, and we love you all! 💚

The real heroes in this fight so far have been the men and women attending those Town Hall meetings!🔥

Key takeaway from DOGE: There’s less government fraud/waste than expected.

New protest coming up this Friday! Check to see if there is one near you...

Resources in the thread. 💙

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An important thread, and some great ideas in it.

The truth is, it's easy for you and I to feel like there's not much we can do, and that makes it easy to feel hopeless. But there is ALWAYS something we can do--yes, you and I, we the people who are not lawyers or politicians--and that's what this account is here to help you find.

Don’t buy today. Give the greedheads a taste of their own medicine.

Easy way to support if you're from/in NY!

You know where you can go and not worry about breaking the economic blackout today? Your local library! All those books and you won’t spend a penny!

Future planned protests coming up. Happy Blackout Day!

Some great ideas and resources for involvement in the comments!

Please join us tomorrow as we punch back at these oligarchs. No, this won’t solve the problems we are facing, but it does send a message to them. WE are the ones they depend on, not the other way around.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ordered Trump officials with knowledge of the workings of billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to testify under oath in a lawsuit challenging the faux agency’s access to sensitive governmental databases. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"'When we saw that the police wasn’t helping us, every able-bodied man in the neighborhood, with or without a gun, has stood guard and has been standing guard ever since,' said Dominic Brewton Jr., who runs a maintenance and repair company in the town..." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity...

Part of growing a successful general strike is making it #accessible. We are listening: What can we do to make our coalition more easily accessed by interested newcomers? If you have any need for hearing, viewing, or seeing tools/additions… what would they be?

Get the word out on these special elections We win these three and we take the house No more trifecta No more BS from Trump We need people in these districts to step up and fight for it Contact your friends and neighbors and raise hell gayforcongress.com joshweil.us blakegendebienforcongress.com

For those in the CA area...

Don't forget to go dark tomorrow. Hit them in the only place they care about--their wallets. 🚫 💵 #resist #unitedwestand

If your representative is dodging in-person town halls, call them out! Tag them and demand they face their constituents.

This is a librarian appreciation post. If you’re a librarian I just want you to know that what you do is important and that you’re loved and appreciated.