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Love making phone calls when driving. Drive to work: call my congresspeople. Call them again if you get voicemail because the time isn't long enough to say everything. Drive home: call my mother. If she doesn't pick up, call my congresspeople. If she does pick up, call them later. Repeat.

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Media, get this right. If there's a government shutdown, it will be because the Republicans were unable to craft a bill that could pass, and they refused to pass a bill with any input from Democrats.

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This is rare. We legitimately don't know if Senate Dems will stop the GOP bill or not. Normally we know ahead of time if they'll cave or fight. This is in flux. Pressure matters now. If you have a Dem senator, get all your friends in state to call today/tomorrow: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 4 days ago • 40 comments

There is a real, genuine 1st Amendment crisis in the United States right now. The government is openly retaliating against anyone with a viewpoint it doesn't like: Pro-Palestinian protesters, law schools teaching Black History, pro-immigration public service loan forgiveness seekers.

submitted 6 days ago • 80 comments

Bernie Sanders is holding MASSIVE rallies in packed venues, bigger crowds than Trump was getting, and legacy media is practically silent. Bernie is talking to workers rather than hanging out with socialites with mediocre plastic surgery at Mar-a-Lago, and it's just not interesting to corporate media

submitted 7 days ago • 247 comments

Farmers are going to run to Congress for another handout to deal with the retaliatory tariffs and the answer from Dems has to be "no." This isn't out of retribution, it's because we can't keep creating escape hatches for GOP members of Congress. For the benefit of all, keep the pressure on them.

submitted 12 days ago • 1021 comments

📢 @CITIZEN is up to 300 followers!

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Not to be like maybe read a great little book and pretend it'll make you feel better for half a second but maybe read a great little book and pretend it'll make you feel better for half a second? Obsessed with Piranesi and its evocative imagery and gorgeous premise lately

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Want to exercise your first amendment right to petition the government? Try using @resist.bot to sign petitions or write a letter of your own. While you're there, consider following me by texting "follow citizen" to 50409

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

📢 @CITIZEN is up to 75 followers!

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📢 @CITIZEN is up to 50 followers!

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📢 @CITIZEN is up to 10 followers!

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There is really only one thing standing between your community and outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, and that thing is childhood vaccine requirements for school entry. The Texas outbreak clearly shows what happens when exemptions to vaccine requirements are handed out like candy.

submitted 29 days ago • 28 comments

"No, they won't do that, because it would be wrong." - My mom, every time I tell her what the GOP politicians she votes for are planning to do.

submitted 30 days ago • 16 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 31 days ago • 525 comments

What kind of research do they consider "wasteful DEI"? Reading through the project descriptions (column N) and it's project grants studying: -fentanyl overdose prevention -earthquake disaster preparedness -renewable energy -kidney disease (and other healthcare topics) -disability aid product design

submitted 31 days ago • 12 comments

I was led to believe that the two most important issues to American voters were the price of eggs and the risk of dementia in an aging president.

submitted 31 days ago • 92 comments

Pressed to provide evidence of fraud that Musk has discovered, Leavitt waves around "screenshots of contracts" that go "against the president's policies" (going against Trump's policies is not fraud)

submitted 32 days ago • 856 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 32 days ago • 308 comments

insane stat www.ft.com/content/e61e...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

CFPB - closed USAID - closed Medicaid - under attack NIH cancer funding - frozen Department of Education - under attack But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today? SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk

submitted 32 days ago • 383 comments

Fiery statement from Rep Gerry Connolly (D-VA): “Trump, Musk, and their Project 2025 cronies want you to feel defeated, powerless, and confused so they can use the chaos they’ve created to distort our democracy to do their bidding. But together, we will hold the line.”

submitted 32 days ago • 36 comments

Gutting USAID cuts 10,000 American jobs. It means American farmers, who sold some of their harvest to USAID to feed malnourished kids, are doing less business. It limits our ability to fight terrorism. This isn't about efficiency. It's about creating chaos.

submitted 37 days ago • 56 comments

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 38 days ago • 1016 comments

Same person saying DEI now wrecking us.. a few years ago was very pro DEI. Strange. #brainworms www.enr.com/articles/529...

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

World Wildlife Fund Now Just Trying To Get Few Nice Photos Of Every Species For Posterity theonion.com/world-w...

submitted 39 days ago • 26 comments

Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce that tapir Yuna gave birth to a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Sunday night. The newborn, covered in distinctive white spots and stripes resembling a fuzzy walking watermelon, is only the second tapir born in our 120-year history.

submitted 40 days ago • 276 comments

In recognition that whimsy is it’s own kind of weapon against darkness, and that we need good art and science now more than ever, let me reissue this reminder 🐙🪼 The world is bigger than this moment, and it is still full of magic.

submitted 41 days ago • 11 comments

Even the governors that suck are doing better than Congresspeople

submitted 43 days ago • 58 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 44 days ago • 3613 comments

If you’re a straight, cis person who has ever posted some version of a rainbow with “you’re safe with me” or similar, it’s time to back up the words with action— contact your reps and ask them what they’re going to do to protect trans people from this administration, particularly trans kids.

submitted 46 days ago • 50 comments

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.

submitted 46 days ago • 1028 comments

Post-tonsillectomy I've been writing on a whiteboard a lot instead of talking, and my fiancé reaches for the board every time before realizing he can just respond out loud, which is cute but also an interesting subconscious mirroring

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One of the little tricks played by some sort of creature, potentially fae, that I must endure is getting my custom sea kelp yuzu peppercorn candle and being told not to burn it for a week