@LilithRises

If you can't march, you can still call to say No Kings.

We got you 👉 5calls.org/issue/trump-...

Think about what the GOP is revealing with their attempt to suddenly change the Congressional maps: they know their agenda is so unpopular that they're going to lose unless something changes.

Of course, what they should be changing is their policies, not the maps.

just want to share this Lincoln line from his "electric cords" speech.

"So I say in relation to the principle that all men are created equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can. If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature."

Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.

Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.

Do not.

Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets?

I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.

By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference.

But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.

Clearly we are fucked 😏

YouTube video by Back to the Science Why ANTIVAXXERS are wrong about placebo vaccine trials

It looks like RFK Jr has resurrected the vaccines haven’t been tested against saline placebos malarky. Cindy and I explain why he is just demonstrating his ignorance of the correct way to evaluate medical products and monitor safety.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6IX...

Look, I’m just saying, if you have a billionaire saying the same shit as me;

hold up

If you have a CHICAGO BEARS FAN AGREEING WITH THE FORMER VIKINGS PUNTER, it’s time to put your boots on and hit the streets.

Yes, watch for @lisascottoline.bsky.social new book with this theme publishing in Summer... The Unraveling of Julia.

@ABC Patty Morin, whose daughter Rachel was murdered by a migrant without legal status in 2023, criticized her senator, Chris Van Hollen, for flying to El Salvador to advocate for Kilmar Abrego Garcia in an unrelated immigration case. https://abcnews.link/vxXfL69

An innocent man who committed no crime but is the same race as the person who murdered your daughter should have to spend the rest of his life in a concentration camp is the argument?

Fun Tariff Facts: during the depression the US lost access to many imported paper products. They were replaced with an unusually tough paper stock made of hemp from the Philippines (then a US colony, and tariff exempt).

Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders /
envelopes.

We have a call script for that 👍
5calls.org/issue/consum...

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

—Louis Brandeis

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

House sparrows go completely silent and disappear from my yard whenever a hawk flies over. They don’t help the hawk.

I wish US voters were as smart as birds.

The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024.

This isn't due to luck or skill.

Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you.

Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.

According to the NY Times (and its UN vote), America’s new friends under Trump (instead of under God) are Russia and North Korea.

👇👇👇

Celebrate Black History Month: By honoring a legacy of resilience with mindfulness, respect and action

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Celebrate Black History Month: By honoring a legacy of resilience with mindfulness, respect and action

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Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’ ‘The Atlantic’ published this landmark document of the civil-rights movement in the August 1963 issue

Someone previously posted this article but I lost that reference. Apologies...
This letter from Martin Luther King, Jr was so compelling I wanted to repost it. It is worth the read...
If we want to see freedom and justice in this next 4 yrs...pay attention.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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The facts about a planet facing climate disaster are clear. Why won’t this Labour government face them? | Jeremy Corbyn Labour seems gripped by a form of denialism. The danger is real and incremental change won’t avert it, says Jeremy Corbyn, independent MP for Islington North

The facts about a planet facing climate disaster are clear

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Smoke inhalation — even for seconds - can impair consciousness.

To anyone in the immediate vicinity of this unprecedented fire in the nations most populous county, urgently heed the evacuation orders NOW.

Smoke is as dangerous as the flames behind them.