What you need to share about the "one big beautiful" ugly horrible bill (Resending so you can share over email without my inadvertent notes after the "share" button)

What you need to share about the "one big beautiful" ugly horrible bill
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May Day Action Debrief · May Day Strong Join our National Action Debrief as we head out of May Day! Trump and his billionaire profiteers are trying to create a race to the bottom—on wages, on benefits, on dignity itself. We are **demanding...

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YouTube video by Union of Concerned Scientists You Need Science. Now Science Needs You.

youtu.be/UPluPuWO4jI

Read their story at 18f.org. You'll be glad you did.

Chuck Grassley called out at a town hall: " Stop the use of the word ‘entitlement’ because it's insulting to all of us." 🔥🔥🔥

Fact:
Social Security isn’t the government’s money. Seniors earned their Social Security by paying into it over a lifetime of hard work.

#HandsOffMySocialSecurity

This, in a nutshell, is why the Justice Department remains independent from the White House when it comes to directing criminal prosecution. A country that fails to take to heart the lessons of Watergate ends up with Trump.

See the problem here?

"All we say to America is, 'Be true to what you said on paper.'"

These words — spoken by MLK Jr. shortly before he was killed on this day in 1968 — ring just as true now.

Let's honor his legacy by continuing the fight for social and economic justice.

100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion in the 2024 election.

70% of these donations went to Republicans.

Now, Republicans in Congress are gearing up to slash essential programs to pay for another round of tax cuts for the rich.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

Social Security taxes are rigged for the rich — and the program is in danger because of it. A CEO earning $20M/yr pays Social Security taxes on ~1% of their income. Meanwhile, a normal worker pays Social Security taxes on 100% of their income. How does that make any sense? How the Super Rich Are Killing Social Security | Robert Reich

Millionaires are officially done paying into Social Security for the rest of 2025 as of today. 

If we want to ensure Social Security’s long term future, we must scrap the cap and make the wealthy pay their fair share.

Associates at prominent law firms urge their employers to withstand pressure from Trump President Trump rescinded an executive order targeting a prominent law firm after it agreed to drop DEI policies and provide $40 million in pro bono work for Trump-aligned causes. It’s the latest in a...

Big law firms need to stand up to Trump!
21 Mar 2024 interview with Rachel Cohen on PBS:
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Tell Trump to Keep His Hands Off The Post Office The U.S. Postal Service is again under attack by Donald Trump and the world's biggest business con, Elon Musk. Trump’s plans to overhaul the post office and privatize it would be disastrous for people...

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Tell Trump to Keep His Hands Off The Post Office The U.S. Postal Service is again under attack by Donald Trump and the world's biggest business con, Elon Musk. Trump’s plans to overhaul the post office and privatize it would be disastrous for people...

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Musk and Vought’s funding cuts are based on historical fiction A comprehensive rebuttal to the myth that presidents have sweeping historical powers to impound funds

One question is key to almost all the political storm - "Impoundment" or better put as 'who controls the money' - see www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/musk-and-v...

Are we on the road to repression? Or ruin? Time to start taking seriously the other possibility for where Trumpism leads

Are we on the road to repression? Or ruin?
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1/ Federal Judge in Rhode Island says no to Trump imposing spending freezes, affirming Congress still has the power of the purse (whether it’s doing anything about executive overreach or not) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

America’s wealth gap is now more extreme than it’s been in over a century. Until this structural problem is remedied, the American economy will remain perilously fragile.

A Little Personal News I wanted y’all to be the first people to know—late last year, I was contacted by an editor at Penguin Random House.

A Little Personal News
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Defend the science and scientists that keep the public safe! Please join science supporters, scientists, and experts in signing an open letter asking Congress to stand up against attempts to politicize or eliminate scientific roles, agencies, and federal resear...

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Block Donald Trump’s Attempts to Abolish the Department of Education Public education in this country is under attack. And Trump has already made clear his intentions to undermine public education even further at every turn—including the extreme proposal to completely ...

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

Don't cut NPR and PBS funding! Millions of Americans rely on public media  for their news and educational programming. In many rural areas in our country, public broadcasting is their main avenue for receiving news, emergency ...

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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Check out Robert Hubbell's first video here! snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

Agile is not dead, quite the opposite | Heart of Agile Three billion people form the global labor pool; 227 million in Europe, 130 million full-time employees in the US, 48% of the US workers are in knowledge work; there are 4.6 million IT workers in the ...

"Only one of two things will happen to your brilliant idea: It will be misrepresented and misused or it will be ignored – and you don’t get to choose which." Alistair Cockburn in heartofagile.com/agile-is-not...
This applies to everything.

Trump has canceled Biden's ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of 'drain the swamp' Donald Trump took office eight years ago pledging to “drain the swamp” of the dominance of Washington influence peddlers.

While you weren't looking, Trump rolled back Biden's ethics rules prohibiting executive branch employees from accepting major gifts from lobbyists.

So much for "drain the swamp."

Musk’s cost-cutting team is laying off workers at the auto safety agency overseeing his car company Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is the latest federal agency to be hit with DOGE layoffs.

That's the same agency that has investigated crashes involving Tesla's self-driving cars.

This was never about "efficiency."

NO CUTS to Medicaid! Cutting Medicaid—a state and federal partnership that funds health care for more than 80 million Americans, including older adults, children, pregnant people, and disabled people—would run counter to ...

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