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Heartwarming video of people dressed up as superheroes bringing joy 🥹🥰

#superheroes #happiness #love #SpreadKindness #SpreadLove

This is oligarchy. This is obscene.

While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.

End this oligarchy.

ALA statement on White House assault on the Institute of Museum and Library Services An executive order issued by the Trump administration on Friday night, March 14, calls for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the nation’s only federal agency for America...

Assault on the Institute of Museum and Library Studies. Please read and re share the American Library Association's response.

www.ala.org/news/2025/03...

Any time it rains you should be able to leave work early to go to the bookstore

One of these things is not like the others

Incredible that a nation of 360 million had a Dept of Education with 4,100 staff. As of today it’s half that.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

"Where Law Ends Tyranny Begins"

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"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

a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen . ALT: a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .

OK, time to bust another @USAID myth.

Stephen Miller said on Fox today that USAID is a rogue slush fund. Trump & Elon have made the same accusation.

FALSE. They're either ignorant of how USAID spends money, or willfully lying about it. Or...

Anyway, caffeinate and read on.

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February 2, 2025 Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually a...

February 2, 2025

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I was so excited to learn about this! I've been dreading Inauguration Day, but I know Heather Cox Richardson will help me feel better. Let's not be sad this weekend, let's take this opportunity to get together with like-minded people. Join me! social.redwine.blue/s/213M9KQT

My first post. It had to be this sweet kitten we borrowed for the day to save us from the debacle of a certain Tuesday.