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Something that seems to have gotten lost is that just days before the attack on Iran, Netanyahu's government was in danger of collapsing.

The war isn't about Iran's nuclear program, it's about saving his job and avoiding trial for corruption.

#Stopthewar

Opinion | The One Question That Really Matters: If Trump Defies the Courts, Then What? Judges are constrained in their ability to make the president obey their orders.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...

Are Target Boycotts Starting To Take Their Toll? Target reported 4Q24 sales declined 3% and warned that February sales were "soft." In February the first of several calls to boycott Target began after dialing back DEI.

Target reported fourth quarter net sales declined 3% and warned that February topline performance was “soft,” after civil rights leaders called for a Target boycott in Black History Month for changing its position on DEI.

Layoffs Surged In February To Highest Level Since 2020—Led By DOGE Firings It’s the worst start to the year for job cuts since 2009, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Employers revealed more job cuts in February than they had in any month since July 2020, according to a report released Thursday, with much of the reduction concentrated in efforts led by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Another of Musk's SpaceX Starships "experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly" and crashed. What a perfect metaphor for the federal government.
#DefundMusk

Are we witnessing the last desperate gasps of oligarchy and tyranny, or the death knell of democracy?

The answer is up to us.

Going to a Tesla protest? Feel free to use our artwork. Just keep the QR codes so we can grow our cause.

Video snippet courtesy of Belfast legend David Holmes on Instagram...

Typical response of a CBP agent to the "What did you do last week?" email:
1. Went to assigned location. Sat in truck.
2. Went to assigned location. Sat in truck.
3. Went to assigned location. Sat in truck.
4. Went to assigned location. Sat in truck.
5. Went to assigned location. Sat in truck.

Literally attempting to erase history. This is what fascists do.

Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance The Trump administration canceled $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, which partners with scientists and education companies to compile and make public data…

“An unelected billionaire is now bulldozing the research arm of the Department of Education,” Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said. “Cutting off these investments after the contract has already been inked is the definition of wasteful.”

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Launched the website today! WeRiseUnited.org please share as we stand united against the oligarchs.

Disturbed by the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico? Keep calling it the Gulf of Mexico. The dolphins and turtles and fish and other sea life don't care. What they care about is the expansion of oil drilling and damage to their ecosystem being unleashed.

Don't get distracted.

#fightback

Fighting for justice doesn’t have to be a big dramatic act. It can be small | Rebecca Solnit But it’s important to not limit our sense of what resistance looks like

As Rebecca Solnit writes, autocrats are autocratic because they are weak. Don't forget that.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Quick question: Should we refer to it as the Trusk Administration, or the Mump Administration?

A question to ask any federal employee, esp. ICE or Border Patrol: "If POTUS gives you an order and a court rules it unconstitutional, and the President says to ignore the ruling, what do you do?" If they say, "Obey POTUS," remind them that they swear an oath to the Constitution, not the President.

Past wrongs don't right themselves. It takes intentional effort -- affirmative action.

Opinion | This Isn’t the Donald Trump America Elected (Gift Article) He is making us a corrupted, brittle superpower.

"When the richest man in the world can so easily undermine our place on the global stage, it is, quite simply, a harbinger of decline: a sign of a corrupted superpower so brittle that its sources of influence can be taken apart from within."

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...

The Trump administration's move to cap indirect cost allocations for grants to universities should be no surprise. Intellectuals are one of the first targets of any tyrant. Also, I'm sure the goal is to undermine higher education and to privatize research, especially biomedical research.

We may be slightly comforted by the fact that, thus far, Trump seems more interested in rewarding people who were loyal to him than actual governing. And we know that there is an inverse relationship between loyalty to Trump and competence.