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At a packed town hall Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern proposed a general strike to combat the Trump administration's assault on the federal government.

Hands Off! Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...

Saturday, April 5th.
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"They cut down trees to build psychiatric hospitals for people who went crazy because of the cutting down of trees." - Douglas Adams, if I remember correctly :)

I have Bad News: we are not the French. We are bloated, self-facing, too comfortable, uneducated, unaware, have no epistemology or bandwidth.

If we are to resist, we had better get our houses in order.

YouTube video by Star Tribune Former Vikings Chris Kluwe arrested after calling MAGA a 'Nazi movement' at city council protest

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Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets (Gift Article) Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.

Sources:

New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...

NIH: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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As a therapist, martial arts coach, person… I am always interested in the Best Version of a thing. Particularly in the ise of language.

We’re really using ‘Czar’ like it is both that, and ‘normal’?

Instead of doing my part (save trying to help organize folk for Wednesday), I am stuck downloading my social security info and such.

LA on Wednesday, 3pm. City Hall/Park Center.

50501 50 PROTESTS - 50 STATES - 1 DAY #50501 - 2/5/25 - YOUR STATE CAPITOL Can't Travel? Your Country Still Needs You! Participate Wherever You Are; Check the Community Highlights for Info!

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Heckyes. Back atcha. :)

As has been said, we paid for this data, and for these programs, with our taxes. They belong to us. The Dems need to start doing their jobs, and stop being toothless.

I am fond of suggesting that the ‘universe’ is trying to teach us physics.

Almost as immediate: we are all soon to learn a whole lot about civics.

The entire USAID website is down now.

Data from the CDC's National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) have been removed.

Opinion | A new era of government censorship has dawned Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?

A new era of government censorship has begun.
It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself
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YouTube video by PoliticsGirl What The F***?!

This sums it up very nicely. Call representatives directly. Use Resistbot. Send some of the names she drops money. Start a discussion group. Art and punk rock time.

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Interestingly, in the prepper community (that I am not a part of) and the combatives community (that I am in a weird way), a refrain is that "no one is coming". In context, this is even more heartbreaking. That said, I am REALLY with you on the connections.

It was such a great example of how we have ceased addressing the same things. Example of cruelty too. To call that sermon "nasty" and etc. wasn't just tone deaf. The pardons are equally chilling, for me, as it seems to both signal and cement how far they're willing to go.

With no acknowledgement, let alone discussion, about the cruelty which is so obvious. The self-centeredness is a little more subtle, so could almost be charitable about that but . . . the cruelty? No way that should be missed.

A client and I were talking today about how the strategies being employed by very public bad actors are almost indistinguishable from the way violators in domestic and other types of violent circumstances operate.

When I worked in (psych) hospitals, I saw them as bigger versions of family systems and how they operate. The nation is arguably much the same way. we understand problems differently, and communicate poorly. We have no epistemology. We need to talk about talking. What are your other suggestions?

The below has been reposted for all the self-facing and shortsighted people the last two days who have told me they voted for Trump because it makes every American safer.

Call log showing multiple calls from the dept of justice

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.

A good place to start . . . I strive for the Joseph Campbell suggestion to ". . . always connect.", and want to.

I am though, suspicious of our skill in doing so, as we seem to have lost (or sorely lack) the capacity for epistemology/critical thinking, and saying what we mean/meaning what we say.

Just dropping a line in support of the move. I just sid so today. Hope there is saner discourse to be had. My goal, at least.