Jesse Merz (he/she) Oregon, (before: NYC, Detroit, CAx2, WA)

Trump pardoned George Santos and said it was because he was a “loyal Republican.”

This is a message to every Republican in the party that if they cross Trump they cannot depend on his having their back or pardoning them.

It’s his way of solidifying absolute control over the Party.

"Concert flyer featuring a smiling person with curly red hair wearing a pink top and visible tattoos. The flyer advertises 'Carsie Blanton with guest Peter Wilde - Benefit concert for CLDC's Activist Defense Fund' on October 12th at 6PM with sliding scale tickets $15-50 ($10 with student ID). A speech bubble contains the quote 'It's not my revolution if I can't dance to it.' The venue is WOW Hall in Eugene, Oregon. The flyer includes logos for Civil Liberties Defense Center (cldc.org) and a QR code in the upper left corner."

🎟️TIX SELLING FAST!!

💃Join CLDC for a night of revelry and camaraderie with a perfect pairing, folksinger/activist Carsie Blanton! Dance, laugh, remember the better world we work to create!

➡️ Sunday October 12th @ 6pm
WOW Hall, Eugene
$15 – $50 sliding scale tickets
cldc.org/event/carsie...

Trump's parade could have been an email

One Minnesota.

Our military deserves better than this empty charade. Yikes. The tank squeaking over silence is incredible.

Every student in Oregon deserves to learn in an environment free from bullying, harassment, and discrimination – regardless of their race, national origin, or immigration status.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been sitting in a Salvadoran prison for over a month because the Trump Admin made a mistake.

Now, the Admin is defying SCOTUS & refusing to bring him back.

If we allow Trump to violate Kilmar's rights, none of our rights are safe.

Kilmar is all of us.

Every Democrat in Congress could stand as one outside the White House right now demanding 1. GOP in Congress impeach + convict 2. Tr*mp returns Abrego Garcia + all the men sent to CECOT. Get your shit together and get rowdy and creative and make a giant spectacle of this.

April 14, 2025 VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL Josh Gruenbaum Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service General Services Administration Sean R. Keveney Acting General Counsel U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Thomas E. Wheeler Acting General Counsel U.S. Department of Education Dear Messrs. Gruenbaum, Keveney, and Wheeler: We represent Harvard University. We are writing in response to your letter dated April 11, 2025, addressed to Dr. Alan Garber, Harvard’s President, and Penny Pritzker, Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation. Harvard is committed to fighting antisemitism and other forms of bigotry in its community. Antisemitism and discrimination of any kind not only are abhorrent and antithetical to Harvard’s values but also threaten its academic mission. To that end, Harvard has made, and will continue to make, lasting and robust structural, policy, and programmatic changes to ensure that the university is a welcoming and supportive learning environment for all students and continues to abide in all respects with federal law across its academic programs and operations, while fostering open inquiry in a pluralistic community free from intimidation and open to challenging orthodoxies, whatever their source. Over the past 15 months, Harvard has undertaken substantial policy and programmatic measures. It has made changes to its campus use policies; adopted new accountability procedures; imposed meaningful discipline for those who violate university policies; enhanced programs designed to address bias and promote ideological diversity and civil discourse; hired staff to support these programs and support students; changed partnerships; dedicated resources to combat hate and bias; and enhanced safety and security measures. As a result, Harvard is in a very different place today from where it was a year ago. These efforts, and additional measures the university will be taking against antisemitism, not only are the right thing to do but also are critical to strength…

recognized by the Supreme Court. The government’s terms also circumvent Harvard’s statutory rights by requiring unsupported and disruptive remedies for alleged harms that the government has not proven through mandatory processes established by Congress and required by law. No less objectionable is the condition, first made explicit in the letter of March 31, 2025, that Harvard accede to these terms or risk the loss of billions of dollars in federal funding critical to vital research and innovation that has saved and improved lives and allowed Harvard to play a central role in making our country’s scientific, medical, and other research communities the standard-bearers for the world. These demands extend not only to Harvard but to separately incorporated and independently operated medical and research hospitals engaging in life-saving work on behalf of their patients. The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government’s terms as an agreement in principle. Harvard remains open to dialogue about what the university has done, and is planning to do, to improve the experience of every member of its community. But Harvard is not prepared to agree to demands that go beyond the lawful authority of this or any administration. William A. Burck Robert K. Hur Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP 1300 I Street NW Suite 900 Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005 King & Spalding LLP 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20006

BREAKING: On Friday, the federal government issued new demands of Harvard University. The university's lawyers just responded: back off.

El Salvador President Bukele says he won't be releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the US President Donald Trump’s top advisers and Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, say that they had no basis for the small Central American nation to return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported...

Bukele says he doesn't have the authority to return Abrego Garcia. Tr*mp says he doesn't have the authority to retrieve him. Our tax $$ are paying to keep an innocent man in a torture prison.They plan to disappear American citizens there next. This is America's Auschwitz. This is a red alert.

RAND PAUL: “.. When McKinley most famously put tariffs on in 1890, [the GOP] lost 50 percent of their seats in the next election. When [Smoot and Hawley] put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years.”

@washingtonpost.com
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A graphic that reads: You belong. You are seen. You are loved. You are enough.

To our trans & nonbinary siblings:

You belong.
You are seen.
You are loved.
You are enough.

We celebrate you and the space you dare to take up and create, on #TransDayOfVisibility and every day.

The American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers are suing the Trump admin on behalf of their members for "unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding" to "force Columbia University to surrender its academic independence."

Just your basic American Government lesson!🤔
Maybe certain individuals need to take an American Government class all over again!😉
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Well, this seems: new

finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

You are so beautiful ✌️🧡

Peace and Love, one and alllllll! We can do this. ✌️🧡💛💜💚

Far-right conspiracy theorist Dinesh D'Souza has formally apologized for his highly misleading film that claimed to show (and did not show) election fraud in the 2020 race.

He makes clear the information at the heart of his film was "inaccurate."
www.ajc.com/politics/pol...

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

I’m also here.