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Reject Jeanine Pirro — Free DC

Anyone with some time, please write and even better, call. Congressional switchboard is 202-224-3121

📬Postcards for Resistance ✨

We need YOUR help! Let’s flood federal agencies with messages of encouragement and support reminding federal workers they have the power, the duty, and the community backing to resist illegal, unethical, or dangerous actions under this administration.

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This is really important and tired to the message!

I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

Significant disruption inside Senate Appropriations Committee hearing just as OMB Director Russ Vought was about to begin his testimony.

If Donald Trump truly wants the District to be ‘safe’ and ‘beautiful,’ the best thing the administration and members of Congress can do is restore critically needed federal funding that gives vulnerable people in D.C. a chance to live healthy lives with their basic needs met. -Monica Hopkins, Executive Director, ACLU-D.C.

There is never a good time to spend $100 million on a military parade to soothe Donald Trump’s ego. But right now is the absolute worst time.

YouTube video by vlogbrothers 90,000,000 Lives for $20

The House is voting on the rescissions package THIS THURSDAY.

Congress is considering devastating cuts to global health funding, including to PEPFAR and ‪@unicef.org

More from @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJW2...

Check the thread on how you can take action today 👇

🚨 House votes 3 PM TODAY on rescission package:
$9.4B in cuts & $900M slashed from PEPFAR & global health. Green light for rescission further strips power of purse from Congress. Call NOW: 5calls.org/issue/usaid-... Say: “Vote NO on the Rescission Package. Stop the deadly PEPFAR cuts." #SavePEPFAR

House Speaker Mike Johnson calls for the Senate to "censure" Alex Padilla after he was restrained and handcuffed by FBI agents at Kristi Noem's presser, adding that it is "wildly inappropriate behavior."

So it looks like Republicans want to escalate this!

Another video of Senator Padilla’s violent arrest at DHS Sec Noem’s press conference in LA. You can see him thrown to the ground by FBI agents and handcuffed.

(video shared by Padilla’s staff with Elex Michaelson of Fox LA and posted on X)

Hey @5calls.org: Please update your app to include this script to vote “no” on rescissions, especially for #foreignaid!

Does Priming Democratic Vulnerability Make Citizens Punish Undemocratic Behavior? - Political Behavior Recent instances of public support for democracy-violating political leaders have sparked an important stream of research suggesting that such leaders may gain support by representing citizens’ politi...

This paper is interesting and important for thinking about how people think about democracy but also kind of depressing link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#VoldeVought is the dark puppet master out to destroy the federal workforce!👿
#RussellVought
#VoughtOMB
#VoughtProject2025
#Project2025

A Project 2025 author carries out his vision for mass federal layoffs The Trump administration’s demand that federal agencies plan to radically downsize is driven by a key figure in the conservative movement who has long planned this move.

1/ 🚨 Friends...IT'S CONTEST TIME!!
Trauma queen Russ Vought is quietly gutting the federal government.
Let’s make sure his name is *loudly* — and *unfondly* — remembered.
Contest: redefine “Vought”: noun, verb, adjective — whatever hits. Eternal bragging rights await. 👇
#NaughtyVoughty #RussVoughted

a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed and a bruise on his forehead Alt: a close up of Tom Hiddleston as Loki, the god of chaos, chuckling

It's #FederalFuckeryFriday and today we want to know, what are your favorite small acts of resistance? We're talking tiny rebellions—paper cuts to the system. Calling all feds, private sector workers and resistors in communities nationwide—how do you fight back? Asking for a friend. #HowToResist

Activists pile 200 coffins outside State Department to protest cuts to global AIDS relief Cuts to PEPFAR, the country’s emergency plan for HIV and AIDS relief, have resulted in an estimated 40,000 deaths overseas, analysis shows.

It took Peter Staley two weeks to build 200 full-sized coffins.

The longtime AIDS activist, with a group of volunteers, fashioned them out of styrofoam, tape and velcro. On Thursday, the volunteers stacked coffins 10 layers deep outside the State Department to protest cuts to global AIDS relief.

YouTube video by Peace Research Institute Oslo PRIO Annual Peace Address 2024: The Electoral Year – Can Civil Society Save Global Democracy?

Erica Chenoweth has address the adaptations that authoritarian regimes have made in the last 10-15 years and has suggestions for how movements can update their own playbook to try to succeed against those adaptations youtu.be/XwyUT-PHLPI?...

The cover page for a discussion paper called "Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule" by Erica Chenoweth. In the image, peaceful protesters can be seen in front of the US Capitol building.

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

Trump won’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News ‘there are methods’ for doing so President Donald Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call that he was “not joking” about a third term, adding that “it is far too early to think about it.”

It should be obvious to all that Trump isn’t joking about the possibility of a third term - 22nd Amendment be damned.

January 6th showed he doesn’t respect constitutional bounds. His current administration is testing constitutional limits across the board.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

And that’s on that 😌

Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

YouTube video by Democracy Docket The Unitary Executive Theory and Trump, Explained

A fringe right wing legal theory is sweeping through the Trump administration and it threatens the very foundation of American democracy.

Paige and I explain.
youtu.be/61DXpmLnI2E

More of this. The fuck are you doing promoting a book when the country is falling apart?

NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand

Perhaps Nikki wants to consult a mirror?

Setmayer: No, you got your chance and I'm going to have mine right now about this for the for the law enforcement officers who lost their careers, who almost lost their lives, who protected those ungrateful bastards…

The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.