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“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his “Letter from Birmingham, Alabama jail” in April 1963
If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.
Kent Country is red, but the City of Grand Rapids tends to vote blue. The mayor of GR has reliably been a Democrat for years now.
Glad you made it through safely!
Has anyone gotten so bad with browser tabs that they regularly close like 60 of them without even checking what they are?
America is learning the hard way that the “deep state” was actually the “deep security blanket” - nameless agencies and workers keeping us safe.
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
This week's @nature.com editorial
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Fascism is out of its cage and tore off its muzzle. This violates all sorts of laws but, even more importantly, it violates the basic unifying goals of our society:
This is such a great call to make and I really hope more media outlets follow suit 👏👏👏👏
There are lessons from history. There are lessons from authoritarian takeovers elsewhere. The strategy isn’t that complex -maybe even obvious. But it requires mobilization. It requires shifting institutional mindset from “someone should…” hoping & hunkering down, to networked activism & speaking up.
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.
Becoming more Orwellian by the day
Here's why they don't care what gets damaged or destroyed...
Letter: The SAVE Act wouldn’t meaningfully change election security, but it would harm married women
Pay attention to this: Musk is trying to make our air traffic control system "dependent” on him by integrating his equipment, which has not gone through security and risk-management review.
It's corruption. And it's dangerous.
Fire Elon Musk.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The acting head of the government’s human resources arm, Charles Ezell, is refusing to testify in tomorrow’s case that challenges the legality of the recent mass firings of federal workers. His absence raises serious questions—what is there to hide?
“Just because the corruption plays out in public doesn’t mean it’s not corruption”
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Call your Senators and tell them to vote against this. Not only is this an erosion of Congressional power, it's also just manipulative nonsense.
When is a day not a day? When Republicans says so.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...
"If you're still looking for that One Big Message to share with friends and family about the man who would be king, here it is:
Donald Trump is stealing from you."
Trump, Musk, and Republicans in Congress understand that cutting health care for millions of people is unpopular.
So they’re probably hoping you won’t pay attention to this.
But if we ring the alarm bells, we have a chance to stop them.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/03/o...
The Republican Party’s agenda fits on a bumper sticker: Billionaires win. Families lose.
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
Might as well be 47 years. Every month sure feels like a year.
Republicans would rather let DOGE mess with your hard-earned Social Security checks than grow a spine and stand up to Elon.
The Pentagon flagged a photo of the Enola Gay in its DEI purge…
apnews.com/article/dei-...
