Trump’s Tariffs Are Already Straining This Oklahoma Used Car Business (Gift Article) Antonio Austin is trying to hold his car business together as President Trump’s tariffs drive up costs — and drive his customers deeper into crisis.

If you, like ME, are a person of privilege, (or maybe think that your not) read this article... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/u...

Trump May Be Triggering the Fastest Nuclear Weapons Race Since the Cold War The threat of U.S. withdrawal has prompted countries around the world — from Germany to South Korea — to talk about building their own nuclear arsenals.

Trump may be triggering the fastest nuclear weapons race since the Cold War.

The threat of U.S. withdrawal has prompted countries around the world to talk about building their own nuclear arsenals.

Jewish Groups and Synagogues Defend Students Detained by ICE (Gift Article) More than two dozen are joining a legal effort to free a Tufts University student the Trump administration is trying to deport because of her pro-Palestinian views.

“When you see the floor fall out from under her, it’s naïve to think that those cracks won’t eventually reach our feet,”
-- Ryan Bauer, senior rabbi at Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

What Would a General Strike in the US Actually Look Like? Something is in the air: A perception that American democracy and livable conditions for working people may only be saved by the kind of large-scale

GENERAL STRIKE!

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Many lawyers who argue for Trump at Supreme Court are heading for the exit At least half of the front-line attorneys in the solicitor general’s office plan to leave as Trump’s emergency requests pile up at the high court, people familiar with the situation said.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Massive Protests Against Trump Are Just the Beginning Following the “Hands Off” protests against Donald Trump and Elon Musk, Indivisible’s co-founder talks about building a pro-democracy movement.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

FEMA chief given lie detector test after leak of private meeting The Department of Homeland Security tested acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton shortly after he met with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

The price of working for Trump. Thought Police in Control

#Notmypresident

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Promotional graphic featuring silhouettes of two politicians with the text 'HANDS OFF!' in large letters, announcing a mass mobilization event on Saturday, April 5. Includes the website 'handsoff2025.com'.

Join us on April 5 to demand Trump, Musk, and congressional Republicans get their hands off public lands, endangered species, and the federal agencies and funds that help support all these things and more.

Find an event near you: bit.ly/3Ed16FH

Leaked Memo Reveals Insane Ban on Words Agriculture Department Can Say The Department of Agriculture is no longer allowed to use the phrase “safe drinking water.”

Trump bans the U.S. Department of Agriculture from using the words "safe drinking water" "water pollution" "microplastics" and "affordable housing".

'Cause that'll make the problems go way.
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The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

www.propublica.org/article/meas...

Opinion | For God’s Sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to Trump The time has come to defend the oath we took when we became officers of the court.

"Our firm stands with Perkins Coie and all firms and lawyers who fight against this president’s lawless executive actions. That’s why we’ve called on other firms to join us in submitting a friend of the court brief in support of Perkins Coie."
#ResistTrump

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...

How to beat back Trump’s divide & conquer strategy We must address the collective action problem

‪tmsteiner.bsky.social‬ ‪@tmsteiner.bsky.social‬

"COURAGE IS CONTAGIOUS. SPREAD IT" SOLIDARITY!
Universities, Law Firms, Unions & Workers Must Organize Collective Responses!

"Finally, the American people can make a difference..."
#ACTUP #FIGHTBACK. #RESIST
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Trump signs order ending union bargaining rights for wide swaths of federal employees President Trump's new executive order ends collective bargaining for wide swaths of federal employees, as part of his broader campaign to reshape the government's workforce. Unions are vowing to sue.

GENERAL STRIKE ANYONE?

www.npr.org/2025/03/28/n...

#antitrump #DumpTrump #NotMyPresident

or both!

DoJ lawyers say detained Tufts student was sent to Louisiana before court order Federal judge in Boston issues order giving government until Friday to answer why student has been detained

Trump's Masked Gestapo At Work.
Will you or me be next?

#TrumpIsNotFitToBePresident

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Kid-dad, where is Yemen? Dad-Why? Kid- my group chat says we strike at midnight

The mercenaries who took on Northern California's hippies resurface Lear Asset Management's tactics in logging and cannabis enforcement, from Idaho to California, raise concerns about private security's power.

Any possibility Lear Asset Management & CEO Paul Trouette were involved in the bombing of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney?

www.sfgate.com/northcoast/a...

Fighting Oligarchy with Bernie, AOC, and Greg Casar YouTube video by Bernie Sanders

🚨 HAPPENING NOW - WATCH LIVE - BERNIE & AOC 🚨

💙Bernie & AOC #FightOligarchy Tour in Tucson, AZ 💙

💙 Thank you @aoc.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov 💙

www.youtube.com/live/zeLI1YI...

Solid blue background with white typeface. A dim American flag in the background. Type reads Courage is contagious remove reverse, reclaim. April 5, 2020 5:12 PM seventh and Marine Astoria, Oregon.

Astoria, Oregon, April 5

Israelis Take to Streets Day After Strikes on Gaza (Gift Article) Israeli protests are converging over national security and domestic politics amid concerns about the government’s renewed push to reduce the power of state watchdogs.

Mr Lapid, a centrist leader of Israel’s parliament called on people to protest “This government does not stop at red..The only solution is unity..of an entire nation coming together and saying: Enough! ...This is our moment, our future, our country. Take to the streets!” tinyurl.com/52v8y4cs

Defiance and Threats in Deportation Case Renew Fear of Constitutional Crisis (Gift Article) Legal scholars say that the nation has reached a tipping point and that the right question is not whether there is a crisis, but rather how much damage it will cause.

"CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS' DOESN'T CAPTURE THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION" said Jamal Greene, a law professor at Columbia, “the president is asserting dictatorial power and ‘constitutional crisis’ doesn’t capture the gravity of the situation.”
IT'S IMPEACHMENT TIME (not the judge)
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Iguanas on rafts floated 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji, study finds The humble iguana may have have pulled off an epic migration millions of years ago, traveling from the coast of today’s Mexico to Fiji on rafts made of vegetation.

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Rafting Can Be fun!

Boycott WashPost and Bezos! (I cancelled my subscription months ago over editorial board's loss of freedom but my original sub hasn't expired)

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression WASHINGTON—Warning that Americans should brace themselves for an economic “period of transition,” President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that a recession would be an unfortunate but necessary st...

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression

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PROTEST WORKS... THAT IS WHY IT IS UNDER ATTACK
"The rich and powerful incentives to eradicate protest, therefore, have never been so resonant."
--- Annie Leonard
tinyurl.com/sf63c77w

this is CRAZY