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A Mother's Day Hell, From the GOP Today, as Mother’s Day Weekend began, I watched the sickening video of a hysterical 16-year-old girl with her face smashed into the pavement by police officers, as I.C.E.

This is Trump’s America on this Mother’s Day.

This is the GOP’s lawless, merciless shock-and-awe campaign against not just illegal immigrants, not just undocumented people, not just criminals, but against families, children, spouses, fathers, mothers.

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10) compromise any attempts by this regime to have people snitch on people by flooding the websites where they are collecting such reports.

9) encourage and join class action law suits against all unconstitutional actions by the regime. Flood them with law suits.

More things we can do to resist.

8) assure that all of your affiliations, like your Alma Mater, sign on to agreements to support each other in active fights against censorship and academic interference. The AACU and the BIG Ten have both established such agreements.

Opinion | Naval Academy Censors Ryan Holiday’s Lecture on Censorship How a lecture to the U.S. Naval Academy on censorship was censored.

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The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.

@mcuban.bsky.social given the example of this platform vis a vis twitter, why haven’t billionaires created an alternative to FB?

jesus christ they want her dead

We Can’t Give In to Fear From Marc | No one wants to speak up. Everyone wants to hide or lay low.

New from me.👇

It does not surprise me that people are worried. I expected many to be concerned. But I did not anticipate that so many leaders across industries and professions would allow fear to silence them. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-c...

FREEDOM TO FLY: Take Action to Protect Trans Passport Access | A4TE The U.S. Department of State has opened public comment periods on three important passport applications, and we must flood all three with our opposition to anti-trans changes before it's too late.

7) More things you can do to resist.

Go to the following website and express your opinion about the current regime taking away passports from trans folks. The website allows you to easily comment on a few aspects of this. transequality.org/news/freedom...

6) More things you can do to resist.

The Department of Education has created a webpage where they want people to report any DEI/Woke activities by schools and school teachers. It sure would be a shame if they got a bunch of other reports.

The blue color shows the projected deaths between now and the end of the 90-day freeze. This assumes everything resumes at the end of 90 days.

With the freeze, we expect adult deaths to climb from 15,804 to 133,211. If the deaths stopped today, we could save an estimated 117,392 people.

With the freeze, we expect infant deaths to climb from 1,682 to 2,280. If the deaths stopped today, we could save an estimated 598 infants.

They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them. Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left…

Hundreds of workers at the CDC. More than 1,000 at the NIH. Scores of staffers at the FDA.

Trump’s purge of federal employees includes those doing lifesaving work. Many of them expressed fear at what would happen to the projects they left behind.

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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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Elon Musk has siphoned off more money in taxpayer dollars since November than the entire USAID annual budget.

He is the real welfare queen. #fireelon

5) Arrange to go as a group. Designate people to video any interactions. Make sure more are prepared to physically defend all in the group. Know your rights under the first amendment. Make stepwise plans for dealing with escalating interactions including when to leave together. Leave no one behind

4) There is no place where we should cede any more ground. As the events last week in Idaho show us, we need to be prepared. In the short term, this means better prepared for civil disobedience and witnessing. So, if attending a town hall for a conservative, as in that video, do not go alone. —-

Remembering the Tuskegee Airmen | U.S. Department of the Interior Breaking racial barriers in WWII

NEVER. EVER. FORGET.
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Excellent post

3) Those of you living outside the country, please save and repost articles that provide context for what is happening here. There is a concerted effort to introduce greater bias and censorship in our media. You serve as an archive of the truth.

2) Remind people about the destruction and massacres of successful African American communities. Remind them of the discrimination that has run throughout US history. Especially Redlining.

Practical Actions - Domestic and International

1) the primary tool of propaganda is to whitewash history. DO NOT LET THEM. Repost actual factual evidence as often as feasible. This includes the past events that have laid the groundwork for white nationalism.

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How RFK Jr. Falsely Denied His Connection to a Deadly Measles Outbreak in Samoa He also championed a Samoan anti-vaxxer tied to the 2019 lethal eruption that killed scores of children.

The full low-down on RFK Jr.’s connection to a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa and, just as important, how he lied about it. That’s key. Kennedy is an inveterate liar. He makes up facts & plots, and he lies about what he himself has said. Another con man.

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