Maria Gallegos

Have you never protested? No Kings would be a wonderful first experience. You will find out the following: you are not alone, there are lots of awesome people in America and people can actually be supportive. It will recharge your faith in humanity.

You will want to repeat the action.

#resist

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

DO POLITICAL PROTESTS MATTER? EVIDENCE FROM THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT* ANDREAS MADESTAM DANIEL SHOAG STAN VEUGER DAVID YANAGIZAWA-DROTT Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by studying the Tea Party movement in the United States, which rose to prominence through coordinated rallies across the country on Tax Day, April 15, 2009. We exploit variation in rainfall on the day of these rallies as an exogenous source of variation in attendance. We show that good weather at this initial, coordinating event had significant consequences for the subsequent local strength of the move-ment, increased public support for Tea Party positions, and led to more Republican votes in the 2010 midterm elections. Policy making was also af-fected, as incumbents responded to large protests in their district by voting more conservatively in Congress. Our estimates suggest significant multiplier effects: an additional protester increased the number of Republican votes by a factor well above 1. Together our results show that protests can build political movements that ultimately affect policy making and that they do so by influencing political views rather than solely through the revelation of existing political preferences. JEL Code: D72.

Like...this is the biggest corruption scandal the NIH has experienced in its entire history and its not even close. Half of a BILLION dollars to a single project as a result of political spoils. That's the equivalent of several hundred R01s.

@steveinskeep.bsky.social On this morning’s broadcast, you and Ms. Leavitt seemed to make contradictory statements about when the ACA subsidies were set to expire. Who’s right? And if Ms. Leavitt misled, why didn’t you push back? Without pushback, I was left wondering if she was right.

The mission is clear. ❌👑
#stopmaga #stopmagazis #stopwhitesupremacy #nokings #October18

Commit to NONVIOLENT action. DO NOT ENGAGE with detractors at events. Turn away & ignore. Or find a Peacekeeper (in yellow vests). Do NOT bring weapons of any kind to our events.

RSVP mobilize.us/s/4enw8F

Pentagon To Require Journalists To Pledge Not To Report Unauthorized Information, Or Face Having Credentials Denied Or Revoked The restrictions came in a memo to members of the media on Friday.

Journalists at the Pentagon now must pledge not to report anything that hasn’t been approved by Pete Hegseth.

The only way to protect our rights from Trump’s regime is to exercise our rights. Join the largest peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

It has a sad ending though.

“But in May the Trump administration terminated billions of dollars of funding to Harvard, including the grant that supported the pelvis research.”

“We are all wondering what would have come next had we not lost this funding,” Dr. Capellini said.

It's time for a GENERAL STRIKE to halt the gears of injustice and overthrow the white nationalist patriarchy.

We need ~10.3M more signed strike cards to reach effectiveness.

Working in the US?
📢 Sign yours today! 📢

Not working in the US?
♻️ Please repost ♻️

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Toilet paper hanging from the overheard MUNI wires. People crowding the streets of the Castro wearing cloth masks celebrating the Biden Harris win.

Nov. 7, 2020. Easy to find.

The Most Overlooked Value of Political Protest Small acts of staying quiet may seem merely polite or indifferent, but they can easily spiral.

"One of the most important, and most overlooked, functions of protest is to prevent the dreaded 'spiral of silence,' which can begin when people wrongly believe that their own point of view is not widely shared," Betsy Levy Paluck writes:

Forgot the Alt text: This is a photo of a sketch of Trump in black ink (Trumps head is on the body of a Grasshopper?). Above it, it says, “NO REYES” in red blocky type. To the left is a sketch of the back side of a caballero with a shirt that says, “Ningún ser humano es ilegal en tierras robados”

I love Oaxaca #nokings #noreyes

Thank you!!!

What’s this about? “The majority of C. elegans start their lives as males, then switch to females” ?!?!?!

Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health (Gift Article) More than $800 million in N.I.H. grants canceled as of early May — nearly half of those terminated to date — covered the health of sexual and gender minority groups, The Times found.

CA voters - contact your State Rep - One of the best reasons to work towards SB829 - getting a CA alternative to NIH - Akilah Weber Pierson’s bill is the cancellation of NIH grants that investigate LGBTQ health.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/h...

Love it!

Hey. Just an FYI. You need to update all of your “select all that apply” type questions. They are formatted so that you can only “choose one”

Whatever it takes.

Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal. It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o... Didn’t expect that David Brooks would inspire me.

An image of an excerpt from the New Yorker that contains a quote from Shapiro when he was at UCSC. Shapiro made his remarks to the Wall Street Journal. The quote is in the post.

A quote from Shapiro in an excerpt from the recent New Yorker about the creation of the dire wolf. “There is no point in bringing the dodo back. Their eggs will be eaten the same way that made them go extinct the first time.” Makes me think we also can’t just go back to a Biden-like presidency.

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

What a beautiful tribute. So sorry for your loss. 💔

Trump’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Hobble Earthquake Response in Myanmar While China, Russia and other nations have rushed emergency response teams to the devastated country, the U.S., once a leader in foreign aid, has been slow to act.

China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. The U.S., the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has sent nothing.

Awesome! Now I want to go and take my daughter.

Is this where you are sitting right now? Looks pretty fabulous!

Can’t beat this library view!

Just hanging out with my peeps. Hoping someday soon we reach 3.5%.

Just awful.

Yeah, when the REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR OF UTAH is able to make a more compelling case than a normie elected Dem, something is fundamentally broken.