CrystalLB

We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

Are we great yet? We don't even know who these men are, just disappeared to El Salvador.

The Due Process Clause under the 5th and 14th Amendments applies to ALL people in the US, regardless of immigration status.

Trump’s Biggest Corruption is Flying Under the Radar The scale of corruption in Trump’s White House has been stunning and unprecedented.

I wrote a short explainer for my Substack of the biggest (but strangely under the radar) corruption of the Trump White House: the Trump crypto coin. A conduit for secret, shameless bribery of the President. www.chrismurphyct.com/p/trumps-big...

Rapid unscheduled disassembly is the one common thread that ties all of Elon's ventures together.

Rally for Working Class Needs Over Billionaire Greed · Mobilize Register here: https://www.neari.org/advocating-for-change/action-center/take-action/rally-working-people Working people built America and we deserve a government that fights for us! Instead, Trump,...

Time to take it to Elon & stand up for working people.

It's Musk or Us.

Working Class Needs Over Billionaire Greed Rally on 3/22 across from the Tesla dealership on Adelaide Ave in Providence.

Click here: www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

This is an IRI supported event in conjunction with NEARI.

@jahimes.bsky.social Hey! You are a coward for voting to censure Al Green! Every one of you should've walked out after him. He was the ONLY one who fought while the rest of your participated in performative actions. Good luck on any future elections...traitor

I chose a smaller town Indivisible RI & South County Resistance protest in Richmond RI. I met some great people which certainly helps. Of course there were some MAGA fools with their flags and young punks in their exhaust heavy trucks going up and down the road but the cops took care of them.

Over the last 24 hours, MAGA has been ceaselessly spreading the claim that Democrats - from Susan Rice to Tony Blinken to me - pushed Zelensky to reject the minerals deal.

Total lie. Made up out of thin air. Zero sources.

1/ A short lesson how these lies spread in MAGA world.

Hey register for this event I'm hosting w @moveon.org

Watch Trump's Billionaires First Rally (aka State of the Union speech) on Tuesday night, but with a live truth check.

I will indeed be "calling BS". Unless he's on Hawaii time, I think he'll answer.
mobilize.us/moveon/event/7…

Leadership! @chrismurphyct.bsky.social 💙. Calling @schumer.senate.gov Boycott the SoU. @ctriverhuddle.bsky.social @indivisiblegct.bsky.social @indivisiblect.bsky.social @bkindivisible.bsky.social

Chris Murphy Emerges as a Clear Voice for Democrats Countering Trump The second-term senator from Connecticut is eschewing caution and throwing out the traditional political playbook as he seeks a broader audience for his critiques of the president and his agenda.

We may be a small state, but we are mighty! Go @chrismurphyct.bsky.social! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

Trump Golf Track Tracking the number of days President Donald Trump spends his second term playing golf.

trumpgolftrack.com

While we are in a constitutional crisis and possible oncoming dictatorship... Trump has golfed on 9 days.

Woot woot @meidastouch.com

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

Billionaire Airbnb Co-Founder Is Said to Take Role in Musk’s Government Initiative Joe Gebbia is a board member at Tesla and is close to Elon Musk, the company’s C.E.O.

Good Bye Airbnb!
You have sucked pretty hard the last few years anyways
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

I couldn’t make it to the protests in Hartford today because I didn’t want to go alone. Although my community isn’t based in Connecticut, I live here and am working on getting more involved. I saw some photos from someone at Indivisible CT, and it looks like a good crowd showed up.

Abandoning research participants is an unconscionable betrayal In 1964, the Declaration of Helsinki created a set of universal ethical principles to protect human participants in health research.1 Described as “the cornerstone of research ethics,”2 these principl...

@bachynski.bsky.social and @martinmckee.bsky.social
On the ethical betrayal of clinical trial participants worldwide by the Trump-Musk-Vought administration.

www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Implementing The President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Workforce Optimization Initiative By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:     Section 1.

This massive RIF (Reduction in Force) order doesn't apply to the White House.
Depts may hire 1 person for every 4 that are taken out of service, but only if DOGE lackeys give authorization.
Law enforcement, immigration & the military are exempted
Unvetted, unelected civilians are running the gov.

American Medical Association (AMA) The American Medical Association (AMA) is the largest and only national association that convenes 190+ state and specialty medical societies and other critical stakeholders. Our mission is to promote ...

Trump/Musk may have silenced the CDC and NIH, but they can't stifle free speech itself.
The American Medical Association is using its YouTube channel to provide updates & explainers on everything from H5N9 to why eggs cost so much.
Check em out!

Hundreds turn out to hear from CT senators on fight against Trump: ‘Corruption of our democracy’ Over 600 people turned out in West Hartford Saturday to hear U.S. Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal describe a constitutional crisis under President Donald Trump and how they would fight ba…

Some quotes from my friend Alana, who went with me yesterday to the Citizens Meeting
www.courant.com/2025/02/08/h...

West Texas Measles Outbreak One in five kindergarteners in Gaines County schools has a non-medical vaccine exemption. Low vaccination rates prime the area for the easy, natural spread of measles.

In a state that makes vaccine exemptions easy to obtain, Gaines County has one of the lowest vaccination rates in Texas - far below the vaccination rate needed to prevent outbreaks.

17.6% of kindergartners in the County have a vaccine exemption on file, as well as nearly 14% of 7th graders.

Citizen Meeting in West Hartford with Senator Murphy and Blumenthal

We need to call out the blatant lie being pushed by the Trump administration—that Elon’s staffers have only “read-only” access. It has been confirmed across departments that they have “administrative” access to computer systems.

I'm exhausted! But I've made plans for my weekend! Tomorrow a hike with a friend in the morning & then we are heading to the Citizen Meeting put on by Senator Murphy & Blumenthal in W Hartford. Sunday as long as the snow cooperates Coffee and Plant shopping with another friend.

FYI all of the viral images government spending that “DOGE HAS UNCOVERED” is actually from www.usaspending.gov a website that Obama signed into law in 2014 that has always been accessible to the public.

This has been a horrible challenge for me as well. The hard part is that I manage a big team so I have to somehow try to slug through all of this, but it's not pretty

I know all of us who understand what is happening are experiencing mental health challenges because of that.

The only message of comfort I can offer to this community of readers is this: you are correct.

What you think is happening is really happening, and is just as concerning as you think it is.

Thank you!

“On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs. Essential personnel expected to continue working will be informed by Agency leadership by Thursday, February 6, at 3:00pm (EST). For USAID personnel currently posted outside the United States, the Agency, in coordination with missions and the Department of State, is currently preparing a plan, in accordance with all applicable requirements and laws, under which the Agency would arrange and pay for return travel to the United States within 30 days and provide for the termination of PSC and ISC contracts that are not determined to be essential. The Agency will consider case-by-case exceptions and return travel extensions based on personal or family hardship, mobility or safety concerns, or other reasons. For example, the Agency will consider exceptions based on the timing of dependents’ school term, personal or familial medical needs, pregnancy, and other reasons. Further guidance on how to request an exception will be forthcoming. Thank you for your service”

USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.