Pain will be involved but far less pain than if no action is taken.
A long running general strike is a must.

Meet the 24-year-old Ottawa software engineer who runs a MAGA bot The bots were created to flood X with pro-MAGA messages, attracting attention from Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

A 24-year-old US-Indian man living in Ottawa, Canada, Saihajpreet Singh, exposed for developing a network of MAGA bots including DOGEai to influence US elections, politics, and public opinion to support Donald Trump, the US Republican Party, and Israel.

ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...

American Panopticon The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.

If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from reporting on the current DOGE collection of govt data, it is that the people who’ve previously spent their careers carefully handling this information believe there is almost no limit to how it could be abused (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

After Trump Aid Cuts, Food Banks Scrounge and Scrimp (Gift Article) In one of the country’s poorest areas, the quantity and quality of government deliveries have dropped, forcing one charity to make do with thin soup and dried cranberries.

Also a reminder that billionaires watched DOGE burn through $135 billion NOT to save $ but to take away lifesaving research, cut access to Social Security and disaster relief, and this:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/u...

What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too (Gift Article) An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.

DOGE has already cost American taxpayers $135 billion. And that's before we even get to the cost of all the food aid rotting in ports, partners stiffed from broken contracts, etc. If America can't afford foreign aid it definitely can't afford DOGE. #resist

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

Rescinding the Definition of “Harm” Under the Endangered Species Act The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively referred to as the Services or we) are proposing to rescind the regulatory definition of "harm" ...

Good request from my DMs I want to share— here is what YOU can do (including non-feds). We need as many comments as possible!

This is a very consequential rule change, with multiple and significant real world implications.

For over 40 years, American Rivers has released our America's Most Endangered Rivers® report, a national spotlight for rivers at risk. At a time when protecting rivers matters more than ever, this moment is critical.

📅 Come back on April 16th to to take action at a turning point for our rivers!

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.”

A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service Sunday, agency banned key language, including words... #groundwater pollution, sediment remediation, #water collection, water treatment, rural water, clean water. @neorsd.org newrepublic.com/post/193395/...

The hypocrisy is literally a sentient being at this point 😒

Pete Buttigieg has entered the chat.

Two unqualified-for-their-job freeloaders call Europe a freeloader. From Jonathan Goldberg of the Atlantic's story about their massive incompetent infodump.

I’m sorry but I’m still thinking about the Secretary of Defense texting “We are currently clean on OPSEC” to a group chat that, unbeknownst to him, included the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine.

You really gotta read this story.

Gift article link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

“Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?”

You're breaking shit, firing people, killing SSA, Medicaid, Medicare, grants to hospitals, public health programs and research. And you have no clue!

Maybe stop doing that, and people won't want to hurt you. I dont condone violence.

He is so fucking, willfully clueless.

You have to manifest it first ?

Now THIS is what I’m talking about 🔥
@housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov

Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum leads indigenous ceremony to honour women

Moldova president Maia Sandu defeats Russia’s attempted coup d’état, given a white bouquet

Georgia’s President Salome Zourabichvili leads mass protest against the Russian takeover of the government

Estonia’s Kaja Kallas tests Javelin anti-tank missiles before sending them to Ukraine

Happy International Women’s Day!

#3E #IWD #InternationalWomensDay

graphic depicts that lung alveolar macrophages loss of peroxisome drives the process

Just published @science.org
A basis—lung inflammation—for #LongCovid (PASC) in the experimental model, and a potential therapy
[driven by alveolar macrophages and loss of their peroxisomes (Figure)]
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Best yet from Vermont town JD & family attempted to go ski this weekend!

If you're not sure why people at the National Weather Service are being fired, that's been a GOP goal for some time. This is from Project 2025, which argues the NWS should focus on selling weather data - not free forecasts and weather warnings.

Cuts at the U.S. Forest Service could lead to unintended consequences, former workers say U.S. national forests are maintained by an army of Forest Service workers, but recent cuts could have the forests looking very different this summer.

Cuts at the U.S. Forest Service could lead to unintended consequences, former workers say

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From a DM. Are you familiar with National Wildlife Refuges?

There are almost 600 refuges nationwide. Their employees include biologists, firefighters, maintenance workers, and park rangers. Refuges are spread out and have day-to-day needs. Here is how the purchase limits are impacting them:

Very soon (within weeks) our nations wildlife refuges will be closed. We are at the precipice and I'm not sure this dire message is getting out there in an impactful way. I'm sure all other public land managers (NPS,BLM,USFS,etc) were given the same directive, so we're close to losing these lands.

National Wildlife Refuge System | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manages an unparalleled network of public lands and waters called the National Wildlife Refuge System. With more than 570 refuges spanning the country, this system p...

These changes to purchase cards have serious implications. If you support fish, wildlife, and conservation— please act to support us.

www.fws.gov/program/nati...