I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

History always has a lesson.

RFK Jr. said autistic people don’t work or play sports. They say he’s wrong. The health and human services secretary on Wednesday suggested that autistic children would never play baseball or pay taxes, enraging those in the community.

Autistic people and their loved ones have swiftly and publicly rejected statements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, that people with autism will never play baseball, date, pay taxes or have a job.

Several FSU Students Also Endured Parkland School Shooting For some, the sight of law enforcement officers in tactical gear on Thursday, sweeping campus for a gunman, was familiar.

Several students who sheltered in place during Thursday’s deadly shooting at Florida State University shared a traumatizing coincidence: They had also endured the Parkland, Florida, school massacre in 2018.

A Bright Spot Is Emerging Amid All This Trump Chaos The point of mass protest is not to stage a perfectly organized, fully realized one-time event.

This is well worth reading:

"Whatever dam of despair that kept so many Americans quiet or despondent has now broken..."

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The Trump administration believes it has the legal authority to abduct any individual-citizen or immigrant, documented or not-and illegally deport them to another country without due process. It further claims that it can extinguish all of that person's constitutional rights by imprisoning them in a foreign nation. And it asserts that once that person has been locked away abroad, the U.S. government has no power or responsibility to bring them home, even if they were indisputably deported in error.

Trump’s Justice Department is currently asking the Supreme Court for permission to build a deportation machine that can disappear anyone, citizen and immigrant alike, to a foreign prison forever, permanently extinguishing their constitutional rights with zero due process. slate.com/news-and-pol...

If HHS is cutting 10,000 positions and the Department of Education has already slashed hundreds of special education and rehabilitative jobs—who’s left to manage IDEA for 7.5 million school kids?

The claims that services are just being moved elsewhere simply don’t hold up.

Here is a map of today’s Hands Off rallies around the country- find one near you!

Watch Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Reject the Politics of Trans Abandonment As some Democrats retreat, Pritzker doubles down on protecting the most vulnerable.

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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.

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Democracies stand with Ukraine.

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

Thank you for your work and inspiration.

Jon whips out his trusty calculator to identify where America’s waste, fraud, and abuse really is

Support Ukraine ⭑ 5 Calls UPDATE (02/20/25): Trump has escalated his rhetoric against Ukraine, calling fairly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator” and …

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Columnist The Rev. Andrea Ayvazian: ‘With a compassionate heart and a strong spine’

Utah Bans Collective Bargaining for Public Workers Utah joined two other states in prohibiting collective bargaining for teachers, police officers and other public employees in a move that was seen as a possible blow to the country’s labor movement.

A new law signed by Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah prohibits unions from negotiating wages and other terms for teachers, firefighters, police officers and all other public employees, joining just two other states that have banned collective bargaining in the public sector.

Thank you for teaching that unit. I would love my kids to read those books and I hope they get a chance to.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

YouTube video by The Daily Show Elon Musk Crashes the Oval Office To Talk DOGE & Trump Pushes Gaza Takeover | The Daily Show

Elon Musk Crashes the Oval Office To Talk DOGE & Trump Pushes Gaza Takeover

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Thank you

A lot is going on. Here are 3 things for the weekend. #fightback

Northampton area folks. Rally from 10:30-12:00 city hall.

Thank you for your commitment.

Of course it’s a coup Miss the obvious, lose your republic

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Protesters in cities across the US rally against Trump's policies, Project 2025 and Elon Musk Demonstrators have gathered in cities across the U.S. to protest the Trump administration’s early actions.

apnews.com/article/5050... Protesters in cities across the US rally against Trump's policies, Project 2025 and Elon Musk