I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You? Read more here.

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
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Yes, America - the president is telling you you’ll be paid to take your meds.

FFS

I am proud to say that MIT has rejected Trump's poison compact. MIT President Sally Kornbluth: "Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education."
@aaup.org @aft.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @uaw.org
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This is why there can be no deals. Make the GOP pass their own bill. Or get resignations in exchange for votes. (And make sure the resignations come first!)

💯 the reporter asked the same question 4-5 times. So what that Porter said she doesn’t need the 40% if she won the 60% that’s basic math. Reporter went after that like a dog with a bone, acted like she had a gotcha. The reporter sounded like an idiot.

😂 was thinking the same thing

I have a family member who calls himself a ‘registered Democrat’ but hasn’t voted like that in over 30 years. That may be the 10% of the sample. Seems to be a way to say, “I’m not a Republican” despite voting that way.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

And poorly executed

I know there’s a lot happening and it’s hard to keep track, BUT TRUMP ENDED MULTIPLE INVESTIGATIONS INTO CHILD TRAFFICKING, DRUG SMUGGLING, AND ORGANIZED CRIME TO ACCELERATE DEPORTATIONS OF PEACEFUL IMMIGRANTS.

Less than a year into the Trump admin and the National Governors Association, founded over 115 years ago, is on the brink of collapse.

The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

Thanks Carl!

Chuck. Go to Portland. Go to Chicago. Show the world they're not warzones.

Former FCC Chair Wheeler: An autocrat's favorite tool is a monopoly on telling the story. And if you can control the people who tell that story, then you've got an autocrat's greatest dream.

Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government

One of the most brazen conflicts in history.

One of these politicians is lying. And it’s not the guy from Oregon.

Same judge. While Miller rails about judges.

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

Walks like a duck, talks like a duck, but calls itself a rabbit. Whatever.

I read your posts. Keep telling yourself that.

If you can't not pepper spray someone just for being mouthy you don't deserve to carry pepper spray (or whatever it is they carry)

The administration has determined that if you describe this accurately for what it is, you are also an enemy of the state

It does make you wonder whether they were worried about him becoming a story about government abuses and didn’t want him being able to talk to anyone…

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

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🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud:

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”

Trump Judge says the President’s version of the facts in Portland was not tethered to reality, and that the sending of National Guard troops there violated Oregon’s sovereignty and the 10th Amendment citing all kinds of historical sources. A…Trump….Judge. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Google blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, but it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents.

Such a weak argument when you started with “murderous illegal alien gang members”. So sad. Move the line when you’re clearly wrong. Oh well, you MAGA are all the same.