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The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.

they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Huge shoutout to everyone this is what a global boycott looks like. Tesla just reported a staggering 71% drop in profits compared to Q1 of 2024. It’s working. Keep the pressure on.

HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.

The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

Actually, I think he was terrified.

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you.

The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

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@aoc.bsky.social You have been quiet. How are you doing?

Where is our humanity?

Love the international support. So surprising. So welcome.

Obama said:

“People tend to think, democracy, rule of law, an independent judiciary, freedom of the press—that’s all abstract, because it’s not affecting the price of eggs. Well, you know what? It’s about to affect the price of eggs.”

That's a message to Dems:

newrepublic.com/article/1936...

Obama’s Blistering New Takedown of Trump Gives Dems a Way Forward In an appearance on Thursday, the former president laid out the connection between Trump’s lawlessness and—yes—the price of eggs. Will other Democrats follow?

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering takedown of Trump's lawlessness. Importantly, Obama also offered Dems a way to argue that Trump's dictatorial abuses of power and his imminent wreckage of the economy are the same story.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1936...

I don’t see it.

It’s well known that I was on The Apprentice. We were all covered by NDAs at the time, but mine has now expired. And do I ever have some tea to spill. I’ll post it later today after consulting once again with my attorneys.

Some brightness in dark days.

President Trump standing at a podium. The text reads: "No, Trump Cannot Run For Re-election." Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times.

President Trump said on Sunday that he was “not joking” about the possibility of seeking a third presidential term, suggesting that there were “methods” to circumvent the two-term limit enshrined in the Constitution. We explain why the 22nd Amendment exists. nyti.ms/3E4tXvT

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Orwell
1984

What is giving you hope right now?

Anna Paquin 1993. I looked it up. The Piano. Loved that movie, Holly Hunter was just amazing in it.

Tatum ONeal 1974 ? She was the youngest.

When was the last time a child won an Oscar?

Thank you! @albeccia.bsky.social for submitting this!

YouTube video by CNN Trump mocks reporter with disability

Here, @maxthegirl.bsky.social. It should have ended right here.

No One Is Coming To Save Us When did you realize that no one was coming to save us?I confess, it took me an embarrassingly long time.For years, I was, essentially, Charlie Brown flailing at Lucy’s football, thinking this time…

I wrote about the grim, depressing realization that no one is coming to save us.

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

US immigration agents arrest Palestinian student protester at Columbia University in Trump crackdown Mahmoud Khalil's detention appears to be one of the first efforts by Donald Trump to fulfill his promise to seek the deportation of some foreign students involved in the pro-Palestinian protest movement.

US immigration agents arrested a Palestinian graduate student who has played a prominent role in pro-Palestinian protests at New York's Columbia University as part of US President Donald Trump's promised crackdown on some anti-Israel activists reut.rs/3DiqPMJ

Thank you