Brie

Kate Berlant is coming to Oregon. everyone remain calm.

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

The fact that the Trump regime says it can't get him back because he's no longer in US custody is bullsh*t.

Call your elects. This is a criminal, terrorist regime.
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📩 Email: democracy.io
📠 Fax House: is.gd/2wXTRF
📠 Fax Senate: is.gd/YZNOly

YouTube video by The Bulwark This Isn’t a Mistake — It’s Evil

Tim Miller takes on the latest disgrace from the Trump admin: the U.S. govt knowingly deported a legal immigrant—a father & husband to US citizens—to a brutal prison in El Salvador. He had legal protection. He had no criminal record. ICE admitted it was an “administrative error.”
is.gd/7qSWND

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

The Flytrap Bringing Back the Feminist Blog

The Flytrap has a lot of trans and nonbinary writers, and writers of color, many of whom I’ve worked with before. It’s well worth subscribing. theflytrap.beehiiv.com

"If there is one lesson to take from the ignominious period of US history known as Jim Crow, it is this: it was overturned only by dint of African Americans’ immense collective efforts. These began with civil court cases in the 1830s through to marching across a bridge in Selma, Alabama, in 1965."

pushback works, part infinity:

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Just went live to talk about what is happening, what we can do, and what to expect this week: www.instagram.com/reel/DForuR_...

According to a senior CDC official, some of the pages that were removed on Friday have been reinstated due to backlash from the scientific community and the public. Keep speaking up, it matters!

CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

Thank you to the anonymous data hero who archived critical public health data sets before they were removed/altered from the public. Medical researchers, public health professionals and scientists rely on data. Share widely #medsky #pubhealthsky

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‎5 Calls: Contact Your Congress ‎**As seen on MSNBC...**

I just used @5calls.org ’s app to call both my senators, my governor, and both state reps to urge them to oppose the radical actions of this new administration.

Posting on social media isn’t enough. Take action. Making calls like these is a good start. #2+2=4 apps.apple.com/us/app/5-cal...

I feel like Beyonce has a ska record in her

Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election.

She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Brief break from hawking The Onion to tell everyone I just subscribed to Wired. Please support publications who do brave work right now.

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this is genuinely excellent all around - what they're doing, what they're saying

keep yelling at them, it's working, today's Dem response is markedly better than anything they did last week

and yell at the @nytimes.com @cnn.com and the rest of the media to actually cover it

People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency.

(Photos shared with me)

WATCH LIVE: House and Senate Democrats hold news briefing on Trump and Elon Musk shutting down USAID YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

It’s on PBS: www.youtube.com/live/siF028b...

🚨 After speaking to hundreds of protestors, Democratic members of Congress have entered the USAID building.

Sen. Van Hollen said they are going into witness “what is happening with this Elon Musk attempt to take over — which will not stand.”

Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

NEW: Federal workers are starting to receive a copy of the court's restraining order against the Trump administration barring the regime from freezing federal grants and financial assistance. Excellent work, and worth the read:

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.

Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.

Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO