Rachel Coles

We are working on launching an ALT DOGE website. It will soon feature a team page listing all of Elon’s staffers, our own wall of receipts (tracking the money he’s taking from America), and a section to help Americans keep tabs on the false claims on Doge’s website—which now exceed 52%.

He ruled that the administration exceeded its authority by instructing agencies to withhold funding for federal programs appropriated by Congress, characterizing the case as one of executive overreach. Thank you, Judge John J. McConnell Jr., for upholding the rule of law!

Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the Federal District Court for the District of Rhode Island extended an order preventing the Trump administration from withholding billions in congressionally approved funds to 22 states and the District of Columbia.

This move could have a chilling effect, discouraging firms from taking on cases that challenge the administration. Such pressure threatens a core principle of the U.S. legal system: the right to legal representation for all.

Trump plans to sign an executive order barring certain student loan borrowers from eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness. This popular federal program forgives a portion of student debt for individuals who work in government or qualifying nonprofit jobs for ten years.

Operation Hire Hawaiʻi (OH-HI) Operation Hire Hawaiʻi (OH-HI) is a targeted outreach initiative featuring an expedited state hiring process, fast-tracking qualified candidates into job opportunities throughout Hawaiʻi. This project...

@altnps.bsky.social Operation Hire Hawaii is operational in case any federal workers need a job. Aloha! dhrd.hawaii.gov/ohhi/

@altnps.bsky.social Just wanted to make sure folks know that Hawaii governor Green has said that we have a couple thousand open positions in our state government that he'd like to fill with federal workers who have been fired by Musk. Aloha and welcome to Hawaii!

You are amazing, President Zelensky! Thank you for being the only adult in the room! I'm so sorry!

Blackout in progress

DOJ Enters The Darkest Period In Its Long History A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Wherever possible please buy your books directly from authors and/or publishers. Even ebooks (then Amazon can't delete them either). We make a better cut and you get the same thing or better, plus Bezos and ilk don't get richer. Win win win.

This from a guy who refused to divulge his tax records.

Musk wants to inspect our IRS data to catch everyday Americans committing tax fraud—an overreach of DOGE’s power. Personal tax data has nothing to do with government efficiency.

Maui showing up with aloha! Someone said protesting doesn't do anything. It shows LGBTQ+, immigrants, POC, women, etc that we/they are not alone. And it shows the world that we are still here, and fighting against fascism, oligarchy, and hate. It shares hope.

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

Yes, indeed — what the fuck!!! 😡

... “total shutdown” is planned for March 15...

Website for the General Strike:
generalstrikeus.com
OPPOSE! PLEASE REPOST!

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow it to fire the head of the Office of Special Counsel, which oversees government whistleblower protections and enforces certain ethics laws.

Musk’s website, DOGE, leaked classified government information to the entire world. NOFURN [Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals] information on their website about the [intelligence community] headcount has prompted a scramble as people check whether their information has been accessed.

Maui: National Day of Protest #50501 · Indivisible Hawai‘i is not immune! Stand with us for a National Day of Protest on Presidents' Day Monday, February 17 across the Hawaiian Islands: O‘ahu: Hawai‘i State Capitol at noon Hawai‘i Island / Kailua-Kon...

mobilize.us/s/MIebzI
For folks on Maui who need to be heard.

Fight Back Against the Trump-Musk Coup

indivisible.org/coup This is helpful for people like me who can easily be cognitively overwhelmed by all the stuff going on, to have a concrete list that I can go down over and over.

The CFPB was dismantled over the weekend, with all activities suspended, its funding reduced to zero, and its headquarters temporarily closed—removing a crucial layer of oversight for consumer-facing financial companies. Staff members ordered to cease all ‘supervision and examination activities.

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

This is a national emergency.

Do you have any shirts left?

I agree with the idea. That being said, that motherfucker has so much money, he doesn't need a dime for the rest of his life, plus he's got his parents' blood money from exploiting people in their emerald mine. So what do people do then?

Lovely mosses and grasses at Ginkakuji Temple in Kyoto. "I collect spores, molds and fungus."-Egon Spengler, Ghostbuster.

Japanese New Years arrangements in Kyoto with Buddha's Hand Citron in the one on the left.

Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI

Amazon
Boeing
Brown-Forman
Caterpillar
Ford
Harley-Davidson
John Deere
Lowe’s
Molson Coors
McDonald’s
Meta
Nissan
Stanley Black & Decker
Target
Tractor Supply
Toyota
Walmart

Support who supports you ✨✊

This is how you say “go fuck yourself sideways with a porcupine” in inspector general speak.

Going to be interesting to see how the administration responds