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Big Oil is lobbying Congress for immunity against lawsuits because the companies don't want the damning evidence of their climate deception to be presented in court, writes @kathymulvey.bsky.social of @ucs.org.
"Our elected representatives must stand strong against liability waivers" for Big Oil.
The data is undeniable:
•15 of top 16 states with the highest rates of infant mortality are red states that deny/ban repro access.
•12 of top 13 states with the lowest rates of infant mortality are blue states that protect repro access.
Why is this even a debate?
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Yikes
11.06.2025 22:36 — 👍 1612 🔁 618 💬 32 📌 28Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”
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A line chart with a blue line showing a large growth of protest events from Jan 20 - May 31, 2025, and a green line showing the relatively modest growth of protest events during the same period in 2017.
My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman@bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵
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"Mobilizing military forces into cities is going to be seen as an overreach, and it's going to be now met with peaceful, boisterous moms, dads, grandmas. kids and their dogs and families showing up, saying, 'we're not going to put up with this authoritarianism..."
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🫶🏼💛Thank you for your creative and courageous expressions of the frustration and rage of so many in response to this administration’s cruel actions. Wishing safety for you all.
18.03.2025 02:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Absolutely horrifying. I wonder if the people who swung for Trump, purity protested non-voters understand what they have done. 😭
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This is your economy on trump.
13.03.2025 22:35 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0This! Every last bit of this. Thank you, @aoc.bsky.social!
#WhatTheFuckChuck?
This is also known as invading Panama.
13.03.2025 14:59 — 👍 16120 🔁 4433 💬 661 📌 239WTF?!? Elon Musk reposted this on X before quietly deleting it:
“Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.”
If you're sinking in defeatism and wondering if there’s any point in protesting, here’s a detailed look at the astonishing amount of resistance happening — and how it's making a difference.
14.03.2025 15:47 — 👍 264 🔁 140 💬 4 📌 10
Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.”
Lots of information and resources in this one.
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Daily Quote - February 11, 2025
Fear is an indicator. Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn't do. More often than not it shows you exactly what you should do.
Tim Ferriss
#TEDGames
Surprisingly, we find ourselves thanking a Trump appointee—so thank you, Judge. Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia announced after a hearing that he would issue a temporary restraining order to halt the imminent administrative leave of 2,200 USAID employees.
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“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
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Campaign Nonviolence has launched a new podcast called Nonviolence Now. Check out the first episode, which explores the concepts of nonviolence through the lens of prominent thinkers.
17.01.2025 20:15 — 👍 22 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1The People’s March is moving through the streets of Washington: “We won’t go back!”
A broad coalition of activists — among them climate, women’s rights, immigration, anti-war, LGBT, D.C. statehood, racial justice — are mobilizing in unison against Trump, three days before his inauguration. 🧵
The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns.
08.01.2025 21:16 — 👍 75 🔁 35 💬 1 📌 4Elon’s tweet was what upset the bipartisan bill agreed upon already.
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