@joannadevos.bsky.social
Support and Save Public Broadcasting
NEWS: Donald Trump is on the verge of a federal takeover of Washington, D.C. and is telling all homeless residents to leave immediately.
I am in D.C. and I will cover this live and on the ground. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
05.08.2025 22:05 — 👍 2640 🔁 755 💬 36 📌 25
“Where’s the work that’ll set my hands, my soul, free?” (credit-Springsteen).
06.08.2025 02:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Congress eliminated public media funding. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
We live in a nation where I am now sending out alerts about what the U.S. attorney general is doing in our name.
It’s a lot to sit with.
It’s going to get a lot darker before it starts getting lighter, but I will keep doing what I do. And, it will get lighter again.
GoFundMe has set up a page for the Texan flood victims. Each campaign has been verified by the company's Trust & Safety experts, which means you know your money is going directly to families. Please consider donating if you can. Their stories are heartbreaking.
www.gofundme.com/c/act/flood-...
The nation's fifth most populous county, San Diego, just chose its political future today—and appears to have chosen to have a Democratic local government—and it's crickets everywhere. Quite the eye-popping example of the NY/East-Coast-bias of how elections get covered.
02.07.2025 05:50 — 👍 11523 🔁 2506 💬 250 📌 149
Amid allegations of inhumane and unsanitary conditions in ICE facilities, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is taking further steps to continue skirting congressional oversight. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
26.06.2025 16:38 — 👍 8043 🔁 4026 💬 497 📌 218🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨
Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:
Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate
LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor...
Unión del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...
The rule of law is all or nothing and must apply equally to everyone. If there's no rule of law for some people in America, then there's no rule of law for any of us.
10.05.2025 22:02 — 👍 23533 🔁 5976 💬 572 📌 225
If you’re looking for sharp, honest, investigative reporting that dives headfirst into issues most people won’t, David doesn’t disappoint.
Subscribe, stay curious, and slightly disturbed.
Happy #Severance Finale Eve to all who celebrate!
And keep a merry humor ever in your 💙.
🙌🏽 Bret can finally afford another shoe! #fotc #goldrecord
#folktheworld
Not enough words either.
05.02.2025 02:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0note to all—pls file under “Cocoa Puffs, Cuckoo for”
thx
Government workers when DOGE shows up.
04.02.2025 04:40 — 👍 10382 🔁 1595 💬 110 📌 47
(h/t: @the.language.nerds)
03.02.2025 12:05 — 👍 32395 🔁 7969 💬 1077 📌 567Spoke to two USAID employees today. Hard to describe the chaos happening there right now.
Critical programs providing food, medicine, and fuel to countries like Ukraine have been halted. Half the workforce has been fired. Staff are being intimidated.
And today, the USAID website was taken down.
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Today is the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp. 😢
The lessons of history are sadly forgotten!
ABC White House correspondent just released ANOTHER anti-trans EO expected that we did not cover in our piece this morning:
A federal ban on funding to programs that acknowledge and affirm transgender people.
Elon Musk doing a Nazi salute during Trump's inauguration festivities is something that, yes, I had on my 2025 bingo card.
20.01.2025 20:11 — 👍 3440 🔁 587 💬 120 📌 61
JUST IN:
NBC reporting that the following Day One Executive Orders relating to immigration were announced this morning on Trump’s policy call:
