Amanda Smith

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

Literally happening as we speak

Trump's 'stop-work' order for PEPFAR cuts off anti-HIV drugs for patients As a result of the new administration's actions, health centers funded by PEPFAR, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, are closing their doors and no longer dispersing medication.

Engage Men's Health, a nonprofit organization in South Africa that offers testing and medications to prevent and manage HIV at three clinics throughout the country that is funded by the US initiative PEPFAR, has been shuttered thanks to Trump's order. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

The truth from the California Department of Water Resources:

On our next show part 2, meet Students For Education founder Brendan West. Learn more at: www.studentsforeducation.org/about-us/
Wednesday, 5pm, WQKR AM/FM/.Com.

Are you paying ATTENTION, yet? 👇

Well, are you?!

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MAGA are happy that he's going to raise the price of prescription drugs for their sick children?
You stupid motherfuckers.

They will go after Wikipedia.

They will go after libraries.

They will go after school boards and public extracurricular activities that are anything but sports.

They will go after archives.

Because knowledge, education, culture, and progressives are all the enemy.

Thinking is the enemy.

WATCH: “We need resistance at the local and state levels.”

Rep. Jones tells @rolandsmartin.bsky.social folks need to show up — and calls on members of his own Democratic Party to “stop trying to play patty-cake with fascists”

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DFGPWMf...

Hegseth Ex-Sister-in-Law Tells Senators He Was ‘Abusive’ to Second Wife A woman once married to the brother of Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary nominee, submitted a sworn statement to the Senate in a late-hour complication to his confirmation. His attorney denied her a...

at this point you have to ask, what evidence is that the hegseth *isn’t* abusive to the women in his life, or even any woman who crosses his path www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road drug marketplace Ulbricht, sentenced to life in prison in 2015, given ‘full and unconditional’ pardon by president

Trump has granted a “full and unconditional” pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 for running the underground market where drug dealers and others conducted more than $200m in trade using bitcoin.

Illicit drug users, unite! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The criminals are free to influence our children now.

I never want to hear that the GOP is the party of law & order again… ever.

News Organizations Are Tiptoeing Around What We All Saw How fear of litigation shapes coverage of influential figures

“The New York Times went with ‘Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture.’ The Washington Post opted for ‘Elon Musk gives exuberant speech at inauguration.’ Some local TV stations even cut their footage right before the first and most obvious salute.”

The Bible is “woke” apparently… btw if you don’t agree with free lunches in public schools and you have a fish on your car, you should remove that fish. You don’t know what it means.

Safely here for now... download to keep handy
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It's very important to support the ACLU right now. They are on the front lines in this battle of Trump v. Democracy. Give if you can:
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For anyone who wants a written copy of the constitution, the ACLU will send you a small pocket-sized version which is handy. Support the ACLU, they will need donations fighting all all of this Nazi BS.

Agree. The BBC is calling it the Nazi Salute. Europe would know more than anyone. Call a spade a spade.

Know Your Rights | Immigrants' Rights | ACLU Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS

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BBC not buying the gaslighting

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

Hero.

Tim Kaine to Elise Stefanik: "The notion that Democratic senators are for open borders and allowing illegal aliens to vote is a fantasy."

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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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