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The media needs to stop referring to RFK Jr. as a "vaccine skeptic." He is a conspiracy theorist and a vaccine denier.

Dem Governor Launches Plan to Counter RFK Jr.’s Autism Registry Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has a plan to undermine the autism registry RFK Jr. keeps talking about.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker plans to sign an executive order preventing state agencies from obtaining or disclosing data that personally identifies people with autism, unless required for medical care or legal matters.

“Every Illinoisan deserves ... the freedom to live without fear of surveillance.”

The worst fucking men are in charge of health care. The griftiest grifters with massively inflated egos are literally running the show.

Dark Money Hit a Record High of $1.9 Billion in 2024 Federal Races Spending by groups that do not disclose their donors has increased and become harder to trace.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

It's tough to refer to someone as a criminal if you've given them no due process to determine whether they're a criminal. Like if you get arrested and get a trial and are convicted of 34 felony counts. That's due process. You can call that guy a criminal.

From ICE to Hannaford: Vermonters rally on May Day for human rights and social justice amid escalating Trump administration attacks, rollbacks - VTDigger Community groups, labor unions, student and faith communities rallied across Vermont and around the nation on May Day, commemorated as international workers’ day in a demonstration of mass solidarity.

Community groups, labor unions, student and faith communities rallied across Vermont and around the nation on May Day, commemorated as international workers’ day in a demonstration of mass solidarity.

Was never principle. Was just good business. Now it’s neither.

UPDATE: Earlier reports that Jeff Bezos and Amazon were acting on principle were incorrect.

I wish we could have snap elections, and that our general elections were limited to 51 days.

Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

And that is the power of pushback.

Good night and good sleep!

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

photo of a red shopping basket filled with turnips, under the headline: If you’re worried about food tariffs, adopt a frugal mindset and cook smarter Learn to shop for groceries like a thrifter and work on eliminating waste By Sheryl Julian Globe Correspondent,Updated April 7, 2025, 7:21 a.m. caption: The big question is, writes Sheryl Julian, are we expected to remove all the pleasures from the table and turn the nightly dinner into a feast of locally grown turnips (above) and leafy greens?Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

Hope it was worth it to stop a few of us from peeing.

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism

Debunking LA Times Fascism With Facts We cannot leave unanswered these 20 published lies about the US Government's illegal abduction of Mahmoud Khalil

LA Times argues green card holders do not get Constitutional rights because they aren't citizens

This is the same fascist logic used to lock up Japanese Americans, deny Jewish refugees, & commit genocide against Black & Indigenous peoples.

I debunk with receipts www.qasimrashid.com/p/debunking-...

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.

Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.

Do not.

It's Monday, a new week and another chance to build power in our movement to stop Trump's authoritarian takeover.

This is a moment that requires courage, curiosity, and generosity. Not perfection. Pick an issue that lights you up the most and go with it. Bring people in.

As U.S.-Canada relations sour, Vermont businesses are facing boycotts - VTDigger Canadians are shunning Vermont-made goods and canceling trips to the state.

Canadians are shunning Vermont-made goods and canceling trips to the state.

An urgent argument for the HPV vaccine Data shows it can prevent six types of cancer. But anti-vaccine activists, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have helped dampen its usage.

Data shows it can prevent six types of cancer. But anti-vaccine activists, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have helped dampen its usage.

Over a thousand Vermonters showed up to Montpelier to protest Trump and Musk. The momentum is building. Keep your signs ready to go! Comment your favorite sign below⬇️

ICE arrests Palestinian activist who led Columbia University protests, lawyer says Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University's student encampment protests, has been arrested by ICE, his lawyer says.

If the government can arrest a U.S. resident living here legally without charges and deport them, that is a grave threat to the civil liberties of all of us.

Politics has no business here. This is a direct attack on free speech and our constitutional rights.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/newyork/...

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

March Arts Marathon creations, days 6-8

happy international women's day to trans women in particular

@balint.house.gov helping us meet this moment: we legislate, we litigate, we agitate! #internationalwomensday

A beautiful #InternationalWomensDay in Vermont

Wastewater sampling could be key to early warning of new disease outbreaks Monitoring pathogens in sewer systems would be ‘major improvement’ on current techniques, new research shows

This would be terrific...I mean, if we were a functioning, forward-looking, well-resourced nation.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#Amazon boycott starts tomorrow! For this whole week (but forever is better)

Democracy dies in decorum.

Good.