The Big Ugly Bill was designed to prepare the soil for cultivating fascism.

Harvard Sues Trump Administration Over Threats to Cut Funding Harvard’s lawsuit comes after the administration sought to force the university to comply with a list of demands by cutting billions in federal funding the school receives.

Finally! It’s about damn time.
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Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal. It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

An understatement, but truth.

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This. All of this. Period.
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Two minutes worth of Republicans JD Vance, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, Jim Jordan, and John Thune criticizing the use of the IRS to punish organizations for their politics:

A friend said something akin to, "Self-sufficiency cannot be sustainable because it excludes the most abundant and vital resource on Earth: community." and I can't stop thinking about how true that is. Community is a resource, freely available and primed for abundance.

Calling all hearts. #ThisisNotADrill
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How Trump and the GOP Fixed the 2026 Election — Yes, 2026 Here’s how they are already stealing it…

How Trump and the GOP Fixed the 2026 Election — Yes, 2026
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Saturday Report 3/1/25 - The plan to “demolish” Social Security is underway: Who will stop them? The Best of the Rest of the News...

The demolition of public health, Social Security and elections as we know them is in full swing. #ThisIsNotADrill

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Yes

Method and madness. Nothing else to say here.

Opinion | The White House’s Ukraine minerals plan sounds like a shakedown Zelensky’s good idea for joint investment is not enough to protect the country after the war.

Once a thug, always a thug. #Resist
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Reasons to Live Through the Apocalypse Sunrises. People you have still to meet and laugh with. Songs about love, peace, anger, and revolution. Walks in the woods. The smile you exchange with a stranger when you experience beauty accidentally together. Butterflies. Seeing your grandparents again. The moon in all her forms, whether half or full. Dogs. Birthdays and half-birthdays. That feeling of floating in love. Watching birds eat from bird feeders. The waves of happiness that follow the end of sadness. Brown eyes. Watching a boat cross an empty sea. Sunsets. Dipping your feet in the river. Balconies. Cake. The wind in your face when you roll the car window down on an open highway. Falling asleep to the sound of a steady heartbeat. Warm cups of tea on cold days. Hugs. Night skies. Art museums. Books filled with everything you do not yet know. Long conversations. Long-lost friends. Poetry. - Nikita Gill

YouTube video by Don Lemon The letter supposedly sent out to federal employees… #elonmusk #donaldtrump

NDA for federal employees?https://youtube.com/shorts/1dnTdSY8DsA?si=zrzuNdSypDCyRrMQ

The Associated Press Sues The White House Over Free Speech Fight for free speech!

The Associated Press Sues The White House Over Free Speech
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Yvonne S. Sparks on Substack Attack of the DOGE. This is not a drill. “This attack is unusual in that it is coming from an external agent posing as an internal entity: DOGE. In that way it is similar to another nation state att...

Attack of the DOGE. This is not a drill. #Prepare #Resist

Unelected reformers
Republicans lost their minds when President Bill Clinton appointed Hillary Clinton to lead healthcare reform in 1993. It met a firestorm of criticism and indignation that derailed the effort. Now there is another unelected official, a destroyer in chief. The response? Crickets.

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture Family Farms and Small Businesses are the "E" In DEI

DEI. E stands for "Equity." Small farmers are finding out that "E" included them. But that is over now. The suffering has just begun.
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YouTube video by The Back Forty From One Farmer to Another

The brainwashing of rural America--and the rest of us.

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History repeats itself.

The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with Political Scientist Erica Chenoweth "The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democr...

If you haven't read this yet, go take 9 min and read it now. @chenoweth.bsky.social

Anarchy? Here’s the reason for the urgency. Elon’s job is to find the money required to extend the 2017 tax cuts for the rich. They sunset this year. Extending requires “paying” for them with offsetting reductions. To make them permanent budget items (agencies) must be permanently eliminated.

U.S. slips to new low in international corruption index The U.S. ranks no. 28 among 180 countries.

How low can you go? #TrumpEffect The #TrumpEffect is a reflection of the deterioration of positive perceptions and measures of the integrity and desirability of the U.S. Government and social conditions. How low can we go? We’ll just have to wait and see.
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What Elon Musk wants is worse than you think | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, a new breed of journalists just might save America.

As the Musk coup rampages through DC, most Americans don't understand there's a method to the madness that's even more terrifying

They want to replace "outdated" democracy with AI, in a power grab that empowers billionaires with a lie about efficiency

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So now Trump has the mayor of the nation's most important and powerful city and arguably in the world in his pocket. I wonder what kind of fresh hell this will unleash.

The Democratic Party's calculation appears to be that raising hell about what Trump is doing will make them look obstructionist, partisan, and "sour-grapey" while painting him as a man of action taking bold steps on presisng problems.

This is wrong and dumb.

The CFPB took aim at Big Tech. Then Elon Musk moved to dismantle it. In the days before Musk’s DOGE set its sights on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, X revealed plans for a payments system the agency might have overseen.

What’s the real reason t Musk attacked the CFPB? Elon felt that they were a nuisance and would slow down his plans by protecting us from the threat the X payments platform would pose. It's always about him and his megalomaniacal greed. It‘s never about us or the right thing to do. wapo.st/3CMR7X2

Yvonne S. Sparks on Substack The Trump administrationn.

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Yvonne S. Sparks on Substack Muzzle-blocking and focus. A form of shock and awe to control the media and us. It is a simple and effective strategy. Bannon told us it was coming.

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Yvonne S. Sparks on Substack Priceless.#RESIST

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