Hollyann Wood

Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?

“So far, the most energetic opposition has come not from civic leaders but from everyday citizens, showing up at Congressional town hall meetings or participating in Hands Off rallies across the country.

“Our leaders must follow their example.”

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country.

Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Let's discuss the *actual* charges against Judge Hannah Dugan using the Complaint against her.
tl;dr - she sent the man in question into the public hallway where agents there to arrest him watched him walk by and did nothing. 1/
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Panel 1: character crying at a desk Text: this IS hard Panel 2: character is now drawing determinedly Text: but I can do it

Little gentle reminder to all the human creatives out there 💪

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Neil Stone (@DrNeilStone ). The tweet reads: "RFK Jr has cut Alzheimers research. ALZHEIMERS. One of the most devastating, urgent and increasing health problems we face today. He’s not interested. He’s a nasty piece of work."

Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.

🔥 OBAMA: “IMAGINE IF I HAD DONE ANY OF THIS… I say this not on a partisan basis. This has to do with something more precious — who are we as a country, and what values do we stand for?” 🇺🇸

@barackobama.bsky.social think about running as VP for someone.

How To Build A Bigger Tent Welcome people of all stripes who want to fight to save the country.

New: I find hope in the AOC-Conor Lamb unified front for fighting dictatorship and protecting the safety net, as an alternative to collaboration, timidity, or other litmus tests. www.offmessage.net/p/how-to-bui...

TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY!

If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK!

Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore.

JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺

#24HourEconomicBlackout

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

OMFG! 🔥🔥🔥🔥Rep. Jasmine Crockett:

"We are going to be in your faces. We're gonna be on your ass, we're going to make sure you understand that this is what democracy looks like!"

Image of letter signed by 50+ organizations objecting to the Executive Order Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-conforming Americans.

Image of letter signed by 50+ organizations objecting to the Executive Order Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-conforming Americans.

Image of letter signed by 50+ organizations objecting to the Executive Order Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-conforming Americans.

Image of 50+ organization’s logos who object to the Executive Order Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-conforming Americans.

@txfreedomread.bsky.social is proud to stand alongside more than 50 other organizations in objecting to the executive order attacking the rights and denying the existence of transgender, intersex, nonbinary and gender non-conforming Americans.

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

If a church doesn’t have a food pantry or a soup kitchen or a closet full of clothes and blankets open to the public or isn’t showing up at natural disasters to help, why does that church have a tax-exempt status?

Is there a US social workers group on blue sky?

I’m looking for community while I’m waiting to hear back about grad school acceptance to MSW/MSSW programs for next fall.

I’m interested in people & policy. I don’t have a BSW, my BA (from long ago) is in Psych/philosophy.

Spread the Truth About These Five Cabinet Picks Key talking points to share and use in your advocacy against dangerous nominees.

Please read and share this everywhere.

Talking points & resources to push back against the RFK, Tulsi, Patel, Hegseth & Bondi nominations.

Social media toolkit included!

Pass it on.

Two Democrats — Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Kathy Castor — voted in favor of Trump and Musk’s plan to defund programs that help kids with cancer. Let’s put them on blast!

if 90% of the population still got its news from 3 tv stations "the president elect got congress to cut child cancer research" would lead his political party into at least 8 years of darkness but unfortunately the internet has a few downsides

on June 9 2024 dopey dipshit @JoeyMannarinoUS blurped: Hate speech is free speech. Misinformation is free speech. There are no definitions of those things that can be clearly defined without inherent bias. Every human will inherently have a different definition of hate speech. Therefore, shutting people down for hate speech and misinformation is inherently wrong.

on December 6 2024 dopey dipshit @JoeyMannarinoUS quoted someone who joked he’s the United Healthcare CEO’s shooter and blurped: How is this allowed? This can get me killed.

how it started / how it’s going

Click to Visit #ASafeChoice Network

REALLY IMPORTANT UPDATE PLEASE SHARE

#ASafeChoice physicians WILL prescribe medication abortion via telehealth FOR WOMEN WHO ANTICIPATE NEEDING THIS MEDICATION.

REPEAT: You do NOT need to be currently pregnant to get this prescription.

In an era of potentially draconian abortion bans, take note!

……. okay yeah I had to sit with this one for a minute

in America we really do have zero reason to trust we wouldn’t be shot in that situation

and we know that’s fucked up but we forget how UNIQUELY fucked up it is???

Children Worked Dangerous Shifts at Iowa Slaughterhouse, Inquiry Finds Qvest Sanitation was ordered to pay nearly $172,000 after the Labor Department found it had employed 11 children to clean equipment on overnight shifts at a pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa.

You can get sent to jail for stealing toilet paper but if you hire a dozen children to work overnight shifts at your slaughter house your company pays a fine

Compared to the list of Traitor Tot's pardons, hunter Biden is an absolute angel.

See for yourself: rb.gy/lfkzsb

The Charles Kushner appointment to be ambassador to France is a Trump trifecta: nepotism, criminality, and incompetence. Profoundly offensive and a setback for US standing in the world.

Trump hoodwinked voters about his worst policy commitments They signed up for Project 2025 whether they knew it or not.

New in PN: Trump hoodwinked voters about his worst policy commitments

"With lots of help from the media, Trump spent the campaign pretending that the hyper-conservative and deeply unpopular Project 2025 agenda was not the blueprint for his second term."

The most important line in the brief: "Although the Constitution requires dismissal in this context, consistent with the temporary nature of the immunity afforded a sitting President, it does not require dismissal w/ prejudice."

Today, 54 people who received clemency from President Biden and the previous four administration sent a letter to President Biden urging him to lead with justice and mercy and grant clemency now! Clemency is his last opportunity to build a strong legacy on reform!

Read the full letter here!

A sickening abdication of the rule of law. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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