Sunday thought An extraordinary week for America

Sunday thought: The slumbering giant is awakening
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JD Vance ridiculed after claiming World War 2 ended by ‘negotiations’ The vice president made the blunder on MSNBC’s Meet the Press while discussing Donald Trump’s efforts to end the Ukraine war

This isn't something that you "mock" It's not funny. It's not the sign of just a dumb-ass in the White House.
This is another example of an American world view where negotiations with fascism is considered okay.

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I am America, now, it's your turn.

In Big Win for Voters, Pennsylvania Must Count Undated Mail-In Ballots, Court Rules In Big Win for Voters, Pennsylvania Must Count Undated Mail-In Ballots, Court Rules

I celebrate every victory for voting rights, but this one is particularly special. No issue has been more hotly contested or more important to PA voters than this one. The DSCC and DCCC fought hard and it is great to see them prevail. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

will Healther Cox Richardson be teaching this course.

According to Trump's America:

The White South African family in good shape on the left are refugees and worthy victims.

The US-assisted genocide victim on the right is not a worthy victim.

Clearway, a California company is proposing to build 43 591' Industrial Wind Turbines on Jack Mt. along with 14 miles of huge power lines to connect the the power station in Franklin.
The generated power will benefit no one in WV but will go into the PJM grid serving PA,NJ & MD.

Hope she presses charges

Sunday thought The importance of taking care of yourself

These are frightening times. Your courage and tenacity are desperately needed. They will be needed for the rest of this year and next, and the years thereafter. Which is why you must also take care of yourself. robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-tho...

EveryLibrary Condemns the Trump Administration's Termination of IMLS Grants as an Attack on Libraries, Museums, and Archives Everywhere. State Library Agencies and other grant recipients across the country began receiving official notices from the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services terminating their grants,...

Libraries across the country began receiving official notices from the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services terminating their grants, effective April 1, 2025.

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If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you.

If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you.

If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you.

We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.

#GVerse #Attention: Remember this?
He wasn't shot.

DOGE to use AI to change Social Security’s computer system. Financial catastrophe hovers for the more than 1 in 5 Americans who receive Social Security.

RFK Jr. fat shames governor and suggests monthly 'public weigh-in' (Daily Mail) Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. has a heavy lift in his crusade to 'Make America Healthy Again.' The HHS secretary paid a visit to We...

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Trump's Social Security nominee just lied to the Finance Committee, claiming he hasn't been involved in any DOGE plans to gut Social Security. My office has a whistleblower that says otherwise. We brought the receipts.

What a weekend!
Across the U.S., over 100,000 Americans mobilized — including more than 34,000 attendees at the Bernie/AOC rally, marking the biggest political event since Obama. Protests erupted in multiple states to defend Social Security, Tesla takedown protest gained momentum, and so much more!

Deportations and Dumbing Down: Trump Attacks Education On ‘America Unhinged,’ Francesca and Wajahat discuss Trump’s unjust deportation of migrants and the executive order to shut down the Department of Education.

Fantastic interview with Rep. @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social Bowman on why Trump’s attack on the Department of Education is all part of the white supremacist agenda and the right-wing grift to make a profit at the expense of our children.

Give us a watch!

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Trump moves to destroy Columbia University It's his latest corrupt quid pro quo.

New in PN: Trump moves to destroy Columbia University

"It’s another corrupt quid pro quo like the one behind Trump’s 'perfect phone call' to Zelenskyy. Here, Columbia only gets federal funding if it agrees to violate the constitutional rights of both faculty and students on Trump's behalf."

The evil at your door The deportation action as regime change

Always listen to Spoonamore. If we lose due process, when anyone can become an enemy for any reason and being deported. This is wildly important.

Theee headlines from newspapers covering the three cases mentioned. The first say “Canadian woman detained by ICE being used as an ‘example’ immigration experts warn. The second says “Visa rule warning as tourist detained at US border” The last says “US resident violently interrogated on way home from Luxembourg”

If you don’t think this could happen to you, you’re wrong.

Ask Becky Burke from Wales, imprisoned for 11 days by ICE.

Or Jasmine Mooney, Canada, imprisoned for 12 days.

Or US resident, Fabian Schmidt. Stripped naked & interrogated before collapsing.

Resident or visitor, the US is no longer safe.

The video of Trump’s deportees arriving in El Salvador is horrific.

This is 21st century Nazism.

Identities concealed, trafficked to a foreign labour camp. No due process, no evidence of crime. Dehumanised.

Where is the global outrage?

The crime is historic; the normalisation catastrophic.

Okay - Martial Law is tapping at the door. Wartime power for deportation is a direct path to authoritarian control. This is how regimes consolidate power by criminalizing groups, bypassing rights, and expanding state violence. Mass resistance is the only answer. Take the streets, do NOT retreat🧵1/2

Trump, Netanyahu and Putin are the personification of evil.

This entire thing is ludicrous, Trump and Netanyahu are nutso

Timothy Snyder and Sławomir Sierakowski Are Raising Funds Towards an Armored Evacuation Vehicle | UNITED24 (Ukraine House DC Foundation) (Powered by Donorbox) Timothy Snyder, Sławomir Sierakowski, and UNITED24 Are Raising Funds Towards an Armored Evacuation Vehicle for UkraineAmerican historian Timothy Snyder, Polish journalist Sławomir Sierakowski, and UNI...

From the good news department: Thanks to the support of thousands of Poles, Slawek Sierakowski and I have reached the goal of funding one armored ambulance for Ukrainian medics — in one day. Today starting the drive for a second. Please help.
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The Trump administration keeps saying that other countries pay for tariffs, but that’s not how they work.

Tariffs are effectively taxes on imported products, which the American people ultimately pay.

10 Essential Ways the National Weather Service and NOAA Protect Our Families - Moms Clean Air Force The National Weather Service and its parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, play a vital role in keeping communities safe from severe weather and other environmental threa...

The National Weather Service and its parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, play a vital role in keeping communities safe from severe weather and other environmental threats. www.momscleanairforce.org/noaa-protect... #ProtectNWS, #ProtectNOAA @cleanairmoms.bsky.social