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NO KINGS 2.0 Lincoln, Nebraska! 10.18.25 @ 10:18 AM! · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

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No Kings Rally in Lincoln, Nebraska @ 10:15 state capitol

On April 24, ICE agents broke into a home of a family of US citizens in Oklahoma. The family repeatedly said we are citizens, you have the wrong people. ICE terrorized the family, ripped apart the house.

It's not "other people" that this is happening to. It's us. Open your eyes. Wake the hell up.

Harvey Weinstein Pushed, Grabbed and Then Attacked, Witness Testifies in NYC Trial Miriam Haley is the first to testify of the three women whose accusations are at the center of the disgraced producer’s retrial on sex abuse charges.

Miriam Haley was the first to testify of the three women whose accusations are at the center of Harvey Weinstein’s retrial on sex abuse charges.

The Trump administration has started rounding up people with no criminal record, moving them so even their families and lawyers have no idea where they are, and deporting them even after a court has said not to.

I'm fighting back.

National Law Day of Action -- May 1st

Lawyers, law firms, bar associations, the general public

lawdayofaction.org

Supreme Court considers lawsuit arising from 'wrong house' FBI raid FBI agents burst into an Atlanta house with flash-bang grenades and guns drawn, but victims have struggled to hold the government accountable for their actions.

“FBI agents burst into an Atlanta house with flash-bang grenades and guns drawn, but victims have struggled to hold the government accountable for their actions.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Supreme Court asks: Can FBI be held liable for raiding the wrong house? FBI agents handcuffed Hilliard Toi Cliatt and pointed a gun at him and Curtrina Martin while her young son cowered in a bedroom. It was the wrong house.

FBI agents handcuffed Hilliard Toi Cliatt and pointed a gun at him and Curtrina Martin while her son cowered in a bedroom. It was the wrong house.

The Supreme Court will consider whether those impacted by such wrong-house raids can hold law enforcement officials accountable for their mistakes.

Tony Blair calls for radical reset of climate change policies in major intervention Former PM warns climate policy has become disconnected from ‘political, public, and economic reality’ and claims COP is struggling to ‘deliver change at the speed required’

Tony Blair calls for radical reset of climate change policies in major intervention

Opinion | Trump’s Vicious Sewing Circle Catfights abound in Trump’s macho world.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“It is grimly entertaining to see this most ‘masculine’ of administrations reflecting stereotypes about female behavior that long kept women out of power,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to endorse for Senate, lending his political muscle – and likely some resources Pritzker is backing his lieutenant governor, Juliana Stratton, who was the first candidate to enter what's expected to be a crowded field to succeed Sen. Dick Durbin.

“Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is expected to endorse his lieutenant governor, Juliana Stratton, for the Senate on Friday, just two days after longtime Sen. Dick Durbin said he would not seek a sixth term.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are bending the law so they can fire thousands of Social Security workers.

They want to get rid of the people who make sure you get your monthly checks and help out if there’s a problem.

Trump Administration policies are centered identity politics, and they always have been. But too many only label politics so when the identities are Black, POC, LGBTQ, and then suddenly identity is fringe and problematic.

Coercing companies to purge dangerous DEI while enacting policies that will disrupt supply chains and lead to empty shelves and spiking prices. Ending dangerous DEI while promising to focus solely on military lethality. Ending dangerous DEI while those struggling to pay student loans to creditors.

I’m curious about how many “centrists” who STILL continue to blame progressives for focusing on fringe identity issues at the expense of so-called kitchen table issues will admit that’s exactly what Trump’s been doing by attacking “DEI” while throwing the economy and government into chaos.

Facebook was willing to hand the CCP the keys to the kingdom for access to the Chinese market.
❌privacy
❌free speech
❌free flow of information

Scottish government failing women who can’t access later term abortions, campaigners say Abortion rights group says ‘extremely vulnerable women’ are having to travel hundreds of miles to visit English clinics Campaigners have warned Scottish ministers that they are failing in their legal and moral duties as growing numbers of “extremely vulnerable women” have to travel hundreds of miles south because they cannot access later term abortions in Scotland. Not one of Scotland’s 14 regional health boards provide abortion care after 20 weeks except in the specific cases of foetal abnormality or threat to a woman’s life. This comes despite the Scottish government pledging to rectify this “explicit inequality” three years ago, and abortion being legal on broad grounds until 24 weeks across the UK. Continue reading...

Scottish government failing women who can’t access later term abortions, campaigners say

The concentration of wealth in the hands of an elite few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, the American people don't have a voice.

The result? Demagoguery and corruption.

JUST IN: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared Yemen strike details in a second Signal chat that included his wife and brother, three sources told CNN. cnn.it/3EpM8fP

It took me ten years and dozens of feminist essays from that morning I wrote “Men Explain Things to Me” to realize that I was not talking and writing, after all, about violence against women, though I was reading about it incessantly. I was writing about what it means not to have a voice and making the case for a redistribution of that vital power. The crucial sentence in “Men Ex- plain Things to Me” is “Credibility is a basic survival tool.” But I was wrong that it’s a tool. You hold a tool in your own hands, and you use it yourself. What it does is up to you. Your credibility arises in part from how your society perceives people like you, and we have seen over and over again that no mat- ter how credible some women are by supposedly objective stan- dards reinforced by evidence and witnesses and ­ well-​­ documented patterns, they will not be believed by people committed to protect- ing men and their privileges. The very definition of women under patriarchy is designed to justify inequality, including inequality of credibility.

I wrote about this too, in my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

There is something faintly ridiculous about this wet-behind-the-ears lad shutting up the savvy, middle-aged Penelope. But it’s a nice demonstration that right where written evidence for Western culture starts, women’s voices are not being heard in the public sphere; more than that, as Homer has it, an integral part of growing up, as a man, is learning to take control of public utterance and to silence the female of the species. The actual words Telemachus uses are significant too. When he says ‘speech’ is ‘men’s business’, the word is muthos – not in the sense that it has come down to us of ‘myth’. In Homeric Greek it signals authoritative public speech (not the kind of chatting, prattling or gossip that anyone – women included, or especially women – could do). What interests me is the relationship between that classic Homeric moment of silencing a woman and some of the ways women’s voices are not publicly heard in our own contemporary culture, and in our own politics from the front bench to the shop floor. It’s a well-known deafness that’s nicely parodied in the old Punch cartoon: ‘That’s an excellent suggestion, Miss Triggs. Perhaps one of the men here would like to make it.’3 I want to look too at how it might relate to the abuse that many women who do speak out are subjected to even now, and one of the questions at the back of my mind is the connection between publicly speaking out in support of a female logo on a banknote, Twitter threats of rape and decapitation, and Telemachus’ put-down of Penelope.

Mary Beard, in her landmark 2014 essay "The Public Voice of Women" traces this silencing/dismissal/exclusion of women's voices (in Europe/Near East) cultures back to Telemachus telling his mother to shut up in The Odyssey.

The Holy Women at the Tomb" by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Three women gathered in the stone doorway in their draperies, an angel in the luminous far side of that doorway, the women seemingly exclaiming in wonder...

Luke 24, King James version:
"It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles. And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not."

The Women going to the Sepulchre, 1912, Robert Anning Bell Painting of women in blue garments walking leftward, one woman, and then five behind her, on a flat plain, hazy sky ....

Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.

Come on media. You're complicit in this coup with your underreporting. MILLIONS, not thousands. People at home need to see they are not alone and that the number of people who feel that way is growing.

A snorkel diver gliding near a school of lime green fish in shallow water. Text reads: "Trump Opens a Huge Marine Protected Zone to Commercial Fishing." Photo credit: Ian Shive/United States Fish and Wildlife Service

President Trump on Thursday said he was allowing commercial fishing in one of the world’s largest ocean reserves, introducing industrial operations for the first time in more than a decade to a vast area of the Pacific populated by endangered sea turtles and whales.

Read more: nyti.ms/3Rpkm68

Deadline article titled Teaching Students, Schooling America: Robert Reich Documentary 'The Last Class' Acquired By Abramorama

We're excited to share our collaboration with
@imcivicaction.bsky.social
to bring the incredibly inspiring and timely film, THE LAST CLASS to theaters.

Read more about the acquisition from
@deadline.com: deadline.com/2025/04/robe...

Senator Van Hollen on Bluesky: “I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.”

Demand that your members of Congress speak out against Trump’s defiance of the Supreme Court, push for an end to the lawless abductions, and move to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home immediately.

Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/constit...

"Can you imagine coming across your mother in a museum half naked for the first time in 62 years?"

Find out the incredible story behind a forgotten Australian Aboriginal statue: aje.io/NannyNellie

The White House is covering up its spending decisions We’re suing to force the executive branch to disclose how it’s spending taxpayer dollars

We cover the serious dangers of a seemingly bureaucratic move by the White House that could allow DOGE & OMB to unlawfully cut or redirect funds with little oversight, enabling them to make decisions about taxpayer money without Congress or the public knowing. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-white-...

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