Fred Chalfant

Tell Etsy, Reddit, Tinder & Duolingo: Stop Feeding Surveillance Tech ShadowDragon is using data from sites like Etsy, Reddit, Tinder & Duolingo for U.S. government surveillance. Sign Mozilla’s petition to demand stronger privacy protections and block shady surveillance...

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Chants of TAX THE RICH! From today’s Indivisible empty chair town hall for Darrell Issa - who just so happens to be the richest person in Congress. @velshi.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com @indivisible.org

A group funded by Elon Musk is behind deceptive ads in crucial Wisconsin Supreme Court race MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A group backed by billionaire Elon Musk is behind a set of deceptive attack ads and text messages targeting voters just weeks ahead of the election for a seat on Wisconsin’s Su…

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Elon Musk is so desperate to control Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, he’s funding fake ads pretending to support Judge Susan Crawford — just to turn voters against her with phony “progressive” messages filled with misleading lies.
Don’t fall for it.
Read this: tinyurl.com/Elon-Schimel

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937

Trump says: "he who saves his country does not violate any law" and is cheered on by Elon Musk, who posts 14 American flags

Attributed to Napoleon, who ended democracy in French, this quote was also used by Anders Breivik, the far-right anti-immigrant terrorist who murdered 77 people

Are you or do you know a probationary employee? #unionstrong #bettertogether #nffe #forestservice nffe-fsc.org/about/?proba...

‘It’s demoralizing’: Trump’s climate funding freeze has left tribes and community groups in limbo Despite court orders to release grants, many organizations working on climate projects still don't have access to contractually obligated money.

South Dakota's Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe received $19.9 million from the EPA for repairing a bridge, replacing asphalt roofs, and climate resilience.

Thanks to Trump's illegal program cuts, however, the tribe is no longer able to access the funds.

The wealthy win while the rest of us lose.

Winter is Here: On the Chilling Effect of Elon Musk and Donald Trump A functioning democracy needs dissent and debate. Trump won the 2024 election with 49.8 percent of the vote (with 77,302,580 total votes) over Kamala Harris’s 48.3 percent (with 75,017,613 total vo…

lithub.com/winter-is-he... @literaryhub.bsky.social

ProPublica’s Supreme Connections Database Updated With New Alito, Thomas Filings Our database of the Supreme Court justices’ financial connections now includes Samuel Alito’s deferred 2023 filing and eight previously missing disclosures from Clarence Thomas dating back to the 1990s.

Our Supreme Connections database tracks who’s paid the Supreme Court justices, reimbursed their travel expenses or given them gifts.

We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.

The University of Virginia has created a website of archived government websites—bookmark it—you’re going to need it later.

guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=1451...

Elon Musk’s China Threat The shadow president has deep ties to the Chinese dictatorship, and it shows. The risk to national security is unimaginable.

"Musk has huge and extensive connections to the Chinese dictatorship, both personally and through his businesses, and he has a long history of bending over backwards to appease its desires." From @ryanlcooper.com: prospect.org/world/2025-0...

A middle aged man helplessly holds an alligator’s tail as it steals his hat

In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊

We've updated our tracker below with these 3 additions.

If you have information about any of the people on this list, or know of other Musk associates who have entered the federal government, reach out on Signal at 917-512-0201.

NSA museum covered plaques honoring women and people of color, provoking an uproar Following a White House anti-DEI order, the National Cryptologic Museum covered up exhibits of women and people of color in its Hall of Honor. The NSA reversed course after former employees mobilized.

""As soon as we became aware [of it], we said, 'Oh, that was not what was intended.'" You literally put brown paper over the two panels - when clearly you didn't have to, as you've now reversed the action. How was that "not intended"?
www.npr.org/2025/02/05/n...

BREAKING: 10,000 workers at Kroger-owned King Soopers are now on strike in Colorado, shutting down 77 grocery stores.

UFCW workers voted by 96% to strike after their contract expired in January.

It's the first big strike of Trump's second term.

UPDATE: The "deferred resignation" scam Last week, Popular Information broke down the "offer" that the Trump administration was making to millions of federal employees to induce them to resign voluntarily.

Scam is right. popular.info/p/update-the...

90+ National Civil and Human Rights Organizations Urge Senate to Reject Bondi’s Attorney General Nomination The Leadership Conference and 92 national organizations urge senators to oppose confirmation of Pam Bondi to serve as attorney general.

civilrights.org/2025/01/28/9...

If you still needed a reason to support the Internet Archive.

Climate Science is not going away.

HE’S REPLACING NPR WITH BREITBART !?!?!?

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees.

Is Musk attempting a coup? And why isn’t he being arrested?

www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

Planning for the worst in Trump's next term: Prepare, don't panic, and don't comply in advance She championed abortion rights in Texas, and Amy Hagstrom Miller is ready for the next fight.

“One of the first signs of authoritarianism is that people start to comply with things before they are actually enforced. We can prepare for different scenarios, but we are not going to stop doing what we do."

I'm very grateful I live in the State of Maryland. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MDM...

What you can do Ten ways to resist Trump II

Trump II has begun. Many people are asking: “What can I do now?”

Here are 10 recommendations. Please let me know your thoughts, and if you have anything else you'd like to add to the list.

Call 1-888-214-6016 to report any ICE encounters.

I’m going to keep posting this randomly, because one day soon, someone will need this.

Unequal access to social, environmental and health amenities in US urban parks - Nature Cities Parks provide deep value to urban residents, but the distribution of those services is unclear. This study finds that US urban residents have unequal access to the crucial environmental, social and he...

Urban #parks in #US cities have unequal access according to new study. "Parks in predominantly white neighborhoods are cooler in the summer and have more tree cover compared with parks in neighborhoods with greater proportions of Hispanic and Black residents."
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Me, too. Should we order pizza?