As state terror amps up, here's a list of actions you can take now--
a lot of resources
and a list of upcoming virtual trainings on a number of topics:
Incredible
My kind of Torah, and tbh the Bible’s kind of Torah —
Seen in Mpls/StPl via @bromleighm.bsky.social
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck
Link | Subreddit
I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us
Had such a great conversation with Carey Wallace. You can buy her book here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
If I wasn’t clear: Tikvah Fund, which is run by one billionaire, funds a TON of stuff in the US conservative (political, not denominational) Jewy ecosystem, and it turns out they funded Bibi’s book translation to Hebrew RIGHT before the 2022 election, thus helping prop up this monster’s regime.
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I loved Bill Moyers' show. And I treasure the books of his wholehearted interviews about poetry, Genesis, mythology, and so much more. I wish he'd talked with Robert Caro. Extraordinary life.
This is devastating for so many. If you've got any $$ to share, Danya's right: Planned Parenthood and your local abortion fund need support now more than ever. As a pastor, please let me assure you that so many folks you know and love rely on these services for their well-being.
For those who live elsewhere, this is the heart of downtown #LosAngeles. My friends are here. My union is here (sup @wgawest.bsky.social). My teenager is here. People are passing out pastries & singing & praying. All we want is for our neighbors not to be kidnapped off the streets.
Yes, “disaster” is the correct word – this is a public health catastrophe. The pressure for him to resign should begin tonight, and continue until it happens. Nothing else should be in front of this. Go to a 19th century cemetery anywhere in this country to know why.
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
“A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.”
Not grammarly out here trying to edit MLK:
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You know I love a semi-colon.
#ICYMI: Disclosure forms show that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after the market closed, Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference sent the market tumbling.
📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social
As someone else noted "bottom 60%" is a weird way to say "the majority." It's not looking great out here, friends.
They are withholding this student's diploma.
Whether or not you agree with him, you cannot say you're trying to educate students to stand up and speak out when they feel they need to, and then threaten to withhold the diploma they have *earned* when they do this.
What if every primary was contested and the candidates competed to see who could out public service each other even before being elected?
“ did she really build a life with a man named Jack?”
“I’m not sure. I think it might just be the narrator of the song.”
“that would make sense. The song sounds awfully upbeat for someone who actually got left.”
Looking for little joys today: youngest child asked me who Aretha Franklin was in the way to school
and so I pulled up the greatest hits album that I used to have. I’ve subsequently been enjoying Ms. Aretha all day.
The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right.
The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter.
Everyone must choose which side they’re on.
Women's rights are human rights.
They aren't negotiable on International Women's Day or any day.
Here in Illinois, we celebrate the contributions of the incredible women in Illinois' history and honor them by continuing to push our state forward.
I hadn’t!
I have a lot of wonderful clergy colleagues who are speaking up for trans kids, but we are still hugely outnumbered. A good word and call to action:
jenniferharrisdault.substack.com/p/an-open-le...
As our editor-in-chief said back in November: Our job is to give readers an independent, verifiable account of what’s happening, even if the president is calling us enemies of the people or bloodsuckers.
At ProPublica, our mantra is that we bring the receipts to every story we publish:
Donald Trump has just released a national under 18 trans care ban executive order. I am working through specifically how it tries to do this, and will live tweet here section by section as I read through it.
It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.
