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Opinion | José Andrés: People of Good Conscience Must Stop the Starvation in Gaza

From @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“There is no excuse for the world to stand by and watch two million human beings suffer on the brink of full-blown famine,” the chef José Andrés writes about Gaza.

No one needed a JD to rule on this.

The people speak…
#handsoff our democracy!

#50501 #mendingamerica

How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement AOC, solidarity, and people power.

This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.

“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.

That all the other GOP Senators didn’t even think it through before voting is horrific.

Seems as good a time as any to bring up Signal vs Noise.
#signalgate

Himes: "Apparently all this mayhem is cheered by the president of the United States and by 20-somethings with laptops and names like Big Balls. But I've been doing this for a long time, and I know that Moscow and Beijing and Tehran and Pyongyang cannot believe their luck."

It’s worth stating this simply: For literally anyone in the US Govt from 1945 to 2025, Signalgate would require an instant resignation—and a criminal investigation. It would be a matter of personal *honor* to resign. The fact Mike Waltz & Pete Hegseth are choosing to fight it out is a terrible omen.

Follow up: Did your children have Secret Service protection after you lost in 2020?

Can you also make a flyer to put on Amazon vans? Boxes?

See How Elon Musk’s Team Inflated, Deleted and Rewrote Its Savings Claims The cost-cutting group removed hundreds of contracts from its “wall of receipts,” added back many of them, and inflated savings values.

God’s work from the @nytimes.com aka math www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

While also making healthcare unaffordable/inaccessible.

The 401(k) is such a morally impoverished substitute for a pension, a thing I never thought about until a much older union member pointed out to me that they took an earned benefit people could depend on and subjected it to the vagaries of the market and "individual choice in investments"

It is worth pausing to appreciate how bonkers the “national debt” debate has been in this trifecta. Every Republican lawmaker except Tom Massie and Rand Paul voted for a Trump agenda budget allowing a net deficit hike of trillions (House) or hundreds of billions (Senate).

The price of eggs | $13.59 | Long Island, #newyork

#noeggs @wholefoods365.bsky.social
#greenwichCT

#noeggs @wholefoods365.bsky.social #chicago

He’s trying really hard—like Gaza hard—to get us to focus on this.

Honestly, what to label the Gulf of Mexico seems the least of our problems.

Via @ktullymcmanus.bsky.social: "As each Democratic senator cast their vote, they stood by their desk in the chamber and named a program or project in their state that may be impacted by OMB’s attempted freeze of federal funds."

Musk aims to hobble federal workers ahead of ‘buyout’ deadline Countless staffers in the government are now grappling with what to do.

Do not believe him www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

This is flatly illegal and unconstitutional. Zero legal basis whatsoever, the sort of thing that in any other political environment would lead to instant impeachment and criminal charges against the perpetrators..

How can American democracy survive?

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Hundreds rally at Kentucky Capitol to protest Trump's executive actions A decentralized group of more than 200 protestors stood on the steps of the state Capitol, protesting broadly about the sweeping changes President Donald Trump has made in his first weeks in office.

THE STORY: Roughly 200 protestors gathered on the steps of the Kentucky state Capitol to call for immediate action to rein in the sweeping executive action taken by President Donald Trump in his first days in office

www.lpm.org/news/2025-02...

Because Trump would rather play golf and eat fast food

Democracy Playbook 2025 Norm Eisen and Jonathan Katz provide actionable steps for democratic actors in the U.S. and globally to strengthen democratic institutions and resist illiberal forces.

Presidents don't have unilateral power to fire civil servants & gut fed agencies

Congress, courts, media, & citizens can act to check the power of the exec branch

We discuss how👇-TN www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...

Will people protest Trump the way they protested Biden over his handling of the Gaza Strip? Will universities be flooded with protesters? Will traffic be stopped in big cities?
Will the “intellectuals”make the rounds on cable news?

and some kegs.

If they aren’t working for them already

We all know this already.
Please, do something to stop it.
You have power.
You have a voice.

Please. We need leadership.