If it is staying above water or breaking even, I’d ask you to just leave it be. It is literally a “safe space”.

What is so wrong with a place of refuge for the weary, the frightened, the folks who believe humanity is more valuable than money? Just a regular user saying I can’t stay hear if I have to wade through racist, misogynistic posts that laud inhumane treatment and call it progress.

I am a regular human. I am not fancy, or wealthy, or connected. I come here because I cannot bear the news, because I deleted all my other social accounts out of disgust and, honestly, fear. I like that it is relatively calm here. I like that humans can express their outrage at inhumanity.

Truth Matters on Substack To understand what’s happening in America today you have to have lived through the same thing it in recent history. Democracy Now presents an insightful clip featuring Maria Ressa, Nobel laureate and...

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Excuse me, but what didn't David Brooks see coming? Hard pass on this long plea for empathy from a horrified old-school conservative.

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In case you need a history refresher.

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

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Secrets for sale.

Appreciate you, Cory. What comes after speaking out? Because I think we need to DO something.

This👇🏽

Trump drops order against law firm after it pledges $40 million in legal services The firm agreed to provide pro bono work for causes chosen by Trump and to change its workplace diversity practices, the White House said.

The players keep bending the knee in order to protect themselves. But the collapse of the U.S. social order is imminent. What we had was an inequitable system that gave cursory support to our collective well being. Even with all it’s flaws we will miss it.

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A lot of women know how to handle abusers. Once you give in, they’ve got you on their he yo-yo string. You have to walk away early or make it clear that you’ll fight and ensure they don’t walk away unscathed. This capitulating to your abuser is the absolute wrong strategy.

Feels like the response of someone who is being abused to try to ward off more abuse. Personally, when threatened with pain I ether remove myself or show a complete willingness to make everybody hurt. I don’t suffer abusers or comply with their requests.

Schumer says he'll vote to keep government open as Democrats criticize GOP plan The Senate plans to take up a House-passed bill to fund the government through September beginning on Friday, which needs the support of Democrats to move forward.

We are asking #SenateDemocrats to stand together and not give the abuser what he wants. It is classic victim behavior to please the abuser in the hope the pain will stop. But, will it? Or are you giving our abuser free reign to hurt and hurt again and again?

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Totally enjoyed that and empathized with the sentiment!

I have noticed that the standard media coverage is unchanged. With a big storm we hear about it days in advance and the worst possible scenarios are anticipated. With current corruption there is no alarm bell, no advice, just “1/2 the employees at the DOE have been fired, and now to sports”.

This.

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Retribution, racism, and illegal pronouncements all rolled into one.

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The Social Security Fairness Act could boost payments for more than 3.2 million Americans—see who qualifies President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law before he left office in January. Here's who may see a boost to their benefits and when.

Just a reminder: President Biden changed the WEP provision that affected teacher, police, and other local government workers who received private pensions, not president marmalade. Thank Biden when you get your SSA increase.

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Clearly, this administration is putin’s Trojan horse. This is the answer to how to topple a nation without ever firing a shot.

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Pitiful strategy.

humans would treat each other so horribly. I’m that little girl all over again. Crying for the dead world I see coming.

And, here I am, all these years later, watching horrible, miserable people attack a man who is attempting to hold his country together, who would set aside pride to sit down with these putrid humans and be ridiculed. It’s the same feeling of helplessness, of not understanding why…

When I was a child, over 60 years ago, I remember the feeling of fear and dread I had every time we had a bomb drill in school. Ivan almost hear Eliot Widaen whispering to me “if the drop a nuclear bomb on us, being under this desk won’t help”. I silently started crying…

Free virtual boot camp seeks to recruit and educate civil rights advocates The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

Heads up, lawyers and law students. The @americanbar.org is stepping up.
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Just a brief moment of despair 👆🏽.

And then, those black men and women were NOT allowed to become official EMTs and earn a living doing the service they created.

This is precedent. If it stands in the courts, it paves the way for the dissolution of rights for any group of citizens. It’s disgusting that some of you are still trying to decide who is worthy of the right to be treated as a human being.

Dan Bongino: Trump names podcaster as deputy FBI director The former New York City police officer will supervise daily operations and serve under new FBI director Kash Patel.

So, the new Deputy Director of the FBI has ZERO experience in leadership, field office work, or law. But, he has a f—k of a lot of power.

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Hold strong. Move in love and care. Remember who you are at your core. Don’t let the insanity around you corrupt your humanity.

Self defense from ICE

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.