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Send this to every person you know with a kid, friend, or acquaintance serving in the U.S. Armed Forces:

They have the right to say no.

🥰🖤

A screenshot of a suspicious SMS message from the number +1 (771) 209-3900. The message reads: “ALERT: TEXT MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT. He even left you a transcribed voice message. Read it here: https://magavip.co/rARvw4mSV. Stop to optout.” At the bottom, the phone’s interface shows “The sender is not in your contact list.” with an option to “Report Junk.”

Ew.

This isn't hypothetical.

The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.

Don’t move mountains for people who are afraid to climb them.

Disgraceful and embarrassing.

“Table titled ‘Views on Trump Initiatives’ from an ABC News / Washington Post / Ipsos poll. Lists eight Trump policy proposals with percentages of support and opposition: 1. Reducing federal funding for medical research – 21% support, 77% oppose. 2. Increasing the federal government’s role in private universities – 28% support, 70% oppose. 3. Ending birthright citizenship – 31% support, 67% oppose. 4. Shutting down the U.S. Department of Education – 33% support, 66% oppose. 5. Freezing foreign aid for food, health services, and disease prevention – 36% support, 62% oppose. 6. Cutting back environmental regulations on oil and gas drilling – 37% support, 61% oppose. 7. Deporting international students criticizing U.S. Middle East policy – 39% support, 59% oppose. 8. Sending undocumented immigrants suspected of gang ties to prison in El Salvador without court hearing – 47% support, 51% oppose. Logos of Washington Post, Ipsos, and ABC News shown at the bottom.”

WHO WOULDA THOUGHT?!

The Trump administration’s breakneck pace is obviously no accident. While citizens are busy processing their shock over any one shattered norm or disregarded law, Trump is already on to the next one. This is the playbook authoritarians have used all over the world: First the leader removes those with expertise and independent thinking from the government and replaces them with leaders who are arrogant, ignorant, and extremely loyal. Next he takes steps to centralize his power and claim unprecedented authority. Along the way, he conducts an all-out assault on the truth so that the truth tellers are distrusted, corruption becomes the norm, and questioning him becomes impossible. The Constitution bends and then finally breaks. This is what tyrants do. Trump is doing it now in the United States.

Read this right now:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I bet she blames it on a “gang member.”

I’d have a stroke after meeting the antichrist, too.

Very Important Monday Message by Meidas Founder By Ben Meiselas

Great reminder coming out of a powerful weekend into a shitstorm of a Monday:

“First, we have to save our democracy. And second, we have to rebuild.”

Cannabis use predates the existence of the U.S.

Legalization is an Indigenous justice issue.

A sign with rainbow stripes with the words, Super Callous Fascist Racist Sexist Nazi POTUS, in white. An illustration of a silhouette of Donald Trump is crossed out in red.

Tonight is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. May his memory remind us all to resist the tyranny forming in our government.

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A blue sky dotted with clouds is seen above while a large assembly of Americans line a busy street entrance to a park. A sign with the letters “WTF?” in black ink outlined in bright pink on a white sign faces the street. Another sign says, “Time to use our outside voices.”

A man holds a sign than says “resist” and another sign says “impeach him by the bussy” with an illustration of a an orange pair of butt cheeks in the shape and likeness of Donald Trump with gold hair and the butthole as his mouth.

A sign that reads, “Defend science” in all capital letters in black ink against a white background is held next to an American flag while a red SUV drives by. A crowd of community members are seen assembling across the street and some are holding signs.

TACOMA, Wash. (April 19, 2025) - Community members assemble at the Point Defiance Park and Vashon Island Ferry entrance to mark the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolutionary War. Many carried signs and cheered as several drivers honked expressing support.

Can you guys stop saying “ham-fisted” or “ham-handed” and start saying FUCKED UP?!

Overheard at work today:

“My mom is a naturalized U.S. citizen and has been here since 1986. She’s so afraid of ICE, she carries her passport with her to church.”

This is not normal.

Next up: Americans forced to download X to file taxes

FYI this is fascism

Touché.

I want off this ride.

This is not the America I swore an oath to defend.

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A political cartoon by Slyngstad, dated 2025, depicts a man wearing a red "MAGA" hat sitting at a desk, looking concerned. He has a beard and is speaking, with a speech bubble that reads: "I was okay with the anti-trans stuff, demonizing immigrants, the gay bashing, sexism toward women, rounding people up off the street because of their skin color, all the other outright racism, but now I'm starting to think this could affect me." In front of him is a computer monitor displaying a graph with a downward-trending red line and the headline "MARKETS IN FREE-FALL."

It’s sadly accurate.

I hate that it takes the stock market to crash for people to wake up.

Trump has crashed the entire government and NOW you pay attention?!

Everyone in public health has been screaming this since January 20th.

I get the stock market is bad but the equivalent has already happened to foreign aid, research funding, and public health. Everyone didn't freak out because there isn't some ticker on the news measuring the number of cancer researchers and Ebola prevention experts being fired.

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A white sign reads WTF? In black and pink amidst a crowd of people attending a protest

Seattle
4.5.2025
#HandsOff