@maddow.msnbc.com Welcome to the Greater Boston area! #nokings #democracy

Greetings @maddow.msnbc.com from Lexington, MA - where a dedicated group of residents has been staging weekly protests against the administration since early February. #NoKings #NoTyranny #HandsOff

Trump Clashes With Maine’s Governor, Janet Mills, Over Trans Athletes President Trump asked Gov. Janet Mills if her state would comply with the executive order he signed banning transgender athletes from women’s sports. He didn’t like her answer.

Score: Mills 1, Trump 0. She’s 100% right on the law. Trump’s “We ARE the law” was way, way over the top. No, Mr. President, you are not.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

Call the GOP House Oversight committee and ask them to turn their attention to Musk's unelected messing with government resources.I did.
Phone: (202) 225-5074

Slightly funny, but mostly depressing and sad😓

Given I called it Gulf of Mexico in class today, I'd be "restricted" as well.

Great. 🤦🏻‍♀️

we are rapidly turning into the kind of small minded authoritarian country that is given a made-up name in an action thriller

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."

"working to swiftly rectify the situation..."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

Photo of people holding signs in front of Lexington MA Town Hall as part of nationwide protests against fascism on Presidents Day 2025.

Great turnout for the #50501 Presidents Day Protest for Democracy in #LexingtonMA on a cold, windy, and icy day.

Trump and Musk to America: Drop Dead. In 1975, President Gerald Ford rejected New York City’s request for a bailout, prompting the New York Daily News to publish its now-famous “FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD” headline.

On the firings. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-and-...

You might have missed it, but Amazon warehouse workers in Raleigh, NC are voting this week on whether to form a union.

If they win, they'll be the first unionized Amazon facility in the South.

Remember that we can always find hope in the labor movement.

Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests An investigation has exposed the tech firm’s cooperation with autocratic regimes to remove unfavourable content Google has cooperated with autocratic regimes around the world, including the Kremlin in Russia and the Chinese Communist party, to facilitate…

Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests

Actually, you can have a decentralized approach that works. A lot of people started organically, spontaneously boycotting Target after their anti DEI announcement. It's already happening. It doesn't have to be led, but it needs to be amplified. target-boycott-tracker.vercel.app

My bet is that the Musk Rats chewing on our Treasury files are also collecting material from Trump’s first term. This stuff can easily be massaged into a gigantic scandal, as we have seen. As long as Trump gives what he wants, Trump is safe. If not, not.

Understand how crazy this is

And again today

This is your daily reminder that it's a coup.

No one wants to see Trump in charge of the arts. We have seen his “creativity” for years and it sucks.

Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"

Meet two lawyers leading the fight for trans people's lives against Trump's anti-trans attacks Chase Strangio and Shannon Minter talk with Law Dork. "How this story comes out does depend to a great degree on what we do right now."

Did you see? At Law Dork, I talked with @nclrights.bsky.social's @shannonminter5.bsky.social and @aclu.org's @chasestrangio.bsky.social about Trump's anti-trans EOs, the litigation in response, the broader legal landscape, and more.

Check it out —>

Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’ The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

They have trashed valuable products your tax money paid for.

Membership | The United States Senate Committee on Finance Membership

These are the members of the senate finance committee who approved the RFK Jr nomination and voted party over people, country, and the health and safety of our nation. These are the COWARDS who would rather bend over to the T🟠 Regime than stand up to this idiocy.
#abolishTrumpRegime #firethemall

Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over payment system A top Treasury career staffer is expected to depart. Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE effort had sought access to sensitive payment systems.

Fed source to me: “It’s like a bank heist and the bank is America. Not really being hyperbolic to say control of those systems would allow an extremely fast collapse of the economy. Imagine it’s a plumbing system and someone takes a sledgehammer to the central pipe.”

'Gagging' Abortion Access: The Global Threat of Trump’s Second Term to Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare - Ms. Magazine Ahead of Trump's second term, international organizations demand the permanent repeal of the global gag rule for women's health and abortion access.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday reinstating the global gag rule, which prohibits overseas groups from collecting U.S. aid if they provide abortion, counsel on abortion or advocate for abortion rights.

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde is a perfect role model for all of us. #Resist

I’m telling everyone: Do not open the door or say a word unless you’re expecting someone and know exactly who it is.

Know your rights. Pass these around…

A reading recommendation from a BIPOC friend and mentor.

"Let This Radicalize You" by Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes. A guide for activists and organizers, emphasizing the importance of collective care and mutual aid.

#ally #resist