Have Faith: Let's Pass HB 1279 & SB 388! Faith in Housing: Half-Time Report & Action Alert At the halfway point of the legislative session, Virginia’s Faith in Housing bills — HB 1279 and SB 388 — have passed the House and Senate respe...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Have Faith: Let's Pass HB 1279 & SB 388!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/we-n...

I’m still mesmerized! I need this version of the song, plus music video, and concert act! ♥️🥰👏🇵🇷
TBH Lady “Guadalupe Anita Gonzalez Acosta” is a NYer who grew up surrounded by Puerto Ricans & other cultures. This makes sense! #benitobowl

About 350,000 employees have been pushed out of government, disproportionately in agencies that are seen as more liberal. Federal hirings, annual performance evaluations, and even employee awards must now consider how loyal employees are to President Trump, and are closely monitored by political appointees. As I’ve detailed previously, employees with stronger protections than those afforded by Schedule F have been fired because they are related to the wrong person, because the investigated abuses of power, because they were tagged by the MAGA online right as being disloyal, because they refused to break the law by firing others without cause, because they are trans, because they provided accurate information to a judge, because they made public statements about the effects of the President’s policies on their agencies, or, for no reason at all. Even as politicized reprisals against career civil servants are a fact of life of life, internal protections against such reprisals, like the Merit Systems Protection Board, have been defanged to the point of toothlessness, meaning that an employee must now go to the courts if they are treated unfairly, even as the Supreme Court has offered little reason for optimism.

I think the Schedule F plan is still important for 3 reasons.
1. It weakens whistleblower protections to the point of being nonexistent.
2. It provides a legal framework for an admin whose personnel approach has been most "lets do it and get sued"
3. It makes some feds more vulnerable

U.S. Jobs Disappear At Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession There were 108,000 job cuts in January in the U.S., the most to begin a year since the Great Recession in 2009, according to a new report.

There were 108,000 job cuts in January in the U.S., the most to begin a year since the Great Recession in 2009, according to a new report.

I was hoping to support a progressive candidate, so I’m sad I never got to hear more from you. But thanks for trying to give us more choices. I know it’s not easy.

📍Rev. Kenny Callahan, a Minneapolis pastor, said “I’m not afraid.”
ICE pointed a gun in his face.

🧊 Then said: “You’re white. You wouldn’t be fun anyway.”

This was fear and Intimidation

PAXIS trains you to hold the line—legally, emotionally.

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Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.

How did people who work for the government of the United States of America ever come to believe this kind of behavior was OK? They had to have been encouraged to do this for NO LAW ENFORCEMENT agency in the US operates this way.

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Exactly this!

@timmiller.bsky.social torches Megyn Kelly as she spins Epstein’s abuse of 15-year-old girls as “barely legal” types to protect Donald Trump.

US drew $900mn from IMF account as Argentina debt payment loomed Buenos Aires’s reserves rose by the same margin as Washington seeks to bolster Javier Milei’s government

For Trump, "America First" means drawing into deep reserves to bailout Javier Milei, Argentina's wannabe dictator. This is beyond the $40 billion we already knew about. www.ft.com/content/2730...

This kid said he was tired of seeing immigrants taking American jobs at a car wash! 🤨

Some Trumpy commentators are getting fed up with Wilkins’s penchant for suing over their claims that she’s an Israeli intelligence “honeypot” who’s dating Patel to control him on behalf of the Mossad.

The latest edition of False Flag from @willsommer.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel...

October jobs data may never be released, White House says

Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election The pardons of former Trump aides, which would only apply in federal court, are largely symbolic and cannot shield them from ongoing state-level prosecutions.

Breaking News: President Trump pardoned Rudy Giuliani and others who tried to overturn the 2020 election. The move doesn’t shield them from state charges.

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True; the only reason he didn’t is because he’s up for reelection.

The fact these 8 went above Schumer means this Dem leader has no leadership any more.

Here are the Senate Democrats who voted with Republicans tonight...

He was reelected in 2024 so apparently doesn’t give a fuck for the next 5 years! 😡 I’m one of his constituents and SUPER PISSED!

@markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov @beyer.house.gov
Under no circumstances is this a good deal!

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Yep! This happened! This was not on our 2025 bingo cards.

ICE made expansive request for taxpayer data amid IRS pushback New court filings reveal previously undisclosed details of officials' discussions over a controversial information-sharing agreement.

ICE sought sensitive information about suspected undocumented immigrants from the IRS, according to a new court filing.

"I'm actually a soybean farmer. So, I have felt this pain too."

FACT CHECK: Scott Bessent isn’t a soybean farmer. He’s a multi-millionaire who owns the land and collects rent from real farmers struggling to get by under Trump’s trade war.

People questioning why Curtis Sliwa keeps bringing up the mob - FBI just answered that question. 🫨
I’m not saying he should be mayor, but he’s the quintessential New Yorker.

Just another rare moment of me agreeing again with POTUS

Hasan: Let me say to every Republican and conservative watching. Aren't you the ones that said no more big government? No tyranny in America? If you believe that, what are you doing defending masked federal agents in unmarked cars bundling people off the streets

Happening now: Here’s a view of the “No Kings” protest in Washington, DC

By 11:30 AM I estimated there were a thousand people! As the daughter of immigrants, proud Latina, & military spouse, it was great to see my community standing up to this fascist bullshit!