Andy

Some people will believe the thing that fits their pre-existing narrative, the thing that helps them sleep at night, despite all the facts proving the contrary. All while an innocent father is illegally trapped in an El Salvadoran hellhole…

This nightmare legislation
leaves it up to the states to figure out the process by which voters can “prove citizenship.” Aside from being a virtual poll tax, sounds like a bureaucratic nightmare.

The Christian Nationalist Plot to Disenfranchise Women Voters The SAVE Act, which purports to fend off the phantasmal threat of voter fraud, would throw millions of women off the voting rolls.

🚨The SAVE Act has passed the House.🚨

SAVE pretends to create guardrails against noncitizen voter fraud (a vanishingly small problem found in only 0.0001 percent of jurisdictions)—instead disenfranchising millions of people, especially women.

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Being able to heat your home in the winter is not a luxury. It is a matter of life and death.

Trump and Musk’s decision to arbitrarily fire every worker in the office that helps working class and low income people heat their homes is outrageous.

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.

She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.

This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

Senate Republicans will do anything to give tax handouts to billionaires and billionaire corporations, even using fake math.

Repealing math doesn’t repeal reality.

Here's the truth: Republicans’ tax cuts will cost $7 trillion and cut programs that help working families.

Thank you, Senator Booker! Seeing our elected officials do something gives us hope, and hope keeps us going.

They can make anyone arbitrarily “illegal,” then POOF, Disappeared.

Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her A Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University has been detained by U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation, her lawyer said Wednesday.

apnews.com/article/tuft... Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her

Republicans in the Senate voted tonight while no one is watching to fatten Wall Street profits by jacking up overdraft fees on you.

So much for lowering costs.

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Is Detained by ICE The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated, its president said in a late-night email to students and faculty members.

I asked an international human rights lawyer recently what red lines to watch for - he said, “when people start to disappear.” Well…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

What a creep.

Over 100,000 seats are up for grabs in 2025 — governors, mayors, city councils, state representatives, judges, school boards, and more.

Taking back our power starts now.

Agreed- so the Democratic Party leadership should fight Trump. They do that and we can unite behind them. Schumer completely caved.

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.

We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

They own what happens next.

Trump says his win gives ‘mandate’ for ‘far reaching investigation’ into Democrats Trump called for prosecutors to investigate multiple news organizations in a rabidly partisan speech at the justice department’s headquarters

So now they have their bugdet. Does this not sound like overdrive, anyway?

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump administration unveils sweeping environment rollbacks President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday announced a wave of environmental rollbacks targeting Biden-era green policies, including carbon limits on power plants, tailpipe emissions standards and protections for waterways.

Do hold your breath: administration unveils sweeping environment rollbacks.
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-trump-administration-unveils-environment-rollbacks.html
#EPA #pollution #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #USpol #USpolitics #PublicHealth #AirQuality

Let’s be clear: the Dept. of Ed. provides resources to 26 million children living in high-poverty school districts; Pell Grants to over 7 million students; & funding for millions of children with disabilities.

Closing its doors would be a disaster for working class families.

USDA cuts over $1 billion in funding for schools, local food purchases The U.S. Agriculture Department has cut two federal programs that spent over $1 billion annually to help schools and food banks buy food from local farms and ranches, according to a school group and a Politico report on Monday.

What about this (program to help schools and food banks buy food from local farms and ranches) is not within USDA goals? the part about helping school kids have access to healthy, locally raised food? Or the part about providing a solid financial contract with farms in our country for a good cause?

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.

Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

At Joshua Tree NP today. Park rangers are some of the consistently most helpful, knowledgeable and enthusiastic people I ever encounter out in the world. They keep park visitors safe and help instill in us the love for their park that they already possess. They are they very best of us ❤️

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

How is this not headline news!?

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler