MASS CALL- Healthcare Not Authoritarianism: Shutdown Showdown · Healthcare Not Authoritarianism Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans have spent the past nine months selling out working families in order to give tax breaks to their billionaire friends. Now they’re taking us into a governmen...

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Opinion | The Moral Paralysis Facing Iranians Right Now

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Opinion | Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?

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Protect the Rights and Privacy of Autistic Americans! We need states to intervene, protecting Americans' medical data and stopping RFK Jr.'s dangerous stigmatization of autistic and disabled people. Add your name to the petition!

We need states to intervene, protecting Americans' medical data and stopping RFK Jr.'s dangerous stigmatization of autistic and disabled people. Add your name to the petition! sign.moveon.org/petitions/pr...

Hegseth ‘proud’ to end Women, Peace and Security program Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared Tuesday that he had begun to shutter a Pentagon program meant to advance women’s participation in peace-building and conflict prevention, which was created b…

Please read this article in The Hill, describing how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is decommissioning the Women, Peace and Security initiative in the U.S. Military. I've also created a two-page document of this article (attached).

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Opinion | An Oscar for ‘No Other Land’ Didn’t Protect Hamdan Ballal (Gift Article) Hamdan Ballal won an Oscar for co-directing “No Other Land,” then went home to the West Bank and was attacked and arrested.

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YouTube video by vlogbrothers DOGE Is Not Cutting Government Spending

Is DOGE cutting the size of the federal government? No. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpNg...

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live Jesse Welles – The Poor

Jesse nails it

The White House admits they sent an innocent father of three to the prison in El Salvador but they are still fighting to make sure he doesn’t come home.

The definition of evil.

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor ). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they aren’t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl 20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow

You have to see this.

PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

The Big Secret About Medicaid: It’s a Middle-Class Benefit (Gift Article) If you have a parent short on savings, a disabled adult child or a minor with special needs, Medicaid may be your backstop. Plenty of people are unaware.

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We need to get the word out the Medicaid is crucial to the wellbeing of the nation.

The injustice of tuberculosis Why would John Green, a best-selling American novelist, write a book about tuberculosis? The answer can be found in his new book Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadlies...

Ahead of World TB Day, my @thelancet.bsky.social piece on @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social and his inspiring work on tuberculosis

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Folks are scared,sad, confused, angry — I get it, I am too. Musk, Trump and the Republicans in congress who blindly support their actions (despite their constitutional mandate as a separately elected coequal branch of government to be a check and balance) are attacking Democracy as we know it. 2/3

Bogeymen and Trojan Horses How to identify and call out Trump and Musk’s fascist tactics

In today's The Big Picture, Jay Kuo identifies and calls out the classic fascist tactics Trump and Musk are deploying, so that we can fight back against them more effectively.

If the Marshals Go Rogue, Courts Have Other Ways to Enforce their Orders Opinion | Even a rogue marshal’s service is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law.

"Courts’ power of contempt — the inherent power to compel compliance with orders and punish actions that obstruct the administration of justice — is ultimately backstopped by their ability to jail people who defy their orders."

Thank you for standing strong. Hope Sen. Cantwell does too...I haven't seen anything on her Bluesy account about voting no.

Massive turnout at Democratic lawmakers’ town halls as Republicans hide from voters The GOP struggles to defend the unpopular Trump administration’s policies.

"Randall hosted a morning town hall Saturday in Bremerton that filled up in minutes. Rather than turning the overflow crowd away, she immediately held a 2nd session. 'I want to hear from everyone who took the time out of their day to be here,' she wrote online..."

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Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…

Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.

YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History

The "good news" is that if you can afford all the bribes, the administration is quite obliging..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...

I do not trust for a second that Elon Musk isn't using his immense power as co-president & head of DOGE to tip the scales in his favor when it comes to the BILLIONS in government contracts his businesses receive. And neither should you.

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Each day of frozen foreign aid is being counted in deaths | Opinion In dozens of countries around the world children will be exposed to malaria, TB and starvation due to the U.S. pause in funding.

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Is Donald Trump going to respond to Musk’s email and report on what he did last week?

To help, I’ve gone ahead and done it for him. A thread:

What I’ve been saying (screaming). Now there’s data.

30% of all federal employees are veterans.

Trump and Elon are ripping hundreds of thousands of jobs away from those who have served our country.

Republicans have made clear they won’t hesitate to bleed health programs dry if it means they can shower more tax cuts on billionaires and big corporations.

I will fight tooth and nail to stop them & protect the health care families rely on. Repost if you're with me.

YouTube video by Indivisible The 3 big fights

Feeling overwhelmed by trying to keep track of everything? We’re here to help. Let’s talk about the three big fights that are happening right now and how you can take action against President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump.

There is zero chance we are going to let Senate Republicans pass the most pro-billionaire and anti-middle-class budget we have EVER seen the easy way.

I will not sit by quietly while they try to take food off families' tables so they can put more fuel in private jets.

My dear friend, RESULTS Washington state regional leader's views on USAID with data and personal story: share widely: substack.com/home/post/p-...