We need to do that now. We need to plan like Republicans planned Project 2025 and ending Citizens United is top of the list. Second, the electoral college. Unlike the expansive powers goals of Project 2025, strengthening our democratic systems can be ours…
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YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator
“To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed... the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.”
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The question I get asked most right now is, "So what can I do? What can I do?" And I'm going to be blunt about this. Never before in my life have I called for mass activism, but this is the moment. Take to the streets, protest, show up at town halls. Jam the phone lines in Congress, 202-224-3121, and afford not a moment of peace to any elected representatives who are aiding and abetting Musk and Trump's illegal power grab. This is not a drill, folks. This is the real thing.
Seize every megaphone you have. Go online and make a donation to the legal funds fighting Trump, to HRC, and to the candidates for Congress that vow to take this country backward. And don't limit your voice to the traditional political channels. Be like Lucy Welch. When JD Vance went to vacation at the Sugarbush Resort in Warren, Vermont, Lucy, who writes the Sugarbush Daily Snow Report, used her report to defend her diverse and wonderful community, ending by saying, "I am using my relative platform as a snow reporter to be disruptive. What we do or don't do matters."
What we do and don't do matters. It matters right now more than it ever has before. When my future grandkids look back on this moment, I want them to know that my voice was one of the loudest in the room, screaming for justice and fighting against tyranny.
@parkermolloy.com published the whole transcript here, and it's bold and glorious and what a lot of us wish a lot more Democrats would say. www.readtpa.com/p/watch-illi...
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Library Advocates Rally as Trump Targets Federal Funding
An executive order has demanded that the Institute for Museum and Library Services be eliminated to the maximum extent allowed by law.
“By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration’s executive order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/a...
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Adam Kinzinger: It's Starting to Happen
Boos at a Republican town hall in Fulton County, and boos at the White House: We're beginning to see signs of people refusing to be ruled by unelected billionaires, oligarchs and CEOs.
Our democracy never intended billionaire oppressors to have more power than the people. Call congress today and loudly protest a creepy South African billionaire wielding a chainsaw randomly firing veterans. None of this is normal or ok. substack.com/@timmiller15...
22.02.2025 05:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
They Are a Minority
Get your mind right.
“We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” That said, read the whole article. We have work to do. open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
22.02.2025 05:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sheryl Crow:
“My parents always said you are who you hang out with.
There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla.
Money donated to NPR, which is under threat by President Musk, in hopes the truth will…find its way to those willing to know [it].”
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What can you do?
Don’t give up hope. Dictators feed off your hopelessness.
Don’t quit. Dictators want you to give up.
Punch back. Dictators are bullies, and bullies are cowards.
Stay tethered to the truth. Dictators need you to believe their lies.
Resist. Stand with others.
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