Martin Beck

If you didn't manage to see this calmly furious and defiant statement by @govpritzker.illinois.gov yesterday, please find 12 minutes to see or hear it today.

Best, strongest statement by sr official of where we stand and what is needed now.

Civil duty to see it.
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Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

hell yeah

The Juneteenth Flag (1997): Upper half is blue and lower half is red. Colors are divided by a horizontal arch. In the center is a white star which is outlined. In 2007, the date "June 19, 1865" (the day when General Order No. 3 was issued in Galveston, TX to free the remaining slaves two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed them nationwide) was added to the flag.

June 19, 1865.

900 days after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, 71 days after Lee surrendered at Appomattox, 24 days after the Confederacy disbanded in Texas.

160 years ago today.

"Something they could never take away,
No matter what THEY tell you."

#Juneteenth

Let God be clear.

The people who want war in the Middle East to bring about the “End Times” are MONSTERS.

Spicy girl

A view from directly above shows 1000s forming the words NO KING! on the beach. It is boxed around by more protestors who also encircle a giant US flag. Credit to Santiago Mejia.

Protesters have formed a human banner at Ocean Beach, San Francisco this afternoon.

👏👏

#NoKings #50501Movement

(📸 Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle)

My dad is god tier at this. He approached a coach at one of my son’s local bball tourneys… “Dave Bonner, nice to meet you. You know, my oldest son won two nba championships? Know what he was doing in 3rd grade? Losing games in this exact tournament. Maybe chill out on these kids next time.”

I kind of want to go

Making School More Walkable One Intersection at a Time A raised crosswalk, a traffic circle, and parental demand for safer streets so their kids can walk to school in San Diego, California.

How do we get more kids walking to school? One intersection at a time.

Raised sidewalk, curb bump outs, boulders, flower beds. This is how you do it. collegetowns.substack.com/p/making-sch...

“The ecosystem of research and the creation of new knowledge in universities has been so powerful for American prosperity, American freedom, American ingenuity. To have that disrupted by government overreach is a disaster for this country.” —Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on
@msnbc.com

oh my goddd im so sorry, just seeing this now 😰 do u guys still need artillery support

Love this!

I can relate!

Lol. Putting on Led Zeppelin II now

Trump Decried Millions Spent 'Making Mice Transgender.' It Was Cancer and Asthma Research President Trump falsely claimed that Biden spent $8 million on 'making mice transgender,' but the real research was for human health.

Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

The Guild Eagle: What's really happening at the L.A. Times? — L.A. Times Guild - Los Angeles Times Guild We need your help to keep delivering the best coverage of our city.

A lot has happened at the L.A. Times, some of it taking the focus away from our excellent journalism.

If you want to know what's really going on, I'd suggest you keep an eye on the Guild Eagle. First issue written by me:

latguild.com/news/2025/2/...

They let you give feedback, too.

Trump is assaulting his own legitimacy Defying the courts could bring a steep cost.

This is... a yikes! read. It ties the historical, intentional actions of the far-far-far right to what is happening right now, literally today and lays out the stakes, and the potential results, that we have been forced to address or endure.

www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-defy...

Flickr!

*a plurality

So here's a thought.

What if all the rest of the White House press corps stopped showing up until the AP's reinstated?

Gulf of insanity...

They play the commercials at the Super Bowl?!

The person keeping you from dying from Listeria is a federal employee.

The person making sure your plane doesn’t fall out of the sky is a federal employee.

The person busting up drug rings is a federal employee.

The person prosecuting terrorists is a federal employee.

More takeaways from this piece:

* The DeepSeek team's advisors were mostly educated in China, too. Suggests tech edu there is healthier than the "copyright copycat" narrative suggests.

* Wariness of US-China university research collabs is reemerging, with cleat parallels to the China Initiative.

YouTube video by SNL Fanatic Please Don't Destroy - The New York Times - SNL Fanatic

These guys nailed it

January 29, 2025 M-25-14 MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES FROM: Matthew J. Vaeth, Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget Me SUBJECT: Rescission of M-25-13 OMB Memorandum M-25-13 is rescinded. If you have questions about implementing the President's Executive Orders, please contact your agency General Counsel.

🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs.

Full text, per government source:

So great! Hey Matt!