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How many ICE goons does it take to change a lightbulb? 50 and 48 billion dollars in the budget + a sniper rifle. This clownish swarm of heavily armed and armored clowns chasing children off a soccer field while apparently not dying of the shame and ridiculousness and banality of their own evil....

medieval times gestapo

TRUMP'S TAX SCAM IS A DISASTER SENATE REPUBLICANS' RECONCILIATION BILL: Forces nearly a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicaid, the largest cut to the life-saving program ever by a factor of FOUR Gives ICE a larger budget than many militaries around the world Strips healthcare away from 5% of Americans Kicks 11.8 million people off SNAP benefits Not only cuts funding for green energy but actually taxes it, threatening to balloon energy costs and eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs Represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in US history

The Senate is currently debating over Trump’s Tax Scam before moving to vote-a-rama and a final vote.

We need GOP senators’ phones to be ringing off the hooks: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

And when their voicemails fill up, use this tool to send an email: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...

what they said.

More of this.

“The fundamental civic unit in this nation is neighbor.” - @jelaniya.bsky.social 🇺🇸

I don't know about you...but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT being raised by leadership about masked individuals jumping out of unmarked vans, refusing to identify themselves...and just shoving people into a Goddamn vehicle and whisking them away.

Sorry to step away from the catfight, but we’ve got a win! A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle AmeriCorps halting the termination of grants and its volunteer network!

The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.

“.. would also mark the first time in the history of SNAP that the federal government would no longer ensure children in every state have access to food benefits ..”

@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/s...

DOGE Loses Battle to Take Over USIP—and Its $500 Million Headquarters A federal judge called DOGE’s actions at the United States Institute of Peace ‘unlawful.’

NEWS: The courts have decided against DOGE and the US government in their legal battle to take full control of the United States Institute of Peace, including a headquarters building with an estimated value of $500 million. www.wired.com/story/usip-d...

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

It only takes 4 Republicans in the House, or 4 in the Senate to stop this.

Transparency Regarding Foreign Influence at American Universities By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

This is lifted pretty much verbatim out of the Putin/Orban playbook, it might constitute copyright infringement… www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

This is what happens when the Supreme Court effectively allows a bunch of teenage losers to take over the #NIH payment system.

This is also what Viktor Orban did as he consolidated autocracy in Hungary: he centralized control over money and payments.
This is truly a red alert.

The Kill Memo: How Killing AmeriCorps Wounds Rural America and Shatters a National Promise They didn’t just end a program—they declared war on empathy and left rural America bleeding in the dust.

#SaveAmeriCorps #resist
open.substack.com/pub/thelastm...

Disgusting, but also surprised it took them this long to cut AmeriCorps

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you.

The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

Very important thread to read!!!!!!! Thanks to @altairforce.altgov.info for putting this thread together!!!! Interagency collaboration for the win y’all 👏👏👏👏

In this particular timeline my brains natural tendency for mapping catastrophic plans has come in handy

I had already planned on upgrading our health insurance policy during the next enrollment change period so that we can see out of network providers in anticipation of having to drive to Canada to get care….

Living nightmare, can’t wait to engage in medical tourism to get basic care outside of the US

The chaos and cruelty is the point

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?

The CDC Has Been Gutted Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

These cuts will have immediate impact, experts say. “We’re going to have patients die,” says Jade Pagkas-Bather, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Chicago who also specializes in HIV prevention. “Unnecessary, preventable death.” www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance Ordinary people have more power than they know.

"There’s no messiah who will sweep in and make everything better. That’s up to you and me."

Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance | Ordinary people have more power than they know.

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