Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks…

“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
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Will you please announce your run for President along with Jasmine Crockett?

Having a standard barer to rally behind adds focus to the mission to salvage the American Democracy.

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA

7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

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.

Nightmare fuel

Too big to fail
The big short
The automotive bailout
Enron

You know what happened

Wall Street created huge problems. America bailed them out. The rich got richer. Very few paid a price.

And the little guy got screwed

Until Obama created the CFPB

Now Trump wants to let them do it

All
Over
Again

This is part of the poison fed into people's brain by Reagan, federal employees are evil greedy people in shadowy buildings in DC, not "real Americans" and that has always been dumb. Now it's tragic.

someone tell ernst that neither the president nor musk embodies the american people and that if they want to cut funding they should work with congress to pass a bill www.semafor.com/article/02/0...

“We Feel Terrorized”: What EPA Employees Say About the Decision to Stay or Go Under Trump More than 300 career employees at the Environmental Protection Agency have left. Those who remain face a painful decision: resign or work for an administration that plans to radically reshape the EPA ...

New: A glimpse inside the EPA, where the 20+ workers I spoke with are sad, terrified, resigned and, in not a few cases, really, really mad.

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

The state of Ohio is in the same position. They’ve been told they’ll have to go back to the office, but much of that real estate was given up in 2021.

Trump ordered workers back to the office. They ask, where, exactly? The clock is ticking for federal workers to comply with Trump’s directive to return to in-person work, but many say there simply isn’t enough space in their offices.

The clock is ticking for federal workers to return to in-person work, but many say there simply isn’t enough space in their offices.

Here's how to contact the president's office at the University of Minnesota: president.umn.edu/contact

i think we need to reexamine the economic system that allowed one person to accumulate enough wealth to literally purchase the us government

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny:

snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

Please read.

So at what point do we feel we need to unplug all of our Echoes in our homes?

Fellow theatre nerds (in the US) - are we blaring Les Mis yet? It feels like maybe that’s the next step.

Thank you @hcrichardson.bsky.social
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

Canadians booing the U.S. national anthem isn’t something I ever thought I’d see, but this is what happens when you let a psychopath criminal with isolationist and protectionist policies back into the White House.

🔘 Contact the ACLU or your local Immigrant/Migrant support orgs if you see someone's rights being violated.
(this has been copy and pasted -- please do the same)

🔘 If you are detained or see someone getting detained, get the agent's name, number, and any other identifying information. Get it on video if possible.

⭐️ Bonus info- ⭐️
🔘It is perfectly legal to record immigration agents as long as you are not on government property or at a port of entry. If your train/bus gets boarded, pull your phone out and start videotaping immediately.

GET LOUD. YELL. YELL IN SPANISH IF YOU KNOW IT. LET PEOPLE KNOW THEY DON'T HAVE TO SAY SHIT. MAKE ICE UNCOMFORTABLE. THROW SAND IN THE GEARS OF WHITE SUPREMACY.

🔘 white citizens, you have a level of privilege which protects us from retaliation from ICE for being "rude" and making a scene, which makes it our DUTY to speak up and make sure people without the same privilege know their rights.

🔘 Silence alone meets neither of these standards. Nor does race or ethnicity alone suffice for either probable cause or reasonable suspicion

🔘 They cannot search or arrest anyone without facts about that make it probable that they are committing, or committed, a violation of immigration law or federal law.

🔘 Always say no to a search and let everyone know that they can and should refuse consent to a search.

If an agent detains you, you can ask for their basis for reasonable suspicion, and they should tell you.

🔘 Immigration officers cannot detain anyone without reasonable suspicion, an agent must have specific facts about you that make it reasonable to believe you are committing or committed, a violation of immigration law or federal law.