Lisa Olander

Incredible turnout at the #HandsOff rally in Boston

The people are awake. The people are angry. And the people are organized. 📍 Chicago, Illinois #HANDSOFF

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
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Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

Two market meltdowns.
One common denominator.

I've specifically avoided calling Trump a fascist—until now.

The “End DEI” snitching portal moves from rhetoric into policy - words, into actual prototyping of fascist mechanisms.

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#Authoritarianism #Fascism #FascistTrump

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl Where Are Our Leaders

Kendrick Lamar showed more courage in the face of rising American tyranny than we’ve seen from ANY former American leader. If you swore an oath to protect this nation, where are you now?

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WOW! Cory Booker isn't holding back!

"There can be no bystanders in this fight. It is time that we understand the only thing necessary for wrong to triumph is for right to do nothing, for right to be silent." 🤘🔥

#DemocracyNotDictatorship

I will follow Jasmine Crockett @repjasmine.bsky.social and AOC @aoc.bsky.social through the fire, whatever they say to do, I'm doing.

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

JFK on why he founded USAID.

“The economic collapse of those free but less-developed nations which now stand poised between sustained growth and economic chaos would be disastrous to our national security, harmful to our comparative prosperity and offensive to our conscience”.

Over 1,000 EPA Workers on Climate Change and More Could Be Fired ‘Immediately’ A spokeswoman for Lee Zeldin, the new head of the agency, said the goal was to create an “effective and efficient” federal work force.

BREAKING: This morning E.P.A. employees received an email notifying them of that the agencywide intranet was out of service. Without the internal agency network, employees cannot access documents or other information needed for their jobs, according to the NYT.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/c...

(h/t: @the.language.nerds)

We need a group of lawyers who are willing to take every lawsuit from every fired federal employee to the max. Bury this admin in lawsuits

Civil Service Strong: Resources for Civil Servants Effective. Impartial. Resilient. The civil service comprises dedicated, nonpartisan federal employees who work tirelessly across the country and around the world to ensure the effective delivery of go...

An excellent resource for federal civil servants.

www.civilservicestrong.org

Trump is hoodwinking folks into thinking DEI is the safety risk, but he’s the one making us less safe!

We don’t know exactly who’s to blame for the crash, but Trump & Musk set the stage for danger ahead.

Trump knew it would look bad—he appointed an FAA Administrator hours AFTER the crash!

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

Afghans who helped the U.S. are in dangerous limbo after Trump's order on refugees Tens of thousands of Afghans who risked their lives working for the U.S. government or military are now in limbo after the Trump administration issued two executive orders targeting refugees.

Tens of thousands of Afghans who risked their lives working for the U.S. government or military are now in limbo after the Trump administration issued two executive orders targeting refugees.

Criminal records of Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump include rape, domestic violence Dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who received pardons from President Trump had past criminal convictions for charges including rape, manslaughter, domestic violence and drug trafficking.

"...NPR has identified dozens of defendants with prior convictions or pending charges for crimes including rape, sexual abuse of a minor, domestic violence, manslaughter, production of child sexual abuse material and drug trafficking."

@tomdreisbach.bsky.social:

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Jack Schlossberg (@jackuno) on Threads Please watch this powerful video and read this statement on RFKJr from my mother

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YouTube video by PoliticsGirl What The F***?!

Dude. I'm Pissed.
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Thank you for sharing!

They may be cherubs but they’re all marching in lock-step and saluting. Disturbing.

Enjoyable!