NO KINGS in Oakland! · Indivisible East Bay The narcissist-in-chief is throwing a ridiculous military parade for himself in DC - everywhere else we rise up to say NO KINGS!! ***YOUR LINK FOR ALL THE DETAILS - PLEASE READ: https://tinyurl.com/N...

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Trans girls sports: exclusion is a solution to a non-problem - Capitol Weekly OPINION – Governor Gavin Newsom has expressed support for excluding trans girls from girls’ sports.  This is a tempting position because it would seem “fair” to keep boys out of girls’ sports and “unf...

The propaganda-induced moral panic about trans people — sports, prisons, restrooms, health care for minors — ignores the actual facts: This is a tiny community that’s harming no one.

Right wing extremists have mainstreamed this demonization. This is a strong piece on how absurd their arguments are.

This Is Why Dictatorships Fail The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.

"No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning"

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I was a social security recipient from the age of 12 through 18. That’s not some weird thing or corruption. It’s called survivors’ benefits. You don’t have to know this. You’re blessed if you don’t. But if you’re going to speak publicly abt the program you need to know this.

Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...

Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth."

No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

Dream Keeper funding cuts ‘hurting Black San Francisco,’ nonprofits say More than three dozen organizations say the city is reneging without explanation on $14 million in funds allocated through the troubled Dream Keeper Initiative.

SF refuses to issue grant agreements for $14 million of grants awarded to 38 Black arts nonprofits.

Dream Keeper funding cuts ‘hurting Black San Francisco,’ nonprofits say www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Senator Cory Booker, his voice still booming after more than a day spent on the Senate floor railing against the Trump administration, surpassed Strom Thurmond for the longest Senate speech on record, in an act of astonishing stamina that he framed as a call to action. nyti.ms/4iXMx8m

You did the darned thing!

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore funds for programs that provides legal services to unaccompanied minors children in immigration proceedings.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Democrats Show a Pulse: 6 Takeaways From Tuesday’s Elections Energized against the new Trump era, and against Elon Musk, Democrats pulled off a crucial judicial victory in Wisconsin and cut into Republican margins in two Florida congressional races.

Energized against the new Trump era, and against Elon Musk, Democrats pulled off a crucial judicial victory in Wisconsin and cut into Republican margins in two Florida congressional races.

Here are six takeaways from the night’s results.

If there was ever a symbol of why we need to get big money out of politics, reform campaign financing, stop conflicts of interest, and tax great wealth, Elon Musk is it.

Kudos to Susan Crawford on this big victory for democracy, labor rights, and reproductive freedom in Wisconsin.

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

Tesla Recalls Every Single Cybertruck Over Stainless Steel Trims Falling Off | Carscoops 151 Cybertruck owners filed warranty claims after noticing the roof trim panel above the windows was coming loose

Tesla has recalled... every single Cybertruck. Every one they've ever sold. For a hardware issue

www.carscoops.com/2025/03/tesl...

Jackie’s name was big enough to be restored. The many others who were removed, with the same justification, will not get the same attention.

And that’s the problem.

Seriously.

RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing bird flu to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Veterinary scientists said that would be inhumane, dangerous and have enormous economic consequences.

Protesters outside of the U.S. embassy in Nuuk, Greenland against Donald Trump.

No means no, Donald!

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Shout it from the rooftops. This is not left vs right, this is a class struggle.

It’s unreal - the DOD deleted its page for Charles Calvin Rodgers, a Medal of Honor recipient who was wounded three times while defending against three assaults on his base in Vietnam. Now the URL includes “DEI Medal of Honor.” There’s something about Rodgers I don’t even have to tell you

Trying to imagine Biden withholding disaster funds from red states unless they first instituted gun control

Had strong sense at least the timing of Trump's illegal shuttering of Voice of America was triggered by his annoyance at a question from a VOA journo. Source flags to me that the EO was so hastily put together they literally forgot to complete the last sentence. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”

Inside Trump’s War on the I.R.S.: Dropped Audits and a Skeleton Staff President Trump is planning to gut the work force while trying to turn the I.R.S. into a more political agency.

President Trump is planning to gut the Internal Revenue Service’s work force while trying to turn it into a more political agency, preparing budget cuts and further layoffs that could ultimately force it to shed as much as 50% of its work force.

Paul Tazewell accepts an award, wearing a black suit with a white ascot and jeweled broach. Text reads: "Paul Tazewell Is First Black Man to Win Oscar For Costume Design." Photo by Philip Cheung for The New York Times

Paul Tazewell is the first Black man to win the Oscar for costume design for his work on "Wicked." Here is the complete list of winners so far. nyti.ms/4hXIVmb

Judge blocks Trump administration’s mass firings of federal workers A federal judge ruled that the terminations at agencies including the Department of Defense were probably illegal.

Another important step in the fight to shut down the Trump/Musk lawbreaking spree.