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Paratroopers, Pepper Spray, and Political Theater Trump’s Signal chats, Portland’s courtroom victory, and Chicago’s forced Guard deployment expose a presidency built on optics, not safety.

Trump’s #Signal chats weren’t about safety in #Portland, they were about optics. Now judges, governors, and protesters are pushing back while he plays dictator with the Guard. #uspolitics #martiallaw #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

Just yesterday while on PBS News Hour I said that I will have confidence that federal vaccine policy is uncompromised as long as the external advisory committees continue to meet. Now meetings for both VRBPAC and ACIP have been cancelled. I don't like this.

Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country."

The first will be in Phoenix March 5.

Did y’all see this? The US Attorney is not #47’s attorney. The US Attorney is supposed to serve the people. This is pretty messed up.

In some cases, authoritarians will hand you what seems like a tool to criticise them or exercise your rights.

Whenever they do this, they are in fact handing you the tools to let them monitor and police you remotely. #tiktok

It’s the job of every congressional democrat to grind the gears of government to a stop.

Right now. Block everything. Slow walk every committee. Call every vote. Filibuster every post office name change.

State Dems need to build parallel institutions to protect the people at home. GET TO WORK.

Just spitballing, but things that could happen today:
*Court injunction protecting USAID
*Dems demand hearings on Musk's role
*Someone introduce articles of impeachment
*Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers
*Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved

And you, too, @smith.senate.gov. And @schumer.senate.gov. And every Senate Democrat. We are counting on you. We need you to help us. Our families are at risk. A drug addled sociopath now has access to the entire federal payment system illegally. What are you going to do about it? @democrats.org

HRC is saying that Musk’s people gaining access to ALL of our social security and other financial info, the whole payment system that the country uses to disperse money, is a coup.

Talk to your conservative friends and family. Call your representatives, especially if you live in a red state!

We Choose to Fight Action Call YouTube video by Indivisible

Y’all. Right now: youtube.com/live/55yf3As...

Block Trump's Unconstitutional Federal Funding Freeze ⭑ 5 Calls UPDATE (01/29/25): A federal judge has temporarily blocked Trump’s funding freeze until Monday, February 3rd. During this brief pause demand …

A reminder that this exists. Again, Heather Cox Richardson says we are in a constitutional crisis, and she is not an excitable person. This is serious. Call. 5calls.org/issue/omb-fe...

Y’all. Listen to HRC. She is saying that this is a time of CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS, and she has a to do list for us here. Pass this on. www.facebook.com/share/v/163H...

I'm just going to keep pointing out these small* moments of collective action until it starts to click with folks that if we stand together we have all of the power.

*this is actually a huge fricken deal, and it only took a couple clicks from a bunch of folks who collectively said No Fucking Nazis.

Amazon to pay Trump admin at least $40 Million, laundered as documentary about Melania Trump. #opCanary

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

Well, I guess we’ll just never know whether it was a Nazi salute or not…

When we watched the first episode of Handmaids Tale in April 2017, I sat in silence for some time then turned to my husband and said “we need to leave”.
We came to New Zealand for a visit later that year, and left the US permanently in July 2018.
Everyone said it was drastic.

If you were one of many news stories who uncritically ran this, we’ll take an apology

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If you want to follow the World Health Organization.

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This is an embarrassment. I don't know what all these mediocre men need to do to get their ego in line but they sound like they're playing Warcraft from their mom's basement.

Women's Hotel by Daniel M Lavery

Checked out from my local library today. Kudos to the librarian who choose a queer author's book to be displayed on the recommended reads shelf in this small Kansas town. #Booksky

Love to see it.

What is one simple act of resistance that will absolutely infuriate any authoritarian determined to make the world ignore pandemics and climate change?

Wearing a mask.

What Does Federal Funding for Libraries Pay For? You'll be surprised!

We know that Trump's previous administration proposed cutting all federal library funding every year he was in office.

But what does federal funding pay for, and why does it matter?

You might be surprised!

bit.ly/3WkmIWG via @everylibrary.bsky.social