The Faithful Fight Toolkit: Providing and advocating for mutual aid - Protect Democracy To counter authoritarian actions, faith-based organizations can build networks of mutual aid and support. This toolkit shows how.

In the latest #FaithfulFight toolkit, @Shaillybarnes.bsky.social of @Kairoscenter.org writes how to provide for unmet needs and build power. protectdemocracy.org/work/the-fai...

Never give up. Never surrender.

I wrote about the Trump administration’s use of political prisoners. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fucking finally!!!!!!

Blue October “hate me”

That’s it!!!! Thank you so much!!! You’ve solved a 35+ year mystery!

An absolutely lawless regime. We need to get loud!

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Sibylle (@AHaschi ). The tweet reads: "America You had it all". Below the tweet, there is an infographic titled "PRESIDENT BIDEN’S ECONOMIC LEGACY" with a photo of Joe Biden on the left. The infographic includes the following statistics: "JOBS: 16.6 MILLION jobs created," "UNEMPLOYMENT: 14.1% in January 2021 decreased to 4.1% in December 2024," "S&P 500: 5,996 on January 17, 2025, was 3,786 on January 15, 2021," and "DOW JONES: 43,487 on January 17, 2025, was 30,814 on January 15, 2021." The infographic is credited to @US_ELECTIONS at the bottom.

Biggest self-own ever to go from that to whatever this is today.

The EO that included restoring monuments/memorials on federal property is a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Beginning Monday @uncpress.bsky.social will make my book No Common Ground available to read FOR FREE for the next two weeks. Educate yourself about what this embrace means. ✊

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Perspective | This year, we are all Esther in America’s own Purim story It's time to speak out to save “dreamers.”

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"During Purim, we read the Book of Esther, which tells the story of a vain, corrupt leader willing to sell out a vulnerable people for his own convenience —quick to anger, easily bribed, and fond of displaying the 'vast riches of his kingdom'"

When I was a kid in the 80’s read an excerpt from a book about a Jewish family during Purim. The daughter wanted to play Esther in the play but got cast as the court jester. She nevertheless made the jester a memorable role. Anybody know what the book was? I always wanted to read the rest.

Eros, the laundry supervisor, is on duty!

HOW YOU CAN HELP:
✅ Spend your money at small businesses, especially those owned by underrepresented entrepreneurs
✅ Share this message with your networks—word of mouth is powerful
✅ Stand together in financial solidarity to create real economic change

I think the vampires want my blood! 🧛🏻‍♂️🩸

The expert guide to taking control of your emotions Ethan Kross is a world expert in the psychology of emotions, and he has identified a set of tools that can help us to tend our wellbeing.

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My nails? Nine inch.

so glad that we're not living in the commie reagan era anymore

"I realized that all forms of religion are masks that the divine wears to communicate with us. Behind all religions there’s a reality, and this reality wears whatever clothes it needs to speak to a particular people."

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

ProPublica’s Supreme Connections Database Updated With New Alito, Thomas Filings Our database of the Supreme Court justices’ financial connections now includes Samuel Alito’s deferred 2023 filing and eight previously missing disclosures from Clarence Thomas dating back to the 1990s.

Our Supreme Connections database tracks who’s paid the Supreme Court justices, reimbursed their travel expenses or given them gifts.

We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.

Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

Germany's Left Party wants to halve billionaires' wealth – DW – 02/08/2025 The Left Party says "there shouldn't be any billionaires." With Germany gearing up for an election, the far-left force has launched a new tax plan — though it will most likely never get a chance to im...

Germany's Left Party has a new goal of cutting the wealth of billionaires in half within a decade.

Ultimately, they "believe there should not be any billionaires."

They aim to implement a wealth tax and raise inheritance and income taxes on the rich.

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Fortify yourself.

Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde With a preface by Reni Eddo-Lodge and an introduction by Sara Ahmed Audre Lorde (1934-92) described herself as ‘Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’. Her extraordinary belief in the power of languag...

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Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything? Yes. And You Can Too.

Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.”

Lots of information and resources in this one.

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Bright Blessings of #FullMoon time! Join us for a free Online #NatureSpirituality rite this Wednesday night February 12 via livestream to Circle Sanctuary YouTube channel beginning at 7pm central.

More info about our monthly #FullMoonCircle gatherings: circlesanctuary.org

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Great job by Ruben (@rubenbolling.bsky.social).

Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students. Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.