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Not a penny to make life more affordable for American families, but $70 BILLION for ICE to terrorize our communities.

Senate is voting now to proceed to the budget resolution. It takes a simple majority to proceed. After that, there would be 50 hours of debate, followed by vote-o-rama, followed by final passage. If the House agrees, then would be the process of a reconciliation bill to pump $70 bn into ICE & CBP.

Insane corruption.

And if Lutnick is profiting from the end of tariffs you can bet Trump is getting a taste.

The media’s failure to cover Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s ongoing conflicts of interest as he gets billions from the Middle East while being Trump’s negotiator is insane.

(Especially after what they did with Hunter Biden)

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American Library Association releases 2025 Most Challenged Books List as National Library Week Begins State of America’s Libraries Report reveals 4,235 unique titles challenged in 2025, marking the second-highest total on record

Just remember, whatever stats ALA drops, the reality is even worse. A not insignificant number of schools don't report to ALA, and ALA doesn't have the staff in OIF to go out and track down this information. This looks bad, but it's likely worse.
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American Library Association Shares Book Ban Data, List of ‘Most Challenged’ Titles of 2025 - Publishing Perspectives U.S. librarians tracked 4,235 unique book challenges in 2025, nearly matching the record of 4,240 recorded in 2023, and almost double last year's count.

“2025’s censorship campaigns weren’t about protecting children—they were about erasing realities. A tiny cohort of people are trying to remove people’s lived experiences from library shelves.”

a poster with a drawing of a person wearing a dress and another wearing pants under a sign that reads "your future" it's an ad for the Uof T library school, the caption reads "you like people you like books be a librarian"

YOU LIKE PEOPLE
YOU LIKE BOOKS

BE A LIBRARIAN

(may 1945)

PETITION: Don't Let the Federal Government Regulate Your Reading Not one country's freedom and liberty has ever been increased by banning books.

Books don’t need supervision.

They are already quiet.

Oppose the Federal Book Ban Bill and defend the freedom to read.

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Black transgender women report uniquely inescapable abuse across North Carolina prisons Three Black transgender women chronicle alleged abuses they faced while serving time in men's prisons in North Carolina.

My student Max Tendler has produced a tremendous series of articles for WUNC about the abuse suffered by Black trans women in the North Carolina prison system. I am so proud of her. Here's Part 1. #ncpol

...why do you think they're defunding public education, banning books–*ESPECIALLY* those about sex, reproduction, and queerness–, and implementing laws that permit teens to work in unsafe environments? They already abuse kids, and this is their way of taking it even further.

People mad in the comments don’t get how protesting creates change.

The No Kings protests are about Trump, but they’re aimed at persuading potential defectors & the public, not Trump, bc he’s unpersuadable.

The anti-genocide protests are about the US gov but are aimed at *persuading* elected Dems

T posts a long screed about the "evil "Pope, who says people should act like Christ. THEN he posts an AI picture of himself AS Jesus, doing the things the Pope says we should do. He's fucking insane. That's it. And if you don't know that by now, I've got nothing.

Selected Companies Profits and Effective Federal Income Tax Rates (ETR: Effective Tax Rate, federal corporate income tax divided by U.S. profits) Table with 3 columns and 8 rows. Company Profits ETR Alphabet $141.6 billion 8% Amazon $89 billion 1.4% Chenier Energy $7.2 billion 0% Tesla $5.7 billion 0% Meta $2.8 billion 3.6% Palantir $1.5 billion 0% Yum Brands (KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, etc.) $1 billion 0% Live Nation $145 million 0%

Hope you had fun paying a higher tax rate than the richest companies in America this year.

Oh, and don't forget to stash away whatever tax refund you might have gotten—your taxes are projected to go up by about $900 next year.

Remember that this is what we cut healthcare for!

Everybody asks -- "What can we do?" Look at Hungary -- that is what you do. Organize. Make alliances. Write. Speak. Network. March. Wave signs. And help raise each others voices. Here is a Starter Pack for just that! Sentd it around. go.bsky.app/RXFLYri

HARD FACT: If the Republicans cared even 10% about the 67 allegations of Rape, Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, and other sexual misconduct against Donald Trump as they do about the four allegations against Eric Swalwell, Donald Trump's political career would have ended in 2016

Don’t forget his pledge about supporting the Hungarian people

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

America's money goes to Hungary. To Argentina. To fund wars in Iran and invasions of Venezuela.

It goes to kill shipwrecked survivors. To ICE, who shoot US citizens and build concentration camps

Our money seems to fund death and destruction all across the globe

But it never goes to help Americans

“If they can automatically enroll men into the draft at 18, they can automatically register Americans to vote at 18.

Ask yourself why they won’t”
Josh H.

Smokey Knows: President Trump’s Forest Service Restructuring Is Bad News Only YOU can prevent forest fires and protect critical science on climate change.

The expansive restructuring and relocation of the USDA Forest Service is irreversibly destructive to the federal scientific enterprise, and leaves us at woefully under-prepared for managing increasing wildfire risks this summer.

Even Smokey knows: this is bad.
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Tag your friends to check their voter registrations, too!

War is a distraction. We the people demand the Epstein truth.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche admited that the DOJ excluded all images showing “death, physical abuse, or injury” from the Epstein files release.
DEATH? The truth is probably far worse than anyone can imagine. Blanche needs to be proescuted as well.

TACO Tuesday's lasting hangover It'll take more than Pepto to calm this shitstorm.

New in PN: TACO Tuesday's lasting hangover

"For years, conservatives told themselves that Trump’s constant escalations were crafty gamesmanship. This barely-averted disaster in Iran cuts the knees out from under their creative fiction. Trump'’s not performing as a madman.

He’s just barking mad."

New Data Shows Vast Majority of Americans Support Trans Rights The research suggests that right-wing attacks on trans protections are not aligned with the country’s values.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr
HRC/SSRS TDOV survey of 1k finds 85% agree trans ppl should have the same rights as others (incl 76% of Reps), 89% should be able to access GAC, 83% protected from school bullying, and 79% protected from job discrimination.

Six days until Pam Bondi’s deposition to House Oversight Cmte about Epstein files

Good morning! Donald Trump still needs to be impeached and removed for war crimes.

This Tax Day, working people are paying more and getting less, while the billionaire class is rolling in massive tax breaks thanks to President Trump and the Republicans in Congress.

#TaxJustice

To be fair it was a tough decision at the ballot box