Cancelled ✅
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It’s time to wake up - we are literally on the verge of losing our democracy if Donald Trump cheats his way to those seats in Texas.

Social Security is not charity. People pay into it their entire working lives. YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

Social Security is not charity. People pay into it their entire working lives.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to rip it away—and I’m fighting back.

Trump and Musk are eliminating 90% of Social Security’s regional staff—and, at the same time, will now only post public updates from Social Security on a platform owned by Musk, where more than 90% of seniors won’t see them. Corrupt, cruel, and wrong.

It has been 18 days since we learned that those involved in Signalgate recklessly endangered the lives of American pilots.

The fact that there has been no Congressional investigation is an abomination.

This should outrage every single Member of Congress.

Right, because Grandma is on X.

This is corruption, plain and simple.

DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions A DOGE engineer removed users’ access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year.

Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government.

DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox.

with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

Questionable ICE ‘wellness check’ caught on video in suburban Highwood Ashbey Beasley, an activist who witnessed the 2022 mass shootings in Highland Park, posted a video on Instagram showing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the door of a suburban resident's ...

An activist who witnessed the 2022 mass shootings in Highland Park, posted a video on Instagram showing ICE agents at the door of a suburban resident’s home. Federal agents have been in the Chicago area as part of President Donald Trump’s massive deportation plan. www.wbez.org/immigration/...

This week, CDC was instructed to stop deleting ANY emails. Spam? Don't delete. Emails from predatory journals that start with, "Greetings of the day"? Keep forever.

...our fingers slipped and we accidentally deleted every email about not deleting emails. Oopsie.

#DoNotComply #LetsGetWeird

If you are actively culling your library to keep books like "The Bell Curve" while removing criticisms of the book, you are building a white supremacist library.

How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts Nature analyses which fields of science and US states are being hit hardest by grant terminations.

NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts.

About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.

See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

It costs zero dollars to side with your fellow workers instead of with the billionaires stealing from us all.

"If you don't stand up and fight now, if you don't take a position now, it's going to be too late," Eric Holder tells Rachel Maddow. "The time is now to stand up and do all that we can to fight this administration."

did Donald Trump do some stock market fuckery, or what? just what exactly happened?

here's today's post: "did Donald Trump do some stock market fuckery, or what?" — just what exactly happened?
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House Republicans just passed a voter suppression bill that would disenfranchise millions “It’s a five-alarm fire for American voters and for election officials.”

@ariberman.bsky.social is sending up a distress flare: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

You want to know what non-compliance looks like? It looks like whatever the hell you want it to look like. It’s not about heroism or martyrdom. It’s about being a magnificent, ungovernable pain in the ass. It’s about weaponizing inconvenience, absurdity, and joy against a system that demands fear and obedience. Throw a wrench in the works—everywhere, all the time. Fill their inboxes with existential poetry. Tape absurd messages in public places: “Authoritarianism gives you hemorrhoids.” Get petty. Get weird. Flush their toilet paper. Release crickets in inconvenient places. Spoil their scripts, trip their rhythm, yank the narrative from their hands. Because here’s the ugly truth they don’t want you to hear: authoritarianism only works when the people allow it to work. It’s a performance, a bluff, a collective hypnosis. Break the spell. Mock it. Undermine it with your refusal to kneel. But here’s the thing—this has to be everywhere. Everyone. We need resistance so widespread, so creatively chaotic, so utterly unmanageable, that the regime cracks under the weight of its own overreach. Be bold. Be clever. Be feral. And above all—DO NOT COMPLY.

We heard the rumors. Maybe president panican will declare martial law, maybe he won’t. But do you think this clown car of incompetent sycophantic signal leakers can keep all 300 million of us down? Absolutely not. We will not comply. Here’s some advice from Oliver Kornetzke. Let’s get weird.

Arthritis Learn about arthritis, one of the most common chronic conditions in the United States.

1 in 5 Americans suffers from arthritis – the top cause of work disability.

CDC’s arthritis programs funded community-based workshops, promoted physical activity and weight management, and led other work improving lives.

Trump cut funding for these life-improving initiatives
www.cdc.gov/arthritis/

#handsoff NE Lake County IL!

📣📣CHICAGO THE DETAILS ARE FINALLY HERE📣📣

March 4 Democracy! ✊✊✊✊
Tuesday, March 4th @ 12pm
Daley Plaza, Downtown Chicago

#50501Chicago #50501Movement #PeacefulProtest #March4Democracy #March4Liberty #March4Justice

Sad to share the news that our colleagues at 18F were illegally fired overnight (emails coming in around 1am Sat.). About 90 people.

18Fers are technologists, like USDSers, and often would be co-deployed or work across different parts of the same agency.

They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them. Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left…

Hundreds of workers at the CDC. More than 1,000 at the NIH. Scores of staffers at the FDA.

Trump’s purge of federal employees includes those doing lifesaving work. Many of them expressed fear at what would happen to the projects they left behind.

By @anniewaldman.bsky.social & @deldeib.bsky.social

Can’t get this image out of my head.

Musk In Your Computers: An Interview With Paul Krugman Notes on the Crises pivoted on February 1st into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025. Today is Day Thirty Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5,...

Many of you have already seen it, but I wanted to wait until my version was complete. My version has my newly set up youtube channel, some minor fixes to the transcript &a bevy of links throughout the transcript. Also a PDF version. Thanks @pkrugman.bsky.social

www.crisesnotes.com/musk-in-your...

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

these people need to 1) touch grass and 2) go straight to hell

We need to learn and adapt. Every single Senate Dem vote for Rubio. It got us nothing. "Rollover and play dead" got us nothing. Fight back or lose the democracy. Full stop.

Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."

Respect to President Zelens’kyi for going on Fox and saying sensible things at a time when that is rare.

Treason. Impeach the traitor who has sold our country to a hostile foreign power.