ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.

Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.

Benito carrying a football with musicians carrying flags behind him

Iconic moment as he says "God Bless América" and then names every country in South, Central, and North america in order

For the rest of the hemisphere, América doesn't mean the U.S.

It means evveeerrybody

There is no lesser extent. Vance is just as complicit. Thank your for bringing on @gbrockell.bsky.social and highlighting her piece. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I wish you wouldn't center Trump in every headline of the podcast. Look at the last month's headlines, it's all his anger and rage. There must be a way to frame the narrative to stop giving him the limelight he wants. It's incredibly discouraging....have we learned nothing since 2016?

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

#nokings #indivisible

“What can we do?” - Share Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline with Congress

Tell them: Read it. Act on it.

Call, write, email—then send this link ⤵️
steadystate1.substack.com/p/accelerating-authoritarian-dynamics, or a pdf of the report (available online)

How To Reverse The Tide It's the gap between what's needed and what we have that keeps us up at night.

What about this? In addition to #nokings @brianbeutler.bsky.social
www.offmessage.net/p/how-to-rev...

“Massachusetts will not allow ideology to override evidence.” Public Health Commissioner De. Robbie Goldstein

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.

In 1965:

-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.

-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.

-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

Senator Murray Calls for Immediate Firing of RFK Jr., Commends CDC Director Monarez’s Stand for Science and Public Health - Senator Patty Murray Senator Murray: “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the...

RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it.

My full statement.

To the point about Governors...https://www.bluestatedefiance.org/ organized by @indivisible.org

Just listened, but he's not the only one. We can't rely on one Dem...we can't forget that some have been stating the facts and not backing down since 2016...Bernie, Warren, AOC, Talib, Omar, Presley, Waters and others Wu, Jasmine Crocket, Andy Beshear, Pritzker. I'm sure I'm forgetting many others!

Is there a copy of this? I really wanted to attend, but the join link sent me to the signup link every time.

It takes a lot of people doing small, good things to fight back against a few people doing big, evil things.

There are a lot of us. Do your small good things. That is our role, that is our hero moment, that is our calling, do not give up because you think what you do is too small, KEEP GOING.

Today's news is devastating... want to chime in to dispel this rumor going around on social media. Authoritarian regimes rely on fear (and rumors) to try to make us obey in advance. Fact check everything. apnews.com/article/fact... @indivisible.org @timothysnyder.bsky.social please pass it on.

TRUMP'S TAX SCAM IS A DISASTER SENATE REPUBLICANS' RECONCILIATION BILL: Forces nearly a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicaid, the largest cut to the life-saving program ever by a factor of FOUR Gives ICE a larger budget than many militaries around the world Strips healthcare away from 5% of Americans Kicks 11.8 million people off SNAP benefits Not only cuts funding for green energy but actually taxes it, threatening to balloon energy costs and eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs Represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in US history

The Senate is currently debating over Trump’s Tax Scam before moving to vote-a-rama and a final vote.

We need GOP senators’ phones to be ringing off the hooks: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

And when their voicemails fill up, use this tool to send an email: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...

Jon Favreau on Twitter: “Shocking how bad this bill is: - 17 million would lose health care - 30% higher electricity costs - Millions of manufacturing and construction jobs destroyed - Biggest ever cut in food assistance for families, kids, veterans - $4 trillion in deficits - $1 trillion in tax cuts for millionaires & billionaires People should be on the phones, in the streets, and telling everyone who'll listen”

A Senate vote on Trump’s Tax Scam, which would gut Medicaid to fund billionaire tax giveaways, is expected late tonight or early tomorrow. We need GOP senators’ phones to be ringing off the hooks today.

Call now: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Or send an email: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.

Good take here from @bencollins.bsky.social and The Onion.
D’s in Congress must do much more.

We hear from a LOT of scientists across the US who say “There’s nothing for me to do with Congress, I have all D Reps.”
Almost the opposite is true. 1/

What date can I put in my calendar for the next event @indivisible.org? Let's keep this going! #nokings

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

Keep it up today! #nokings @indivisible.org Even small cities! Post with data on events to date below.
"By the end of March 2025, there had been three times as many protests as had taken place in 2017. Protest has been surging since, with large boosts coming from major, multi-location actions".

Watch this and pass it on. This is state thuggery, call them the Stasi, the Gestapo, NKVD--this is what dictators do. It's horrifying to hear this story.

Headline from the independent: Trump gives rambling speech about trophy wives, golf and the 'great late' Al Capone in politically-charged West Point address

Headline from the New York Times: Trump Gives Commencement Address at West Point, Stressing a New Era

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social @repauchincloss.bsky.social please read if you have not already. Provides actionable steps to take in Congress.

AmeriCorps members who respond to disasters and help nonprofits are let go in DOGE cuts Young volunteers who respond to natural disasters and help with community projects across the U.S. have been discharged.

“It was a very unique mixture of incredible heartbreak and incredible rage.”

AmeriCorps volunteers across the country have been abruptly pulled out of their service projects due to DOGE cuts, leaving behind communities dependent on their services.

This is incredibly cool: if you search for a condition that’s affected your family, the site returns stats on how much NIH has done for that disease, *and* a contact form for reaching out to tell your Members of Congress why you want to see them defend NIH.

Pass it on!