Richard Scarry illustration of a city scene with animals working various jobs. Text reads: Some workers work indoors and some work outdoors. Some work up in the sky and some work underground. included in the image is a fox in a hard hat working underground surrounded by cables and pipes and sewers.

kids literally wanted to grow up and be public servants because of Richard Scarry.

There it is! 🎞️🙌🫶

The CDC has literally been gutted today.

There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet.

Thousand of scientists fired.
Entire departments erased.

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AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in Denver

Zoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.

This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.

Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.

And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

ripples. when you create a difference in someone's life, you not only impact their life, you impact everyone influenced by them throughout their entire lifetime. no act is ever too small. one by one, this is how to make an ocean rise.

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Tragic news: The breeding male of Oregon's Metolius pack was recently found killed near Sisters, Oregon.

We've contributed to the $30.5K reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the killing of this federally protected wolf.

More information: biodiv.us/4iLKRhF

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

Fight the Oligarchy Rally Poster with event details for: Las Vegas, NV, Tempe, AZ, Greeley, CO, Denver, CO, and Tucson, AZ

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STARTING TOMORROW.

Nevada. Arizona. Colorado.
You, me, and Bernie.
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See you there 💪🏽🌞

I'm Not Running in 2026, But I Am Getting to Work We all have work to do in delivering a better kind of politics for America.

I care deeply about who Michigan will elect as Governor and send to the U.S. Senate next year, but I have decided against competing in either race.

I wrote more here about my decision and how I view the work required of us all in this moment:

In a shocking turn of events, many of the people who said they wanted "free speech" actually just wanted to be the ones in charge of which speech is free.

Sex, Drinking and Dementia: 25 Lawmakers Spill on What Congress Is Really Like We interviewed Democrats and Republicans — on the record and anonymously — about life on Capitol Hill, what broke Congress and a whole lot more.

To get an inside look at what it’s like to serve in Congress, we sat down with 25 lawmakers who were ready to dish.

Here’s what they told us👇

Projects interrupted For over 11 years, 18F has been proudly serving the American people to make government technology work better. We are non-partisan civil servants. 18F has worked on hundreds of projects, all designed ...

You can now read about projects that were interrupted when 18F was disbanded.

One of them was with the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP), which ensures military service members and Americans overseas are able to vote, and that their votes are counted.

18f.org/projects/#fe...

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

An open letter from the abruptly shuttered 18F - called the "the gold standard" of civic tech by even Trump admin officials.

Spread it far and wide.

18f.org

Human as a Service.

All these stories should be getting covered in the news. Remember how we all had to hear in story after story about folksy racist Trumpers from the heartland after Trump won the first time? How about profiling his actual victims this time, media?

Nothing is inevitable.

Find someone who is doing something you admire and join them.

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills

“on Thursday the [National Science Foundation]’s online payment system was still down, throwing lives into uncertainty. An NSF email seen by STAT suggested salaries had been suspended to “ensure only eligible activities” are funded.” www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

Most of the people reading this have a sense of how bad things are right now.

So for encouragement, here's a thread with examples of folks fighting back.

We are suddenly in a moment where it feels like simple idealism - in the sense of caring about others and not just about oneself - has never been rarer and more necessary at the same time.

I have a theory that I want to try to prove. I believe that working together we can change the world pretty dramatically between now and the end of next year, one day and one community at a time. More soon, but that’s mainly what I will be posting about from now on.