(over images of Elon Musk and Congress) MUSK OR US RECESS MARCH 15-23

Here’s something important to know about all of the Republicans who are clapping as Trump attacks Social Security: All of them will be returning to their states and districts next week for congressional recess.

Start planning to hold them accountable now: indivisible.org/muskorus

It’s not much to ask.

1000 kitchens in Sudan closed by the USAID closures. Staggering to think of.

Spot Lit: Four Local Authors Questioning Societal Norms and Personal Biases As the White House seeks to control the art we consume, from the Kennedy Center to book bans, these local authors are the voices we need now.

City Paper Shouts out me and my books: "His characters live and breathe with profound honesty even when his narrative borders on the surreal. He’s a masterful storyteller, and you’ll regularly find his short fiction in my syllabi, and in the syllabi of countless other professors across the country."

I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

A very good website by former federal employees of the digital service www.ethebuilders.org

More than any other quality, what defines broad swaths of my fellow Americans is not apathy, but dishonesty: intellectual dishonesty; emotional dishonesty; spiritual dishonesty. Dishonesty about what we’ve done, about what we’re doing, about what we’re going to do as a people.

Criminalizing... librarians? Really? It's like they fear knowledge.

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand.
#resist

Read Danielle Sassoon’s Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Annotated Danielle R. Sassoon, who resigned Thursday as Manhattan’s U.S. attorney, writes to Attorney General Pam Bondi to explain her refusal to drop a corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York.

This is a good letter, well annotated.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This, in Massachusetts.

Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For more—and to sign— go to

saynotoethniccleansing.org

Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.

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Donate to Help me family in Gaza, organized by Zakarya Aldaghma I am Zakaria Aldaghma from Gaza. I referred you to the link after the situation became diff… Zakarya Aldaghma needs your support for Help me family in Gaza

This family in Gaza is fundraising for a new tent. gofund.me/4376239b

Gov Hochul can fire the mayor. She should have done so when the scope and scale of his cascading congenital corruption career was laid out in federal indictments. She waited for him to go to trial. Now that injustice has taken its course she is the only reason he remains in office. Step up Hochul.

Quisling indeed.

I wrote about how Doge is involved in cutting cancer research

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Transmission Between Cats and People The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.

"Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

Elon Musk's use of AI to slash education spending could put disabled students at risk It may also "raise serious security questions given the sensitivity of the data."

Department of Education plays a crucial role in making sure disabled kids receive the same access to education across states, and distributes funding for the needed accommodations.

"Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the agency is wasteful and advances a liberal agenda that is counter to President Trump’s foreign policy."

Utter, infuriating, life-threatening nonsense.

"Ms. Zondi’s trial is one of dozens that have been abruptly frozen, leaving people around the world with experimental drugs and medical products in their bodies, cut off from the researchers who were monitoring them, and generating waves of suspicion and fear."

Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.

I meant to link this article as part of my last post. But, sadly, the post also works on its own.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

Heartless. Cruel and heartless, the whole thing.

Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.

Elon Musk Is a Bigger Short Term Threat Than Trump We need to rally against his insurgency in the federal government, and we need to do it now.

"If state governments can find the political will to seize his assets and destroy the basis of his wealth, they should. If foreign governments can, they should do the same." www.liberalcurrents.com/elon-musk-is...

Fight Back Against the Trump-Musk Coup

I think we can safely say that folks are paying attention. If you're looking for ways to take action to fight back against the Trump-Musk Coup, we've got you covered with call scripts, email tools, explainers, and toolkits over at @indivisible.org: indivisible.org/coup

Lots more coming this week.