NO KINGS Berkeley · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

In Berkeley on Saturday October 18? Come to Telegraph Ave 10-1 and exercise your First Amendment right to FREE SPEECH! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

The 'stork sisters' are saving one of India's largest and rarest birds Once reviled, the Greater Adjutant stork was nearly extinct, but the conservation efforts of Dr. Purnima Devi Barman and her 'Hargila Army' has turned the bird's fate around.

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies.

They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.

This administration will go to any length to ensure the American public has zero transparency. Now, senior Justice Department officials are invoking executive privilege to block a dismissed lawyer from testifying before Congress — all in an effort to intimidate whistleblowers and suppress the truth.

This is from the American Enterprise Institute. Think about that for a minute.

My favourite library quote is from newsman Walter Cronkite:

‘Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation’

A graph of stock markets since Trump’s inauguration. Major markets plummet on Sunday night.

Orange Monday is the new Black Monday.

Photo of an outdoor sculpture created with steel and coloured glass representing a fraction of a ranbow arc sited on flat ground and shown under a pale blue sky

The Rainbow, 1991 by Icelandic artist Ruri #WomensArt

He Got Clemency From Trump. Now He’s Facing Charges of Injuring a Child. Jonathan Braun, who has had a string of legal issues since President Trump commuted his drug sentence four years ago, was arrested after allegedly punching an acquaintance and shoving a 3-year-old.

"It is the fourth time he has been arrested since Mr. Trump freed him..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

Screenshot of the cover page of Griffin v Board of Elections. Text reads: "IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NORTH CAROLINA No. COA25-181 Filed 4 April 2025 Wake County, Nos. 24CV40619-910, 24CV040620-910, 24CV40622-910 JEFFERSON GRIFFIN, Petitioner, v. NORTH CAROLINA STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS, Respondent, and ALLISON RIGGS, Intervenor-Respondent. Appeal by petitioner from orders entered 7 February 2025 by Judge William R. Pittman in Wake County Superior Court. Heard in the Court of Appeals 21 March 2025."

Excerpt from the panel majority opinion in Griffin v. Board of Elections. Text reads: "Upon remand, the Board is instructed to immediately direct the county boards to expeditiously identify the military and overseas voters challenged under this protest and notify said voters of their failure to abide by the photo ID requirement or equivalent, to allow said voters fifteen (15) business days from the mailing of the notice to cure the defect, and upon verification, to include in the count of this challenged election the votes of those voters who timely cure their failure to abide by the photo ID requirement and to omit from the final count the votes of those voters who fail to timely cure their deficiencies. Finally, as to the "Never Residents" voters, we conclude these purported voters are not eligible to vote in North Carolina, non-federal elections, and the votes cast by these purported voters are not to be included in the final count in the 2024 election for Seat 6. The Superior Court's order in 24CV040619-910, affirming the Board's dismissal of Griffin's protest as to these purported voters is reversed with instructions to remand the matter to the Board to direct the county boards to identify the votes from "Never Residents" and remove them from the final count of the 2024 election for Supreme Court Seat 6. The Clerk of this Court is ordered to issue this Court's mandate on Monday, 7 April 2025 at 5 P.M. It is so ordered. REVERSED AND REMANDED. Panel consisting of: Judges TYSON, HAMPSON, and GORE. Judge Hampson dissents by separate opinion."

BREAKING: Republican-majority panel of the Republican-majority NC Court of Appeals rules 2-1 that the Republican candidate for Supreme Court (their colleague on the Court of Appeals) wins the election even though he got several hundred fewer votes than the Dem

appellate.nccourts.org/opinions/?c=...

This isn't just donalds doing. The Republicans in Congress own this. They had the ability to stop him and they didn't. This isn't donalds economy, this is the republican economy.

This asshole raised prices and ruined your retirement savings, and now he's out golfing for the rest of the weekend.

Trump's VA is ending a rescue program that's saved 17,000 military veterans' homes The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will end a mortgage rescue plan that has saved many veterans from needlessly losing their homes, the move could strand thousands of others who need help.

Republicans have completely abandoned veterans.
Total abandonment.
Do not let them ever claim to be patriots again.
www.npr.org/2025/04/03/n...

In other words, more than ten years worth of projected tariff “revenue”. 🤡

BREAKING: Md federal Judge Paula Xinis GRANTS preliminary injunction, rules from the bench that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was apprehended "without legal basis" and removed to El Salvador illegally, "without any legal process." He's to be returned to the U.S. by 11:59 on Monday, 4/7.

Raskin: Would it be problem for it to be standard practice to conduct sensitive foreign policy on a signal chat group? It just came out that Waltz’s team set up 20 signal group chats for crises across the world… I’m sure this will raise the question on whether he should continue in that position

Trump. Will. Kill. All. Americans.

Trump just imposed a 26% tariff on India.

Half of all generic medicines in the US are from India.This will impact 9 out of 10 prescriptions.

This will harm ALL Americans.

Anti-Voting Rights Extremist About To Be Put In Charge Of Protecting Voting Rights Harmeet Dhillon, who has been President Donald Trump's legal advisor for years, has also harshly attacked LGBTQ rights and abortion rights.

Morning. ☕

Today, the Senate is voting to put someone who has spent years attacking voting rights, abortion rights and LGBTQ rights in charge of protecting all of those rights for millions of Americans. www.huffpost.com/entry/harmee...

Straight down seems bad

So weird how this keeps happening.
www.axios.com/2025/04/02/t...

Waltz used personal Gmail accounts for official communications: report Report on use of Gmail for government communications comes after national security adviser accidentally added journalist to Signal chat on Yemen attack plans

Another deeply concerning national security lapse.

Waltz's aide used Gmail to "conduct highly technical conversations with co-workers at other agencies, which included sensitive military positions and weapons systems in connection with an ongoing conflict."

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

We warned you of their plan

Now that’s a screenshot.

> @atrupar.com

Really looking forward to Jeff Bezos' forceful public condemnation of Trump's tariffs since he is so committed to "free markets" that he made a rule that every opinion piece published in the Washington Post must support "free markets"

For some reason, Bezos hasn't said anything yet. Must be busy.

Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.

Senators Chuck Grassley (R) and Maria Cantwell (D) just introduced a bill to reassert Congress’s power over tariffs.

—President must notify Congress on new tariffs within 48 hours of imposition.

—Congress must approve them within 60 days or they expire.

www.cantwell.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Hakeem Jeffries threatens lawsuit over delayed Texas special election One month after Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner's death, Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott has yet to call a special election to fill his seat.

It's getting buried, but Houston will almost certainly not have representation in Congress until January 2027.

Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner died nearly a month ago and Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott has simply decided not to call a special election to fill the seat.

ECONOMY IN SHAMBLES

U.S. job cuts hit 275,240 in March 2025, the highest since the pandemic peak in 2020, surpassing 2001 & 2008 recessions. Layoffs surge as federal cuts, led by DOGE, echo Covid-era losses.

It's the third highest monthly total on record.