When laws are rushed, rights get trampled. The Take It Down Act can be easily abused. Tell Congress to stop it.

Opinion | This Democratic Playbook Just Flipped a Trump District In Iowa (Gift Article) A focus on bread-and-butter issues, not the culture wars, helped an Iowa Democrat win in a red area. His playbook is now being used in Pennsylvania.

How a Democrat flipped a +20 trump St Senate seat. By focusing on his local roots and kitchen-table issues. His motto: “Iowa raised, Iowa values: hard work and fairness.” His platform: lowering costs, raising wages, and improving public schools. Gift Art.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

The Anti-Gay 'Lavender Scare' Is Rarely Taught in Schools Under President Eisenhower, the investigation, interrogation and removal of gay men and lesbians from the federal government became policy

In 1953 Eisenhower signed an executive order banning gay people from federal office. The Lavender Scare, as it was known, resulted in thousands of folks being fired.
time.com/5922679/lave...

Headline: What Harm Reduction Really Looks Like Dek: Harm reduction advocates are implementing solidarity-based strategies for curbing drug overdoses in Minneapolis. Tagline: Tim Evans for The Nation A logo in the bottom right reads “Longreads Editor’s Pick”

“'. . . . People are scattered; they lost their stuff; they lost their community; they lost their Narcan. A lot of people use and overdose in the hours after a sweep.'” —Tim Evans for @thenation.com @economichardship.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/02/26/w...

My partner and I have been boycotting Amazon for 3 or 4 years now. This includes things like not watching “free” shows from them with adds and not shopping at companies they own. I even stopped using goodreads when I realized they owned them. You can do it too.

The Department of Ed has a form to snitch on DEI policies in schools.

I’d be a shame if we broke it with thousands of responses… enddei.ed.gov

Archived version: archive.ph/zoeHJ

GOP leaders advise lawmakers to stop hosting town halls altogether.

I’m doing this but I’ve already just stopped buying shit I don’t need. Each time I asked myself, “is this thing going to have any positive impact on your life?” The answer is always no. But I gotta tell you, quitting hardware stores and Sephora is really hard.

Are, are there uncondescending ways to use it??

Why? What could have caused this? /sarcasm

Austrian Parties Reach Deal to Form Government Without Far Right The announcement was a victory for mainstream political parties, after earlier talks involving the hard-right Freedom Party broke down.

Breaking News: Three mainstream political parties in Austria have agreed to form a government that excludes the far-right Freedom Party.

The economic black out is tomorrow. I'm participating.

TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY!

If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK!

Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore.

JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺

#24HourEconomicBlackout

Im excited to take place in the economic blackout boycott tomorrow.
I hope you'll join me and millions of others.

You don’t need to be an infectious disease doctor to see where this is going

Trump administration weighs pulling funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine, Bloomberg News reports U.S. health officials are reevaluating a $590 million contract that was awarded to Moderna for the development of its bird flu vaccine, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing sources.

This relentless assault on vaccines will kill people.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Demonstrating for science risks politicizing it. But, that *doesn't* mean we shouldn't do it.

A few folks have asked what our research has to say about to most effectively advocate for science, in advance of @standupforscience.bsky.social events.

Sharing some of that research below: 🧵🧬

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

The Budget Blueprint Is No 'Big, Beautiful Bill' At best, it’s a concept of a plan. But then they’ll try to spin it to voters.

The House GOP just passed a draconian budget resolution, but despite GOP misinformation, this is just a blueprint, not a final bill. That means there’s still time to push back against proposed Medicaid cuts and tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy. Here’s what you need to know. 👇

#BoycottFeb28th #Boycott #Democrat #maga #dumptrump #MontgomeryBoycott #Fightfascism #nokings

Which US companies are pulling back on diversity initiatives? A growing number of prominent companies have scaled back or set aside the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that much of corporate America endorsed following the protests that accompanied th...

#MAGA Companies going Nazi, and losing money:

Tesla (50% drop in sales)
Target
Walmart
McDonald
etc

Full list ⤵️
apnews.com/article/dei-...

substack.com/@newmeans/no...

Here is the link to the actual document being discussed: www.scribd.com/document/832...

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m...

⚠️ Yeah, seconded, if you have limited bandwidth for reading pease prioritize this.

Also, I’ll try to add supplemental reading as I ride this hyper-fixation.

Don’t Expect Corporations to Save Us From Trump Restoration of democracy will require containing both Trumpism and corporate excess, which feed on each other.

"In the past weeks, we’ve seen a near-total capitulation of capitalists to incipient dictatorship." From Robert Kuttner: prospect.org/politics/202...

Archived Substack: archive.ph/8wPmg, web.archive.org/web/20250227...

Archived Document: archive.ph/BOABk, web.archive.org/web/20250227...

BREAKING

Project 2025 leader and current OMB head Russ Vought directs all agencies to create plans for large-scale layoffs ("Reductions in Force") by March 13.