With the budget being actively negotiated, now is a great time to speak up about what you want!

Particularly about tax exemptions for data centers. Those tax breaks have gone up an order of magnitude (million to billion) and were never promised in perpetuity. What’s fair is fair!

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ethics professor here, can confirm

Young Anton Chekhov, the playwright, looking super hot in his 20s

Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy

Northeast Regional is that gurlll. All my homies love the Northeast Regional

this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth

Democracy dies in broad daylight under billionaire ownership

Maine clergy form spiritual 'shield' outside workplaces to protect immigrants from ICE (RNS) — Like religious leaders in cities such as Minneapolis, Chicago and elsewhere, local clergy were quick to muster resistance to the rapid influx of immigration enforcement agents, even as they wr...

NEW from me: Every morning for the past week or so, a group of ~24 clergy in Portland, Maine drive out to a business.

They form a line near a door, shielding a group of mostly immigrant workers as they exit their shift.

Then faith leaders stare down DHS agents. religionnews.com/2026/01/29/m...

“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.

As a labor union representing independent media workers, we feel it's important to name that both Lemon and Fort are independent journalists, and that the targeting of independent journalists should be treated with the same gravity as the targeting of those with institutional backing.

True. This is history that everyone connected to UVA should know. news.virginia.edu/content/uva-...

Twice this week I’ve explained that UVA Health employees don’t have things like winter storm hazard pay because in reaction to Black UVA Health employees organizing for better working conditions, in 1947 the General Assembly made collective bargaining illegal for public sector employees in Virginia.

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."

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US’s Largest Nurses’ Union Demands Abolition of ICE After Alex Pretti Killing The union vowed to do everything in its power to ensure Congress members who vote to fund DHS are voted out.

National Nurses United, the largest nurses’ union in the U.S. has demanded the abolition of ICE after a federal agent shot and killed nurse Alex Pretti on Saturday, joining a rapidly growing chorus calling for Congress to do away with the rogue agency.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

fred shuttlesworth looking over the wreckage of his bombed house

i think about this picture of fred shuttlesworth looking at his bombed out house every day because it is in my classroom and so i see it five times a week. tired and defiant.

a face that says well, on we go

seeing reports of protests over Minneapolis everywhere from city streets in New York, Chicago, DC, and Seattle, to women and children at a south Texas immigrant detention camp

Minnesotans are meeting the moment. May Allah cover them, lift up their spirits & increase their courage.

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Indivisible has a tool here with a call script:

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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

now - especially now - a reminder that we are going to win. and this is why

He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.

The regime will lie. That's what fascist regimes do.

It will continue to murder people in different ways. That's also what fascist regimes do.

Regular people will continue to refuse and to not cooperate and to fight back in all of the ways we can.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.

A few other quick shots from the protest:

god damn lol

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