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It seems the Democratic Party is worthless at mounting direct opposition. Shame! Shame! Shame!

Women need to keep barging

A few of you are asking about guidance on calling - so here’s a great resource! Follow them or visit the website.

#OverheardOnZoom: "We may live in the Empire now, but we can make sure we're Jedi and not stormtroopers."

Call your Congress person, call your Senators. Florida senators aren’t taking calls, gee I wonder why? I did manage to call my Congress person and left a message asking him to stop the illegal and unconstitutional actions taking place in DC. Call daily.

Advice from a Congressional staff member (sources at the end of this post): MAKE 6 CALLS A DAY -- two each to your 2 Senators and your 1 Representative (their DC office AND their local office).

The world’s richest man who no one elected just walked into the US Treasury, stole your Social Security number, and Trump let him. You deserve to know why this is happening - call your member of Congress and Senators (202) 224-3121 and ask why.

Shutting down USAID?!

While I’ve been anti-AI from the start, I’m fascinated that my university has told us we’re not allowed to use DeepSeek. How is using other AI any different? Provenance is still dubious, theft is absolutely at the core of all of it.

Chúc mừng năm mới! Welcome to the wood snake. 🐍

In response to orders from the Trump White House, the National Science Foundation has canceled all of its grant review panels for this week. This follows the National Institutes of Health canceling its grant review panels earlier. This is a huge disruption to US science.

Following two patterns, but also making my own mods. Math for the writer and meditation for calm.

Without downloading any new pix, where are you mentally?

Appelbaum’s two paragraphs make zero sense. The second does not follow logically from the first.