"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

The U.S is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We should not have the highest rate of child poverty of nearly every major country on earth. We should have the lowest.   It's time to end this international embarrassment & create an economy that works for all.

Thank you, Senator Cory Booker! #Resist

Listening to Senator Cory Booker on MSNBC after he broke the record for longest Sebate filibuster - he says he was pushed to do it by angry constituents demanding Democrats do something. Call your Representatives! 5calls.org Irritate the hell out of them if nothing else

Corey Booker did his part. Now they rest of us need to get in good trouble too. On April 5 there will be protests happening nationwide.

Booker's team just told MSNBC they’ve gotten 14,000 voicemails from people supporting Cory’s filibuster and sharing their stories—and another 280 million people have liked his speech on TikTok alone. A masterclass in capturing attention. Well done.

We're going back to the Hill next week--make YOUR voice a part of it! Use the QR code in the attached flyer to tell your representatives how you feel about foreign aid and the actions of this administration. The deadline is Tuesday night, April 8.

💾 Huge thank you to the Data Rescue Project and every archivist and librarian out there saving this country one megabyte at a time www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... CDC datasets prior to 1/28/25 here: archive.org/details/2025... & contraception guidelines here: jessica.substack.com/p/cdc-birth-...

That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history! Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.

Excuse us for a second: This is illegal as fuck. Executive branch records are the property of the public, not of these scoundrels and con men.

Let’s be clear: the Dept. of Ed. provides resources to 26 million children living in high-poverty school districts; Pell Grants to over 7 million students; & funding for millions of children with disabilities. Closing its doors would be a disaster for working class families.

Hearing from a source: "A friend at NCI lost 3 outstanding staff (their words) and tweeted about it. She was suspended for 2 days. No idea how her tweet was flagged." This is for all the people asking us why it's hard to tell what's happening at NIH. Retaliation is real.

A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”

US added to the global human rights watchlist due to declining civil liberties.

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Musk says millions of dead people get Social Security. That's a lie. Here's the truth: 30,000 people die a year waiting for an understaffed Social Security to approve disability benefits. Musk's plan to cut Social Security's staff by 50% will make this tragic reality even worse.

"daddy, what did you do in the war" son, i archived all 6,793 videos from the Kennedy Center before they disappeared from the internet we all did our part

We are heartened by this call to action in Nature, one of the most respected journals in science. It urges the global scientific community to speak out on behalf of those being censored and support research as the US government shifts away from its historic leadership www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is stunningly lawless. There is no basis for an administrative stay. The Trump admin was ordered to comply with a TRO to preserve the status quo, flouted it for weeks, and ran to SCOTUS asserting that State & USAID can't make payments that they clearly can.

If you rely on fed services such as social security, Medicare/Medicaid, airline safety, clean air & water, disaster response, search & rescue, or enjoy things like national parks, you *really* need to contact all of your congressional reps. These services are people dependent & in very real danger.

Today is a good time to remind everyone to consider supporting independent journalism. Also, federal workers, please consider talking to journalists from independent news outlets. Signal: abbyvesoulis.09

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

V's Post ❇️ Sergeant Kim here! Are you all doing well 🤭 Trans cr; Aditi weverse.io/bts/artist/3...

📢 ATTENTION EVERYONE 📢 Trump and the republicans are planning deep cuts to medicaid. Medicaid provides healthcare for millions of Americans including children, pregnant people, people with disabilities, and nursing home residents. ☎️ Call your representatives now! 5calls.org/issue/protec...

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. 🧵 Thread below on today's ruling. PAY ATTENTION NatSec colleagues @altdod.bsky.social @votevets.org because what they are willing to do to us they will not hesitate to do military families, too. 1/ www.wjtv.com/washington/w...

Toni reminds us that we each hold the power to heal by doing THE work. This weekend we're committed to: - taking our dogs for a walk - checking on 2+ fed friends - making a batch of veggie soup - calling our senators re the budget (& Medicaid's risk) What about you? Share your intentions. Goodnight.

"It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you but that every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to…the philosophy and practice of fascism." Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley, 22 January 1962 lettersofnote.com/2016/02/02/e...

Ahh this. Was waiting for this and I’d like to see more of it.

@jenpsaki.msnbc.com: "Inspectors general are a headache for everyone. You know why? Because they're investigating every agency and they find stuff! Including waste and fraud and abuse! They wouldn't be firing them if they cared about waste, fraud, and abuse."

Well, this took off! Lots of replies focus on whether the jobs report will be honestly reported. A mini-thread on that. 1/

Let me speak to the DOGE audit language. Many people who work in both the Treasury and specifically the IRS are CPAs. Most audit firms hire CPAs. A 19yo coder has absolutely no idea how to accurately identify waste or fraud. Calling what DOGE is doing as a audit, is a flat out lie.

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

How was this contract awarded??!

@warren.senate.gov: "Elon is gonna do X Money... There's just one bump in the way and that's the CFPB... He doesn't like that... Move the bump out of the way before you start. It's like a bank robber saying, 'Before I go into the lobby with my sacks, I'm just going to fire the cops.'"

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

The cost-saving claims don’t hold up. Every dollar in NIH research grants generates $2.46 in economic activity, research shows—a total of $93 billion in 2023 alone. “It’s incredible to me that we would give up this thing that has such obvious societal benefits,” says biologist Mark Peifer.

The US forest service is firing 3,400 staff, “potentially making it harder for the federal government to address increasingly intense wildfires and manage millions of acres of federal forests and grasslands.”

Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this. Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.

The top health care companies in America spent 95% of their profits to make their CEOs & stockholders obscenely rich. How many Americans would be alive today if those companies spent $2.6 trillion on disease prevention and primary care, instead of stock buybacks and dividends?

No one in American history has combined this many conflicts of interest across the globe, with this much state power—legally authorized or not.

MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”

This means Americans can no longer file Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests regarding its activities. If there’s nothing to hide, hide nothing!

Yesterday, the White House announced that Mr. Musk’s office, the United States DOGE Service, is now shielded from public records requests and most judicial oversight until at least 2034, with its documents classified as presidential records.

Yes. Also, NIH itself has stopped recruitment of PhD students, postbacs, and postdocs at all its campuses. The nat'l recruitment cycle is closing, everyone will be done soon. It's already a lost year of talent coming in to do great science at NIH. Damage to 🧪 is real. (Story linked below, see 🧵.)

Less than two hours until the deadline and all of these pages are still down: www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...

Getting the word out about Trump attacks in science is very important now. We keep talking to people who don’t know what is happening. Bluesky is a great platform, but it isn’t reaching everyone. When you read this, can you please make a commitment to tell two colleagues to get on Bluesky?

Purging dissent in the security services and giving loyalists power is something we *instantly* recognize in other contexts.