On Sept 25, Trump signed this National Security Presidential Memo directing FBI, DOJ, etc to target private American donors, nonprofits and activists who are not right wing. You can read it on the White House website: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Open Letter: Stand Together Against Trumps Threats to Non-Profit Organizations. @publiccitizen.bsky.social Thank you for hosting this - Can groups still sign on? www.citizen.org/open-letter-...

Can the Trump Admin be sued for defamation of nonprofits? This gov’t has spent a year wasting and abusing the English language by spouting fraudulent garbage meant to diminish nonprofits that help the American people. As of yet, there’s no accountability for their string of defamatory statements.

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He finally got his revenge against the man who asked him if he was up past his jail time. Now it's up to us to ask why he's terrified to release #TheEPSTEIN_PedoFiles. #StandWithTheSurvivors

Star Wars is about regular people rebuilding democracy by rebelling against dictatorship. Star Wars is now owned by Disney. Disney’s subsidiary, ABC, just undermined our freedom by obeying in advance a noxious threat from Trump’s Federal Censor Commission. @georgelucassays.bsky.social — buy it back.

This is a powerful, eye-opening, stoic look at what’s happening with hunger, kids, families, food banks, nonprofits, & policy during the Trump Admin’s #TrumpWarOnCharity & #TrumpWarOnThePoor. Thank you @philbuchanan.bsky.social, Grace Nicolette at CEP. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

Don’t get distracted. Why will President Trump attack Americans with the US military to try to deflect from the Epstein Files?! Innocent people don’t act this way.

A deadly encounter between ICE agents & a driver shows how Trump’s ICE War on Immigrants & Refugees puts both gov’t agents & community members in danger. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Calling all #SanDiego nonprofits 📢 $100K just added to the Catalyst Sustained Support Fund: A total of $500K is now available for rapid-response, zero-interest, short-term grants to help local organizations maintain cash flow and keep vital programs going. catalystsd.org/catalyst-col...

Breaking: Trump Administration has renamed DOJ. It’s now called DOJE: Dept of Jeffrey Epstein.

Are you seeking evidence that better nonprofit wages & working conditions could decrease burnout and turnover, & improve program impact? Then Long-Haul Grantmaking is the brand-new #FundThePeople research that you need to read — and share with your funders! fundthepeople.org/report-long-...

Trump Admin days theyre deporting to Uganda immigrant they had wrongly deported to El Salvador. This is meant to scare immigrants and distract pro-Constitution Americans. Keep the pressure on to get the truth about #TrumpSecrets with Pedo Pimp Pal #Epstein. www.cbsnews.com/news/kilmar-...

Are you a nonprofit Executive Director or CEO considering leaving your role? Are you on a nonprofit board and concerned about the future transition of the org’s top executive? Here’s a solid listen just for you from Joan Garry’s Nonprofits are Messy podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n....

Convicted sexual abuser Donald Trump chooses more tyrant tactics to distract media & avoid admitting actions with his #Pedophile pimp pal #JeffreyEpstein: www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-t...

Maybe the administration will appoint an actually qualified person to run IRS next?! Nah… likely they’ll just keep an unconfirmable interim person in there. :/ Trump Is Replacing Billy Long as I.R.S. Commissioner www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

So Trump shuts down the Dept of Ed., supposedly to send curriculum chooses to the states. But then they bring back some rigid, standard “Presidential Fitness Test” all kids have to take?! Via @nytimes: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/w...

Trump signs new Executive Order commanding his minions to execute new Trump Rule: “I’m Rubber, You’re Glue.” Who’s politicizing the law here?!? Who’s weaponizing our government against their political competition?!? www.cbsnews.com/news/jack-sm...

Happy August! #FundThePeople and our podcast are currently on summer break. But this week I’m grateful to be on the new episode of The Playfull Podcast, where I discuss Fund the People’s #DefendNonprofits #DefendDemocracy efforts. And also ice cream! Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Young adults have soured on Trump’s failure to bring down prices and improve the job market, and his botched overreach on things like tariffs, immigration, and inclusion. www.cbsnews.com/news/young-p...

Deals? More accurate term: EXTORTION. Give to my library; give me $16M; free legal services; precious minerals; let me control what you teach; fire Colbert; rename your org after my wife. Then I’ll protect you! Harvard considers up to $500M to “Resolve Trump Dispute” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

TAKE THIS ACTION TODAY: Defend civil society & the separation of church & state: Sign the nonprofit letter opposing Trump Admin’s effort to end Johnson Amendment: lnkd.in/eTbZGa-Q. DEADLINE: Tomorrow 7/21 9pm ET. I signed for Fund the People; Please join me! #DefendNonprofits #DefendDemocracy

Trump’s unconfirmed interim head admits ICE will disappear anyone not carrying papers. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hea...

Was Trump a sex client of trafficked tweens in Jeffrey EpiPen’s prostitution ring? Jeffrey Epidemic… Jeffrey Edamame… Screw it, don’t obey in advance! EPSTEIN. A reporter should ask Ghislaine Maxwell before she dies suspiciously or is transferred to Gitmo. open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

#HandsOff > #NoKings > #GoodTrouble. July 17. In honor of Congressman John Lewis. Visit goodtroubleliveson.org. Sign-up to participate in a local event, or to organize one in your community!

This Putin appointee got shot hours after he got fired by Putin. Subtle. So subtle.

At Trump’s Carnage Carnival, watch as working class Americans die in mid-air from cuts to air traffic control; drown from cuts to the weather service; starve from cuts to food support; & die from curable ills thanks to cuts to Medicaid & defunding of vaccines & disease research. “It is what it is!”

Today on LinkedIn, I shared free resources to help you address nonprofit burnout.

Congratulations to Mar-A-Lago on your 266 official new cult members from the GOP Congress! With these sweet tax breaks, Florida’s classiest coastal elites can finally get that 2nd yacht, 3rd house, or 4th liposuction procedure you so desperately need.

Trump Admin apparently holding immigrants in Guantanamo. www.cbsnews.com/news/guantan...

I invite you to make a gift to Fund the People, the organization I’m proud to lead, as we defend and advocate the nonprofit workforce! Our Spring Appeal ends tomorrow (6/30). Give $75+ now and get a Defend Nonprofits, Defend Democracy T-shirt with my thanks! mailchi.mp/fundthepeopl...

Trump Admin. says that the Big Bloated Bill won’t “cut” Medicaid, but will just cut “waste and fraud.” Let’s be clear: They’re declaring tax-paying, hard-working Americans “waste and fraud.” They’ll let us die from lack of health insurance to cut taxes for elite Mar-A-Lago members.

This page by @saramatlin.bsky.social‬ offers practical resources (legal tools, safety guides, and messaging strategies) for advocacy organizations on the frontlines of racial, gender, and economic justice that refuse to be silenced. (H/T @rustystahl.bsky.social‬) matlinlegal.com/strategies-f...

There are thee major things that are really awful about the Big Bloated Tax-Hike Bill in Congress. But then there are three more really awful things about the bill. At least. Call your senators on Monday. Thanks to Mayor Pete for this analysis. open.substack.com/pub/petebutt...

Hi friends! It’s spring fundraising time at Fund the People. we’re raising $5,000 in online gifts for our “Defend Nonprofits, Defend Democracy” campaign. Please consider making an online gift today: bit.ly/DNDDgive. Gifts of $75+ get a campaign tee to help spread the word!* *Stuffy not included

Trump Admin. bombed 3 Iranian nuclear facilities. (After shutting down Obama Admin.’s peaceful anti-nuke deal with Iran). And Trump ran on keeping U.S. out of never-ending wars in the Middle East (and mocking Biden Admin.’s exit from Afghanistan) www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-lau...

The Trump Administration just eliminated 1,200 new private sector jobs worth $66k/year for Kansans who were going to manufacture computer chips in America. The Admin cancelled $1.9 billion in CHIPS Act funding for the Kansas effort. #MAGA #AmericaFirst #AmericanCarnage www.ksnt.com/news/kansas/...

Tell your senators to oppose the Big, Bloated Bill. It’s a Triple-Threat to the American Way of Life: BIG CUTS to basic service BIG TAXES on middle class & charities BIG DEBT added to deficit Show your Senators the pain this bad bill would cause among their constituents.

Making the #Nonprofit #Workforce Visible, and other resources, in the latest e-newsletter from Fund The People: us6.campaign-archive.com?u=56fc6cf5b5...

Emergency convo for nonprofit and funder folks tomorrow Thu 5/15) @ 11am ET. Info & link here: www.linkedin.com/posts/rustys...

Urgent Call to Action for Nonprofits in Red States & Districts: Next Week is a Big Push! Contact your electeds in DC. Urge them to remove any attacks on nonprofit sector from the Tax Bill! Details & Resources in this Fund the People blog post: fundthepeople.org/call-to-acti... #DefendNonprofits

Bill Gates explains why he's giving away virtually all of his wealth by 2045 in "CBS Mornings" interview. Inspired by Carnegie’s ‘gospel of wealth’. Other mega-rich and powerful people shoild take notes. www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-ga...

Those good Christians in the Trump Admin have been smearing #nonprofits with lies to rationalize their Commandment-busting, Constitution-breaking attacks on American #charity. Hear the truth & our urgent Call to Action on #FundThePeople Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f... #DefendNonprofits

What was that thing that those disaffected lefties and cynical conservatives always said last year about how there’s no difference between the political parties, they’re all lying politicians, Yada Yada Yada? I hope it’s obvious by now how wrong you were.

Thank you, President Trump & the Trump Administration, for building the TRUMP™️ Tariff Casino. Way to turn the greatest post-pandemic economic recover on the globe into your very own TRUMP™️ American Carnage Circus. www.cbsnews.com/news/gdp-rep...

What do you call a President who refuses to follow a unanimous ruling by all nine Supreme Court justices? Illegal DJT.

Thanks Trump. Great job bringing down prices! www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-...