And this is just a small sample of the scams and the grift!

The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

So ridiculous. (And so familiar)

BBC: “Al Jazeera’s entire team in Gaza city has been killed.”

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a cornerstone of American culture for three generations, announced Friday it would take steps toward its own closure after being defunded by Congress.

That certainly takes balls to cut 17 million people off health care and then announce you're spending $200 million to build a new ballroom. Let them eat cake.

The grift is on… and only the rich and powerful win.

U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sank the Market www.propublica.org/article/us-o...

If the administration can exert federal oversight over Columbia, then any university is at risk. A collective response is needed. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

It's all a game to billionaires. They only play to win for themselves, not you. You are just a piece they move around the board to do so.

"Don't become like him. Be an American that says I look to the future. Yes, things are scary right now. But we can overcome." MORE. OF. THIS. 👏👏👏👏👏 #CoryBooker

🚨. This Isn't a Drill! We have a real opportunity to FLIP a U.S. House Seat in #FL01... But only if we show up! Gay Valimont is in the ring. Now she needs us in her corner. Let's throw some punches by phonebanking - for our future! 👊 📞 SIGN-UP HERE! ⬇️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Here’s your chance to do something. Click here and send the link to all your friends, and urge them to come out too.

If you’re upset about the chaos and corruption Trump is inflicting on your country—whether your focus is the nihilistic dismantling of government, the economy, our foreign relations, or his threats to the rule of law—please join the nationwide marches on April 5. Learn more here 👉 handsoff2025.com

“Just child after child, young patient after young patient,” Dr. Sakib Rokadiya told the AP. “The vast, vast majority were women, children, the elderly.”

The Constitution is clear: the President can't arrest people he disagrees with. By detaining Mahmoud Khalil — a legal permanent resident whose American wife is 8-months pregnant — Donald Trump seeks to undermine basic freedoms. We must oppose this move toward authoritarianism.

A federal judge in New York City has ordered that a Palestinian activist who led protests at Columbia University not be deported while the court considers the lawsuit challenging his detention. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

I stand with Zelenskyy.

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

The White House said that its officials “will decide” which news outlets can regularly cover President Trump up close — a sharp break from a century of tradition in which a pool of independently chosen news organizations go where the chief executive does.

The men told NPR they were kept in the dark about why they were in Guantánamo Bay, and were denied access to an attorney or a phone call with loved ones.

Stand with science. Always.

Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.

1. Forced displacement is ethnic cleansing, and a component of genocide. 2. Trump admits every building is leveled, which confirms once more Netanyahu committed war crimes with indiscriminate bombing. 3. The "US taking over Gaza" is a violation of international law This exactly is fascism in 2025.

So honored to be invited on Brenda McMahon’s podcast “Art & Inspiration” on Radio St. Pete. March is Women’s History Month; and, boy, do we have a lot to say. 😁 Thank you Brenda for giving us all a voice! And Still I Rise- March 1st - 31st, 2025; The Brenda McMahon Gallery.

At no point in history were the people who justified targeting children the good guys. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business. Costco Meijer Kroger Giant Grocery Ben & Jerry’s Ulta, Macy’s Old Navy Nordstrom’s TJ Maxx GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…) Dollar Tree Walgreens Wegmans

Dems would get much more traction finding and promoting people saying what they know and experience. What has more impact, This man speaking his mind or the Dems speaking “in unison “ ?

Country artists Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood performed John Lennon's “Imagine” at the funeral for former President Jimmy Carter at the Washington National Cathedral Thursday. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.

Ronald Reagan won the 1980 election against Jimmy Carter in part because he got Iran to agree not to release the Americans it was holding hostage until Reagan could take credit for their release. He was willing to risk their lives to win. When Republicans say "America first," they mean "me first."

Happy New Year

When you just need someone to give you a flower… before you have to start your next battle.

When I was in high school, the guidance counselor used to speak really scornfully about easy electives like "underwater basket weaving" but I have contemplated this for 35 years, and I still think underwater basket weaving sounds really hard.

I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired. History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them. Signed, a physicist

Today, November 25th 2024 is the day we officially learned that justice in America, in fact, does NOT matter. #sad