The truth for sure!

Blaming Democrats for a shutdown when you control the House, Senate, and the White House only proves you can't govern. From The Lincoln Project

A happy and healthy 5786 to all who celebrate!

Dear friends from across the states: I've been involved with @NOPENeighbors.bsky.social and I hope you can attend their upcoming meeting on Zoom on Tuesday, September 16 at 7pm. Here's the sign-up link. www.mobilize.us/nope/event/8... .

I agree! @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social

❤️ Alaska!

Look what got published in @usatoday.com ! My sign reads Halt Gestapo Tactics!

Friends, Virginia is the one place that's having elections this year! Join me and my NOPE (Neighbors Defending Democracy) group as we meet with @abigailspanberger.com , who will be the next Governor of Virginia with our help. It's a zoom meeting, see you next Tuesday!

Packed house at Wonderland Books Bethesda for Sharon Ann Musher in conversation with Miriam Eisenstein about Sharon’s book, “Promised Lands”. The book is a fascinating profile of Palestine in 1932 and her grandmother’s sojourn there at age nineteen. Purchase with 30% discount here: sharonmusher.com

@nopeneighbors.bsky.social inn Bethesda #nokings

2,169 events across 20 countries. Millions of peope are standing up tomorrow to say with one voice: No Kings! #NoKingsDay

Reminder: DMV friends: Join us this Monday for a conversation between Sharon Ann Musher and her cousin Miriam Eisenstein about Sharon’s amazing new book! June 16th 7 pm in Bethesda at Wonderland bookstore.

Friends: wherever you are in America, join an event on 6/14 and every night this week on zoom in preparation for 6/14! Just enter your zip code. www.nokings.org

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Bethesda” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

DMV friends: Join us for a conversation between Sharon Ann Musher and her cousin Miriam Eisenstein about Sharon’s amazing new book! June 16th 7 pm in Bethesda at Wonderland bookstore.

DMV friends: every Friday in Greenbelt! @casaforall.bsky.social

A National Weather Service office in Kentucky was scrambling to cover the overnight forecast on Friday as severe storms moved through much of the eastern U.S. The office is one of several left without an overnight forecaster as a result of cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency.

RFK Jr: “The MMR vaccine that we currently use has millions of particles that were created from aborted fetal tissue, millions of DNA fragments.” This is blatantly false

So that all can read, I am gifting today’s NYT piece on the lawless presidency of the 45th President of the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

ALERT: Reports of upcoming ICE activity in DC targeting restaurant & food delivery workers. (May 6 - 10) Did you see ICE in your neighborhood? Do you know someone detained by ICE in DC, Maryland, or Virginia?

California, other states sue to block Trump administration cuts to health department

Without Congress's consent, our Constitution says, no federal officeholder can accept “any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.” These deals seem to put Trump in direct violation of that clause. Via @popular.info @juddlegum.bsky.social

Pay attention: DOJ removes managers, closes all cases in voting enforcement office responsible for preventing voter discrimination: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Breaking news: New civil rights division chief said more than 100 attorneys have left their jobs, in many cases because they disagreed with the office’s new focus on combating anti-Christian bias, transgender athletes in women’s sports, and “woke ideology.”

The plaintiffs are seeking a permanent injunction against enforcement of the 212(f) proclamation. Judge Randolph D. Moss will preside. WHEN: Tuesday, April 29, 2 p.m. ET WHERE: DC District Court - Courtroom 8 - 333 Constitution Avenue Washington, DC

From Professor Tribe: “250 years ago today America began its march toward independence at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The battles marked “No Kings Day, Part I.” Today millions of Americans will take part in “No Kings Day, Part II.”

When a tyrant starts to stutter and sends signals that his outlandish demands were sent without his authority, you know he’s a paper tiger. That’s when you’ve gotta double down on your resistance! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

The good news is Trump eliminating food safety regulations should only matter to Americans who eat food. The bad news is that’s literally everyone. Read "The Trump administration’s approach to food safety is tough to swallow" here: bit.ly/4ioWIBB #ResistTrump

What happened to ending the war on day one?

NEW: Federal judge blocks Trump effort to fire more than 1,400 CFPB employees. Judge Amy Berman Jackson set an April 28 hearing over whether the CFPB's attempted RIF violates a prior court order. “It’s not going to happen in the meantime.“ This afternoon, at Law Dork —>

And now this ???

Harvard, that "liberal bastion of education" 1. Ben Shapiro 2. Bobby Kennedy Jr 3. Ted Cruz 4. Ron DeSantis 5. Steve Bannon 6. Mike Pompeo 7. Vivek Ramaswamy 8. Neil Gorsuch 9. Elise Stefanik 10. Tom Cotton They might as well have educated Karl Marx.

RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

“But not some of MAGA’s most prominent representatives, including Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had no objection to fighting antisemitism but observed that the language of the bill would interfere with Christians’ ability to accuse Jews of killing Christ.”

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Please contact your legislators!

Dear friends: I turn 75 on April 3rd! I feel fortunate that I have good health and the energy to spend my time volunteering with Jews United for Justice. We work in the Maryland General Assembly in Annapolis and in Rockville at the Mo Co to pass laws to racial, economic and social Justice!

We’re calling on Maryland legislators to prioritize #ImmigrantJustice with policies that protect Black, brown, and working-class communities. 🏥 Safe access to schools, hospitals & places of worship 🔒 Data privacy for immigrant families 🚔 An end to harmful 287(g) @casa4all.bsky.social

HOLY SHIT. I do not think the filing in the Perkins Coie case actually complies with the court's order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: A federal judge in Maryland Thursday blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials from accessing sensitive data and systems at the Social Security Administration (SSA). www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Please join NOPE (Neighbors Defending Democracy) Democracy Online and love ❤️, share and comment on this post! We all need to do our part, raise our voices and amplify these messages.

Happy Purim! Jews United for Justice assembled and delivered almost 500 mishloach manot gift bags to EVERY Maryland state legislator and their staff (a JUFJ first!) plus many more in Montgomery County. @marcelrich.bsky.social @teresawoorman.bsky.social and many more!

ACTION NEEDED! Every American should participate in this week’s calls or email writing to your Senators! Of course, DC is disenfranchised so they don’t have any Senators to write or call! Let’s all help them out!

ACTION NEEDED! Every American should participate in this week’s calls or email writing to your Senators! Of course, DC is disenfranchised so they don’t have any Senators to write or call! Let’s all help them out!

If you are a member of the D.C. Bar, please be on the look out for your ballot. And VOTE for Diane Seltzer for D.C. Bar president.

Scoop: Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus says she’s resigning after a column on Jeff Bezos’s Wall Street Journal-like opinion pivot was rejected by Will Lewis