"the senseless sacrifice of decades of common-good investments in everything from medical research to national parks..." thehill.com/opinion/whit...

Join us on April 17!!

Pittsburgh. April 17.

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

I’m sure they’d love to move us actual autistics to the camps anyone else who is disabled, different, dissident, ill, artist, compassionate, queer.

OMG, this is trump's America. 😔

Do we think ICE doesn’t apply to us because we were born in Ohio or California? Trump made it clear - “Homegrowns are next.” But first they gotta build more camps for all of us.

EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence

Ugly and uglier.

Nothing new on the POTUS playbook; second time as dangerous farce.

Trump/Musk is flooding the zone, here is how you keep up: Trump taking cash bribes from oligarchs in exchange for power, Oligarchs steal from US gutting safety & opportunity for working families, Trump/Oligarchs doing horrible things to innocent people to distract US from their crimes against US.

Please recognize this: what POTUS/SCOTUS get away with doing to immigrants & green-card & visa holders, they can get away with doing to the rest of us.

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

🎉BREAKING: We won! The judge just officially stayed (blocked) the federal notice that was set to end humanitarian parole for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela on April 24th. The court also granted us class certification. Stay tuned for more details on what this ruling means!

Yup. They'll send a legitimately awful US citizen to CECOT, and anyone who criticizes it will be accused of supporting the awful person... and then they'll send someone slightly less awful. Eventually, they'll have established that they can send anyone.

Incredible news on TDOV. The 9th Circuit has denied the government’s request to enforce its transgender military ban. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

And so, as it must for all years, 1984 came. But instead instead of leaving, it crept into dark places and grew, awaited its time and grew some more, and forty years later it sprang out and shouted, “Here I am! Greatness!!” Some rallied around it. Some said, “It’s not so bad.” So the fight is on.

And today, Trump transforms more than half a million legal residents of the USA into illegals subject to deportation. With a wave of his royal hand.

“Bizarre,” yes; but true

Yes, please, Canada

Holy f*ck. No, Adam, this is not a "test case," this is real fast-blooming fascism, right now. You voted for most of Trump's nominees. At least you didn't join Chuckles in his big yes, but you're not exactly inspiring anyone.

Yes, please and thank you, Canada.

In many a time, in many a land With many a gun in many a hand They came by the night, they came by the day Came with their guns to take us away With a knock on the door, knock on the door Here they come to take one more One more - Phil Ochs

People in Florida won a victory for all of us. These wins are important. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

Absolutely.

AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.

@summerlee.bsky.social Our Rep. Summer Lee met with hundreds of constituents in Pittsburgh and demonstrated how a real people’s and peoples’ representative builds “beloved communities” (MLK’s words) of #resistance in times like these. Watch. www.facebook.com/share/p/15ty...

“Two weeks ago, I went down to D.C. because Congress had some questions about how we do things here in Boston, It might have been my voice speaking into the microphone that day, but it was 700,000 voices that gave Congress their answer: This is our city." www.wickedlocal.com/story/news/2...

When proven anti-Semite harass, expel, deport, and empower murder and war against Palestinians. Jews, and others in the — get this — name of “fightingg anti-semitism,” . . . Gratitude to Dave Zirin & The Nation & Portside portside.org/2025-03-20/t...

During World War II, the USA passed the “Enemy Aliens Act” to kidnap and incarcerate Japanese Americans, and in smaller numbers, some German-Americans. One speaks out here against Trump’s new invocation of that long-idle law, against current legally-here people. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A Pittsburgh teaching colleague shared this today. How many of our children will suffer as those who teach them are no longer “affordable” to the billionaires slashing our schools and everything else we the people pay our taxes for and need, especially our children secure.ngpvan.com/n6ZE7wsBrkuL...

#Resistance from the educators at Columbia University’s Teachers College. dianeravitch.net/2025/03/20/t...

So much admiration and gratitude for and to this woman.

Commentary from a teacher in St. Francis, Minn., on their breathtaking book ban policy. minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/19/t...

A report has warned of the growing risks to lives, the economy, and the planet

Thank you Sarah Inama for actively supporting inclusion! www.ktvb.com/article/news...

Sarah Inama, a sixth-grade history teacher at Lewis and Clark Middle School in Meridian, Idaho, is refusing to comply with orders to take down the “Everyone is welcome here” banner in her classroom…

Sarah Inama, a sixth-grade history teacher, is leading the charge to fight the growing hate in USA. Small acts add up. www.ktvb.com/article/news...

“essentially closing research operations in my group” = no new experiments save 1 recently funded grant. Spending freezes limit our ability to order supplies and reagents. We need to focus remaining funding on maintaining personnel + analyzing existing samples w whatever’s left in the cabinet

It pains us to say this. Our lab aims to find cures for many GI conditions. We proudly do both discovery & mentor students - Americans & non-americans alike, & we will have to pause both..unless we find support. So please, help support us keeping discovering & mentoring www.enteric-neuron.com/help

This is where science is at. Amplify the message: when NIH is cut, science in this country stops. Science depends on the stability of the NIH +others. Funding cuts, delays, and uncertainties mean we can't do our work. Support KLAB, and also call your legislature and tell them this is unacceptable!

This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.

MAGA hate comes to Pittsburgh’s mayoral election. Sneakily and behind the scenes, of course. Working to unseat Pittsburgh’s first black mayor, Ed Gainey. Stealthfully. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Right. Getting an MD/PhD is an 8-10 year endeavor. You can’t just fire a bunch of people at NIH and at universities and expect others to come in to keep up the science, or do other good science. Ramming in inexperienced people with a political agenda leads to shitty science.

Her name is Dr. Rasha Alawieh. She is one of our latest sisters in this struggle. Maybe keep her name and story out there — no more disappeared!

While well-heeled former presidents and politicians are silent, courageous leaders like Dr. Sirianni knowingly risk whatever they have to let us know what’s really happening. May we follow their lead and build the #resistance from below. Thank you, Rachael Sirianni.