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Mother Jones
about 2 months ago
The US government won't stop sharing Nazi propaganda. This past year, official social media accounts from the Department of Homeland Security, the White House, and other government agencies have adopted a distinct voice online. But if you look closer, a pattern emerges.
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George Takei
about 2 months ago
It's clearly a cover up, and they think we’re all stupid and won't notice.
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Help if you’re able
gofund.me/967ed19f2
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Donate to Help us Make Our Rent, organized by Brenda Tuli
Hi everyone, AJ (Brenda) here. I'm reaching out again to ask for help in coming up with rent. My old… Brenda Tuli needs your support for Help us Make Our Rent
https://gofund.me/967ed19f2
about 2 months ago
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Honesty for Ohio Education
about 2 months ago
A new report from a government watchdog suggests the Trump administration's efforts to fire staff at the U.S. Department of Education cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. by Cory Turner
www.npr.org/2026/02/02/n...
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The Education Department's efforts to fire staff cost over $28 million, watchdog says
A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office calculates the cost of efforts to fire civil rights staff, and questions the department's ability to enforce federal civil rights laws.
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/02/nx-s1-5690188/cost-trump-layoffs-civil-rights-complaints-department-education-gao
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Indivisible ❌👑
about 2 months ago
We cannot settle for empty reforms while ICE and CBP terrorize our communities, violate our constitutional rights, and kill innocent people. Demand that your Democratic senators hold the line and use their leverage to secure real restrictions on the regime’s secret police.
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Tell the Senate: Not a penny more for ICE brutality | Indivisible
https://indivisible.org/ice-out-senate?source=bluesky
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Hi there! I came across a GoFundMe for a project that’s distributing whistles to communities in Chicago and beyond. Please consider clicking the link to donate or share it with others who might want to help. Thank you!
gofund.me/c1fdfa355
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Donate to Support Whistle Distribution in Chicago and Beyond!, organized by Emily Hilleren
Since late September, I’ve been organizing whistle kit assembly par… Emily Hilleren needs your support for Support Whistle Distribution in Chicago and Beyond!
https://gofund.me/c1fdfa355
about 2 months ago
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Mitch Green
about 2 months ago
I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
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Joe Mama (are we at “liberty and justice for some”?)
about 2 months ago
Immigrants paid $91 billion in taxes last year. Which is significantly more than Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, either Ellison or anyone with the last name Trump.
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Dr. Merri 🐸
about 2 months ago
As usual… Follow the money. Then if you’re smart and have empathy, you’ll make sure you’re not supporting those folks who are profiting from crimes against humanity.
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“At times, Minneapolis reminded me of what I saw during the Arab Spring in 2011, a series of street clashes between protesters and police that quickly swelled into a much larger struggle against autocracy,” @robertfworth reports.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/?utm_source=native-share&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
about 2 months ago
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Mother Jones
about 2 months ago
Federal agents launch tear gas at nonviolent anti-ICE protesters in Portland—including children
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In Portland, federal agents launch tear gas at nonviolent anti-ICE protesters—Including Children
Portland, Oregon Mayor Keith Wilson said that it was a “peaceful daytime protest” that “posed no danger to federal forces.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/federal-agents-launch-tear-gas-at-nonviolent-anti-ice-protesters-including-children/
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Ike is home
gofund.me/dfa1f2fee
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Donate to Bring Ike Home: Support for Legal and Travel Costs, organized by Paul Fannin
Our good friend and teammate Ike has been apprehended by ICE and sent t… Paul Fannin needs your support for Bring Ike Home: Support for Legal and Travel Costs
https://gofund.me/dfa1f2fee
about 2 months ago
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Condemn the Illegal Occupation of Venezuela
We are calling on every elected official in this country to condemn this unprecedented aggression and violation of international law. This attack is clearly aimed at giving billionaire interests in ...
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/condemn-the-illegal-occupation-of-venezuela?source=direct_link&
3 months ago
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https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/stop-streaming-ice-recruitment-ads-now?source=rawlink&utm_source=rawlink&share=6b7100d1-0447-4555-906e-2f320ccdb0a2
3 months ago
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I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “Columbus 50501 Labor Day Rally: Workers Over Billionaires” - sign up now to join me!
www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
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Columbus 50501 Labor Day Rally: Workers Over Billionaires · May Day Strong
Join Columbus 50501 in supporting unions and workers' rights this Labor Day, September 1 at McFerson Commons, 4pm! **Labor and community are planning more than a barbecue on Labor Day this year beca...
https://www.mobilize.us/mayday/event/828790/?referring_vol=6042211&rname=Nancy&share_context=signup-form-modal&share_medium=bluesky×lot=5460332
7 months ago
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Robert Saint Lawrence
9 months ago
How the Trump admin blurs reality using kayfabe, controls the narrative, and gaslights away from legitimate allegations of fascism:
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Human Rites by Juno Dawson
With Her Majesty’s Royal Coven in shambles and the fate of the world hanging in the balance, the ...
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/19010c2a-990d-4d94-b072-b8cfc78929fe
9 months ago
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I'm attending Ohio Progressive Action Leaders's event, “Wednesdays at Bernie's - Columbus office protest” - sign up now to join me!
www.mobilize.us/opalmissionv...
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Wednesdays at Bernie's - Columbus office protest · Ohio Progressive Action Leaders
All hell is breaking loose in the country and our members of Congress are missing - Especially Bernie Moreno! We will not stand down. Let's hold him accountable to the people and taxpayers of Ohio. ...
https://www.mobilize.us/opalmissionvote/event/753480/?referring_vol=6042211&rname=Nancy&share_context=signup-form-modal&share_medium=bluesky×lot=5397901
9 months ago
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Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.Arthur Parnassus lives a g...
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/7387a272-d280-467f-8da9-a9361497c669
10 months ago
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett
10 months ago
In 30 days, LGBTQ+ youth will lose the life-saving suicide hotline—a program that’s supported over 1.3 million young people. When folks are in crisis, this admin chooses cruelty over care—every time. But this is the party of “family values,” right?
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Trump administration to shut down LGBTQ youth suicide hotline
The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline will no longer utilize its LGBTQ youth service line starting July 17. The Trump administration says the move will "focus on serving all help seekers."
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/trump-administration-shut-lgbtq-youth-suicide-hotline-rcna213815
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AFL-CIO
10 months ago
Immigrants are America’s workers. They’re vital to our communities, our country and our labor movement. An immigrant doesn’t stand between you and a good job. A billionaire does.
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Immigration
One in five workers in America wasn’t born here. Immigrants are America’s workers, vital to the fabric of our communities, our economy and our labor movement.
https://deptofpeoplewhowork.org/immigration
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Mother Jones
10 months ago
Tucked into Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful” spending bill is a provision to spend $46.5 billion in taxpayer dollars on building his long-promised wall along the US-Mexico border.
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Trump's Medicaid cuts will fund his failed border wall
Polls consistently show that Americans want more spent on health care, not the border.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/trump-medicaid-border-wall-spending-bill/
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I'm attending Ohio Education Association's event, “Rally for Fair School Funding” - sign up now to join me!
#EducatetheVoteOH
www.mobilize.us/ohea/event/7...
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Rally for Fair School Funding · Ohio Education Association
Join us at the Ohio Statehouse as we rally to demand that the Fair School Funding Formula be included in the Ohio state budget to fully and fairly fund public education! We will meet on the High Stre...
https://www.mobilize.us/ohea/event/798963/?referring_vol=6042211&rname=Nancy&share_context=signup-form-modal&share_medium=bluesky×lot=5352758
10 months ago
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Teen Vogue
10 months ago
Trump has also gutted the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency that enforces laws against workplace discrimination.
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The Trump Admin Is Enabling Workplace Discrimination. Here’s What to Know
Here’s what Trump has done, and how discrimination on the job actually works.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-trump-attack-dei-discrimination
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10 months ago
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I'm attending Ohio Education Association's event, “National Day of Action: Fight for Public Education” - sign up now to join me!
#StrongPublicSchools
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National Day of Action: Fight for Public Education · The National Education Association
Join Central Ohio Rank and file Educators (CORE) to protest and picket at the Ohio Statehouse on May 1, from 4:30pm-7 as we fight for: • Fair and Full-Funding of Ohio Schools • Collective Bargaining...
https://www.mobilize.us/nea/event/773850/?referring_vol=6042211&rname=Nancy&share_context=signup-form-modal&share_medium=bluesky×lot=5265559
11 months ago
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Hands Off! Columbus Fights Back · Hands Off
**Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them.** Columbus is fighting back! They're taking everything they can get their hands on—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—a...
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/event/765260/?referring_vol=6042211&rname=Nancy&share_context=event_details&share_medium=copy_link×lot=5240057
about 1 year ago
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House Budget Resolution Leaves Families With Low, Moderate Incomes Worse Off, Wealthy Households Get Windfall
www.cbpp.org/charts/house...
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House Budget Resolution Leaves Families With Low, Moderate Incomes Worse Off, Wealthy Households Get Windfall | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
https://www.cbpp.org/charts/house-budget-resolution-leaves-families-with-low-moderate-incomes-worse-off-wealthy
about 1 year ago
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Americans for Tax Fairness
about 1 year ago
Let's be very, very clear. Shutting down the Department of Education won't save us a single penny. They’re taking money from students and teachers to give tax breaks to billionaires.
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Andy Ingraham Dwyer
about 1 year ago
This needs to be mentioned in EVERY report and article about this debacle.
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Thoughts on closing the Department of Education
Recently someone asked me my opinion on the current administration’s plans to downsize/shut down the Department of Education.
https://open.substack.com/pub/carrielawsen/p/thoughts-on-closing-the-department?r=5fb4bh
about 1 year ago
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
about 1 year ago
Wishing a Ramadan Mubarak to all who observe! Check out these resources on how to celebrate from our partners at Share My Lesson.
sharemylesson.com/blog/celebra...
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Sara Nović
about 1 year ago
Oh fuck.
cbsnews.com/news/trump-e...
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Trump plans to sign executive order making English the official language of the U.S.
The U.S. has never had an official language, though many states have designated English.
https://cbsnews.com/news/trump-executive-order-english-official-language
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Peter Morley ♿️
about 1 year ago
♿Social Security is NOT just for Seniors. It's also for people like me with Disabilities, people who receive Survivors Benefits & Veterans who receive Social Security benefits. Before I became disabled, I PAID into the program with EVERY paycheck. There are MILLIONS more like me & it is OUR MONEY!♿
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What if, instead of talking to children the way adults talked to us in the past, we said to children the things we wished adults would have said to us?
about 1 year ago
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Mychal Threets
about 1 year ago
“Having a librarian in a library is good.” THANK YOU, Abbott Elementary. Thank you, also, for the seemingly simple scene of how beloved it is to hear a book be read aloud 💚
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Loving Corrections by adrienne maree brown
This selection of prescient, compassionate essays explores patterns we engage in that are rooted ...
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/656aebaf-4b6f-4fd8-b5c7-3c30e389dc95
about 1 year ago
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The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in asking: how do we navigate life, love, and choice in...
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/9b985cc7-f4c7-4176-aaf1-b5cf5d1cfd21
about 1 year ago
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National Education Association
about 1 year ago
Dismantling the Department of Education means defunding programs that feed, educate, and protect our most vulnerable students. NEA’s latest story breaks down the devastating impact this would have on students, families, and communities:
https://bit.ly/3Ct46Nz
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer
about 1 year ago
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer
about 1 year ago
If our Christianity causes kids to go hungry, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be unwelcome, and the elderly on social security they paid into to be called a “parasite,” all while billionaires get richer, we’ve profoundly misunderstood the most basic elements of Jesus’ teachings.
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Jonathan C. Beck
about 1 year ago
Section 504 would not even exist if not for the brave efforts of disability rights activists. I think there’s a lesson there. We need to fight with every lever of power we have as regular folks to protect these guarantees. They should be expanded, not dusmantled.
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Paula- The Blue Warrior
about 1 year ago
Donald Trump Administration Book Ban Targets Children’s Stories Source: ComingSoon
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Donald Trump Administration Book Ban Targets Children’s Stories - NewsBreak
The Donald Trump administration’s recent move to ban books from U.S. military schools has sparked a heated debate over censorship and educational freedom.
https://share.newsbreak.com/bkcbk4fk
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Peter Stefanovic
about 1 year ago
‘This is a coup’: Trump and Musk’s purge is cutting more than costs, say experts In slashing staff and disabling entire agencies the administration is lacerating the structures of US democracy
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‘This is a coup’: Trump and Musk’s purge is cutting more than costs, say experts
In slashing staff and disabling entire agencies the administration is lacerating the structures of US democracy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/17/trump-musk-government-cost-cutting-coup
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Robert Reich
about 1 year ago
Trump has begun firing several hundred FAA employees. Guess who is visiting the FAA command center today to "suggest improvements"? Elon Musk, of course. The billionaire grift continues.
https://apnews.com/article/doge-faa-air-traffic-firings-safety-67981aec33b6ee72cbad8dcee31f3437
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Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash
The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in Washington.
https://apnews.com/article/doge-faa-air-traffic-firings-safety-67981aec33b6ee72cbad8dcee31f3437
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Mychal Threets
about 1 year ago
Book bans impact public libraries & bookstores, but it’s school libraries where they are rampant ❤️🩹 Many kids are unable to make it to the public library. They can’t drive, often times the library isn’t in walking distance. It’s not that their grown-ups don’t want them to be library kids. 🧵 1/11
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Dashka Slater
about 1 year ago
Folks, 69 million married women could lose the right to vote if the SAVE Act passes this week, along with millions of poor & rural Americans. Call your representatives. Before you don’t have any.
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The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens
The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-save-act-would-disenfranchise-millions-of-citizens/
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Paula- The Blue Warrior
about 1 year ago
Elon Musk’s mass government cuts could make private companies millions
#privatization
Source: The Guardian
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Elon Musk’s mass government cuts could make private companies millions - NewsBreak
Defense and tech firms – including Musk’s own – await potential contracts as Doge decimates US agencies
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Governor JB Pritzker
about 1 year ago
JD Vance is saying the quiet part out loud: the Trump administration intends to break the law. America is a nation of laws. The courts make sure we follow the laws. The VP doesn’t control the courts, and the President cannot ignore the Constitution. No one is above the law.
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Governor JB Pritzker
about 1 year ago
Donald Trump is making you pay more for beer so he can give tax breaks to the wealthy.
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Trump imposes 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Monday imposed a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum imports into the United States with no exceptions or exemptions.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/10/politics/tariffs-steel-aluminum-trump?Date=20250210&Profile=CNN&utm_content=1739230244&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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