After the massive success of #NoKingsDay, folks have asked, what's the next step? Here's one of the ideas. Instead of #BlackFriday we go a #BlackoutWeek an #EconomicBlackout Turn #BuyNothingDay into #BuyNothingWeek
Get your essentials the week before. Buy local, farmers' markets. Starve the beast.

The longest federal government shutdown so far came during Trump’s first term - lasting 35 days.

As the Republicans continue to blame Democrats for the shutdown, remember that.

Shutting down the federal government is one of the Trump Party’s favorite moves.

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Sounds about right.

I guess you're keeping your NY Times subscription after all.

Certainly close enough to the real truth!

🩱 One summer in Milan, a group of trans women's topless protest was a spark to a broader movement in Italy that changed Trans+ rights across the country

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Gargantuan tax cuts for the well-heeled, draconian cuts in programs for low-income Americans, boondoggle spending for iffy missile defense, and siding with the whites of South Africa.

Donald Trump is making America the 1980s again.

El sábado, mientras millones de personas votaban en Eurovisión, el ejército de Israel bombardeaba Gaza. Murieron alrededor de 130 personas, la mayoría mujeres, niños y niñas, como consecuencia de los ataques israelíes. Por favor, firma: http://amn.st/63326NUrLE. #StopGenocidio

Utterly grotesque.

Neutrality theater journalism that treats both sides as the same, regardless of how extreme they are; a reflexive tendency to appease and acquiesce; pervasive reactionary, anti-“woke” impulses in the higher echelons of these institutions - all adding up to this. Shameful.

NEW: Trump’s first 100 days back in office have been filled with attacks on democracy and the rule of law. But we must not lose sight of the fact that it is the Republican Congress enabling his authoritarianism, @marcelias.bsky.social writes.

IDEA: Stop covering politics like its a fucking sporting event.

The GOP spending cuts don't provide an "opening" for Democrats to attack. They are either going to harm people or not. Journalism is supposed to be about informing people.

Very close to the shit show epicenter

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

As always, twice on Sundays

1 million people, 1,400+ events… in support of civil society, decency and democracy.

@nytimes.com a below-the-fold, wide-angle-photo of one event in NC, no headline, directs to single article on A18.

NYT Publisher is a sixth generation media oligarch. Will AG Sulzberger change course?

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Editors at Jeff Bezos’s @washingtonpost.com were even more dismissive of the #handsoff pro-democracy movement on 4/6.

WaPo editors have priorities…as they chose to devote 1/2 #FrontPage on 4/7 to a personal achievement - a new hockey scoring leader. A Putin-supporter who plays in the NHL.
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El PLPR (Proyecto de Literatura de Puerto Rico), que el mes pasado retiró el único poema que tenía mío (con una desafortunada traducción), hoy amanece con una restricción de entrada para usuarios registrados solamente. Y entonces la página de registro no funciona.

¿Qué anda pasando? No se sabe.

Every American skipping over this violation of the law, and assuming this happens to 'people who deserve it/are dodgy somehow,' should realize that there is jack-all stopping them from doing the same thing to you next, if you shrug off the rule of law for people on visas.

He requested the method as more humane than lethal injection or the electric chair, which frequently cause horrific suffering and slow deaths.

People should sit with this knowledge. This is murder. This is always murder. Making it look clean is for our benefit, not the person being killed.