Susan Rogan
@sgrogan.bsky.social
"Democracy is not a spectator sport." - Marian Wright Edelman
Mom of 12, defender of democracy, founder of Rogan's List (https://susanrogan.substack.com/)
Mom of 12, defender of democracy, founder of Rogan's List (https://susanrogan.substack.com/)
Silver Resistance is a Facebook group designed to encourage and engage older people and allies who may feel as if they don’t have enough energy, agility, or time to jump into politics fully at this time.
Let’s check out Silver Resistance and join in: www.facebook.com/groups/13034...
Let’s check out Silver Resistance and join in: www.facebook.com/groups/13034...
May 8, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Silver Resistance is a Facebook group designed to encourage and engage older people and allies who may feel as if they don’t have enough energy, agility, or time to jump into politics fully at this time.
Let’s check out Silver Resistance and join in: www.facebook.com/groups/13034...
Let’s check out Silver Resistance and join in: www.facebook.com/groups/13034...
We’ve been here before. The difference is that in 1974 the Republicans showed integrity and chose the Constitution over the man. We could sure use some of them now.
April 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
We’ve been here before. The difference is that in 1974 the Republicans showed integrity and chose the Constitution over the man. We could sure use some of them now.
If you live in Michigan and have experienced any unusual disruption in your Social Security services or you have been prevented from accessing your earned benefits, our AG, Dana Nessel, encourages you to use this form and let her know.
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
April 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If you live in Michigan and have experienced any unusual disruption in your Social Security services or you have been prevented from accessing your earned benefits, our AG, Dana Nessel, encourages you to use this form and let her know.
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
There are only about 300,000 people in Michigan's upper peninsula which covers about 16,000 square miles,, but five cities turned out today with many more participants than anticipated! This photo is from Ironwood, MI.
April 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
There are only about 300,000 people in Michigan's upper peninsula which covers about 16,000 square miles,, but five cities turned out today with many more participants than anticipated! This photo is from Ironwood, MI.
In preparation for Saturday’s nation-wide Hands Off rallies around the country, Move-On is sponsoring online de-escalation training on Wednesday, April 2 at 8pm EDT. We can learn how to stay safe. Let’s sign up here: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...
Hands Off: De-escalation Training · MoveOn
Getting ready for your mobilization? Join us for a security and de-escalation training to get ready for your action!
A core principle behind all Hands Off! events is a commitment to nonviolent actio...
www.mobilize.us
April 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
In preparation for Saturday’s nation-wide Hands Off rallies around the country, Move-On is sponsoring online de-escalation training on Wednesday, April 2 at 8pm EDT. We can learn how to stay safe. Let’s sign up here: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...
Let’s take in these lessons from the book “Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” by Timothy Snyder, an expert on authoritarianism.
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Let’s take in these lessons from the book “Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” by Timothy Snyder, an expert on authoritarianism.
My little town in Michigan’s upper peninsula has the distinction of having the oldest continuously operated Carnegie Library in Michigan. It is an incredibly special place. Here’s what our local library director had to say about cuts. (no services to blind either)
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March 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
My little town in Michigan’s upper peninsula has the distinction of having the oldest continuously operated Carnegie Library in Michigan. It is an incredibly special place. Here’s what our local library director had to say about cuts. (no services to blind either)
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www.facebook.com/share/p/1ABV...
Government is supposed to work for everyone. Why should our taxes go up and programs we rely on be messed with? For billionaires?? I don't think so.
Contact your folks in Washington: democracy.io#!/
Contact your folks in Washington: democracy.io#!/
March 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Government is supposed to work for everyone. Why should our taxes go up and programs we rely on be messed with? For billionaires?? I don't think so.
Contact your folks in Washington: democracy.io#!/
Contact your folks in Washington: democracy.io#!/
A friend of mine who will soon be graduating from college is working on a senior capstone project and could use our help in completing this quick survey:
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Thank you!
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Thank you!
Right to Repair and Broken Products
Hello, I am an Industrial Design student with the University of Oregon, and I am gathering public opinions on repair and what electronic products break most often in order to inform my senior capstone...
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March 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
A friend of mine who will soon be graduating from college is working on a senior capstone project and could use our help in completing this quick survey:
forms.gle/Y2CQ6ApMFNGK...
Thank you!
forms.gle/Y2CQ6ApMFNGK...
Thank you!
So many of us rely on on this to live, elderly and disabled. Do what you can to help it survive. This affects all of us and those we love.
March 4, 2025 at 3:53 AM
So many of us rely on on this to live, elderly and disabled. Do what you can to help it survive. This affects all of us and those we love.
The promised chaos, cruelty, and suffering is heartbreaking. For folks who want to know what they can do help, please consider subscribing to Rogan's List, which is recommended by Heather Cox Richardson: susanrogan.substack.com
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ways we can help save our democracy. Click to read Rogan's List, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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March 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The promised chaos, cruelty, and suffering is heartbreaking. For folks who want to know what they can do help, please consider subscribing to Rogan's List, which is recommended by Heather Cox Richardson: susanrogan.substack.com
an someone please help me understand why a tax cut for the wealthy takes priority over helping the least well-off amongst us?
February 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
an someone please help me understand why a tax cut for the wealthy takes priority over helping the least well-off amongst us?
Join us!
@joekatz45.bsky.social tells me @roganslist.bsky.social, named for our inimitable founder @sgrogan.bsky.social, has gone from 27,000 subscribers on Election Day to 50,000 today. Please join us & take concrete actions to help save our democracy! We have great suggestions!
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ways we can help save our democracy. Click to read Rogan's List, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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February 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Join us!
"The former Social Security Administration (SSA) commissioner has said that benefits could be interrupted due to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) audit."
So many of us live on this each month. We cannot afford to go without, nor should we. Where's the justification?
So many of us live on this each month. We cannot afford to go without, nor should we. Where's the justification?
Social Security warning issued over benefits "interruption"
The former commissioner Martin O'Malley has said that the DOGE audit of the Social Security Administration may "break it."
www.newsweek.com
February 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"The former Social Security Administration (SSA) commissioner has said that benefits could be interrupted due to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) audit."
So many of us live on this each month. We cannot afford to go without, nor should we. Where's the justification?
So many of us live on this each month. We cannot afford to go without, nor should we. Where's the justification?
1. Google Gulf of Mexico.
2. Click on the three little dots to the right of “Gulf of America”.
3. Select "Send Feedback"
4. Click on "Gulf Of America" text.
5. Select "Inaccurate content".
6. Select "Incorrect" and type in : "The correct name of this body of water is “Gulf of Mexico".
2. Click on the three little dots to the right of “Gulf of America”.
3. Select "Send Feedback"
4. Click on "Gulf Of America" text.
5. Select "Inaccurate content".
6. Select "Incorrect" and type in : "The correct name of this body of water is “Gulf of Mexico".
February 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
1. Google Gulf of Mexico.
2. Click on the three little dots to the right of “Gulf of America”.
3. Select "Send Feedback"
4. Click on "Gulf Of America" text.
5. Select "Inaccurate content".
6. Select "Incorrect" and type in : "The correct name of this body of water is “Gulf of Mexico".
2. Click on the three little dots to the right of “Gulf of America”.
3. Select "Send Feedback"
4. Click on "Gulf Of America" text.
5. Select "Inaccurate content".
6. Select "Incorrect" and type in : "The correct name of this body of water is “Gulf of Mexico".
“The ongoing actions by Musk and his followers are a coup because the individuals seizing power have no right to it. Elon Musk was elected to no office and there is no office that would give him the authority to do what he is doing. It is all illegal.”
Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
snyder.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“The ongoing actions by Musk and his followers are a coup because the individuals seizing power have no right to it. Elon Musk was elected to no office and there is no office that would give him the authority to do what he is doing. It is all illegal.”
UPDATE: It seems that this is not a new change. I still don't understand it. leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
Fact Check: Nine-Star US Flag Icon On Federal Websites Since At Least 2020 -- NOT Related To 2025 Events | Lead Stories
Has the U.S. flag icon in the header of several federal U.S. government websites been replaced by a nine-star version...
leadstories.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
UPDATE: It seems that this is not a new change. I still don't understand it. leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
Real life consequences of these funding freezes/cuts. A domestic violence center in MI gets 75% of its funding from federal grants. They would have to close if this funding is lost, leaving survivors without potentially life-saving services.
Contact your legislators to keep funding going!
Contact your legislators to keep funding going!
Jane Graham Jennings on impacts of freezes on federal grants
The Women's Community Executive Director Jane Graham Jennings discusses effects of any potential freeze on federal grant funds in the near and long terms for its domestic violence survivor services.
pbswisconsin.org
February 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Real life consequences of these funding freezes/cuts. A domestic violence center in MI gets 75% of its funding from federal grants. They would have to close if this funding is lost, leaving survivors without potentially life-saving services.
Contact your legislators to keep funding going!
Contact your legislators to keep funding going!
Perhaps I was too polite in my last post. This is what I meant to say:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B6g...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B6g...
An Act of War
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
www.youtube.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Perhaps I was too polite in my last post. This is what I meant to say:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B6g...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B6g...
Musk now has access to all government data, payment, and communication systems. He halted funding allocated by Congress, impacting Lutheran Social Services and USAID. He’s not done yet. This unprecedented data breach also grants him access to OUR banking and Social Security info, too. It is illegal
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
www.wired.com
February 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Musk now has access to all government data, payment, and communication systems. He halted funding allocated by Congress, impacting Lutheran Social Services and USAID. He’s not done yet. This unprecedented data breach also grants him access to OUR banking and Social Security info, too. It is illegal
Do we really want Elon Musk to have access to the Social Security and Medicate payment process, as well as federal salaries, government contract payments and tax refunds? Raise your hands if you think he has your best interest at heart.
Senior US Treasury official to exit after rift with Musk allies, report says
David Lebryk, the top-ranking career U.S. Treasury Department official, will leave following a clash with allies of billionaire and Trump adviser Elon Musk over payment system access, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
www.reuters.com
February 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Do we really want Elon Musk to have access to the Social Security and Medicate payment process, as well as federal salaries, government contract payments and tax refunds? Raise your hands if you think he has your best interest at heart.
This new EO is aimed at schools. Lord, help us all.
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January 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This new EO is aimed at schools. Lord, help us all.
www.instagram.com/reel/DFb2118...
www.instagram.com/reel/DFb2118...
They were seeing just what they could get away with. They will try again another way. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
White House rescinds order that had frozen federal aid, official says
The White House Office of Management and Budget has rescinded a Trump administration directive pausing federal loans, grants and other financial assistance, a White House official said on Wednesday.
www.reuters.com
January 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
They were seeing just what they could get away with. They will try again another way. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...