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Organizing My Thoughts
Kelly Hayes writes about things you should know if you want to change the world.
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February 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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it needs to be said that while democratic elected officials are trying to get into the USAID building which was shut down by musk, CNN and MSNBC are showing the entirety of a trump press conference.
February 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
it needs to be said that while democratic elected officials are trying to get into the USAID building which was shut down by musk, CNN and MSNBC are showing the entirety of a trump press conference.
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Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out.
This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.
This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.
February 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out.
This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.
This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.
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i think this should be factored into how states, counties, localities and hospitals respond to these executive orders. "we will investigate you if you teach DEI." okay, with what agents, specifically? with what state capacity?
NYT reported that the number of potentially affected agents is as high as 6k. The bureau has about 13.7k agents total
What a hideous headline. Folks calling the shots here are just corrupt banana republic trash.
February 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
i think this should be factored into how states, counties, localities and hospitals respond to these executive orders. "we will investigate you if you teach DEI." okay, with what agents, specifically? with what state capacity?
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Just got this tip from an airline pilot
January 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just got this tip from an airline pilot
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Oh wow he was defrocked for this.
January 30, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Oh wow he was defrocked for this.
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The Republicans and Democrats in Congress who voted for the Laken Riley Act, and endorsed its notions of detention and deportation without the rudiments of due process, facilitated today’s announcement of Trump concentration camps. They’d be wise not to go a single step further down that road.
January 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The Republicans and Democrats in Congress who voted for the Laken Riley Act, and endorsed its notions of detention and deportation without the rudiments of due process, facilitated today’s announcement of Trump concentration camps. They’d be wise not to go a single step further down that road.
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PRRI finds that Republicans (44%) are more than 2x as likely as independents (21%) and 4x as likely as Democrats (11%) to agree with the idea that the U.S. military should put immigrants who are in the country illegally into internment camps until they can be deported.
www.axios.com/2025/01/29/t...
www.axios.com/2025/01/29/t...
Trump says he'll hold undocumented immigrants at Guantanamo Bay
Trump made the announcement just before signing the Laken Riley Act.
www.axios.com
January 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
PRRI finds that Republicans (44%) are more than 2x as likely as independents (21%) and 4x as likely as Democrats (11%) to agree with the idea that the U.S. military should put immigrants who are in the country illegally into internment camps until they can be deported.
www.axios.com/2025/01/29/t...
www.axios.com/2025/01/29/t...
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I regret to inform you that trying hard and practicing can make you better at things
January 29, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I regret to inform you that trying hard and practicing can make you better at things
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8-ish years ago I got strangers to pay off $300k in “lunch debt” so kids who were being punished for owing money could do things like eat, go to prom, and, walk at their own graduation. In the 20 years I’ve engaged in social media, I have never received more hate for anything else I’ve said or done.
January 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
8-ish years ago I got strangers to pay off $300k in “lunch debt” so kids who were being punished for owing money could do things like eat, go to prom, and, walk at their own graduation. In the 20 years I’ve engaged in social media, I have never received more hate for anything else I’ve said or done.
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The same people wailing about DEI literally can’t spell their own job title.
January 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The same people wailing about DEI literally can’t spell their own job title.
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We have to get comfortable with the fact that there is no normal to go back to, and set our sights and work upon shaping a future worth experiencing.
This is not new or profound. Others have said it better, earlier, more often. Others have lived it more fully.
But I am accepting the call.
This is not new or profound. Others have said it better, earlier, more often. Others have lived it more fully.
But I am accepting the call.
January 28, 2025 at 11:37 PM
We have to get comfortable with the fact that there is no normal to go back to, and set our sights and work upon shaping a future worth experiencing.
This is not new or profound. Others have said it better, earlier, more often. Others have lived it more fully.
But I am accepting the call.
This is not new or profound. Others have said it better, earlier, more often. Others have lived it more fully.
But I am accepting the call.
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The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism—Yes, You! Yes, Now!” zine makes a great gift for your liberal fam, friends, neighbors & coworkers!
Read, print & distro freely!
Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:
itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...
Read, print & distro freely!
Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:
itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...
January 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism—Yes, You! Yes, Now!” zine makes a great gift for your liberal fam, friends, neighbors & coworkers!
Read, print & distro freely!
Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:
itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...
Read, print & distro freely!
Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:
itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...
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No. The Medicaid portals were shut down because the OMB demanded they be. They’re only back up because of the outcry. I’d tell you to stop lying but we know that’s a feature of this administration.
January 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
No. The Medicaid portals were shut down because the OMB demanded they be. They’re only back up because of the outcry. I’d tell you to stop lying but we know that’s a feature of this administration.
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For ~a decade, while studying “rumoring during crisis”, I’ve seen how the right takes advantage of newsy moments, throwing out different frames & phrases to find what resonates. They don’t wait for focus groups. They throw everything at the wall, see what sticks, then lean into the winning bits.
January 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
For ~a decade, while studying “rumoring during crisis”, I’ve seen how the right takes advantage of newsy moments, throwing out different frames & phrases to find what resonates. They don’t wait for focus groups. They throw everything at the wall, see what sticks, then lean into the winning bits.
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![Witness said a bus driver told an ICE agent to "gargle [his] balls" when the latter requested to enter the bus.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jky6uuetr73nlbaml6ytlzbi/bafkreibjh2gbp75z5bojibdoefdpfdwlclxwspai2i7qfjotajpraru3zm@jpeg)
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It’s not his government. It’s our government.
January 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It’s not his government. It’s our government.
All my childhood, I heard that news media manufactured controversy.
Now I'm watching bemusedly while news outlets underreport the significance and implications of the (checks notes) fifth constitutional crisis in eight years.
Now I'm watching bemusedly while news outlets underreport the significance and implications of the (checks notes) fifth constitutional crisis in eight years.
January 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
All my childhood, I heard that news media manufactured controversy.
Now I'm watching bemusedly while news outlets underreport the significance and implications of the (checks notes) fifth constitutional crisis in eight years.
Now I'm watching bemusedly while news outlets underreport the significance and implications of the (checks notes) fifth constitutional crisis in eight years.
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Guidance from Stanford leadership on the OMB memo.
January 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Guidance from Stanford leadership on the OMB memo.