Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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Democracy is like exercise. You can't do it once every four years and complain when you don't see results. Pro-edit button. "Soros-backed." He/him. Linktree.com/joekatz45.
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To mark "Trump will declare a national emergency for mass deportations" day: here is the initial spreadsheet of our crowd-sourced *local* immigration advocacy/support organizations.

Please share widely, put to good use, and keep letting me know about more organizations folks can connect with.
joekatz45.bsky.social
The Nazi comparisons are useful, but the Trump instinct to address negative outcomes by firing and silencing anyone on their team foolish enough to report them always makes me think of Mao and the Great Famine.
joekatz45.bsky.social
The cloture vote on Bove was 50-48 last Thursday, all voting Dems plus Collins/Murkowski were nos. Seems quite likely he'll be confirmed this week. But since that was two whistleblowers ago, probably worth anyone with a Republican senator making one more call.
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RIP Tom Lehrer, one of the single most talented, prescient, hilarious, and underappreciated satirists this country ever produced. a man who actually called it like he saw it youtu.be/JPrAuF2f_oI
Tom Lehrer - Pollution
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
Worth remembering that in any other administration, a 15% tariff on our largest trade partner & some of our closest allies would be considered the worst trade war in more than a generation
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REPORTER: Can you do better than a 15% tariff rate for the EU?

TRUMP: Better meaning lower? No
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
Yet Another trade “deal” from Trump that leaves tariffs much, much worse than before he took office. What a joke.
paulbrand.bsky.social
15% tariffs will still be imposed on EU goods entering the US.
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
Underreported trade news of the day is that Trump announced that the 15% tariffs on the EU would include pharmaceuticals that have thus far been exempt from tariffs

If tariffs on pharma go up 15% this week it'd be a *massive* escalation of the trade war—the US imports $175B/yr of them from the EU
a graph of US pharma imports by country, which are $175B/yr from the EU
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joekatz45.bsky.social
Her: you quote Alanis Morissette too much

Me: well slap me with a splintered ruler
joekatz45.bsky.social
Do they have a strike fund set up? Anything along those lines we can support?
joekatz45.bsky.social
Keep yelling at your senators to oppose Trump's henchman.

Scripts language here, or send a @resist.bot message by texting SIGN PECZAF to 50409.
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ajaxsinger.bsky.social
You can either read today's news as a series of distractions-- the poor venous return is a distraction from bove which is a distraction from Epstein which is the distraction tariffs which is a distraction from whatever -- or you can read it as shit is falling apart. I'm an eternal optimist.
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parsnip.bsky.social
the wall street journal says trump's letter was part of the department of justice's review of the charges against epstein and maxwell. emil bove was involved in doj's review of those files this year. today republicans on the judiciary committee halted debate to advance bove to a lifetime judgeship
joekatz45.bsky.social
National broadcast of the flagship event for #GoodTroubleLivesOn will go live on YouTube at 8PM
Good Trouble Lives On
YouTube video by The Transformative Justice Coalition
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joekatz45.bsky.social
Scripts/language to tell your members of Congress they need to fucking do something if Trump decides his ego is more important than our economy and fires Jerome Powell:

(Can also send a @resist.bot message by texting SIGN PBLBKC to 50409.)
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"Now, Ray is hiding in India where he has no legal status, family, or passport. He said he is only surviving thanks to a pastor who took him in."
joekatz45.bsky.social
"Ray, who is in his late 20s, was born in a refugee camp in Nepal and came to the U.S. as a kid. He was recently deported to Bhutan — where he had never lived in and where his family faced persecution. Within 24 hours of his arrival, Ray said Bhutanese authorities ordered him to leave."
A refugee deported to Bhutan by the U.S. finds himself stranded and stateless
Once deported to Bhutan, some Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees say they are told to leave. Many have since disappeared, while others are homeless and stateless, according to immigration advocates.
www.npr.org
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Today is the 30th anniversary of the Day that Newsweek Discovered Bisexuality. To mark the occasion, I’m going to tell you all a little story.

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The cover image of the Winter 1996 issue of "Anything That Moves: The Magazine for the Bisexual At Large, Covering Gender and Sexuality Prix Fixe to A La Carte". There are three people on the cover standing side by side -- a Black woman with short spiky hair and dark-rimmed glasses, a white or Latina woman with short dark hair wearing a jacket and tie, and a white man with a thin face and a shaggy blond haircut wearing a dark vest. They are holding up the Newsweek "Bisexuality" issue (which also has three people standing side by side on the cover) and looking at it with puzzled and skeptical expressions.
joekatz45.bsky.social
Remember the good old days when a president firing this meant this was a non-story as opposed to "oh, he's definitely gonna fire Powell"
carlquintanilla.bsky.social
* TRUMP: NOT TALKING ABOUT FIRING POWELL