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“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 7
Mike Johnson: "We're transitioning from Bidenomics and the terrible economy that was delivered by the last administration. It takes a while to turn that ship around."
March 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Trump and Musk are cutting off cancer research.
NIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5 billion in medical research funds
The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.
www.npr.org
March 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
What she said.
February 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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February 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
paulacronan.bsky.social
🌈♥️✊🏽
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Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy | Common Dreams
Senator Bernie Sanders is on a mission to fight oligarchy and empower the people. With a powerful message against Trumpism and billionaire influence, he's rallying Americans to stand up for democracy....
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February 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Musk has made over $25,000,000,000 from tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts. That’s $25 Billion we as taxpayers have both given him directly and had to compensate for. You care about the deficit? Great! Give us our fucking money back.
February 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
paulacronan.bsky.social
February 11, 2025
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February 11, 2025
On February 12, 1809, Nancy Hanks Lincoln gave birth to her second child, a son: Abraham.
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February 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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In this emergency, I think it likely that we are going to need to pitch a very big tent and invite everyone in who doesn't want to live in a dictatorship... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/big-tents-an...
Nobody wants an emergency, but perhaps we should want some of the remarkable things that can happen during them. On the top of my list of those things is how in the immediate aftermath of a hurricane, a fire, an earthquake,  people take care of each other and work together without the kind of vetting and fretting whether they agree entirely about politics or religion or other matters. We are in an unprecedented emergency in the United States with fallout that poses threats to environments, economies, human rights and even survival beyond our borders, and we could use some of that energy. As political scientist Erica Chenoweth said in Saturday's Meditations in an Emergency interview, "The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone."  Right now the courts are doing important business as they render verdict after verdict against Trump and Musk thanks to lawsuits brought by states, federal employees, and others with standing. Some of the Democrats in office are being amazing, and others in the opposition party are being waffles, milquetoasts, cookies that crumble, and other  refined-carbohydrate items. As is now clear, the administrative branch of the federal government of the United States is engaging in a coup attempt against the legislative and judicial branches, against the law and constitution itself, and against your rights and mine and the security and stability of the world. They can be defeated and at a minimum held in check, and the sooner they are the more limited the damage. But as Chenoweth points out, it's up to us. Are we up to it?
February 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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altcdc.altgov.info
📢 RFK Jr’s Floor Vote is Today 🏛️

⏱️ ACTION STEPS ⏱️

💥Call your Senators and Reps and demand they OPPOSE RFK Jr, NIH Cuts and the Musk Takeover
5calls.org

💥Call your state’s Attorney General and demand they fight Musk’s access to data and funding cuts.
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5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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February 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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With 2 days notice, over 75 Marylanders came out to urge @chrisvanhollen.bsky.social to BLOCK & DELAY all Senate business until this constitutional crisis is resolved

@indivisible.org @indivisiblebaltoco.bsky.social @moveon.org @workingfamilies.org #VoughtNo

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Allies for Democracy
With just 2 days notice, over 75 people from across the Baltimore area came out during an ICE STORM to urge Senator Van Hollen to BLOCK and DELAY all Senate business until the constitutional crisis...
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February 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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February 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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February 3, 2025
February 3, 2025
I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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February 4, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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How Senate Democrats Can Shut Down Trump's Agenda with Procedural Hardball
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February 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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February 2, 2025
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February 2, 2025
Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually a...
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February 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
paulacronan.bsky.social
This is a coup
Be ready
Stick together
February 3, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...
February 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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🚨 Call your senators and tell them NO on RFK Jr! (202) 224-3121
CALL. THEM. ALL.
Flood the switchboard. 🚨
January 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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FIGHT BACK. If you are an employee at CDC your AFGE union is 2883 local. Join here: www.afge2883ga.org
Being a union member is not the same as being in a bargaining unit, but it is the first step to getting there and gives you legal representation by the union.

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US federal employee union sues over Trump administration plan to fire, reclassify government employees
Two unions representing US government workers filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging President Trump's efforts to reclassify up to 50,000 federal workers, making it easier to fire them. The American Fe...
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February 3, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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cwebbonline.com
This is Rupert Murdoch's Wallstreet Journal…

Headline: “The Dumbest Trade War in History”
February 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...
THE ASK This week, between Monday and the vote on Vought, we're asking people from all over the country to plan a visit to Senate State Offices to demand Democrats fight and to hold Republicans accountable for their complicity. DEMOCRATS MUST USE EVERY PROCEDURAL TOOL TO SHUT DOWN TRUMP'S AGENDA Yes, we need Democrats to vote no on Vought's nomination, but no is not enough. Democrats have the power to grind Senate business to a halt and force Republicans to feel the political cost of backing Trump's extremist agenda. Here's how: 1. Deny a Quorum: If Republicans don't have 51 votes in the chamber, Democrats can walk out and shut down Senate business entirely. 2. Block Unanimous Consent: Object to every procedural shortcut, forcing Republicans to take the longest possible route for every step of the confirmation process. 3. Max Out Debate Time: Use all 30 hours of debate on Vought to expose Project 2025, Musk's Treasury takeover, and the funding freeze. 4. Delay and Disrupt: Force roll-call votes, quorum calls, and procedural delays to slow everything down. 5. Blanket Opposition: Democrats cannot continue to vote for Trump's other nominees, helping to install more MAGA loyalists into powerful positions in the federal government while this power grab continues. No Business as Usual: This is a constitutional crisis. Democrats must abandon the old rules and fight with everything they have. Bottom line: Senate Democrats must block, delay, and obstruct every step of this process-no cooperation, no easy votes, no fast-tracking Trump's takeover. To learn more about how Senate Democrats can shut down Trump's agenda with procedural hardball, check out our explainer here.
February 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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WTAF!!
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday
Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”
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February 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
paulacronan.bsky.social
Time to read the playbook if you haven’t already
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The Shock Doctrine - Wikipedia
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February 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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February 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I’m telling everyone: Do not open the door or say a word unless you’re expecting someone and know exactly who it is.

Know your rights. Pass these around…
January 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM