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Donald Trump finally posts a Thanksgiving message — and uses it to call Governor Tim Walz “seriously retarded.”
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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“If you want to freeze society where it is, then cripple the research enterprise,” says Harvard professor Steven Pinker. cbsn.ws/4oZdhHQ
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Hundreds of Education Department employees were laid off during a Friday-night shutdown, significantly reducing staffing in special-education offices and raising concerns about services for millions of students with disabilities.

open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
October 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Democrats think the American people deserve health care.

Republicans would rather shut down the government than lower health care costs.
September 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Under the Trump Administration, federal offices and programs that insure equal treatment are being shuttered and scaled back.
Donald Trump’s Assault on Disability Rights
Federal offices and programs that insure equal treatment are being shuttered and scaled back.
www.newyorker.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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"(M)ost Americans are ill-equipped to fully understand the significance of attempts to render the Amendment void, and what it will mean for our national identity, our legal and political systems, and for the lives of ordinary Americans, if those efforts are successful."
September 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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“This Supreme Court will never condemn this President, even for delegitimizing the federal judiciary.”
Judge Luttig offers a stark and scathing view of the Court’s willingness to limit Trump’s “unconscionable & unconstitutional” power grab.
August 28, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
August 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Sobering read

"I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%.

Once they win elections, it's already too late."

by Chris Armitage

cmarmitage.substack.com/p/i-research...
I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%.
Once they win elections, it's already too late.
cmarmitage.substack.com
August 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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August 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Social Security was born 90 years ago today.

We are fighting to protect and strengthen it.

Republican extremists are trying to rip your earned benefits away.
August 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Equal access to the ballot box is the foundation of democracy.

Today, on the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, we continue our fight.

Whether it's Donald Trump or Greg Abbott, we can’t let them drag our democracy backwards.
August 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Public schools receive billions each year in reimbursements for services such as counseling and speech therapy — and those programs are at risk following President Trump's cuts to Medicaid.
Schools brace for potential cuts to special education funding
Medicaid cuts could impact special education services in public schools, leaving districts to find alternative funding sources.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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August 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Trump burns everythng to the ground

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
How Scientific Empires End
And what it means for America
www.theatlantic.com
July 31, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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His own daughter has benefited from NIH research. He's a monster. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
www.motherjones.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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The ADA was signed into law 35 years ago today, and remains the most comprehensive civil rights law protecting people with disabilities.

This anniversary comes at a time when the health and dignity of disabled people are under attack by the Trump administration.
July 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'
#StaceyAbrams explains how to achieve an #autocracy in 10 steps.

We're at step 9.

The military is in our streets. Is our democracy worth the effort to defend it?
July 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Jon Stewart Reacts to Colbert's Cancellation & Trump's "Bawdy" Epstein Doodles

youtu.be/TwOLo_U6bTw
Jon Stewart Reacts to Colbert's Cancellation & Trump's "Bawdy" Epstein Doodles | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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July 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Popping in briefly from vacation to share my latest: Here's how the ~$1 trillion in Medicaid cuts in Republicans' newly passed law could threaten the home- and community-based care that many Americans with disabilities rely on.
Disabled Americans Fear What Medicaid Cuts Could Do to Them
www.nytimes.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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You can also protest the other techno-fascist billionaires who bankroll and empower this coup.

In the article and thread below, there is guidance on how to boycott Amazon, Meta, Google, and OpenAI.

Their power and wealth come from our data. Stripping that from them is a direct way to fight back.
In our latest article, we discuss the digital fiefs the tech billionaires built to exploit us, and how you can fight back by simply clicking delete.
How to Fight the Broligarchy
The tech overlords want to trap us. Escaping is how we fight back.
open.substack.com
July 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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TODAY: We’re honoring the late Rep. John Lewis by taking to the streets, courthouses and community spaces to carry forward his fight for justice, voting rights and dignity for all.

Find a Good Trouble Lives On event near you to march in peace and act in power: goodtroubleliveson.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
July 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM