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Call to Action: DC Protest, July 4th. If you are in the DC area we ask for all hands on deck. Gather at 2 PM at Logan Circle, culminating in a march to the White House. #3E #RefuseFascism #NoKings
Alina Habba, once President Donald Trump’s personal attorney and now the interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, has quietly been under investigation by the state’s professional regulators for more than a year, putting her license to practice law at risk. www.notus.org/donald-trump...
Alina Habba Has Been Under an Ethics Investigation for Over a Year
Documents obtained by NOTUS detail an investigation into Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney for New Jersey.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
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“Today, right now—and I mean right this second—you have the most power you’ll ever have in the current fight against authoritarianism in America,” writes @adriennelaf.bsky.social. If you wait to speak out against autocrats, you have already lost:
A Ticking Clock on American Freedom
It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.
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We fired a bunch of park rangers and cancer researchers to build concentration camps.
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2y agoRequest is for 13x the current annual custody budget. Not sure people are preparing for the scale of the domestic gulags this administration wants to build and how many more people will be snatched if this operation gets up and running.
Furious Elon Musk Demands Refund from Wisconsin
Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has infiltrated the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), one of the most critical arts and cultural support systems in the country. “There is no efficiency argument when IMLS represents just 0.0046% of the federal budget."
Elon Musk’s DOGE Prepares to Gut Your Local Library
DOGE is seizing the Institute of Museum and Library Service.
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From banned books to banned words, Trump's no-no's include: "biased," "climate science," "women," "socioeconomic," "underprivileged," and "inequality." “Men” is not on the taboo list, in deference to the political ascendency of the Manosphere, of course.
The 199 Things You Can’t Say in the Trump Administration
It’s no surprise that the president deleted “climate change” from government websites. But why forbid “advocate” and “institutional”?
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The S&P 500 fell 3.1% this week, its worst showing in many months, after dizzying White House policy shifts on tariffs.
Stock Market Has Worst Weekly Drop in Months as Tariffs Hang Over Wall St.
Investors are worried about the economy and whether tariffs on America’s largest trading partners will stifle growth.
nytimes.com
A group of men who would not identify themselves and who were working for the local Republican Party have dragged someone out of a political meeting, her speech considered grounds for arrest. What’s next? And who will stand in their way
This Shocking Moment at a GOP Town Hall in Idaho Is a Foreboding Sign
Private, unidentified security personnel dragged a woman out of the event. It raises questions not just about tolerance for dissent but about who gets deputized to do what.
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King MuskTrump has wiped out the national database of police misconduct. Nearly 150,000 records of misconduct by federal officers erased, like it never happened. Why would he get rid of the database he created? Because Trump will drastically scale back police accountability to appease right-wing TV
The Trump administration has begun firing employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the world’s premier centers for climate science.
Mass Layoffs Begin at NOAA
The cuts came just before a separate wave of departures was expected under the Trump administration’s so-called deferred resignation program.
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DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?
The two most important of @timothysnyder.bsky.social's rules for fighting tyranny are: 1. Do Not Obey in Advance. and 2. Defend Institutions. For #NIH, take these together: Stand up for the quality and value of your own science, and reject bad science. Tell the PUBLIC why your work is great. /2
Twenty Lessons for Fighting Tyranny | Carnegie Reporter Winter 2022 | Carnegie Corporation of New York
Historian and Andrew Carnegie Fellow Timothy Snyder suggests ways to defend democracy with individual actions
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A new report has found tech mogul/fascism enthusiast Elon Musk built his fortune from $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits going back more than 20 years.
New Report Exposes How Elon Musk Made U.S. Government His Cash Cow
Elon Musk is a greedy welfare billionaire.
newrepublic.com
Unvaccinated school-aged child dies of measles in Texas amid growing outbreak. It is the first measles death in the US since 2015. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Unvaccinated school-aged child dies of measles in Texas amid growing outbreak
It is the first measles death in the US since 2015.
arstechnica.com
Trump and Musk don't think the American government owes military veterans anything.
Elon Musk’s Cruel Cuts Expose What MAGA Really Thinks of Veterans
Thousands of military vets, many of them disabled, have been fired during the Trump administration’s mass purge. And it’s just the beginning.
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