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Too bad my state senator and congressman aren't on blusky so I couldtag them on this and say, "I told you so!" 😒

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Release the Funds Town Hall: A National Conversation about Putting America’s Future Back in the Hands of Communities. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. We all want clean water, clean air, affordable communities that thrive economically, and a livable future for our children—no matter where we live, how much money we make, or our backgrounds. How we get there looks different, but our local communities know what solutions will serve them best. However, our government is going back on its word to support its own communities and taking away the long-awaited investments that would have put them in the driver's seat, all to line the pockets of corporate polluters and billionaires. Join us as we share stories and discuss the serious impacts of recent funding freezes and cuts on our communities—from farms to cities all across the country—and what we can do collectively to take our future back. Moderators: Matthew Tejada, Senior Vice President, Environmental Health, NRDC Helen Chin, President & Co-Director, Communities First Fund With Catherine Coleman Flowers, and stories from across the United States including Native American Community Clinic, Appalachian Voices, and one of Montana’s largest credit unions Register and join our town hall: WHAT: Release the Funds: A National Conversation about Putting America’s Future Back in the Hands of Communities WHEN: Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 3–5PM ET/12–2PM PT

Join the conversation on May 28 at 3 p.m. ET to share stories and discuss the serious impacts of the Trump administration’s recent funding freezes and cuts—from farms to cities across the U.S.—and how we can work together to take back our future.

From our friends at Stand Up for Science!

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They pretend that the USA was founded as a Christian nation.

Then they pretend and insist they’re Christians.

Then they govern like the motherfucking antichrist.

This has always been the GOP's strategy:

1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.

2) Explode the deficit.

3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.

4) Repeat.

They're trying to get away with it again.

Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

Oh.

How a real President honors fallen heroes.

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil.

Tom Homan, one of the top officials behind the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, is facing questions after it was revealed he was paid by a private prison company that stands to profit from the government’s detention policies.

Russell Vought: Trump appointee who wants federal workers to be ‘in trauma’ The Christian nationalist head of the office of management and budget was central to the Project 2025 blueprint

Good morning! 🌞 We’re excited to share finalists from our Russell Vought Neologism Contest — inspired by @dansavage.bsky.social's rebranding of “Santorum.”

Scroll below to see the finalists and 💚 your favorite. Winner announced this afternoon!

(around an image of a map of No Kings events) NO KINGS JUNE 14 - NATIONWIDE DAY OF DEFIANCE nokings.org

250 years ago, Americans made it clear that we weren’t going to be ruled by kings.

In 18 days, we’re taking to the streets again to reject Trump’s authoritarianism and show the world what democracy really looks like. We hope to see you on June 14 for No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Please, Don't Normalize This Madness Something often happens to people exposed to repeated trauma.

The steady stream of gaslighting propaganda, the legislative assaults on vulnerable people, and the clear mental instability of a leader whose sole intention is to seek a new moral bottom—we can't make peace with any of it.

No, none of this is normal.

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Merck headquarters

💥 BREAKING: Shareholders of Merck & Co one of the largest pharma companies in the world, voted today to reject an anti-DEI proposal, 99-1 percent. Merck Board recommended shareholders vote against proposal that called for eliminating "discriminatory DEI milestones" from executive compensation.

The federal district courts deserve our praise and thanks. They are slowing and often halting the march of MAGA fascism.

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.

Genuinely glad Russell Vought’s daughter got the NIH-backed medicine she needed. ❤️‍🩹

Now he’s trying to defund the very programs that made it possible—for everyone else. 🙃💉

Life-saving science for me, austerity for thee.
Cool plan, Volde-Vought.

Switching from Trump’s Amazon to the more diverse, equitable, and inclusive Costco is easier than you think. I made the switch. Now everything I need is delivered by Costco right to my door in two hours instead of two days - and without supporting oligarchs!

Sadly I did not know this for the first 55 years of my life. They do not teach you this. This is absolutely true. And we should honor all of them this Memorial Day and always 

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The past few months have been tough, and we just want to say thank you. In the beginning, it felt like we were yelling into the wind, no one was listening. But then you all showed up. You raised your voices, shared the truth, and made the media pay attention.

How it started/How it’s going. Adopt don’t shop.

State Rep @jamestalarico.bsky.social gives a master class in Republican hypocrisy 🔥

The Texas House passed the Ten Commandments bill in an 82-46 vote… on the Sabbath, breaking the Fourth Commandment in the process.

We will now raise our flags, beginning in ET and continuing across the country at noon, from half-staff to full-staff. This honors those we’ve lost in service and symbolizes our nation’s resolve to carry on the fight for freedom.

(next to an image of President Obama) “It is up to all of us to fix this. It's not going to be because somebody comes and saves you. The most important office in this democracy is the citizen—the ordinary person who says, no, that's not right." PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

Hands Off! was the biggest day of civic protest in years.

We want No Kings Day on June 14 to be even bigger — with more people in more places driving even more defiance of Trump’s fascist agenda. There are over 1,000 events planned in all 50 states. Please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

White Friends, You Can't Be Woke and Silent In my travels around this country, both in person and online, I meet lots of white people who fancy themselves woke.

Despite the desperate state of this nation and how dire the moment is, I still see a disturbing, widespread white procrastination right now: too many people seemingly waiting for a future moment they will step fully into the fray.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/white-frie...

A small Montana town grapples with the fallouts from federal worker cuts Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.