Retta Morris (she/her)

GA Abortion Ban Forces Family to Keep Woman Declared Brain Dead on Life Support Doctors have kept Adriana Smith on breathing machines for three months due to the state’s “heartbeat law.”…

A 30-year-old Black woman in Georgia has been kept on life support for three months against her family’s wishes because of the state’s “fetal heartbeat” anti-abortion law.

At New York Met’s exhibit on Black fashion, Baltimore is front and center A buzzy new exhibition on Black dandyism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York features prominent Baltimoreans like Frederick Douglass and Cab Calloway.

A buzzy new exhibition on Black dandyism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York features prominent Baltimoreans like Frederick Douglass and Cab Calloway.

Please sign, and ask your Shul, Rabbi, Cantor, or Jewish org to sign as well.

Barack Obama is a gifted politician, but boy did he also benefit from a very different media environment in 2007-2008.

Here’s a gift link folks:

‘The people hold the power’: Grassroots anti-Trump resistance outshines lawmakers “The bulwark against tyranny in this country is not politicians, it's us. All of us, in every walk of life who hold fast to the American promise of government of, by, and for the people. Not the debas...

“The bulwark against tyranny in this country is not politicians, it's us. All of us, in every walk of life who hold fast to the American promise of government of, by, and for the people,” says Chris Hayes. www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch...

Trump’s backpedaling shows he’s not invincible To compel Trump to reverse course, our job is to heighten public outrage and raise the political cost of implementing his radical agenda.

To compel Trump to reverse course, our job is to highlight political missteps, heighten public outrage and raise the political cost of implementing his radical agenda.

Chenoweth & Pressman always coming through with invaluable data 👇🏾There’s more protest than it’s easy to observe & more than in Trump term 1.It’s quite proliferated & economic non cooperation is actually pretty significant.Everybody doing something feeling like you don’t know if others are-they are!

You wouldn't know it from #mainstreammedia but people are rising up everywhere - from #Montana to #Manhattan.

Let's go!

Creative protests & resistance to fascism are happening everywhere. Keep standing up, even in the reddest states. It matters that others see your courage.

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

Keep fighting back. Remember the Polish opposition slogan following the December 1981 declaration of martial law: "The winter is yours. The spring will be ours."

Brazil Charges Bolsonaro With Attempting a Coup Brazil’s attorney general accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of overseeing a scheme to try to hold on to power. The Supreme Court will decide whether he is arrested.

Whereas US institutions completely failed to hold Trump accountable for his attempt to overturn an election, Brazil's institutions show some vigor.

Brazil Charges Bolsonaro With Plotting a Coup After 2022 Election Loss www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

i gotta say as a jew im not a big fan of the sieg heil coming back into vogue!!!

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The stuff they're doing is deeply unpopular and they're rapidly heading in that direction.

Stop treating them like they're untouchable. We can fight back.

I've been seeing lots of super compelling videos of park rangers and federal lawyers and other federal workers telling their stories. Talking about what they did at their job, how it helped the American people, and why they want to keep doing those jobs.

This is the way.

Trump again raises idea of running for an unconstitutional third term The suggestion followed a stretch of days in which Trump referred to himself as a king and quoted a dictator in suggesting that he was immune from following laws.

Trump again raises idea of running for an unconstitutional third term www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

at some point if you're willing to admit that this salute mimicks another *recent* famous salute you might as well just say which historical salute both are mimicking. but apparently nobody wants to be the first to say "Nazi"

Chinese AI sensation DeepSeek plans to release key AI model codes & data to the public beginning next week, an unusual step to open source and share far more of its core technology than rivals like OpenAI have done
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#AI

Saturday in NYC 🏳️‍⚧️

The Elite Lawyers Working for Elon Musk’s DOGE Include Former Supreme Court Clerks Much attention has been paid to the young Silicon Valley engineers working for Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, but the group has also hired high-powered legal talent.

NEW: It's not just coders.

DOGE is filled with lawyers, elite attorneys with conservative credentials.

We have new names:

www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Same, neighbor. Same.

Nat’l Council of Nonprofits’ helpful chart of EOs w/impacts on nonprofits -incl DEI; gov grants & contracts; voting/civic engagement; immigration; Census & more (+ other attacks on communities/issues of sector’s concern not listed, but chk back for update www.councilofnonprofits.org/files/media/...

State Department Permits Distribution of H.I.V. Medications to Resume — for Now Experts fear a resurgence of infections in low-income countries if the ban were to continue. The waiver remains in place, while officials review foreign aid programs.

The Trump administration issued a waiver for lifesaving medicines and medical services, offering a reprieve for a worldwide HIV treatment program that was halted last week. Whether the waiver extended to preventive drugs or other services offered by the program was not immediately clear.

Leaving the W.H.O. Could Hurt Americans on a Range of Health Matters President Trump’s decision to pull out of the international health agency could deprive the United States of crucial scientific data and lessen the country’s influence in setting a global health agend...

President Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization could have harsh consequences for countries around the world that rely on the agency. But it could also have unfortunate, unintended repercussions for Americans.

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

US freezes almost all foreign aid effective immediately | CNN Politics The US State Department has frozen nearly all foreign assistance worldwide effective immediately days after President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order Monday to put a hold on such assist...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent a cable, seen by CNN, to all US diplomatic posts on Friday outlining the move, which threatens billions of dollars of funding from the State Department and the US Agency for International Development for programs worldwide.