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Welcome to the March/April 2025 issue of Texas Observer magazine! Editor-in-Chief Gus Bova introduces our latest by examining the "biannual dread” invoked by the Texas legislature and what we can do about it. https://www.texasobserver.org/editors-letter-introducing-our-march-april-2025-issue/
The United States currently has an elected president and an unelected billionaire who are flagrantly breaking its laws. As members of Congress wrongly insist they have no leverage to do anything about this, we who care about democracy are pleading for others to help. Is it consistent with democracy to direct these pleas to the federal judiciary—a branch of government staffed by unelected judges?
Yes, of course. With reservations.
A third downside to relying on the judicial menu is that federal courts helped get us into this mess—and they can make things much worse by ratifying the lawbreaking. Few federal judges believe it is actually their democratic responsibility to enforce the laws passed by Congress; most of them believe they can disregard any law whose constitutionality they disagree with.
#USPol #USCourts #Congress
I REALLLYY like the Send the President a Postcard movement, because:
a) I love postcards
b) I like imagining all the giggles every postal worker, etc will get seeing it
c) Everyone can do it
Please tell me you'll join in and send a postcard, or 2?
I created this graphic tonight to share - it's the idea from @BrianJopek
When Biden left the White House, the economy was growing at 3.9%.
Now that Trump is in the White House he’s turned it into a NEGATIVE 2.5% growth rate IN SIX WEEKS.
Republican Presidents destroy the economy.
#Economy #StockMarket #GDP #ArrestTrump #ArrestMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
🚨 Want to resist ICE agents?
EDIT: This is a general training session about organizing resistance to the Trump agenda, not just against ICE
There's a virtual training session on Wed, March 19, 8 PM Eastern/ 5 PM Pacific
"Do Not Comply: a training to organize resistance in your community"
https://www.mobilize.us/surj/event/759508/
Note: "Can’t make the call? Register and we’ll send you a recording in a few days."
How Musk likes to see himself: the Master of Master Blaster. He would do well to remember how this character met his end.
Musk has indicated on X that he thinks he's ready for a post-apocalyptic world, showing a picture of Max next to his car in Mad Max 2. This is much closer to how he would survive. Riding on the back of useful idiots while living in a world of darkness and shit.
Edit: Sorry, I wasn't happy with the helmet's shadow on Trump's face - or rather, the lack of one. #Nitpick
Edit2: Sorry again, there was no shadow on Musk's face, either. It looked too flat. A bit better now. Last edit, I promise. 😁
Dammit people, do you not see the crossroads we are at? We are in Nazi Germany, at the twilight of civility before fascism firmly takes root and can no longer be stopped. You can't just stand there aghast and scandalized and talk about how it's illegal or shocking or vile. If we don't take *action*, the chance for action will pass.
We are witnessing the active consolidation of power by a fascist government as politicians and judges are arrested and harrassed, people are rounded up and sent to camps, the armed forces are mobilized against our citizens, rule of law is discarded, and war is looming.
What else do you need to see to convince you that we are OUT OF FUCKING TIME? Act now, in defense of your neighbors and your representatives and your nation, or expect it all to be yanked from your hands for the duration of the long, dark night. It is a countdown to war and death camps. This isn't a game. This isn't a hypothetical. IT IS FUCKING HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!
Trump is escalating his efforts to foment fear among #immigrants. Admin: arrested & moving to deport Khalil.
Trump is moving to REQUIRE ALL NONCITIZENS AGE: >14 TO REGISTER WITH THE GOVT -require them to get fingerprinted or potentially face prosecution. Goal: to spread terror & get noncitizens to self-deport.
Rep Jayapal is introducing the No Roundup Act, leg: repeals this long-dormant IMG law that Trump's using to fuel his cruel & inhumane #massdeportations.
#USPol https://newrepublic.com/article/192628/transcript-trump-press-sec-drops-dark-hint-coming-crackdowns
This is good and right. "If you want religion in schools, I want the IRS in churches."
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I will never take up arms against Canada, and if my idiot president decides to I will be the opposite of cooperative. #uspol
In these dark times...
a little humor:
#AOC #Trump #Impeachment #USPol
Here's our issues for today! Call your reps and do more at: https://www.5calls.org/
* Oppose Trump Attorney Emil Bove for Federal Court Judge.
* We still need to reign in Trump's war powers [if calling Senate: S.J.Res. 59 / if calling House: H.Con.Res. 38]
* Condemn Trump and Miller's attack on immigrants, California - and block every action they can.
* RFK and Kristi Noem must resign for their incompetence and cruelty.
* (House) Oppose the GENIUS crypto scam act.
* (Senate) Oppose HR the "One Big Beautiful Bill" Act.
For your rep here: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
For your Senators:
Senator Schiff: 202-224-3841
Senator Padilla: 202-224-3553 (Fresno 559-497-5109 and Sacramento 916-448-2787)
Governor Newsom: 916-445-2841
#politics #democrats #democracy #california #santaclara #USPol #CAPol
US soldier's son, born on Army base in Germany, is deported to Jamaica
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5373845-us-soldiers-son-born-on-army-base-in-germany-is-deported-to-jamaica/
#ICE #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Introducing the July/August 2025 issue of our magazine, with reporting from Sandy West on predatory adoption agencies, Chilton Tippin on international #politics and natural resources, and much more.
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#journalism #Texas #nonprofit #culture #news #USpol #environment #water #children
Wow. In addition to attending protests, I've been sending in letters to my congressional reps and senators, especially regarding the big bill.
📣 Now my Senator, Thom Tillis (R-NC) announces that he will NOT "support the Trump tax bill." Looks like he will also not seek reelection. 🎉
I'm sure he has been feeling the heat from the people's opposition.
Protesting works!
@ProPublica is really doing the work with this. Incredible journalism. And harrowing stories. https://projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-immigrants-trump-deported-cecot/ #cecot #immigration #uspol #trump
From Ben HsuBorger at #MEAction:
"Why I Joined a Stand Up for Science Rally"
https://www.meaction.net/2025/03/12/why-i-joined-a-stand-up-for-science-rally/
"I have lived as an ME/CFS 'spoonie' for the past 20 years after I got a virus and never recovered. I’ve spent much of the past 10 years of my career advocating for ME/CFS research at the NIH"
"I don’t want to see the same scientific harms that have happened in the ME community become even more widespread across all of science"
@mecfs
mar 15
5 min
How to kill the goose which lays golden eggs. University layoffs.. censorship, research shutdowns, cuts to basic research in government foundations and agencies, universities revoking degrees, and all the crazy shit ICE is doing, I certainly painting an American education and a unique fashion.
And you can have a side of deadly preventable diseases!
Team IMMDEF has spent all AM desperately searching for Juli, a mom of 3 US citizens who’s lived in LA for 21 yrs. 3 nights ago Juli was on her way to work when💔she was FORCIBLY TAKEN AT GUNPOINT by men who in a short call to family she described as bounty hunters.
Juli called family from blocked# last night & said she was initially taken with others from LA by bounty hunters to #CBP near San Ysidro where officers🚨demanded they sign papers to be😭deported…”
#Deportations #Immigrants #USPol
Sanders, AOC Draw Biggest Crowd of Their Careers at Rally to Fight 'Oligarchy' in Denver
34,000 people attended the rally in Denver’s Civic Center Park
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-aoc-fight-oligarchy-denver
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