In these dark times...
a little humor:
#AOC #Trump #Impeachment #USPol
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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!
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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
BIG Protest Thread 🧵
Resources and information for protestors
-How to find
-How to prepare / stay safe
-Printable flyers
-Rights
-How to identify disinformation and bad actors
-Deep Canvassing
“Over 20 GOP & conservative former officials joined together to send a clear message:
Trump’s use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act is UNPRECEDENTED & UNLAWFUL
His move to deport individuals without due process cannot and should not be tolerated.”
-M Eisen
#RuleOfLaw #Constitution #Justice #Trump #Deportations #DHS #DueProcess #Fascism #Resist #USPol
I used to think (in my naivety) that a judge on the Supreme Court was the smartest in the Judiciary — cream of the crop, top of the line…
But damn I can see that’s not true because this is some A-class manipulation and gaslighting by Trump Administration lawyers—
And it makes sense that the people directing #Trump during his first term would put judges in #SCOTUS who would roll over for him.
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At 19 I was told my health came second to my future husband.
At 22 I was told I would feel differently once I was “in love”
At 24 my boyfriend was asked if he would still love me if I couldn’t bear children.
My autonomy was violated for 5 years for a hypothetical baby
I had severe endometriosis and adenomyosis. My periods hell. They were irregular, heavy and painful. I would lay on the bathroom floor in unrelenting pain, throwing up and too weak to move.
As the years dragged on I became more disabled from the pain and anemia.
Surgeries to control the blood loss failed.
Medications to put me into chemical menopause failed.
Birth control pills failed.
I needed a hysterectomy.
I had never wanted children. I wasn’t even sure I wanted marriage. I was also far too disabled to get pregnant or raise a child.
So I asked for the surgery. I asked my doctors to remove the diseased organ destroying my quality of life.
I was firmly told “No” because I might meet a man who wants kids.
That even though I was too sick to survive pregnancy and likely infertile, I couldn’t make the choice to remove my womb in case I changed my mind when I met my dream man.
I told the doctors I didn’t want kids, it didn’t matter.
I pointed out I was too sick to care for myself, let alone a child, and it didn’t matter.
I said that my “dream man” would love me even if I couldn’t have kids, and the doctors laughed.
I had no bodily autonomy.
Medical misogyny was ruining my life.
I spent the next few years getting second and third opinions. Fighting like hell to get the surgery I knew I needed to have any shot at a “normal” life. When I began dating someone, I brought him to my appointments hoping he could convince them to operate.
They asked him if he would love me if I couldn’t give him biological children. He didn’t want kids either, but they said the same thing to him they kept saying to me: “You might change your mind”
Why is the medical system so obsessed with us having babies? Misogyny and patriarchy.
We could have changed our minds. We could have also broken up.
What “could” happen in the distant future should never be given more weight than what was happening in the present.
I was slowly dying. Bleeding to death and confined to bed. Relying on blood and iron transfusions to survive.
I tell this story every few months because I think it’s incredibly important we talk about our lack of autonomy.
The post Roe landscape is putting our lives in danger, and my story can hopefully help people understand why.
If I wasn’t able to make the choice I needed for my body when there was no fetus involved, imagine how hard it must be for pregnant people who need to access abortion?
Forced birth advocates love to trumpet the “exemption for the life of the mother” rule to justify abortion bans
But if doctors weren’t willing to remove my uterus when it was literally killing me, why are we trusting they will terminate a pregnancy when the mother’s life is at risk?
A hypothetical baby came before my life… imagine what would happen if there was a real fetus involved?
We know what happens.
Women die.
They bleed out in parking lots.
They become septic, lose their fertility or spend months fighting for their lives in the ICU.
Their care is delayed because the fetus comes first. And delayed care comes at a cost.
I finally got my hysterectomy, but only because I was bleeding out in the ER and transfusions couldn’t keep up.
By the time they finally gave me the surgery I spent years asking for, my survival odds were only 50/50.
Had they done it when I asked, it would have been 99%
It’s the same thing for those experiencing miscarriage or abortion complications.
If they could get timely healthcare, their odds of survival would be excellent.
When we tell doctors they can’t intervene until the life of the mother is “clearly” in jeopardy?
That’s when we start dying.
We deserve better. We need full autonomy over our reproductive systems, and that includes access to sterilization and abortion.
It’s time.
More on what my hysterectomy taught me about medical misogyny:
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/what-my-hysterectomy-taught-me-about
#uspol #fascism #hysterectomy #abortion #AbortionRights #reproductiverights #misogyny #patriarchy
Mr Grab-em-by-the-Pussy" is just a Muppet with Putins fist up his arse, Musk pulling his strings
Dont forget he told Stormy D
"You remind me of my daughter"
Then had sex with her.
Let that sink in
You remind me of my daughter I want to f-k you
he talked about Ivankas breasts, her backside, what it might be like to have sex with her, "If she weren't my daughter, I'd be dating her”
did you throw up a little in your mouth
Do you feel sorry or worry about his daughter?
Nothing is more valuable than a clear-headed understanding of which particular lies are most likely to succeed in the present environment, and which are just evanescent byproducts of the generally mendacious atmosphere. Dodge the decoys, save the right kind of energy to counter the real blows. Turning up the heat in lamenting the current crisis risks mistaking a mere mirage for a more substantial threat.
I found this to be an excellent and orienting read for anyone concerned about the US right now.
While folks are understandably worried about this administration, which has already inflicted significant harms, it's important to stay level headed and aligned with the actual facts and truths. That's our primary defense against what's happening which, as Arendt argued in the 1970s, hinges on a process of defactualization. Shouting "fascism!" and drawing analogies with the Nazis, as this essay argues, is going too far, turning up the heat about a mirage. Much as we wish they'd do better--and they could do better--in point of fact we do still have a functioning judicial system and media ecosystem, and there are significant numbers of people, including politicians and judges, fully willing to challenge every lie the administration emits. As dangerous as these times are we are nowhere near as far along the authoritarian trajectory as shouting "fascism!" makes it sound, and we should really stop doing that. Doing so grants bluffs and bluster more power than it actually has, which is ultimately a form of surrender. We should recognize our own strength and save it for real threats.
This is one of many reasons why I relentlessly call BS on generative AI and the claims about it coming out of the technology sector. There is a defactualization process at work there that plays into the broader political one; some of the individuals enacting this defactualization in tech are personally involved in doing the same in the federal government. If you've been watching you probably know some of their names and the companies they came from. Generative AI is itself a defactualization machine; that's one of its primary appeals to this crew.
Dodge the decoys and save your energy for the real blows.
#USPol #HannahArendt #authoritarianism #despair #tech #dev #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM
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Trump asks #SCOTUS to fire 3 Dems on the Consumer Product Safety Commission, an independent agency, overturning a 90yo unanimous SCOTUS decision called Humphrey’s Executor that ruled presidents cannot fire independent board members without cause.
Presidents are not kings!
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-product-safety-firings-5050287997fb097bbef056e7b0282217?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=share <br>Trump
Dear US Fediverse,
Did you contact your Congressperson today and tell them (again) to vote NO on the Big Ugly?
Please make your voice heard in some way. ☎️📝📠⏳
Boston declares itself a pro-trans sanctuary city amid GOP’s escalating attacks
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/boston-declares-itself-a-pro-trans-sanctuary-city-amid-gops-escalating-anti-trans-attacks/
Boston won't comply w. anti-LGBTQ+ fed. orders
* decision comes w. some risk. 🏳️⚧️🙏
#USpol #Boston #LGBTQ #SanctuaryCity #TransLivesMatter
#Trump #fascism #Christofascism #transgenocide
The administration is trying to kill every program that pops up in a search for the word “climate.” In the process, the heart is being cut out of agencies that produce information that the state needs to manage its environmental threats. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-texas-doge-cuts-disaster-aid/
#weather #Trump #FEMA #politics #USpol #news #Texas #environment #ClimateChange
New today: Despite warnings from advocates like me about the dire consequences, Congressional #Republicans have sought to dismantle core legal protections for detained immigrant #children fund strip searches of children as young as 12 years old by law enforcement officers, allow indefinite detention, and impose new barriers to children’s release. https://www.texasobserver.org/republicans-immigrant-children-budget-court/
#immigration #politics #USpol #HumanRights #news #border #refugees
More than fifty of us took our protest of the Trump regime to the streets today in Galloway, New Jersey, USA. So glad to see many young people, even children, participating.
#USPol #Resist #Protest #Indivisible #Mobilize #Solidarity #Demonstration #Democracy #Peace #Pax #AntiFascism #IndivisibleNJ #NoKings
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SHAME on these California Republican Congressmembers who voted yes on the #MAGAmurderBudget today
Don't EVER let them forget this community betrayal
From: @kellyromanych
https://mastodon.social/@kellyromanych/114789710108035422
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Holy shit
#DeSantis admits that the #WorkerShortages created by anti-#immigrant laws need to be eased by putting teenagers to work by relaxing #ChildLabor protection standards.
#USpol #law #immigration #economy #Trump
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article302704319.html
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