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Civic Action Hub of Maryland
Resources For the People, By the People
civicactionhubmd.com
One stop resource for guidance in uncertain times.
Fed who lost your job?
Want to know your rights as an immigrant?
Need validation that what’s happening isn’t normal?
Maryland focused but also helpful to residents of the other 49.
civicactionhubmd.com
Fed who lost your job?
Want to know your rights as an immigrant?
Need validation that what’s happening isn’t normal?
Maryland focused but also helpful to residents of the other 49.
civicactionhubmd.com
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What Bezos really, really cares about.
Blue Origin, his rocket company that he has invested billions in, needs and wants billions of dollars in DOD contracts to help pay its bills.
Here Bezos greets Defense Sec. Hegseth today at Blue Origin offices in Florida
WashPost budget is a rounding error
Blue Origin, his rocket company that he has invested billions in, needs and wants billions of dollars in DOD contracts to help pay its bills.
Here Bezos greets Defense Sec. Hegseth today at Blue Origin offices in Florida
WashPost budget is a rounding error
February 2, 2026 at 8:06 PM
What Bezos really, really cares about.
Blue Origin, his rocket company that he has invested billions in, needs and wants billions of dollars in DOD contracts to help pay its bills.
Here Bezos greets Defense Sec. Hegseth today at Blue Origin offices in Florida
WashPost budget is a rounding error
Blue Origin, his rocket company that he has invested billions in, needs and wants billions of dollars in DOD contracts to help pay its bills.
Here Bezos greets Defense Sec. Hegseth today at Blue Origin offices in Florida
WashPost budget is a rounding error
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Meeting in solidarity with Haitians in Springfield, Ohio now - over 600 people and still growing.
February 2, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Meeting in solidarity with Haitians in Springfield, Ohio now - over 600 people and still growing.
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👇🎯 Not once has the national media asked a GOP politician about affording ICE the way Biden/the Dems were asked about the cost of
student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.
student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.
Folks are dying from winter storms and the power has been out for a week but the government can spend big money on detention camps. bsky.app/profile/cost...
How many times in your life have you heard a member of Congress or someone on TV say “we can’t afford it” when talking about something small but very important? It’s been happening my entire life. We can’t afford it? They’re putting seven times the annual budget of the EPA into immigrant detention.
February 2, 2026 at 3:34 AM
👇🎯 Not once has the national media asked a GOP politician about affording ICE the way Biden/the Dems were asked about the cost of
student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.
student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.
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I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.
February 1, 2026 at 10:24 PM
I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.
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“We were just trying to get him medication… But he was already gone.”
Last week, the internationally renowned Indigenous chef Sean Sherman told us that federal agents detained one of his employees on his way to work. By the next day, he said, his employee was out of Minnesota—and in Texas.
Last week, the internationally renowned Indigenous chef Sean Sherman told us that federal agents detained one of his employees on his way to work. By the next day, he said, his employee was out of Minnesota—and in Texas.
February 1, 2026 at 9:20 PM
“We were just trying to get him medication… But he was already gone.”
Last week, the internationally renowned Indigenous chef Sean Sherman told us that federal agents detained one of his employees on his way to work. By the next day, he said, his employee was out of Minnesota—and in Texas.
Last week, the internationally renowned Indigenous chef Sean Sherman told us that federal agents detained one of his employees on his way to work. By the next day, he said, his employee was out of Minnesota—and in Texas.
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People are getting really fooled by things in the Epstein files. This is NOT a "Declassified FBI memo". It is a story told to the FBI by a CHS ("confidential human source"), who could be anyone from a petty criminal to a whistleblower to a propagandist trying to deceive (as here). Be smarter. 1/
February 1, 2026 at 2:35 PM
People are getting really fooled by things in the Epstein files. This is NOT a "Declassified FBI memo". It is a story told to the FBI by a CHS ("confidential human source"), who could be anyone from a petty criminal to a whistleblower to a propagandist trying to deceive (as here). Be smarter. 1/
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People in power work hard to retain that power and there’s a lot of money to help them do it.
February 1, 2026 at 4:25 PM
People in power work hard to retain that power and there’s a lot of money to help them do it.
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It's funny how all these billionaires started buying up all the social media apps, newspapers, and television networks right as all these revelations were starting to come out.
Elon Musk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show
Newly released files from DoJ show the pair making plans in 2012 and 2013 for the Tesla CEO to visit Epstein’s island
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 9:38 AM
It's funny how all these billionaires started buying up all the social media apps, newspapers, and television networks right as all these revelations were starting to come out.
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New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
January 31, 2026 at 3:12 PM
New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
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A sad day at NIH...
The NIH Record was a great way for NIH folks to find out what was going on across NIH.
Many important stories published there over the years.
nihrecord.nih.gov/2026/01/30/n...
The NIH Record was a great way for NIH folks to find out what was going on across NIH.
Many important stories published there over the years.
nihrecord.nih.gov/2026/01/30/n...
NIH Record Ceases Publication
This will be the final issue of the NIH Record.
nihrecord.nih.gov
January 30, 2026 at 10:24 PM
A sad day at NIH...
The NIH Record was a great way for NIH folks to find out what was going on across NIH.
Many important stories published there over the years.
nihrecord.nih.gov/2026/01/30/n...
The NIH Record was a great way for NIH folks to find out what was going on across NIH.
Many important stories published there over the years.
nihrecord.nih.gov/2026/01/30/n...
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ICE agents will be at the Winter Olympics to ensure that no American defects.
January 27, 2026 at 2:21 PM
ICE agents will be at the Winter Olympics to ensure that no American defects.
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"Hi, everyone. I know things are hectic as heck right now, but please be sure to fill out your timesheets every Friday by 5 p.m. Central. I can’t pay you unless I know your hours. Please also try to be accurate."
I Am the Payroll Accountant for Professional Protestors in Minnesota, and I Am Swamped
“House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., slammed Minnesota state leaders after anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agitators disrupted a...
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January 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
"Hi, everyone. I know things are hectic as heck right now, but please be sure to fill out your timesheets every Friday by 5 p.m. Central. I can’t pay you unless I know your hours. Please also try to be accurate."
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Five phrases about the transitory nature of all things...
1. Nothing is eternal (Farsi)
2. No one’s candle is lit till dawn (Serbian)
3. No evil shall last a hundred years (Spanish)
4. All snowstorms eventually subside (Icelandic)
5. Everything has an end, except the sausage, which has two (German)
1. Nothing is eternal (Farsi)
2. No one’s candle is lit till dawn (Serbian)
3. No evil shall last a hundred years (Spanish)
4. All snowstorms eventually subside (Icelandic)
5. Everything has an end, except the sausage, which has two (German)
January 26, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Five phrases about the transitory nature of all things...
1. Nothing is eternal (Farsi)
2. No one’s candle is lit till dawn (Serbian)
3. No evil shall last a hundred years (Spanish)
4. All snowstorms eventually subside (Icelandic)
5. Everything has an end, except the sausage, which has two (German)
1. Nothing is eternal (Farsi)
2. No one’s candle is lit till dawn (Serbian)
3. No evil shall last a hundred years (Spanish)
4. All snowstorms eventually subside (Icelandic)
5. Everything has an end, except the sausage, which has two (German)
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He spent decades bringing the religious right to power. Now he's marching to undo it.
Rev. Rob Schenck spent decades helping build the Religious Right—commingling church and state to advance conservative causes. Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause.
Rev. Rob Schenck spent decades helping build the Religious Right—commingling church and state to advance conservative causes. Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause.
January 26, 2026 at 12:31 AM
He spent decades bringing the religious right to power. Now he's marching to undo it.
Rev. Rob Schenck spent decades helping build the Religious Right—commingling church and state to advance conservative causes. Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause.
Rev. Rob Schenck spent decades helping build the Religious Right—commingling church and state to advance conservative causes. Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause.
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It feels appropriate that the best reporting from The Atlantic and The New York Times has been by seasoned war reporters who understand the stakes and, by extension, the need to protect sources or sensitive information.
January 26, 2026 at 1:09 PM
It feels appropriate that the best reporting from The Atlantic and The New York Times has been by seasoned war reporters who understand the stakes and, by extension, the need to protect sources or sensitive information.
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A magistrate judge found no probable cause to support arrest warrants for 5 people involved in the St. Paul church protest.
DOJ appealed to the 8th Cir.
That appeal led to this remarkable letter from the Chief Judge of the Minnesota district court…
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
DOJ appealed to the 8th Cir.
That appeal led to this remarkable letter from the Chief Judge of the Minnesota district court…
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 24, 2026 at 5:51 PM
A magistrate judge found no probable cause to support arrest warrants for 5 people involved in the St. Paul church protest.
DOJ appealed to the 8th Cir.
That appeal led to this remarkable letter from the Chief Judge of the Minnesota district court…
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
DOJ appealed to the 8th Cir.
That appeal led to this remarkable letter from the Chief Judge of the Minnesota district court…
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 22, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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Per a 1968 Harris Poll, Dr. Martin Luther King had a public disapproval rating of nearly 75%.
The people today claiming it is divisive to condemn the triple evils he fought against—racism, poverty, and militarism—are the people who overwhelmingly hated him when he lived.
#MLKDay
The people today claiming it is divisive to condemn the triple evils he fought against—racism, poverty, and militarism—are the people who overwhelmingly hated him when he lived.
#MLKDay
January 19, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Per a 1968 Harris Poll, Dr. Martin Luther King had a public disapproval rating of nearly 75%.
The people today claiming it is divisive to condemn the triple evils he fought against—racism, poverty, and militarism—are the people who overwhelmingly hated him when he lived.
#MLKDay
The people today claiming it is divisive to condemn the triple evils he fought against—racism, poverty, and militarism—are the people who overwhelmingly hated him when he lived.
#MLKDay
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Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
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oh it's going to be a Recession recession
January 18, 2026 at 10:56 PM
oh it's going to be a Recession recession
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When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways
The top 10% now account for nearly half of all consumer spending.
January 17, 2026 at 6:50 PM
When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways
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The classy move would have been to give Machado the FIFA Peace Prize in return.
January 16, 2026 at 11:07 AM
The classy move would have been to give Machado the FIFA Peace Prize in return.
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Sudden resignations among professionals who took their oath seriously are a tiny signal that something has gone deeply wrong inside the system.
Typically it takes an investigation to know what.
Watch how Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social develops this image. talkingpointsmo.com/edblog/the-l...
Typically it takes an investigation to know what.
Watch how Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social develops this image. talkingpointsmo.com/edblog/the-l...
January 15, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Sudden resignations among professionals who took their oath seriously are a tiny signal that something has gone deeply wrong inside the system.
Typically it takes an investigation to know what.
Watch how Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social develops this image. talkingpointsmo.com/edblog/the-l...
Typically it takes an investigation to know what.
Watch how Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social develops this image. talkingpointsmo.com/edblog/the-l...