Joy Cusick
joycusick.bsky.social
Joy Cusick
@joycusick.bsky.social
I will not let them steal my joy, damn it.

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To the people that voted for him …

I blame you.
To the people that voted for him …

I blame you.
February 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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February 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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This is a great piece.
Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.”

Lots of information and resources in this one.

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?
Yes. And You Can Too.
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February 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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@rbhubbell.bsky.social says it’s time for the Dem MOC to implement a Shadow Cabinet. @timothysnyder.bsky.social has been sounding the alarm to do this. Robert’s suggestions who should be on it are in his article. We can add to it. @repjasmine.bsky.social comes to mind. Let’s do this! 202-224-3121.
We are not sheep. Get louder. Take action. Create a shadow cabinet.
February 10, 2025
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February 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Read what Dan has to say. There are lots of ways to take action, find a way that works for you & tell 3 friends.

open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
How to Channel Your Anger at Trump into Meaningful Action
There are ways you can fight back right now
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February 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
From @rbhubbell.bsky.social this morning:

“Rebecca Solnit’s words were prophetic: “The fact that we can’t save everything doesn’t mean we can’t save anything” and “Everything we can save is worth saving.”
February 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL):

“We were denied access to the Treasury Bldg. We will enter because we need to provide oversight to Elon Musk and his team. We don't know what they are doing behind these closed doors.”

No one elected Elon, and our Congress Democrats are denied entry? Seriously?
February 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Love this app. Makes it so easy to call your reps. It dials for you & provides a script.

If you don’t know what to do but have to do something.

Do this.

It takes less than 3 minutes and it matters.

5calls.org/issue/elon-m...
Fight Against Elon Musk’s Government Takeover ⭑ 5 Calls
UPDATE (02/02/25): Musk and his DOGE team of personal allies have also now gained access to classified material including high-security intelligence …
5calls.org
February 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup. The U.S. president has no authority to cut programs created and funded by Congress, and a private citizen tapped by a president has even less standing to try anything so radical.”
February 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
From @pkrugman.bsky.social

“Join MoveOn and Indivisible at a protest in front of the Treasury Building in DC TODAY, Feb 4 at 5pm EST. The protest is called “We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon! If you live within driving distance of D.C. and can make it to the protest, every attendee matters!“
February 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Congress must take action to restore the rule of law.
February 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Feels like “we the people” need to hit the streets. The elected D’s seem frozen, our courts move too slow and history shows Hitler dismantled the German economy in 2 months-time isn’t on our side. With so much happening fast what/ where should we protest? Experts please offer actionable suggestions.
February 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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January 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.
January 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social on Mike Johnson considering conditioning disaster aid: "Never in California did we question whether or not we, as taxpayers in the largest state in the Union, should support the people of Louisiana at a time of emergency and need. We’d never condition it."
January 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Can someone explain why TikTok is a bigger national security concern than a social media platform run by a South African technofeudal oligarch actively interfering in our elections and sabotaging our national interests here and abroad?
January 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Some felons flee the country. This one will run it: Trump Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u...
Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case
The report, which said the special counsel’s office stood “fully behind” the merits of the prosecution, amounted to an extraordinary rebuke of the president-elect.
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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As usual, @hcrichardson.bsky.social put the power grab by Republicans in N.C. in historical perspective. Right now, it’s about Republicans trying to nullify the votes of 60,000 people.
January 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Under the GOP's SAVE Act, Tribal IDs would NO LONGER be accepted as valid identification to register to vote.

This is a direct attack on the voting rights of Native American communities.

#StopTheSAVEAct social.demcast.com/s/EC9Y1x2d
January 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Leave it to the business reporters to understand exactly what is going on. Framed perfectly.
January 6, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post”

— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos
January 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Here are the 6 MAGA extremists (and their public phone numbers) who have intro'd a bill to allow South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion.

If you haven't heard about SC H3537, it's because corporate media has ignored it. Here's how to fight back: www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...
December 19, 2024 at 3:20 AM
I ❤️ @simonwdc.bsky.social because we lol in the same places:“Goaded by Elon’s corrosive, lie-infused opposition to the bi-partisan House package… Trump undermined & weakened his own Speaker; had 38 R’s vote against him & kill his first must pass bill even before becoming President (LOLOLOL!!!!!!)”
December 20, 2024 at 4:26 PM