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#HandsOff Olympia incredible turnout!
April 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Does April Fools Day mean anything when the news already feels like a steady onslaught of bad pranks?

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...
Federal Workers Walk Into Chaos Amid Return to Office
President Trump has described his new in-office requirement as a way to ensure workers are doing their jobs. He sees potentially leading more employees to quit as an added benefit.
www.nytimes.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
“This doesn’t make America healthier or greater. It make us sicker, smaller and uglier than we have been in at least a generation.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices
An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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remember this can be one day or day one - do what you can!
February 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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“We’re not going anywhere. What’s more: we’re expanding.”

Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.
Those of us who work in gender medicine are not going anywhere
What’s more, we’re expanding.
www.startribune.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
From the NYT Editorial Board. “This is a campaign in which cruelty and humiliation seem to be the fundamental point.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Shameful Campaign Against Transgender Americans
Trump’s attacks on trans people are on the wrong side of history and humanity.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Friendly PSA: a reminder that this exists, perhaps more vital now than when it came out twenty years ago. I took it on a run with me. Hugely cathartic - highly recommend.

“And I leave behind this hurricane of fucking lies.”
February 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
“Environmental justice did not start with the federal government, nor will it end with the federal government.”

Some helpful perspective in here.

19thnews.org/2025/02/envi...
The environmental justice movement isn’t going anywhere — even as it faces attacks by Trump
The 19th spoke to Jalonne White-Newsome, who headed environmental justice initiatives under Biden, about the executive orders aimed at dismantling its progress.
19thnews.org
February 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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All of your most sensitive data and our country’s checkbook are in the hands of an unelected billionaire.

This is the most corrupt administration in history and it’s putting our economy & government in serious jeopardy.

It’s time to speak out and fight back.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I’ve been so caught up in domestic atrocities and bullshit that I didn’t realize what sorts of impacts are hitting worldwide.

My god. Reading this made me feel physically ill.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This is what happens when you give an old dog a muscle relaxant and a bowl of whipped cream.
February 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
MLK said, The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

What if the moral universe is expanding- always a horizon, never a terminus. And the arc actually an infinite coil of refusal & affirmation, repression & resurgence, denial & defiance.

Nothing to do but keep bending.
January 31, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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"The free speech crisis hiding in plain sight isn’t about whether individuals can ever criticize powerful figures — it’s about whether institutions can withstand the pressure to self-censor in the face of legal and political intimidation..."

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The new free speech crisis hiding in plain sight
Through litigation and retaliation, the rich and powerful are waging a censorship campaign.
www.msnbc.com
January 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM