Betsy Brown
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The newest budget numbers out of NSF are... not good. We're looking at worse than worst case scenarios for U.S. research universities. That's in addition to all the other attacks. Every person w/ a word processer and an hour of time should be penning an op-ed to their local papers this weekend.
May 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The newest budget numbers out of NSF are... not good. We're looking at worse than worst case scenarios for U.S. research universities. That's in addition to all the other attacks. Every person w/ a word processer and an hour of time should be penning an op-ed to their local papers this weekend.
That’s what happens when you give corporations the same rights as people.
"A new analysis from the nonpartisan RAND Corporation has revealed a staggering economic shift: since 1975, $79 trillion in wealth has been transferred from the bottom 90 percent of earners to the top 1 percent." www.nationofchange.org/2025/03/05/s...
Since 1975, $79 trillion has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1% | NationofChange
www.nationofchange.org
May 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
That’s what happens when you give corporations the same rights as people.
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🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)
docs.google.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
@schumer.senate.gov Resign.
This country doesn’t need your complicity. Utterly disgusting.
This country doesn’t need your complicity. Utterly disgusting.
April 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM
@schumer.senate.gov Resign.
This country doesn’t need your complicity. Utterly disgusting.
This country doesn’t need your complicity. Utterly disgusting.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: When we see people being pulled off the streets, when we see students at universities being grabbed, detained, and kidnapped, and when we see Kristi Noem filming this disgusting video, we’re looking at a nation we no longer recognize. We don’t want to be like that nation.
March 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: When we see people being pulled off the streets, when we see students at universities being grabbed, detained, and kidnapped, and when we see Kristi Noem filming this disgusting video, we’re looking at a nation we no longer recognize. We don’t want to be like that nation.
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Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
March 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
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Quince Mountain on the Iditarod Trail
YouTube video by BraverMountain
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March 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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@number10cat.bsky.social International and domestic media is not showing that Americans are fighting back. Please help us spread the word. #Colorado #Denver #FlightOligarchy
March 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
@number10cat.bsky.social International and domestic media is not showing that Americans are fighting back. Please help us spread the word. #Colorado #Denver #FlightOligarchy
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Life under authoritarianism can feel normal—until dissent is silenced and fear takes hold. Routines continue, but freedoms erode. Only when people start disappearing—arrested without cause, taken in the night, or never heard from again—does the illusion of normalcy shatter.
slate.com/culture/2025...
slate.com/culture/2025...
The Year’s Most Urgent Best Picture Contender Is the One Almost No One Has Seen
I’m Still Here has a warning—and a reason for hope.
slate.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Life under authoritarianism can feel normal—until dissent is silenced and fear takes hold. Routines continue, but freedoms erode. Only when people start disappearing—arrested without cause, taken in the night, or never heard from again—does the illusion of normalcy shatter.
slate.com/culture/2025...
slate.com/culture/2025...
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Left: Cleveland's burning river, before the EPA. Right: The burning river today, after the EPA.
Any questions?
Any questions?
March 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Left: Cleveland's burning river, before the EPA. Right: The burning river today, after the EPA.
Any questions?
Any questions?
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The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, halting more than $1 billion in federal spending. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks
States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.
www.politico.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, halting more than $1 billion in federal spending. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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The nightmare rolls on
March 3, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The nightmare rolls on
Heck yeah
Danes offer to buy California to spite Trump’s Greenland aims: ‘We’ll bring hygge to Hollywood’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Danes offer to buy California to spite Trump’s Greenland aims: ‘We’ll bring hygge to Hollywood’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Danes offer to buy California to spite Trump’s Greenland aims: ‘We’ll bring hygge to Hollywood’
Satirical petition from Denmark, which owns Greenland, racks up 200,000 signatures as Trump eyes Arctic island
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Heck yeah
Danes offer to buy California to spite Trump’s Greenland aims: ‘We’ll bring hygge to Hollywood’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Danes offer to buy California to spite Trump’s Greenland aims: ‘We’ll bring hygge to Hollywood’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Hawaii stepping up! www.reuters.com/world/us/dem...
Democratic senator to block Trump nominees over US aid agency shutdown
U.S. Senator Brian Schatz said on Monday he would block Senate votes on President Donald Trump's nominees for diplomatic positions in protest over moves to close the U.S. Agency for International Development and fold it into the State Department.
www.reuters.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Hawaii stepping up! www.reuters.com/world/us/dem...
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If you want to do something
1) look up where your senator’s closest local office is
2) pick a time Monday to go
3) text friends and group chats that you’re going with the address and time. Ask people to come with you
4) Demands in doc. See “The Ask” section
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
1) look up where your senator’s closest local office is
2) pick a time Monday to go
3) text friends and group chats that you’re going with the address and time. Ask people to come with you
4) Demands in doc. See “The Ask” section
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
WE CHOOSE TO FIGHT: SENATE STATE OFFICE VISIT TOOLKIT
WE CHOOSE TO FIGHT: STATE OFFICE VISIT TOOLKIT Register your event: https://indivisi.org/register-choose-to-fight TOOLKIT CONTENTS: WHAT’S HAPPENING? THE ASK HOW TO PLAN YOUR SENATE STATE OFFICE VI...
docs.google.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:49 AM
If you want to do something
1) look up where your senator’s closest local office is
2) pick a time Monday to go
3) text friends and group chats that you’re going with the address and time. Ask people to come with you
4) Demands in doc. See “The Ask” section
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
1) look up where your senator’s closest local office is
2) pick a time Monday to go
3) text friends and group chats that you’re going with the address and time. Ask people to come with you
4) Demands in doc. See “The Ask” section
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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A USAID HR director sent out this email today to staff letting them know he was placed on administrative leave.
“Today, representatives of the Agency's front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees.”
“Today, representatives of the Agency's front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees.”
January 31, 2025 at 1:08 AM
A USAID HR director sent out this email today to staff letting them know he was placed on administrative leave.
“Today, representatives of the Agency's front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees.”
“Today, representatives of the Agency's front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees.”
The full piece is beautiful.
Donella Meadows: "If you are on the other side of the planet, if I don’t know your name, if you speak a language I don’t understand, even then, when I see a picture of your face, full of joy, I feel your joy. When your face shows suffering, I feel that too." donellameadows.org/archives/lin...
Lines in the Mind, Not in the World - The Donella Meadows Project
By Donella Meadows –December 24, 1987– The earth was formed whole and continuous in the universe, without lines. The human mind arose in the universe needing lines, boundaries, distinctions. Here and ...
donellameadows.org
January 31, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The full piece is beautiful.
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Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
So grateful I was able to go to DC and offer my respects to #jimmycarter at the capitol. Stood in line with so many beautiful humans. Arriving back home home to the #lafires, heartbreak. Be kind to each other.
January 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
So grateful I was able to go to DC and offer my respects to #jimmycarter at the capitol. Stood in line with so many beautiful humans. Arriving back home home to the #lafires, heartbreak. Be kind to each other.
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Breaking: Meta ends fact-checking, presumably because reality is now optional. Coming soon: gravity is just a theory, and the moon is actually a giant space cookie. Critical truth update failed: installing flat earth patch. #MetaVerse www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Meta ends fact checks as it prepares for Trump era
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ends fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in favor of community notes, calling the recent election “a cultural tipping point.”
www.washingtonpost.com
January 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Breaking: Meta ends fact-checking, presumably because reality is now optional. Coming soon: gravity is just a theory, and the moon is actually a giant space cookie. Critical truth update failed: installing flat earth patch. #MetaVerse www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Today, #KashPatel sent a letter to my counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social threatening to sue & demanding I retract my MSNBC comments on his unfitness to serve as FBI Director. This follows his threats against media & political opponents, showing how he might act if confirmed. I stand by my statements.
December 4, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Today, #KashPatel sent a letter to my counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social threatening to sue & demanding I retract my MSNBC comments on his unfitness to serve as FBI Director. This follows his threats against media & political opponents, showing how he might act if confirmed. I stand by my statements.