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May Day, we continue fighting back—for workers, for immigrants, for all our rights.
Find a protest near you:
Find a protest near you:
National Day of Action
They want to erase labor rights, break our unions, and silence immigrant voices. This May Day we are fighting back. Stand with us.
Maydaystrong.org
April 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
May Day, we continue fighting back—for workers, for immigrants, for all our rights.
Find a protest near you:
Find a protest near you:
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RIGHT NOW in NYC!
@aaupcu.bsky.social
@cuimcstandsup.bsky.social
@higheredlabor.bsky.social
@actioninhighered.bsky.social
#DefendHigherEd
#AcademicSky
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@cuimcstandsup.bsky.social
@higheredlabor.bsky.social
@actioninhighered.bsky.social
#DefendHigherEd
#AcademicSky
April 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Happy with your purity now, you smug motherfuckers? The perfect is always the enemy of the good.
2024 voter file data is finally coming in, and it confirms that Democrats who stayed home in November helped tip the election to Trump. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
'Democrats Lost Them': Here's Why 2020 Biden Voters Sat Out The 2024 Election
Dems staying home fueled Donald Trump’s 2024 win and cost Kamala Harris, according to research from Way to Win, Catalist, and Lake Research Partners.
www.rollingstone.com
April 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Happy with your purity now, you smug motherfuckers? The perfect is always the enemy of the good.
@atgenevieve.bsky.social I need some help with an event. DM me.
April 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
@atgenevieve.bsky.social I need some help with an event. DM me.
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If you want a general strike we need at least 10 million people to commit to ensure a successful action.
The numbers are still too low. Use a burner email and name if needed to sign.
Sign here: generalstrikeus.com
#3E #GSUS #GeneralStrike
The numbers are still too low. Use a burner email and name if needed to sign.
Sign here: generalstrikeus.com
#3E #GSUS #GeneralStrike
April 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
If you want a general strike we need at least 10 million people to commit to ensure a successful action.
The numbers are still too low. Use a burner email and name if needed to sign.
Sign here: generalstrikeus.com
#3E #GSUS #GeneralStrike
The numbers are still too low. Use a burner email and name if needed to sign.
Sign here: generalstrikeus.com
#3E #GSUS #GeneralStrike
Posted wrong link before. Anyway, my totally real perfume company has a new collection available today. Check it out:
Saltandclove.com
Saltandclove.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Posted wrong link before. Anyway, my totally real perfume company has a new collection available today. Check it out:
Saltandclove.com
Saltandclove.com
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Signalgate should serve as a reminder to everyone that the Trump administration is not about protecting Americans, it's about protecting themselves and their power
In Signalgate, Trumpworld is demonstrating exactly what's wrong with authoritarian populism: Refusal to admit error, walling out of constructive criticism, the cult-like defense of the leader at all costs.
Transcript of discussion w/ @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social:
newrepublic.com/article/1932...
Transcript of discussion w/ @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social:
newrepublic.com/article/1932...
March 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Signalgate should serve as a reminder to everyone that the Trump administration is not about protecting Americans, it's about protecting themselves and their power
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This week we are back again, with another Honk and Wave!
This Wednesday, 5-6pm
West Clinton Street & South Meadow Street
Ithaca, NY 14850
Hands off Free Speech, Education, and Immigrants!
Sign up here:
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
This Wednesday, 5-6pm
West Clinton Street & South Meadow Street
Ithaca, NY 14850
Hands off Free Speech, Education, and Immigrants!
Sign up here:
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
a man is yelling at a woman and says `` we 're back '' .
Alt: Zoolander yells "we 're back!'' and then he and Hansel jump and kick their heels in excitement.
media.tenor.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This week we are back again, with another Honk and Wave!
This Wednesday, 5-6pm
West Clinton Street & South Meadow Street
Ithaca, NY 14850
Hands off Free Speech, Education, and Immigrants!
Sign up here:
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
This Wednesday, 5-6pm
West Clinton Street & South Meadow Street
Ithaca, NY 14850
Hands off Free Speech, Education, and Immigrants!
Sign up here:
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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No lies detected!
Musk is aggressive, shrewd, brash, petty, and impulsive, but he is no genius. And what he and his band of merry little Musketts are doing to the government is proof positive that he's not only not a genius, he's actually not all that bright.
burningbird.substack.com/p/lets-end-o...
burningbird.substack.com/p/lets-end-o...
Let's end, once and for all, the myth of Elon Musk's genius
Both Joe Rogan and Donald Trump call Musk a genius.
burningbird.substack.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:40 AM
No lies detected!
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"The opposition party cannot afford to give an inch. Brute power must be met with brute resistance...the Senate Democrats who voted for cloture don’t understand that imperative." ICYMI @mondairejones.bsky.social:
A Reckoning Is Coming For My Political Party
Chuck Schumer may have felt he was being prudent. But his voters saw a betrayal.
www.thebulwark.com
March 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"The opposition party cannot afford to give an inch. Brute power must be met with brute resistance...the Senate Democrats who voted for cloture don’t understand that imperative." ICYMI @mondairejones.bsky.social:
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Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.
How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To
Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.
wrd.cm
March 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.
Chicken Chuck's cowardly cave-in to Republicans have caused his approval ratings to tank. I sure hope no one cuts the eyes out of this picture and wears it to protests in front of his office.
March 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Chicken Chuck's cowardly cave-in to Republicans have caused his approval ratings to tank. I sure hope no one cuts the eyes out of this picture and wears it to protests in front of his office.
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Chuck Schumer right now:
March 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Chuck Schumer right now:
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“American techno-fascism is no longer a philosophical abstraction for Silicon Valley to tinker with,” @chaykak.bsky.social writes. “It is a policy program whose constitutional limits are being tested right now as DOGE . . . rampages through the federal government.”
Techno-Fascism Comes to America
The historic parallels that help explain Elon Musk’s rampage on the federal government.
nyer.cm
March 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
“American techno-fascism is no longer a philosophical abstraction for Silicon Valley to tinker with,” @chaykak.bsky.social writes. “It is a policy program whose constitutional limits are being tested right now as DOGE . . . rampages through the federal government.”
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A “digital book burning” is under way at federal agencies. Can volunteer archivists and data hoarders save the country’s files from DOGE?
The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?
www.newyorker.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A “digital book burning” is under way at federal agencies. Can volunteer archivists and data hoarders save the country’s files from DOGE?
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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
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You know what not to do!
March 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
You know what not to do!
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Democracy dies in decorum.
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Democracy dies in decorum.
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Yet another dedicated scientist and public servant, this time from US Fish and Wildlife, showing up unpaid after she was fired to volunteer to protect an endangered species.
What are we even doing here.
🎁 link: 🧪
What are we even doing here.
🎁 link: 🧪
After Elon Musk Fired Her, She Kept Showing Up to Work—for Free
The billionaire and his followers are out to cull federal employees they think are lazy and overpaid. But without people like Bianca Sicich, the Attwater’s prairie chicken could go extinct.
www.texasmonthly.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Yet another dedicated scientist and public servant, this time from US Fish and Wildlife, showing up unpaid after she was fired to volunteer to protect an endangered species.
What are we even doing here.
🎁 link: 🧪
What are we even doing here.
🎁 link: 🧪
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happy friday! just leaving this here...
The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...
www.wired.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
happy friday! just leaving this here...
February 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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“…you must be aware that it is not a
crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”
crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”
![February 4, 2025
Edward R. Martin, Jr.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
Patrick Henry Building
601 D Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20530
Transmitted via email
Re: Threats to prosecute critics of DOGE
Dear Interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. Edward R. Martin, Jr.:
We write to raise serious concerns about your recent public statements threatening to prosecute those who
"target" or "impede" Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) within the Executive Office of the President. We request that you publicly commit to abide by the First Amendment, which your office is sworn to uphold and Musk himself claims to champion, in any DOGE-related investigations or prosecutions you may pursue.
On Monday, you tweeted a letter to Musk asking him to use the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia to protect DOGE staff and their work and directing him to refer "any questionable conduct or details that [Musk] find[s] or notice[s]" to your office.' In the letter, you assert that "actions in any way that impact [DOGE's] work may break numerous laws," and that you commit to the pursuit of
"all legal action against anyone who impedes [Musk's) work or threatens [Musk's] people." You also state that you will "protect DOGE and other workers no matter what," citing past protests in Washington, D.C., which you refer to as riots.
As you know, DOGE, or the United States DOGE Service as it is formally known, is a government entity established within the Executive Office of the President; by executive order, DOGE is supposed to access only "unclassified agency records." The day before your letter, WIRED reported about and named six young engineers working for DOGE — Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. The experience and qualifications of public employees is of significant public interest.
Following this news report, a user on X — the social media platform owned by Mr. Musk — made a post also naming th…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o4pdps2jkn7uhrdgadni7djk/bafkreibo4srxmqoq44eo4bp5wyc26moq2mvevrpvyul5eibwjeh6l6acia@jpeg)
![X has since suspended the account of the user who posted the names.
As an experienced attorney holding such an important public position, you must be aware that it is not a crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the First Amendment protects the right to publish newsworthy information that the publisher lawfully obtains, including names far more sensitive than those of government personnel.' Musk himself has publicly touted DOGE's engineers while citing "media reports" regarding them.
Nor is it a crime to harshly criticize government employees and officials, even if transparency and criticism "impede" their work? Moreover, while certain true threats are unprotected and may be criminally punished, they are limited to serious expression[s]' conveying that a speaker means to
'commit an act of unlawful violence."$ Hyperbolic speech, even using threatening language, is entitled to full First Amendment protection.'
You must also surely be aware that the First Amendment protects Americans' right to peaceably assemble, especially to protest government actions.' The First Amendment severely constrains the government's ability to limit protests in public forums, such as the public streets of Washington, D.C." The government also cannot ban or restrict future protests based on unlawful conduct alleged to have occurred at past protests. 2
Threatening to prosecute First Amendment speech and activity is not only at odds with the U.S.
Constitution, it is also entirely inconsistent with Musk's own stated principles and the right of the American people to know what the government is up to. Musk describes himself as a free speech absolutist and has proposed a massive declassification of government records, opining that all government records should be public by default. '3 Just three months ago, Musk publicly posted…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o4pdps2jkn7uhrdgadni7djk/bafkreigtzd6v5yrwc6ikbo6jmt77r4yc5oikqeop4g3a6qswpxbhjtzxuq@jpeg)
![government employees with whom he disagrees on X.' If it is Musk's intention for the U.S. Attorney's Office to censor the press and public from identifying and discussing those conducting DOGE's work on his behalf, that would be incredibly hypocritical.
It is also vital that the U.S. Attorney's Office maintain the highest ethical standards and avoid even the appearance of impropriety. Rule 3.1 of the Rules of Professional Conduct for the Washington, D.C. Bar, of which you are a member, states: "A lawyer shall not bring or defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein, unless there is a basis in law and fact for doing so that is not frivolous."Is Under Rule 3.8, prosecutors are additionally prohibited from filing in court or maintaining a charge "that the prosecutor knows is not supported by probable cause."l6 The same rule provides that "[i]n exercising discretion to investigate or to prosecute," prosecutors shall not "improperly favor or invidiously discriminate against any person."17
Threatening to file frivolous charges against Americans and vaguely insinuating that wide swaths of constitutionally-protected speech and activity could invite criminal investigations and prosecutions may already violate these and other rules of professional conduct. Actually doing so almost certainly would.
Additionally, publicly offering the Office of the U.S. Attorney's services to Musk in the context of his asserting that protected expression is a criminal act is unbecoming of your public office and your duties as a public servant. Your oath is to the U.S. Constitution - including the First Amendment - not to President Donald Trump, Musk, or DOGE's desire to operate in secrecy and without criticism.
We request that you immediately (a) identify the specific "targeting" of DOGE staff your letter to Musk was referring to and what specific laws you contend it violated, (b) publicly commit to not investigate or prosecute journalists or others for reporting on or publish…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o4pdps2jkn7uhrdgadni7djk/bafkreihjaig2236xfdb6rhe5u5644xzvjc5p2lva7fkj6rc3z3sthfswbi@jpeg)
February 6, 2025 at 3:42 AM
“…you must be aware that it is not a
crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”
crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”