S. Avery
@agpopo.bsky.social
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS! Waltham Stands Up” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS! Waltham Stands Up · No Kings
NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. We’ve watched as they’ve cracked down on free spee...
www.mobilize.us
June 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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🧵: Trump’s bill would be a working class massacre. House Republicans know it will most hurt constituents in red districts who rely on Medicaid & SNAP benefits to make ends meet.
The GOP Reps below are still deciding their votes. Call them now and tell them to vote NO.
The GOP Reps below are still deciding their votes. Call them now and tell them to vote NO.
May 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🧵: Trump’s bill would be a working class massacre. House Republicans know it will most hurt constituents in red districts who rely on Medicaid & SNAP benefits to make ends meet.
The GOP Reps below are still deciding their votes. Call them now and tell them to vote NO.
The GOP Reps below are still deciding their votes. Call them now and tell them to vote NO.
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Thanks to DOGE’s spending freezes:
-EPA labs have halted critical research
-Social Security staffers are rationing paper and can’t pay translators
-NOAA has lost internet and phone services
-National Park workers can’t buy medicine for visitors or rangers’ horses
"Efficiency."
-EPA labs have halted critical research
-Social Security staffers are rationing paper and can’t pay translators
-NOAA has lost internet and phone services
-National Park workers can’t buy medicine for visitors or rangers’ horses
"Efficiency."
May 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Thanks to DOGE’s spending freezes:
-EPA labs have halted critical research
-Social Security staffers are rationing paper and can’t pay translators
-NOAA has lost internet and phone services
-National Park workers can’t buy medicine for visitors or rangers’ horses
"Efficiency."
-EPA labs have halted critical research
-Social Security staffers are rationing paper and can’t pay translators
-NOAA has lost internet and phone services
-National Park workers can’t buy medicine for visitors or rangers’ horses
"Efficiency."
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Trump got Loomered.
May 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Trump got Loomered.
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We are no longer Democrats or Republicans. We are either patriots fighting the Trump regime or we are complicit in its tyranny. There is no middle ground.
Now is the time for all of us to become activists. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-start-of-week-14
Now is the time for all of us to become activists. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-start-of-week-14
April 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We are no longer Democrats or Republicans. We are either patriots fighting the Trump regime or we are complicit in its tyranny. There is no middle ground.
Now is the time for all of us to become activists. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-start-of-week-14
Now is the time for all of us to become activists. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-start-of-week-14
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New: “Agriculture isn’t nearing trade war tariffs crisis, ‘it is full blown crisis already’ farmers say”
CNBC
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/t...
CNBC
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/t...
Agriculture isn't nearing trade war tariffs crisis, 'it is full blown crisis already' farmers say
U.S. agriculture exporters say global backlash to President Trump's tariffs are already resulting in canceled orders and farm layoffs.
www.cnbc.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
New: “Agriculture isn’t nearing trade war tariffs crisis, ‘it is full blown crisis already’ farmers say”
CNBC
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/t...
CNBC
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/t...
URGENT ACTION: Details for Trump's Presidential Budget were leaked, including his plans to disastrously eliminate Head Start and endanger #childcare access for families. Tell Congress we want Trump’s #HANDSOFF #HeadStart. action.momsrising.org/sign/Head_St...
Keep Trump's #HANDSOFF Head Start!
Tell Congress to hold the line and keep Trump’s HANDS OFF Head Start.
action.momsrising.org
April 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
URGENT ACTION: Details for Trump's Presidential Budget were leaked, including his plans to disastrously eliminate Head Start and endanger #childcare access for families. Tell Congress we want Trump’s #HANDSOFF #HeadStart. action.momsrising.org/sign/Head_St...
Quick Signature: Hands off our Medicaid! #HandsOffOurMedicaid action.momsrising.org/sign/2025_Ha...
Quick Signature: Hands off our Medicaid!
Republican leadership in Congress is prioritizing tax cuts for billionaires and corporations at the expense of the health needs of families across the nation!
action.momsrising.org
April 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Quick Signature: Hands off our Medicaid! #HandsOffOurMedicaid action.momsrising.org/sign/2025_Ha...
The SAVE Act is dangerous for democracy. It will strip 69 million married women of their ability to vote! QUICK SIGNATURE: action.momsrising.org/sign/TheSave... via @momsrising.org #StoptheSaveAct action.momsrising.org/sign/TheSave...
The SAVE Act would silence the voices of tens of millions of eligible voters
21.3 million people don’t have easy access to documents that prove citizenship like a U.S. birth certificate. The SAVE Act will make it harder for citizens to register to vote including millions of ma...
action.momsrising.org
April 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The SAVE Act is dangerous for democracy. It will strip 69 million married women of their ability to vote! QUICK SIGNATURE: action.momsrising.org/sign/TheSave... via @momsrising.org #StoptheSaveAct action.momsrising.org/sign/TheSave...
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This is disturbing, devastating, heartbreaking.
Women are half of the population yet don't have the research to make informed health decisions. Those of us who are women’s health warriors need to dig in, channel our righteous anger, and ensure women’s health research isn’t obliterated.
Women are half of the population yet don't have the research to make informed health decisions. Those of us who are women’s health warriors need to dig in, channel our righteous anger, and ensure women’s health research isn’t obliterated.
Trump's federal funding cuts are shutting down studies on Alzheimer’s care, uterine fibroids and pregnancy risks — all because they focus on gender.
What happens to health research when 'women' is a banned word?
Trump's federal funding cuts are shutting down studies on Alzheimer’s care, uterine fibroids and pregnancy risks — all because they focus on gender.
19thnews.org
March 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This is disturbing, devastating, heartbreaking.
Women are half of the population yet don't have the research to make informed health decisions. Those of us who are women’s health warriors need to dig in, channel our righteous anger, and ensure women’s health research isn’t obliterated.
Women are half of the population yet don't have the research to make informed health decisions. Those of us who are women’s health warriors need to dig in, channel our righteous anger, and ensure women’s health research isn’t obliterated.
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House Republicans just voted to cut health care, cut school lunches, and cut veterans' benefits — all to hand $7 trillion in tax breaks to Elon Musk and his billionaire friends.
They've deserted their hardworking constituents to help the rich get richer.
They've deserted their hardworking constituents to help the rich get richer.
April 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
House Republicans just voted to cut health care, cut school lunches, and cut veterans' benefits — all to hand $7 trillion in tax breaks to Elon Musk and his billionaire friends.
They've deserted their hardworking constituents to help the rich get richer.
They've deserted their hardworking constituents to help the rich get richer.
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Trump’s USDA has put thousands of farmers in an untenable limbo, by not honoring their signed contracts. Farmers need the money they planned on and are owed. Last night, Senate Republicans blocked my amendment to protect farmers. It’s not acceptable to abandon farmers this way.
April 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Trump’s USDA has put thousands of farmers in an untenable limbo, by not honoring their signed contracts. Farmers need the money they planned on and are owed. Last night, Senate Republicans blocked my amendment to protect farmers. It’s not acceptable to abandon farmers this way.
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The U.S is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We should not have the highest rate of child poverty of nearly every major country on earth. We should have the lowest.
It's time to end this international embarrassment & create an economy that works for all.
It's time to end this international embarrassment & create an economy that works for all.
April 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The U.S is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We should not have the highest rate of child poverty of nearly every major country on earth. We should have the lowest.
It's time to end this international embarrassment & create an economy that works for all.
It's time to end this international embarrassment & create an economy that works for all.
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Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth.
Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”
(Published Dec. 2022)
Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”
(Published Dec. 2022)
She Says Doctors Ignored Her Concerns About Her Pregnancy. For Many Black Women, It’s a Familiar Story.
Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a…
www.propublica.org
March 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth.
Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”
(Published Dec. 2022)
Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”
(Published Dec. 2022)
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The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.
Is planting trees 'DEI'? Trump administration cuts nationwide tree-planting effort
The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.
www.npr.org
March 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.
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This is fabulous!
I've been protesting, but I decided to do something different. I made an ad. I've given a lot of thought as to how to communicate without confrontation to Republican voters, non-voters, or Trumpers who are beginning to be concerned. I hope you'll watch - it's only 30 seconds. youtu.be/bp6XUjteeV4
It's All TV To Trump
YouTube video by Anne Mitchell
youtu.be
March 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This is fabulous!
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Trump's science denial, racism and sexism will trigger a brain drain that weakens the United States. MAGA is trashing our leading role in the world to wallow in greed and ignorance.
Europe looks to poach US researchers as Trump cuts funding
Twelve EU capitals want programs to bring over American scholars.
www.politico.eu
March 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Trump's science denial, racism and sexism will trigger a brain drain that weakens the United States. MAGA is trashing our leading role in the world to wallow in greed and ignorance.
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"It is urgent ... to organize ourselves to welcome talents who would like or need to leave the United States."
Top researchers ousted by Trump poised to be poached by Europe: report
President Donald Trump's purge of U.S. government staff could soon pay dividends — for other countries. According to Politico, a group of countries in the European Union have hatched a plan to poach o...
www.rawstory.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"It is urgent ... to organize ourselves to welcome talents who would like or need to leave the United States."
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Beginning March 31, people will no longer be able to verify their identity with the SSA over the phone. Those unable to verify their identity through the agency’s “my Social Security” online service will be required to visit a field office in person to complete the process.
March 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Beginning March 31, people will no longer be able to verify their identity with the SSA over the phone. Those unable to verify their identity through the agency’s “my Social Security” online service will be required to visit a field office in person to complete the process.
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Taken from a FB post by Alan Wechsler: Transcript below of an incredibly powerful and deadly accurate speech in the French Senate two days ago by Mr. Claude Malhuret. This may some day take its rightful place alongside the best of Sir Winston Churchill and President John F Kennedy.
Brace yourself:
Brace yourself:
March 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Taken from a FB post by Alan Wechsler: Transcript below of an incredibly powerful and deadly accurate speech in the French Senate two days ago by Mr. Claude Malhuret. This may some day take its rightful place alongside the best of Sir Winston Churchill and President John F Kennedy.
Brace yourself:
Brace yourself:
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NEW: GEO Group, an ICE contractor, has surged in value under President Trump.
But despite its soaring fortunes, the for-profit prison company continues to resist having to pay detainees more than $1 a day for cleaning facilities where the government has forced them to live.
By @mckenziefunk.com
But despite its soaring fortunes, the for-profit prison company continues to resist having to pay detainees more than $1 a day for cleaning facilities where the government has forced them to live.
By @mckenziefunk.com
An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It’s Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work.
GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.
propub.li
March 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
NEW: GEO Group, an ICE contractor, has surged in value under President Trump.
But despite its soaring fortunes, the for-profit prison company continues to resist having to pay detainees more than $1 a day for cleaning facilities where the government has forced them to live.
By @mckenziefunk.com
But despite its soaring fortunes, the for-profit prison company continues to resist having to pay detainees more than $1 a day for cleaning facilities where the government has forced them to live.
By @mckenziefunk.com
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“If allowed to snub federal courts, the Trump regime will have morphed into a dictatorship. What else can you call a regime that snatches potentially innocent people off the street, drops them off into a foreign hellhole, rejects judicial review, and boasts about it?” New from Jen Rubin.
The Constitutional Crisis May be Upon Us
With Trump openly challenging the courts, democracy defenders must draw a line in the sand
contrarian.substack.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“If allowed to snub federal courts, the Trump regime will have morphed into a dictatorship. What else can you call a regime that snatches potentially innocent people off the street, drops them off into a foreign hellhole, rejects judicial review, and boasts about it?” New from Jen Rubin.
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Cruel and Usual: Republicans Prepare to Gut Medicaid
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Cruel and Usual: Republicans Prepare to Gut Medicaid
And their own supporters will be among the biggest victims
open.substack.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Cruel and Usual: Republicans Prepare to Gut Medicaid
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I just sell cars and love everyone!
March 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I just sell cars and love everyone!