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What is One Million Rising?

It's a national effort to train one million people in the strategic logic and practice of non-cooperation to build people power.

#OneMillionRising #Indivisible #PeoplePower

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One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and full-scale attacks on our democracy. We don’t have
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July 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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We are talking about child rape and trafficking. This is not something that should just disappear. I understand with this administration it feels like, “of course” but we can’t just accept this. Ghislane Maxwell is doing 20 years in prison for trafficking girls to…No one?
So...
What was sitting on her desk? Did she spill coffee on it? Shred it?
Pam Bondi in February: The Epstein client list is sitting on my desk right now to review.

Pam Bondi today: There is no Epstein client list and no "further disclosure" of Epstein-related material "would be appropriate or warranted."
July 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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If you’re wondering what it’s like officials are already referring to it as a “camp,” concentrating people in one remote area… surrounded by alligators, apparently.
June 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Florida is building a new migrant detention center nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” converting an airfield deep in the Everglades into one of the Trump administration’s most ominous additions to its immigration crackdown. FDT!
June 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Musk is PAYING for votes, AGAIN. This is illegal under 18 U.S. Code, Section 597. Arrest this criminal.
apnews.com/article/wisc...
Musk promises to go to Wisconsin to personally deliver $2 million to voters in Supreme Court race
Billionaire Elon Musk says he plans to hold a rally in Wisconsin to “personally hand over” $2 million to a pair of voters who have already cast their ballots in the state’s hotly contested Supreme Cou...
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March 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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More fallout from the illegal decision to shutter USAID:

Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally; 100,000s of sick patients can't find tests or treatment, leading to spread of TB

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...
Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally
The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease.
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March 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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If you de-zoot the toots here, he’s saying he spent $44b on twitter as part of his right wing political project—which is both obvious and something you can’t say in the newspaper.
listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.
February 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Very Elon Musk approach: if the law's not on your side, buy the courts
February 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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They will not steal my joy! Do I hate this? Yes! Do I dread the next 4 years? Absolutely! I plan to watch this shit show go down smiling, head held high, knowing I was on the right side. Let them wallow in the shit they created. Joy is resistance.
a woman wearing a denim jacket is making a funny face with #schitts creek written on the bottom
ALT: a woman wearing a denim jacket is making a funny face with #schitts creek written on the bottom
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November 20, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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I'm sure he's wearing blackout shades for normal reasons.
listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.
February 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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BREAKING: House Republicans have released their budget resolution. They are aiming to cut Medicaid by at least $880 billion, and cut SNAP by at least 20%.
February 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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www.cryptopolitan.com/elon-musk-do... A Bloomberg editorial shows Musk ally Krause's ruthless job-slashing at Citrix led to catastrophic security breaches. Treasury’s payment system, 1.2 billion transactions annually, is within Tom’s purview under D.O.G.E.
Elon Musk's D.O.G.E ally Tom Krause exposed for inefficient cost-cutting at other job | Cryptopolitan
Tom Krause, Elon Musk’s go-to man for cost-cutting magic at the Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E), has been slammed for his disastrous track
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February 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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This period under Musk/Trump feels like early February in 2020—when a terrible thing was happening with breakneck speed, and the people paying close attention were hair-on-fire about it while the rest of the country carried on as normal.
February 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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But it will hire them as Defense Secretary.
Trump: "My administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes. And it's gonna end, and it's ending right now, and nobody is gonna be able to do a damn thing about it, because when I speak, we speak with authority."
February 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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NEW: A source familiar tells me that Trump's idea for the US to take over Gaza was first conceived by Jared Kushner. Kushner remarked last year that Gaza's "waterfront property could be very valuable," adding "I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up”
February 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.
February 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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With my WHOLE chest
February 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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CFPB halts work after Trump appoints Bessent as acting head — INCLUDING INVESTIGATIONS!

It's once again a great time to be a corrupt financier.
CFPB halts work after Trump appoints Bessent as acting head
The consumer watchdog agency was formed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Elon Musk wants to “delete” it.
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February 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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USAID was created by an Act of Congress in 1961; it cannot legitimately be dissolved by presidential edict. Ofc how long this period of misrule will last is anyone’s guess.
February 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Let me get this straight: RFK Jr.’s idea of fixing his ethics issues is to hand his stake over to his son? The son who works at the same law firm that RFK Jr. made millions off of?

RFK Jr.'s nomination should not move forward one inch until we get answers.
Democratic senators say they have 'grave concerns' over RFK Jr.'s potential financial conflicts
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden called on the HHS nominee to vow to recuse himself from certain decisions and promise not to profit from health litigation after leaving the post.
www.nbcnews.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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This dumb bitch actually said this‼️🤬🤦🏻‍♀️😖👇🏼
February 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM