Dawn Teo
@dawn-teo.bsky.social
Former professional communications, tech, & organizing. Former journalist. Now, stay-at-home mom & volunteer SE-Valley Dem Party Chair doing my part to stop Trump & Musk from stealing our public resources, our safety nets, & our future.
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Dawn Teo
@dawn-teo.bsky.social
· Mar 12
Underestimated Strength: Finding Power When Leaders Can’t
When traditional power fails, when leaders doubt, we rise from the ground up
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Yes, decades of progress are being torn away, but it’s more than that. Yes, we are grieving lost progress and the dreams we shared for America, but it’s more than that, too. While some leaders feel disoriented and helpless, there is a path back to power, even under an authoritarian regime.
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You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.
September 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.
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Star Wars Fans of conscience: join members of 50501 and Get Free’s Project Fulcrum to demand Nexstar and Sinclair free the airwaves, show Jimmy Kimmel, and refuse to comply with future regime attacks on truth and freedom.
RSVP to a rally near you:
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RSVP to a rally near you:
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September 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Star Wars Fans of conscience: join members of 50501 and Get Free’s Project Fulcrum to demand Nexstar and Sinclair free the airwaves, show Jimmy Kimmel, and refuse to comply with future regime attacks on truth and freedom.
RSVP to a rally near you:
friendseverywhere.network
RSVP to a rally near you:
friendseverywhere.network
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🚨CALLING ALL ANDOR FANS: BOYCOTT DISNEY-ABC🚨
We have the power and responsibility as Andor fans to demand these corporations stop bending to the MAGA regime. Not one more dollar if they keep caving to white supremacist demands to silence our freedom of speech.
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We have the power and responsibility as Andor fans to demand these corporations stop bending to the MAGA regime. Not one more dollar if they keep caving to white supremacist demands to silence our freedom of speech.
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Boycott Disney-ABC
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September 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
🚨CALLING ALL ANDOR FANS: BOYCOTT DISNEY-ABC🚨
We have the power and responsibility as Andor fans to demand these corporations stop bending to the MAGA regime. Not one more dollar if they keep caving to white supremacist demands to silence our freedom of speech.
secure.everyaction.com/iGih_Z5w20-x...
We have the power and responsibility as Andor fans to demand these corporations stop bending to the MAGA regime. Not one more dollar if they keep caving to white supremacist demands to silence our freedom of speech.
secure.everyaction.com/iGih_Z5w20-x...
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If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
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A “shift” never happened. A chaotic raid at a worksite and a warrantless sweep in our communities have the same outcome. Bullshit rhetoric aside, they’re hunting us down while we’re trying to feed you.
Who’s actually in charge?
Who’s actually in charge?
June 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
A “shift” never happened. A chaotic raid at a worksite and a warrantless sweep in our communities have the same outcome. Bullshit rhetoric aside, they’re hunting us down while we’re trying to feed you.
Who’s actually in charge?
Who’s actually in charge?
Dante is smart and wise.
A brief comment/thread on Lee Saunders and Randi Weingarten refusing DNC appointments. Overall, I think it's a very good thing for both the DNC and labor that this is happening. Here's why:
1) first, this isn't about ideology or labor policy. This is about how the party will be run.
1) first, this isn't about ideology or labor policy. This is about how the party will be run.
June 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Dante is smart and wise.
I would never vote for someone who got frustrated at a puppy, dragged it into someone's workplace, and shot it. Would you?
As a reminder, @hassan.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov @slotkin.senate.gov @kim.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @peters.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov ALL VOTED TO CONFIRM NOEM WHO WAS ALREADY KNOWN AS A PSYCHOPATH.
REPLACE THEM.
REPLACE THEM.
June 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I would never vote for someone who got frustrated at a puppy, dragged it into someone's workplace, and shot it. Would you?
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As a reminder, @hassan.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov @slotkin.senate.gov @kim.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @peters.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov ALL VOTED TO CONFIRM NOEM WHO WAS ALREADY KNOWN AS A PSYCHOPATH.
REPLACE THEM.
REPLACE THEM.
June 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
As a reminder, @hassan.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov @slotkin.senate.gov @kim.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @peters.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov ALL VOTED TO CONFIRM NOEM WHO WAS ALREADY KNOWN AS A PSYCHOPATH.
REPLACE THEM.
REPLACE THEM.
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Leaders from other countries should think twice about sending their athletes to the Los Angeles Olympics.
June 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Leaders from other countries should think twice about sending their athletes to the Los Angeles Olympics.
This must mean he's ready to prosecute the ICE agents who won't show warrants, faces, or badges, right?!
June 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
This must mean he's ready to prosecute the ICE agents who won't show warrants, faces, or badges, right?!
What's going on in there that they don't want the public to see?
And here in NYC today another shocking escalation by Trump.
The law *explicitly allows* unannounced visits by congressmembers to federal facilities.
This is yet another breach of democratic norms by an increasingly rogue administration. Don't normalize this.
The law *explicitly allows* unannounced visits by congressmembers to federal facilities.
This is yet another breach of democratic norms by an increasingly rogue administration. Don't normalize this.
2 New York Representatives Are Denied Access to ICE Facility
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 4:27 AM
What's going on in there that they don't want the public to see?
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Them: “LA is a full on insurrection”
Us at the protest:
Us at the protest:
June 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Them: “LA is a full on insurrection”
Us at the protest:
Us at the protest:
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Be careful, friends, when you read accounts of what is happening in LA. We will hear a lot about violence, and it is essential to remember who is defining that term.
"When state actors refer to peace, they are really taking about order..." (@prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social)
"When state actors refer to peace, they are really taking about order..." (@prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social)
June 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Be careful, friends, when you read accounts of what is happening in LA. We will hear a lot about violence, and it is essential to remember who is defining that term.
"When state actors refer to peace, they are really taking about order..." (@prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social)
"When state actors refer to peace, they are really taking about order..." (@prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social)
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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
This is a uniquely dangerous abuse of power and a direct assault on freedom of assembly and speech. If these tactics are normalized in one state, any state could be next.
dawnteo.substack.com/p/the-milita...
dawnteo.substack.com/p/the-milita...
Military Occupation Isn't Just For LA: Your State Could Be Next
If these tactics are normalized in one state, any state could be next. Turning the military on U.S. citizens is a uniquely dangerous abuse of power.
dawnteo.substack.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This is a uniquely dangerous abuse of power and a direct assault on freedom of assembly and speech. If these tactics are normalized in one state, any state could be next.
dawnteo.substack.com/p/the-milita...
dawnteo.substack.com/p/the-milita...
"DHS requested 20,000 National Guard members to help carry out the President's mandate from the American people to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens."
www.npr.org/2025/06/06/n...
www.npr.org/2025/06/06/n...
DHS memo details how National Guard troops will be used for immigration enforcement
The memo obtained by NPR says troops would be used in activities, including in "night operations and rural interdiction," as well as "guard duty and riot control" inside detention facilities.
www.npr.org
June 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"DHS requested 20,000 National Guard members to help carry out the President's mandate from the American people to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens."
www.npr.org/2025/06/06/n...
www.npr.org/2025/06/06/n...
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🚨BREAKING: A military Blackhawk helicopter is unloading dozens of boxes of weapons and ammunition in Los Angeles “as if they were getting ready for a major battle.”
June 8, 2025 at 3:42 AM
🚨BREAKING: A military Blackhawk helicopter is unloading dozens of boxes of weapons and ammunition in Los Angeles “as if they were getting ready for a major battle.”
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BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts.
Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
May 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts.
Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
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This may genuinely be one of the most devastating things I've seen about a tech CEO in the mainstream media. Amazing.
May 12, 2025 at 4:05 AM
This may genuinely be one of the most devastating things I've seen about a tech CEO in the mainstream media. Amazing.
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Not to be too pro technocrat, but it is astounding how much this country depended on the selflessness of like a few hundred thousand highly educated public servants who, for peanuts, made sure our food and medicine and environment etc were safe. And in return these servants were demonized.
“When it comes to .. raw milk, I want to be free to form a relationship with a local farmer, look him in the eyes, pet his cow, and then decide if I feel safe to drink the milk from his farm.”
— Casey Means, Trump’s latest surgeon-general nominee.
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— Casey Means, Trump’s latest surgeon-general nominee.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump Picks a ‘MAHA’ Movement Leader for Surgeon General
The president said he would nominate Dr. Casey Means, a California doctor and wellness influencer, to be the next surgeon general.
www.wsj.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Not to be too pro technocrat, but it is astounding how much this country depended on the selflessness of like a few hundred thousand highly educated public servants who, for peanuts, made sure our food and medicine and environment etc were safe. And in return these servants were demonized.
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The trouble with decrying the arrest of elected officials as your core talking point is that we desperately need to arrest elected officials - just not the ones the regime has selected.
May 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The trouble with decrying the arrest of elected officials as your core talking point is that we desperately need to arrest elected officials - just not the ones the regime has selected.
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This hits hard—and says everything about where we are right now.
A Yale professor says he’s relocating to Canada to continue his democracy work. When asked why not stay in the U.S. and fight, he says he has two Black sons and he’s the son of a Holocaust survivor—and this is an “anti-Black moment”.
A Yale professor says he’s relocating to Canada to continue his democracy work. When asked why not stay in the U.S. and fight, he says he has two Black sons and he’s the son of a Holocaust survivor—and this is an “anti-Black moment”.
May 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This hits hard—and says everything about where we are right now.
A Yale professor says he’s relocating to Canada to continue his democracy work. When asked why not stay in the U.S. and fight, he says he has two Black sons and he’s the son of a Holocaust survivor—and this is an “anti-Black moment”.
A Yale professor says he’s relocating to Canada to continue his democracy work. When asked why not stay in the U.S. and fight, he says he has two Black sons and he’s the son of a Holocaust survivor—and this is an “anti-Black moment”.
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We all must stand up every single day.
"If the founding history of this country is any guide, those who stood up in court to vindicate constitutional rights and, by so doing, served to promote the rule of law, will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written." -Judge Howell
"If the founding history of this country is any guide, those who stood up in court to vindicate constitutional rights and, by so doing, served to promote the rule of law, will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written." -Judge Howell
May 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
We all must stand up every single day.
"If the founding history of this country is any guide, those who stood up in court to vindicate constitutional rights and, by so doing, served to promote the rule of law, will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written." -Judge Howell
"If the founding history of this country is any guide, those who stood up in court to vindicate constitutional rights and, by so doing, served to promote the rule of law, will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written." -Judge Howell
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Even though CBS News plagiarized my first scoop in this series, the fact that Trump's nominee for surgeon general lied for years about every relevant aspect of her qualifications is getting relatively little attention—and her confirmation hearing is on Thursday:
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Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Distorted Key Parts of Her Résumé
Nesheiwat falsified, misled, selectively omitted, or lied about her medical education, board certifications, and military experience
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May 4, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Even though CBS News plagiarized my first scoop in this series, the fact that Trump's nominee for surgeon general lied for years about every relevant aspect of her qualifications is getting relatively little attention—and her confirmation hearing is on Thursday:
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