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Over 100,000 seats are up for grabs in 2025 — governors, mayors, city councils, state representatives, judges, school boards, and more.
Taking back our power starts now.
Taking back our power starts now.
March 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Over 100,000 seats are up for grabs in 2025 — governors, mayors, city councils, state representatives, judges, school boards, and more.
Taking back our power starts now.
Taking back our power starts now.
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A memo has just leaked revealing that the Trump administration is planning to sabotage the Social Security Administration.
Their plan would gut the agency’s claims process, potentially preventing millions of Americans from getting their earned benefits.
Per @juddlegum.bsky.social:
Their plan would gut the agency’s claims process, potentially preventing millions of Americans from getting their earned benefits.
Per @juddlegum.bsky.social:
EXCLUSIVE: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration
An internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo, sent on March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, details proposed changes to the claims process that would debilitate the agency, cause sign...
popular.info
March 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
A memo has just leaked revealing that the Trump administration is planning to sabotage the Social Security Administration.
Their plan would gut the agency’s claims process, potentially preventing millions of Americans from getting their earned benefits.
Per @juddlegum.bsky.social:
Their plan would gut the agency’s claims process, potentially preventing millions of Americans from getting their earned benefits.
Per @juddlegum.bsky.social:
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I’m totally fine with deporting gang members who commit crimes who don’t have legal status.
I just don’t want Tom Homan or an ICE agent grabbing anyone off the street and flying them to a prison in El Salvador while claiming they are all of those things with zero due process.
I just don’t want Tom Homan or an ICE agent grabbing anyone off the street and flying them to a prison in El Salvador while claiming they are all of those things with zero due process.
March 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I’m totally fine with deporting gang members who commit crimes who don’t have legal status.
I just don’t want Tom Homan or an ICE agent grabbing anyone off the street and flying them to a prison in El Salvador while claiming they are all of those things with zero due process.
I just don’t want Tom Homan or an ICE agent grabbing anyone off the street and flying them to a prison in El Salvador while claiming they are all of those things with zero due process.
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National Archives Debunks Trump's Autopen Conspiracy Theories
MAGA's false claim about Biden's signatures refuted
meidasnews.com/news/nationa...
MAGA's false claim about Biden's signatures refuted
meidasnews.com/news/nationa...
National Archives Debunks Trump's Autopen Conspiracy Theories
MAGA's false claim about Biden's signatures refuted
meidasnews.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
National Archives Debunks Trump's Autopen Conspiracy Theories
MAGA's false claim about Biden's signatures refuted
meidasnews.com/news/nationa...
MAGA's false claim about Biden's signatures refuted
meidasnews.com/news/nationa...
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“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Trump upending world order will cost America dearly
The decline of American influence is a gift to Russia and China.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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The damage Fox has done to the truth, is incalculable…
March 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The damage Fox has done to the truth, is incalculable…
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Auchincloss on Fox News Sunday: "This economy is inflationary right now...you know what the GOP response is? Their response is, 'Well, get ready for a rocky ride & by the way, we're gonna give tax cuts to the top 20% of earners & pay for it by taking away healthcare from people who need healthcare'"
March 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Auchincloss on Fox News Sunday: "This economy is inflationary right now...you know what the GOP response is? Their response is, 'Well, get ready for a rocky ride & by the way, we're gonna give tax cuts to the top 20% of earners & pay for it by taking away healthcare from people who need healthcare'"
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The distance between a legal resident who's not a citizen being deported without due process and a citizen being deported without due process is a hell of a lot shorter than many folks seem to believe, and when it does happen to a citizen, just remember it started here and who was quiet in response.
March 17, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The distance between a legal resident who's not a citizen being deported without due process and a citizen being deported without due process is a hell of a lot shorter than many folks seem to believe, and when it does happen to a citizen, just remember it started here and who was quiet in response.
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The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money.
He was not dead.
He was not dead.
I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle
“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.
www.seattletimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money.
He was not dead.
He was not dead.
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Total cowards. Shameful.
Former American Lawyer editor-in-chief: “I am surprised and disappointed that the leaders of the largest law firms – the Am Law 100 – have not individually or collectively denounced” Trump’s executive order punishing law firm Perkins Coie.
www.globallegalpost.com/news/associa...
www.globallegalpost.com/news/associa...
Associates circulate open letter urging law firms to speak out against Perkins Coie executive order
Letter says it is not too late for bosses to take a stand against Trump administration’s attack on ‘rule-of-law norms’
www.globallegalpost.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Total cowards. Shameful.
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POLITICO: “The Democratic base wants a fight. Chuck Schumer won’t give it to them.”
Surrendering to Republicans isn’t leadership—it’s weakness. While the GOP bulldozes its agenda through, @SenSchumer played it safe. Democrats want and deserve a fighter, not a bystander.
Surrendering to Republicans isn’t leadership—it’s weakness. While the GOP bulldozes its agenda through, @SenSchumer played it safe. Democrats want and deserve a fighter, not a bystander.
March 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
POLITICO: “The Democratic base wants a fight. Chuck Schumer won’t give it to them.”
Surrendering to Republicans isn’t leadership—it’s weakness. While the GOP bulldozes its agenda through, @SenSchumer played it safe. Democrats want and deserve a fighter, not a bystander.
Surrendering to Republicans isn’t leadership—it’s weakness. While the GOP bulldozes its agenda through, @SenSchumer played it safe. Democrats want and deserve a fighter, not a bystander.
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A letter circulating encouraging Tesla owners to ditch their vehicles because of Elon Musk
March 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
A letter circulating encouraging Tesla owners to ditch their vehicles because of Elon Musk
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Me: “We have reached a stage of illegality, immorality, and depravity in a federal administration that no one could have ever thought possible. … And you can't enjoin depravity.”
youtu.be/qxiNgPsVKGc?...
youtu.be/qxiNgPsVKGc?...
Conway Explains: Trump’s LAWLESSNESS is Out of Control | Free Version
YouTube video by The Bulwark
youtu.be
March 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Me: “We have reached a stage of illegality, immorality, and depravity in a federal administration that no one could have ever thought possible. … And you can't enjoin depravity.”
youtu.be/qxiNgPsVKGc?...
youtu.be/qxiNgPsVKGc?...
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I’m amazed how little coverage this story has gotten. They’ve burned well over $16 million to briefly hold 290 immigrants and several photo ops to GITMO. Just a total train wreck and they didn’t even mention it officially. Check out my latest.
open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
Smoke and mirrors in Cuba
They are all lying but they got the pictures and that's what matters
open.substack.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I’m amazed how little coverage this story has gotten. They’ve burned well over $16 million to briefly hold 290 immigrants and several photo ops to GITMO. Just a total train wreck and they didn’t even mention it officially. Check out my latest.
open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
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If Dems were unwilling to fight over cabinet nominees and unwilling to fight over the budget/shutdown, it’s safe to assume they’re not going to fight over anything.
March 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
If Dems were unwilling to fight over cabinet nominees and unwilling to fight over the budget/shutdown, it’s safe to assume they’re not going to fight over anything.
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"Even a rogue marshal’s service, in other words, is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law. If courts have the courage, the legal tools are there." -- Prof. David Noll
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...
If the Marshals Go Rogue, Courts Have Other Ways to Enforce their Orders
Opinion | Even a rogue marshal’s service is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law.
www.democracydocket.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"Even a rogue marshal’s service, in other words, is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law. If courts have the courage, the legal tools are there." -- Prof. David Noll
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...
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Hmm... what could possibly go wrong with this genius idea? 🙄
DOGE Is Pressuring Social Security To Cut Its Phone Claim Service—And Everyone's Making The Same Point
What could possibly go wrong? 🙄
www.comicsands.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Hmm... what could possibly go wrong with this genius idea? 🙄
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This is excellent and worth a watch and share. Tonight has been a turning point in our party. Those that don’t recognize that do not deserve the power voters awarded them.
WTF?!! Schumer CAVES to GOP CR and DEMS ARE PISSED
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
youtu.be
March 14, 2025 at 4:32 AM
This is excellent and worth a watch and share. Tonight has been a turning point in our party. Those that don’t recognize that do not deserve the power voters awarded them.
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Call these Senators who seem to be on the fence about the CR vote and tell them to vote NO:
John Fetterman (D-PA): (202) 224-4254
Chuck Schumer (D-NY): (202) 224-6542
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY): (202) 224-4451
Gary Peters (D-MI): (202) 224-6221
Angus King (I-ME): (202) 224-5344
John Fetterman (D-PA): (202) 224-4254
Chuck Schumer (D-NY): (202) 224-6542
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY): (202) 224-4451
Gary Peters (D-MI): (202) 224-6221
Angus King (I-ME): (202) 224-5344
March 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Call these Senators who seem to be on the fence about the CR vote and tell them to vote NO:
John Fetterman (D-PA): (202) 224-4254
Chuck Schumer (D-NY): (202) 224-6542
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY): (202) 224-4451
Gary Peters (D-MI): (202) 224-6221
Angus King (I-ME): (202) 224-5344
John Fetterman (D-PA): (202) 224-4254
Chuck Schumer (D-NY): (202) 224-6542
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY): (202) 224-4451
Gary Peters (D-MI): (202) 224-6221
Angus King (I-ME): (202) 224-5344
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Before FoxNews, Franklin Graham, and MAGA propaganda, I could meet them in the common ground of our shared faith in Jesus and in the clarity of objective truth. It now seems they no longer have use nor tolerance for such things.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-right-...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-right-...
The Right Indoctrinated People We Love Into a Hate Cult—and We're Probably Not Getting Them Back
A couple of years ago my family and I walked into an older relative's house unannounced.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Before FoxNews, Franklin Graham, and MAGA propaganda, I could meet them in the common ground of our shared faith in Jesus and in the clarity of objective truth. It now seems they no longer have use nor tolerance for such things.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-right-...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-right-...
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Turnabout is fair play.
March 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Turnabout is fair play.
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It is not required for any other Senate Dem to vote with Schumer. Stand up for the people. Stand up for the party. Unite against this and lead where he won’t.
March 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It is not required for any other Senate Dem to vote with Schumer. Stand up for the people. Stand up for the party. Unite against this and lead where he won’t.