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@iwillcopeandseeth.bsky.social
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Always coping, always seething, I'm amazing at both.
Listening, learning, and working.
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dearlstephens.bsky.social
*endorsed
February 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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thedemcoalition.bsky.social
Kash Patel is an unfit sycophant who should never be director of anything.

Agreed?
Tell your Senators: Oppose Trump's dangerous pick of Kash Patel for FBI Director
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
February 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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winterwarpath.bsky.social
🇺🇸 ACTIVISM: Local Elections Awareness
If you're feeling powerless & want to make a difference, there are elections happening all the time.

You don’t need to read the whole post! Find the info for your state & county and read up on those elections.

ariellaelm.substack.com/p/election-d...
Election day is every Tuesday, or Saturday, or sometimes Thursday. Rarely Monday, Wednesday or Friday, I wonder why. Some weeks there’s just a special election or two, but some weeks there’s a hell of a lot more, and I want to do my best to make sure you don’t miss a single one. Keep in mind, I still might miss a couple, so if you don’t see your district here, no matter what state you are in, go to your Secretary of State or your county election board websites and just double-check for yourself, and feel free to let me know, so I can add anything I might have missed! This guide will contain links so you can learn more info. Unfortunately, most of these races are nonpartisan and in many cases it’s near impossible to find more than just a couple articles if you live outside of the district. My best suggestion is to find your nearest Democratic party and ask them for help determining how to vote if you get stuck. Blue Voter Guide is another great resource, but they focus on endorsements and if they can’t find any, they won’t be of much help. That said, all we can do is our best, so here I am, hoping to help you do your best so you don’t miss a single election! There are elections in 50 counties in OK alone. But there are also more than a dozen in WA, and some others in KS, DE, MN, LA, GA, NE and NY as well. For the record, even if there isn’t much info, it’s pretty safe to vote YES on any bond or sales tax proposal. They help pay for things like updating schools and other public buildings, now that DT is in charge, we are starting to get a pretty clear idea as to how important these elections really are. And finally, you don’t need to read the whole post! Find the info for your state and your county and read up on those elections.
February 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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plumber4america.bsky.social
Please reshare. The online complaint form for Dept of Education isn't working. Use their strategies against them. FLOOD THE ZONE.
February 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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generalstrikeus.bsky.social
Want to participate in another act of resistance as we build toward the strike? Take a look at this spreadsheet shared by one of our coalition members to see what companies to support (or not):

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
DEI Policy Tracker for the People
docs.google.com
February 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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vashetc.bsky.social
My job released a dope ass overview of tech/data related updates that I screenshot bc it was fire.

You can subscribe to the newsletters at upturn.org
The Trump administration is engaged in a widespread attack on civil rights protections that have been instrumental to confronting racism and other forms of exclusion in housing, hiring, and credit. • President Trump rescinded an Executive Order from the 1960s requiring nondiscrimination in federal contracting - a foundational legal authority requiring federal contractors, including some of America's largest businesses, to hire diverse workforces. • The DOJ has ordered its civil rights division to stop working - functionally halting efforts to hold discriminatory landlords and lenders accountable and limiting federal enforcement of civil rights laws - while also soliciting proposals for criminal and civil investigations into companies that seek to voluntarily diversify their workforces. • The new acting head of the CFPB told staff to halt their consumer protection work, which has shielded consumers from price gouging, predatory lending, and the weaponization of medical debt in credit decisions. • President Trump unlawfully fired leaders of the EEOC, NLRB, PCLOB, and CFPB - independent agencies whose work is essential to the enforcement of civil rights laws. • President Trump directed federal agencies to stop interpreting civil rights laws as protecting against gender-based discrimination. The president also ordered agencies to ignore recent Supreme Court precedent that sex discrimination includes gender discrimination. 6:40 The Trump administration intends to undermine access to health care and destroy social safety net programs through budget cuts, funding disruptions, and increased eligibility requirements. • The Trump administration has gone further in restricting abortion than any president since Roe was decided in 1973, which will endanger abortion-seekers and others trying to access reproductive healthcare. • Federal funding disruptions are causing staffing issues at independent living centers, which help seniors and disabled people remain in their homes instead of institutions. Funding delays are also threatening Head Start programs, which support low-income families. • Funding delays also caused issues with access to healthcare portals. Such outages can delay people from obtaining life-saving medications and healthcare, and even cause deaths. • Thanks to Elon musk and DOGE, • Thanks to Elon Musk and DOGE, people are at risk of losing their healthcare because of sweeping attacks on Medicare and Medicaid data and payment systems. • The administration is attempting to halt federal support for gender-affirming healthcare for young people.
February 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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daydrmblvr.bsky.social
Senators and congresspeople cannot file lawsuits unless they suffer personal harm. Again, there's a reason these suits are coming from state AGs and other outside groups.
February 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
Trump, Vance, and Musk are pushing to rehire a staffer who resigned after being called out for a social media account with a history of racist posts. “To err is human, to forgive divine,” Elon Musk said in defense of the move. No—it’s not err; it’s racism. No excuses.
February 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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whattheactualf.bsky.social
They can’t screw with these 👇🏼
February 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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cmar0561.bsky.social
Do you live in a blue state?

Call your governor and attorney general—demand they:
⚡ Form a blue state coalition with other governments to withhold tax dollars unless Musk is removed from power

⚡ File state charges against him—if convicted, Trump can’t pardon him

Links are provided in comments.
February 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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tabuto.bsky.social
Here’s your chance Florida Get out and #vote April 1 & April 6 Special Election
February 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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socialsecurityworks.org
The House Republicans listed below are vulnerable in 2026. They will only vote to cut our benefits if they think no one is watching.

If you live in these districts, or know anyone who does, CALL NOW and tell them to keep their hands off Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid!
https://www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/house/house-overview/2026-house-race-ratings-another-knife-fight-majority
February 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Some people are not invested in collective survival. They are invested in self-expression, self-righteousness, and who or what they believe themselves to be. Such people can be prone to behaviors I would characterize as disorganizing. I have absolutely no time for that shit right now.
February 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
One point that I really appreciated from this conversation was that not taking a risk can be the more dangerous move, and that we need to think about risk in the context of what inaction will ultimately cost us. That feels like a really important lesson for these times. truthout.org/audio/we-won...
“I think that insight that we took from the [early] COVID-19 emergency, [was that] that it was riskier not to take a collective risk, I think that that is precisely the insight that we need to bring to this moment of climate catastrophe, housing emergency, rising fascism, that not organizing, not taking calculated risks, is risking living in this housing system, in this undemocratic, oligarchic society, which is on a burning planet for the rest of our lives.” - Tracy Rosenthal
February 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
iwillcopeandseeth.bsky.social
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January 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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criticalrole.bsky.social
Learn more about CCF's Wildfire Recovery Fund
www.calfund.org/funds/wildfi...

Donate to CRF
criticalrolefoundation.org

Updates and Resources in Los Angeles
www.fire.ca.gov/Incidents
www.calfund.org
January 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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cornflakas.bsky.social
don’t mind my account, but i caught these comments under elons’ x comment section. this is their plan for california..
January 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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baachaan.bsky.social
Thank you and I always check these things.
Direct Relief Awarded Top 100% Rating by Charity Navigator for Nonprofit Impact, Efficiency and Transparency in 2023
Charity Navigator awarded Direct Relief a perfect 2023 nonprofit rating for impact, efficiency, and transparency. This marks Direct Relief's 13th four-star rating and its inaugural evaluation in Ch…
www.directrelief.org
January 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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cathy007.bsky.social
If large animals needing a place to be:
January 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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kumail.bsky.social
If people want to help and are able to donate to help those affected by these LA fires, here are places they can donate:

friendsindeedpas.org/donate-to-fr...

cpf.salsalabs.org/disasterreli...

www.directrelief.org/emergency/ca...

www.pledge.to/ccfwildfirer...

www.globalgiving.org/projects/cal...
California Fire Relief
In response to fire across California, Direct Relief provides N-95 masks, medicine, and other resources to public agencies and first responders in wildfire-affected communities.
www.directrelief.org
January 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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cwebbonline.com
I was at the White House State of the Union briefing last March and can confirm Lindy Li took the moment to promote herself, but she didn’t win over the room. Quite the opposite. Whispers among attendees were not kind but very accurate about who she is.

Good read…
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-curiou...
The Curious Case of Lindy Li
How did a “Blue MAGA” influencer and fundraiser turn on Democrats so fast?
www.thebulwark.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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patriottakes.bsky.social
Busted! Trump’s Greenland Supporters Were Homeless and Socially Disadvantaged People Bribed With Hotel Dinners

Danish news reports on Trump’s scheme meidasnews.com/news/busted-...
Busted! Trump’s Greenland Supporters Were Homeless and Socially Disadvantaged People Bribed With Hotel Dinners
Danish news reports on Trump’s scheme
meidasnews.com
January 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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brooklynmarie.bsky.social
Hi LA County friends, just got a heads up through the wires and don't have a place to write it up so I'll put it here instead - the city of Rosemead is providing free N95s and KN95s to the public which can be picked up at the Rosemead Chamber of Commerce on Muscatel Ave between 12-4pm today...
January 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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juddlegum.bsky.social
I don't know if the LA fire department is properly funded or not but the claim that the city cut its budget last year — which is circulating widely on the right — is false.

As Politico notes, the budget actually INCREASED by $50 million. A portion of the funding was approved in a separate bill.
That assertion is wrong. The city was in the process of negotiating a new contract with the fire department at the time the budget was being crafted, so additional funding for the department was set aside in a separate fund until that deal was finalized in November. In fact, the city’s fire budget increased more than $50 million year-over-year compared to the last budget cycle, according to Blumenfield’s office, although overall concerns about the department’s staffing level have persisted for a number of years.
January 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM