Kathy Brown
@katbrown66.bsky.social
Mama/Mima believer in Human Rights for all!
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Say her name... Emily Feiner! Social Worker refusing to be silenced by Rep Mike Lawler--he violated her 1st Amend. rights! Passive resistance got her on every news outlet. Stand up & speak out for your rights!
#EmilyFeiner #ShameOnLawler #NY17 #Indivisible #hudsonvalleystrong #resist #hudsonvalley
#EmilyFeiner #ShameOnLawler #NY17 #Indivisible #hudsonvalleystrong #resist #hudsonvalley
May 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Say her name... Emily Feiner! Social Worker refusing to be silenced by Rep Mike Lawler--he violated her 1st Amend. rights! Passive resistance got her on every news outlet. Stand up & speak out for your rights!
#EmilyFeiner #ShameOnLawler #NY17 #Indivisible #hudsonvalleystrong #resist #hudsonvalley
#EmilyFeiner #ShameOnLawler #NY17 #Indivisible #hudsonvalleystrong #resist #hudsonvalley
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🚨 PSA for Protesters 🚨
March 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
🚨 PSA for Protesters 🚨
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KYIV INDEPENDENT: “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.” kyivindependent.com/editorial-a-...
March 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
KYIV INDEPENDENT: “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.” kyivindependent.com/editorial-a-...
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Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.
February 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.
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Your ability to inform people about their legal rights is protected by the First Amendment. Full stop.
Know Your Rights | Talking to People About Their Rights | ACLU
You have the right to share truthful, lawfully obtained information about law enforcement and tell people about their legal rights—even if they’re in trouble. You can also advocate for changes to laws...
www.aclu.org
February 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Your ability to inform people about their legal rights is protected by the First Amendment. Full stop.
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“Where does it end? In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it—and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so.”
—the defiant Maine Gov. Janet Mills
www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...
—the defiant Maine Gov. Janet Mills
www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...
What Does Defiance Look Like?
A Saturday Prompt
www.americaamerica.news
February 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Where does it end? In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it—and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so.”
—the defiant Maine Gov. Janet Mills
www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...
—the defiant Maine Gov. Janet Mills
www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...
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JOIN THE FIGHT.
National Day of Protest, MARCH 4.
www.fiftyfifty.one
For more action steps, go to indivisible.org.
PLEASE REPOST!
National Day of Protest, MARCH 4.
www.fiftyfifty.one
For more action steps, go to indivisible.org.
PLEASE REPOST!
50501 — 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement
Join the movement to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach. 50 protests, 50 states, 1 day: #50501.
www.fiftyfifty.one
February 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
JOIN THE FIGHT.
National Day of Protest, MARCH 4.
www.fiftyfifty.one
For more action steps, go to indivisible.org.
PLEASE REPOST!
National Day of Protest, MARCH 4.
www.fiftyfifty.one
For more action steps, go to indivisible.org.
PLEASE REPOST!
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This is how it’s done.
Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws
Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.
Gov Mills: See you in court
Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.
Gov Mills: See you in court
February 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This is how it’s done.
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In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night.
800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream.
There is a movement to be harnessed here.
@sanders.senate.gov
(📸 Anna Bahr)
800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream.
There is a movement to be harnessed here.
@sanders.senate.gov
(📸 Anna Bahr)
February 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night.
800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream.
There is a movement to be harnessed here.
@sanders.senate.gov
(📸 Anna Bahr)
800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream.
There is a movement to be harnessed here.
@sanders.senate.gov
(📸 Anna Bahr)
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It would be a mistake at this point to think that when Trump quotes people like Breivik he’s just trolling us, writes @thomhartmann.bsky.social.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
Be Terrified Trump Is Using the Same Bonaparte Quote as This Right-Wing Mass Murderer | Common Dreams
This declaration by Trump was no passing joke or meme. He wants us all to see it. To hear it. To know that he means it. He’s shoving it in our faces. Pounding it out on the keyboard. Declaring it to t...
www.commondreams.org
February 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It would be a mistake at this point to think that when Trump quotes people like Breivik he’s just trolling us, writes @thomhartmann.bsky.social.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
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A point to consider.
February 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
A point to consider.
Integrity and courage. Fabulous resignation letter.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Read the Resignation Letter From Hagan Scotten
Hagan Scotten, an assistant U.S. attorney, wrote to Emil Bove, acting deputy attorney general, refusing to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams.
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Integrity and courage. Fabulous resignation letter.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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This about sums it up.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who killed so many children in Samoa they ran out of child-sized coffins, has been confirmed to lead Health and Human Services.
The vote was 52-48. All Dems and Mitch McConnell, whose fault this is, voted no. All other Republicans voted yes. The blood will be on their hands.
The vote was 52-48. All Dems and Mitch McConnell, whose fault this is, voted no. All other Republicans voted yes. The blood will be on their hands.
Scenes from RFK Jr's America #MAHA
February 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This about sums it up.
Tenderness as an Act of Resistance www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
Opinion | Tenderness as an Act of Resistance
They are trying to overwhelm us and force us to look away. But we must not.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Tenderness as an Act of Resistance www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
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Agree.
My latest.
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.
The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Agree.
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Educator @jessehagopian.bsky.social says Trump's vow to abolish the Education Department is not about "local control" over schools.
"Let’s call this what it is: an extremist, authoritarian power grab to dismantle public education and enforce ideological conformity."
"Let’s call this what it is: an extremist, authoritarian power grab to dismantle public education and enforce ideological conformity."
“Educational Arson”: Trump Moves to Abolish Dept. of Education
As the Trump administration, led in part by his unelected adviser Elon Musk, sets its sights on cutting the Department of Education, we speak to longtime educator Jesse Hagopian about what he calls an...
www.democracynow.org
February 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Educator @jessehagopian.bsky.social says Trump's vow to abolish the Education Department is not about "local control" over schools.
"Let’s call this what it is: an extremist, authoritarian power grab to dismantle public education and enforce ideological conformity."
"Let’s call this what it is: an extremist, authoritarian power grab to dismantle public education and enforce ideological conformity."
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DOGE officials at EPA just refused access to Senator Markey and half a dozen members of Congress (including Nadler, Stansbury, Ansari, Rivas, and Tonko). Trump and Musk (+ Zeldin) are trying to gut the agency that protects our air and water.
February 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
DOGE officials at EPA just refused access to Senator Markey and half a dozen members of Congress (including Nadler, Stansbury, Ansari, Rivas, and Tonko). Trump and Musk (+ Zeldin) are trying to gut the agency that protects our air and water.
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Jasmine Crockett, after accusing colleagues of castrating their Constitutional duty, said, “My job is to make sure we don’t have any kings or queens in this country, but it seems like you all have decided it’s going to be Mr. King and his queen. And y’all can pick which one is which.”
February 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Jasmine Crockett, after accusing colleagues of castrating their Constitutional duty, said, “My job is to make sure we don’t have any kings or queens in this country, but it seems like you all have decided it’s going to be Mr. King and his queen. And y’all can pick which one is which.”
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It’s a coup. Musk and his gang are breaking laws. They should be arrested. This is not complicated.
February 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It’s a coup. Musk and his gang are breaking laws. They should be arrested. This is not complicated.
February 4, 2025
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February 4, 2025
Shortly after 1:00 this morning, Vittoria Elliott, Dhruv Mehrotra, Leah Feiger, and Tim Marchman of Wired reported that, according to three of their sources, “[a] 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez...
open.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
February 4, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Tell our Democrats not to capitulate.
They need to know we have their backs.
Senator Schumer:
(202) 224-6542
Senator Gillibrand:
(202) 224-4451
They need to know we have their backs.
Senator Schumer:
(202) 224-6542
Senator Gillibrand:
(202) 224-4451
CALL NOW: Tell your Democratic Senator to Shut Down the Senate During Trump’s Power Grab
indivisible.org
February 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Tell our Democrats not to capitulate.
They need to know we have their backs.
Senator Schumer:
(202) 224-6542
Senator Gillibrand:
(202) 224-4451
They need to know we have their backs.
Senator Schumer:
(202) 224-6542
Senator Gillibrand:
(202) 224-4451
Trump’s Attempt to Freeze Grant Funding Leaves Nonprofits Reeling www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...
Trump’s Attempt to Freeze Grant Funding Leaves Nonprofits Reeling
Some groups said their funding was still blocked, even after the freeze had been rescinded. Others saw their money reinstated but worried about future cuts.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Trump’s Attempt to Freeze Grant Funding Leaves Nonprofits Reeling www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...
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WATCH... GO Jasmine Crockett! @jasmineforus.bsky.social
OMFG! 🔥🔥🔥🔥Rep. Jasmine Crockett:
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
"We are going to be in your faces, we're gonna be on your ass, we're going to make sure you understand that this is what democracy looks like!"
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
"We are going to be in your faces, we're gonna be on your ass, we're going to make sure you understand that this is what democracy looks like!"
February 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
WATCH... GO Jasmine Crockett! @jasmineforus.bsky.social