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The claim of pursuing a “balanced budget” sounds good… until you see the math. Trillions in tax cuts going to the rich – increasing the deficit - while slashing healthcare and Social Security. Who benefits from this? It doesn’t add up. #TruthBrigade
truthbrigade.indivisible.org/s/ELV4mABn
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March 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The claim of pursuing a “balanced budget” sounds good… until you see the math. Trillions in tax cuts going to the rich – increasing the deficit - while slashing healthcare and Social Security. Who benefits from this? It doesn’t add up. #TruthBrigade
truthbrigade.indivisible.org/s/ELV4mABn
truthbrigade.indivisible.org/s/ELV4mABn
Idaho Middle School Tells Teacher Her 'Everyone Is Welcome' Poster Is Too Divisive
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Idaho Middle School Tells Teacher Her 'Everyone Is Welcome' Poster Is Too Divisive
No more indoctrinating vulnerable kiddos with this 'decency and respect' ideology!
www.wonkette.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Idaho Middle School Tells Teacher Her 'Everyone Is Welcome' Poster Is Too Divisive
www.wonkette.com/p/idaho-midd...
www.wonkette.com/p/idaho-midd...
Standing up to the bullies
AP sues 3 Trump administration officials, citing freedom of speech
The Associated Press is suing three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events.
apnews.com
February 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Standing up to the bullies
Harming children is un-American. Yet the White House is spreading lies to justify defunding USAID—an organization that has saved over 22 million lives. Why lie about something so good? Lies don’t justify letting children starve! #TruthBrigade
truthbrigade.indivisible.org/s/fK9qXG20
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Join the Truth Brigade!
truthbrigade.indivisible.org
February 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Harming children is un-American. Yet the White House is spreading lies to justify defunding USAID—an organization that has saved over 22 million lives. Why lie about something so good? Lies don’t justify letting children starve! #TruthBrigade
truthbrigade.indivisible.org/s/fK9qXG20
truthbrigade.indivisible.org/s/fK9qXG20
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*long trombone noise*
February 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
*long trombone noise*
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There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂
February 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂
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Help underserved students in St Charles
February 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Help underserved students in St Charles
America voted for corruption, and that’s what Trump is delivering…. Trump’s corruption and naked profiteering is so open and extreme this time around that to comment on any one aspect of it would be to lose the forest for the trees. The very idea of government ethics is now a smoldering crater
January 20, 2025
The tone for the inauguration of Donald J.
open.substack.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
America voted for corruption, and that’s what Trump is delivering…. Trump’s corruption and naked profiteering is so open and extreme this time around that to comment on any one aspect of it would be to lose the forest for the trees. The very idea of government ethics is now a smoldering crater
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I love this so much!
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
January 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I love this so much!
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
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Something to Ponder
January 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Something to Ponder
St. Louis' ties to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. are well-documented. James Earl Ray was born in Alton, raised mostly in Missouri, and was convicted of robbing a St. Louis Kroger store before escaping the Missouri State Penitentiary in 1967. One year later, he killed King in Memphis.
The Plot to Kill a King
How the Saint Louis Art Museum robberies of 1978 led to a congressional investigation of a St. Louis-based plot to assassinate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
www.stlmag.com
January 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
St. Louis' ties to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. are well-documented. James Earl Ray was born in Alton, raised mostly in Missouri, and was convicted of robbing a St. Louis Kroger store before escaping the Missouri State Penitentiary in 1967. One year later, he killed King in Memphis.
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from the story:
For three weeks, Calhoun lived in the church attic, listening as King and other national civil rights leaders, like Bayard Rustin, James Bevel, Rev. James Lawson and Stokely Carmichael, planned how to get better conditions and higher pay for the sanitation workers.
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For three weeks, Calhoun lived in the church attic, listening as King and other national civil rights leaders, like Bayard Rustin, James Bevel, Rev. James Lawson and Stokely Carmichael, planned how to get better conditions and higher pay for the sanitation workers.
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Memphis man recounts teenage days aiding worker's strike during King’s last visit to the city • Missouri Independent
Joe Calhoun launched his activism during the 1968 sanitation workers strike, listening to King and other leaders in the Civil Rights Movement
missouriindependent.com
January 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
from the story:
For three weeks, Calhoun lived in the church attic, listening as King and other national civil rights leaders, like Bayard Rustin, James Bevel, Rev. James Lawson and Stokely Carmichael, planned how to get better conditions and higher pay for the sanitation workers.
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For three weeks, Calhoun lived in the church attic, listening as King and other national civil rights leaders, like Bayard Rustin, James Bevel, Rev. James Lawson and Stokely Carmichael, planned how to get better conditions and higher pay for the sanitation workers.
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While I don’t share all the same convictions anymore as the saints in Selma, I think most of us share a sense of just how poorly things are going right now, and how strange it is to have tomorrow’s re-inauguration of a madman looming on the same day we celebrate the legacy of an American prophet.
Reflections on the eve of a Monday both hallowed and harrowing
Ten years ago this spring, I returned to Selma, Alabama, to mark 50 years since Bloody Sunday. As we now approach the 60-year anniversary of the brutal attack that Black civil rights activists face…
eviehemphill.wordpress.com
January 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM
While I don’t share all the same convictions anymore as the saints in Selma, I think most of us share a sense of just how poorly things are going right now, and how strange it is to have tomorrow’s re-inauguration of a madman looming on the same day we celebrate the legacy of an American prophet.
No surprise, Missouri is near the bottom
Gun Safety Policies Save Lives
Compares gun policy across 50 states. In states where elected officials have taken action to pass gun laws, fewer people die by gun violence.
everytownresearch.org
January 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
No surprise, Missouri is near the bottom
How Republicans hijack news stories with their frames:
-Select a high-profile negative story.
-Make false claims linking it to Democratic or progressive policies.
-Get the press to amplify the claims to achieve media virality.
-Threaten action (executive, legal, or legislative) to prolong coverage.
-Select a high-profile negative story.
-Make false claims linking it to Democratic or progressive policies.
-Get the press to amplify the claims to achieve media virality.
-Threaten action (executive, legal, or legislative) to prolong coverage.
Trump spreads political lies about Los Angeles fire disaster
Plus: Important FrameLab Book Club details
www.theframelab.org
January 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
How Republicans hijack news stories with their frames:
-Select a high-profile negative story.
-Make false claims linking it to Democratic or progressive policies.
-Get the press to amplify the claims to achieve media virality.
-Threaten action (executive, legal, or legislative) to prolong coverage.
-Select a high-profile negative story.
-Make false claims linking it to Democratic or progressive policies.
-Get the press to amplify the claims to achieve media virality.
-Threaten action (executive, legal, or legislative) to prolong coverage.
Conservatives blameg DEI for devastating fires currently ravaging California and for a recent terror attack in New Orleans.
Those who make DEI into a bogeyman paint society as a zero-sum game: a slice for you means no slice for me. But, that is a narrow vision fueled by fear, greed and ignorance.
Those who make DEI into a bogeyman paint society as a zero-sum game: a slice for you means no slice for me. But, that is a narrow vision fueled by fear, greed and ignorance.
In defense of DEI | Wajahat Ali and Yusuf Zakir
DEI refers to three simple but important words: diversity, equity and inclusion. These three values are indispensable
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Conservatives blameg DEI for devastating fires currently ravaging California and for a recent terror attack in New Orleans.
Those who make DEI into a bogeyman paint society as a zero-sum game: a slice for you means no slice for me. But, that is a narrow vision fueled by fear, greed and ignorance.
Those who make DEI into a bogeyman paint society as a zero-sum game: a slice for you means no slice for me. But, that is a narrow vision fueled by fear, greed and ignorance.
Join AAM, @Planned Parenthood Great Rivers Action, @PP Great Plains Votes, @ACLU of Missouri, and @PROMO Missouri for our Reproductive Freedom Day of Action on Wednesday, January 22 from 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Jefferson City!
Register here: bit.ly/RF-ActionDay
Register here: bit.ly/RF-ActionDay
Reproductive Freedom Day of Action | Abortion Action Missouri
abortionactionmissouri.org
January 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Join AAM, @Planned Parenthood Great Rivers Action, @PP Great Plains Votes, @ACLU of Missouri, and @PROMO Missouri for our Reproductive Freedom Day of Action on Wednesday, January 22 from 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Jefferson City!
Register here: bit.ly/RF-ActionDay
Register here: bit.ly/RF-ActionDay
Disgusting
BREAKING: Republicans aim to INCREASE insulin costs
Trumpers in Congress introduce bill to KILL the $35/mo cap on insulin prices that Biden passed
To hurt 8.4 million Americans who rely on insulin
And to help Big Pharma and insurance
THAT is what Trump and the GOP represent
Trumpers in Congress introduce bill to KILL the $35/mo cap on insulin prices that Biden passed
To hurt 8.4 million Americans who rely on insulin
And to help Big Pharma and insurance
THAT is what Trump and the GOP represent
January 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Disgusting