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Todd Viola
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The Supreme Court can get things wrong, and does. However this shouldn’t change how we each think about right and wrong. You can still look your fellow Americans in the eye and ask, do you think America should be a place where citizens are stopped and asked to prove their citizenship?
September 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Before today's hearing that resulted in the DC chief retaining control of the city police, I joined a rally organized by @freedcproject.bsky.social outside police headquarters at Judiciary Square. People are angry, and willing to fight Trump's power grab so it won't spread to other cities. #freedc
August 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This account by Dr. Nelson is thorough and damning, describing changes in processes and attitudes once DOGE arrived at the National Science Foundation. Scientific freedom is under attack from political actors asserting control at NSF. time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
What you tolerate is what will continue. Trump’s will grab as much as he can for himself – luxury planes, tributes paid in crypto, real estate deals for his companies – while stripping the country of public goods that Americans have paid for. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
Trump, Pressed on Qatari Jet, Says Only ‘Stupid’ People Reject Gifts
www.nytimes.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
People are frustrated and angry, but the crowd wasn't angry. Standing among tens of thousands of people at #HandsOff in DC, there was tremendous goodwill. Also felt completely safe. Don't let anyone tell you these protest movements are lawless or violent.
April 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Listen to Sen Cory Booker rip into anyone who voted for the CR!

He’s pledged to hold the floor tonight for as long as possible.

Let’s lift him up and show him support as he gets in good trouble!
@booker.senate.gov @corybooker.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Thousands of people joined the #standupforscience2025 at the Lincoln Memorial in DC to hear scientists, cancer survivors, former agency heads, and union leaders. The mood was joyful and resolved. The science community knows the facts are on their side. They’ve faced skeptics and deniers before.
March 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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SPREAD THE WORD: On Monday, March 3rd at 10 am Congressional leaders and advocates will gather at NOAA HQ in Silver Spring, MD (right at the Silver Spring Metro stop) to tell Trump and Musk to keep their hands off of NOAA. www.mobilize.us/ccanactionfu...
Save NOAA Stop DOGE · Chesapeake Climate Action Network / Action Fund
The Trump Administration and Elon Musk continue to recklessly demonize dedicated federal workers who provide critical services everyday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) who ...
www.mobilize.us
February 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The way this went down was horrible. @beyer.house.gov has called the probation extensions illegal.
February 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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They could try "I don't have the authority to mass fire these workers without cause and neither do you"
This excuse didn't work in Nuremberg.
February 21, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I thought it was a fundamental rule of childhood that the elves who hand out snow days are stingy, above all. Measly one hour delays should be frequent and heartbreaking. Unsatisfying two hour delays are meant to be doled out like helpings of thin gruel. My children today are rich beyond measure.
January 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM