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Prison rape is wrong.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Prison rape is wrong.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
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If we accede to the demand that political appointees can decide what is worthwhile to study and what isn't, we've lost universities as institutions of knowledge, innovation, and progress. This is why academic freedom and tenure are so important.
This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.
Proposed Model Bill Would Change College Tenure, Teaching, & Research
Three conservative groups have proposed model legislation that would dramatically change faculty tenure paths, teaching loads, research activities and hiring authority
www.forbes.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
If we accede to the demand that political appointees can decide what is worthwhile to study and what isn't, we've lost universities as institutions of knowledge, innovation, and progress. This is why academic freedom and tenure are so important.
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Computer: Show me a way to destroy tourism in the US and further wreck our economy...
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Computer: Show me a way to destroy tourism in the US and further wreck our economy...
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WATCH: @raskin.house.gov explains the deal that would allow eight GOP senators lucrative lawsuits over phone record subpoenas:
"It's certainly the most corrupt provision authorizing financial self-dealing and plunder of the public passed by Congress in this century."
"It's certainly the most corrupt provision authorizing financial self-dealing and plunder of the public passed by Congress in this century."
November 13, 2025 at 4:32 AM
WATCH: @raskin.house.gov explains the deal that would allow eight GOP senators lucrative lawsuits over phone record subpoenas:
"It's certainly the most corrupt provision authorizing financial self-dealing and plunder of the public passed by Congress in this century."
"It's certainly the most corrupt provision authorizing financial self-dealing and plunder of the public passed by Congress in this century."
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Thanksgiving is the time to share your blessings with your family and your closest, most enigmatic friends.
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Thanksgiving is the time to share your blessings with your family and your closest, most enigmatic friends.
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🚨 Big news: @markruffalo.bsky.social will also join us tonight! We hope to see you in an hour at the No Kings mass kickoff call as we look ahead to our next nationwide day of defiance: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
September 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
🚨 Big news: @markruffalo.bsky.social will also join us tonight! We hope to see you in an hour at the No Kings mass kickoff call as we look ahead to our next nationwide day of defiance: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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You can watch here. 👇
No Kings Mobilization Kickoff Call
YouTube video by Indivisible
www.youtube.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
You can watch here. 👇
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Marjorie Taylor Greene hopes you never learn my name. I’m Shawn Harris. I’m a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, and farmer. I’m running to replace her in Congress. If you’re ready for leadership that works for you, not for TV ratings, please share this. LEADERSHIP MATTERS!
August 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene hopes you never learn my name. I’m Shawn Harris. I’m a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, and farmer. I’m running to replace her in Congress. If you’re ready for leadership that works for you, not for TV ratings, please share this. LEADERSHIP MATTERS!
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At the House Science Committee Democrats' event "The Things We'll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants" we learned, straight from the researchers who've had their grants canceled by the Trump Administration, what we stand to lose when science is politicized.
youtube.com/shorts/6oM2V...
youtube.com/shorts/6oM2V...
Don Beyer on His Way to a Science Fair of the Things We'll Never Know
YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer
youtube.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
At the House Science Committee Democrats' event "The Things We'll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants" we learned, straight from the researchers who've had their grants canceled by the Trump Administration, what we stand to lose when science is politicized.
youtube.com/shorts/6oM2V...
youtube.com/shorts/6oM2V...
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🔥 Top Campaigns, Last 24 Hours:
1️⃣ “Release the billions of allocated federal education funds” (+3,416)
2️⃣ “Reject SAVE Act voter suppression, support fair elections” (+2,418)
3️⃣ “Oversight on flood fatalities now. Take action. Fund NOAA properly” (+307)
1️⃣ “Release the billions of allocated federal education funds” (+3,416)
2️⃣ “Reject SAVE Act voter suppression, support fair elections” (+2,418)
3️⃣ “Oversight on flood fatalities now. Take action. Fund NOAA properly” (+307)
Resistbot Petitions
Trending campaigns organized by Resistbot members.
resist.bot
July 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🔥 Top Campaigns, Last 24 Hours:
1️⃣ “Release the billions of allocated federal education funds” (+3,416)
2️⃣ “Reject SAVE Act voter suppression, support fair elections” (+2,418)
3️⃣ “Oversight on flood fatalities now. Take action. Fund NOAA properly” (+307)
1️⃣ “Release the billions of allocated federal education funds” (+3,416)
2️⃣ “Reject SAVE Act voter suppression, support fair elections” (+2,418)
3️⃣ “Oversight on flood fatalities now. Take action. Fund NOAA properly” (+307)
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most straightforward clear headline i’ve seen on what is, to me, the most urgent, striking, severe part of the spending bill the GOP just passed www.newsweek.com/immigration-...
ICE budget now bigger than most of the world's militaries
Donald Trump wants to inject $150 billion into his immigration crackdown over the next four years.
www.newsweek.com
July 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
most straightforward clear headline i’ve seen on what is, to me, the most urgent, striking, severe part of the spending bill the GOP just passed www.newsweek.com/immigration-...
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"When 8 men have more money than 4 billion people combined, folks relying on food stamps or Medicaid aren't the problem."
July 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
"When 8 men have more money than 4 billion people combined, folks relying on food stamps or Medicaid aren't the problem."
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Four Democratic members of Congress from Illinois, Jesús “Chuy” García, Danny Davis, Delia Ramirez, and Jonathan Jackson, were denied entry to an ICE facility in Broadview, just outside Chicago, despite federal policy allowing them access without prior notice.
June 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Four Democratic members of Congress from Illinois, Jesús “Chuy” García, Danny Davis, Delia Ramirez, and Jonathan Jackson, were denied entry to an ICE facility in Broadview, just outside Chicago, despite federal policy allowing them access without prior notice.
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Duckworth to Hegseth: "You are blowing through money like my fellow cadets and I did in our first liberty after basic camp. Luckily I didn't end up with a questionable tattoo ... you're just an unqualified yes man who can't tell the president how to keep Americans safe."
June 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Duckworth to Hegseth: "You are blowing through money like my fellow cadets and I did in our first liberty after basic camp. Luckily I didn't end up with a questionable tattoo ... you're just an unqualified yes man who can't tell the president how to keep Americans safe."
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Judge in NIH trial declares the “whole enterprise was rotten to its core” and that the “ideas that animated the policies” illegal. Ruling means that NIH has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Judge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatory
The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.
www.nature.com
June 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Judge in NIH trial declares the “whole enterprise was rotten to its core” and that the “ideas that animated the policies” illegal. Ruling means that NIH has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Just so I’m clear… Terry Moran got fired, but Mike Lee is still a sitting US senator?
June 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Just so I’m clear… Terry Moran got fired, but Mike Lee is still a sitting US senator?
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An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.
June 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.
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Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
June 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
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This is well stated. Mike Lee will forever be associated in my mind with his unbelievably cruel and stupid tweets about the Hortman assassination. He is a disgrace to the Senate and Utah.
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”
Full emails below
Full emails below
June 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
This is well stated. Mike Lee will forever be associated in my mind with his unbelievably cruel and stupid tweets about the Hortman assassination. He is a disgrace to the Senate and Utah.
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Now more than ever we need all hands on deck to defeat the awful budget bill.
Spread the word.
Call your Senator.
Kill the bill.
Spread the word.
Call your Senator.
Kill the bill.
June 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Now more than ever we need all hands on deck to defeat the awful budget bill.
Spread the word.
Call your Senator.
Kill the bill.
Spread the word.
Call your Senator.
Kill the bill.
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"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...
Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant
Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.
www.wnep.com
June 7, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...
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MAJOR UPDATE: The Supreme Court just handed DOGE the keys to all the sensitive personal information Social Security has on file — your income, benefits, health records, and more.
Why do Donald Trump and his cronies need access to millions of Americans’ private data? It’s absurd.
Why do Donald Trump and his cronies need access to millions of Americans’ private data? It’s absurd.
Supreme Court allows DOGE to access Social Security data
The dispute concerns efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency, largely led by Elon Musk, to access sensitive data, including Social Security numbers.
www.nbcnews.com
June 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
MAJOR UPDATE: The Supreme Court just handed DOGE the keys to all the sensitive personal information Social Security has on file — your income, benefits, health records, and more.
Why do Donald Trump and his cronies need access to millions of Americans’ private data? It’s absurd.
Why do Donald Trump and his cronies need access to millions of Americans’ private data? It’s absurd.