DOJ’s failiure to eveninvestigate Signal-Gate isn’t a one off - it’s excatly what Trump has been trying to achieve since 2016: break accountability. My latest for @contrariannews.orgopen.substack.com/pub/contrari...
The top 7 donors in the 2024 election — all GOP — gave a combined $1B to buy Trump a second term.
It's a gigantic amount of money in total — but it's just pocket change to them.
We must get Big Money out of politics.
No one from either party should be able to buy an election.
Even if you think Paul Weiss and Columbia made the only choice available to them in the circumstances (and that's not what I think, to be clear), you have to recognize that there's no future for our democracy if every powerful institution approaches official extortion in this way.
The fascism we are experiencing is an EMERGENCY. It needs to be responded to with lightening speed.
The courts are helping, but lightening speed is not their thing. They weren't designed for that.
So we all need to do more to respond. Get angry. Get organized. Get creative. Get vocal.
Donald Trump has reportedly spent $18 million worth of taxpayer money to play golf since his inauguration.
This is happening as he slashes the federal workforce, guts funding for vital programs, and tees up major cuts to Medicaid to pay for more tax cuts for the rich.
Hello?
The White House claims planes bearing migrants to El Salvador were in international waters off the Yucatán, so that’s why they ignored the court order to turn them around.
International waters, eh? Isn’t that the Gulf of *America* now?
These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere
The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.
We’re only two months in, & they’re cancelling research into pediatric brain cancer. They’re deporting US kids with brain cancer. They’re putting millions at risk of malaria, TB, & polio.
I for one will never forgive or forget those who said ‘it won’t be that bad’.
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In college, Laura Ingraham went to a Gay Students meeting. The next day, she published the names of everyone in attendance in the school newspaper, at a time when being outed was dangerous.
So, yeah, appointing a menace to gay people is a GREAT selection to lead our nation's [checks notes] arts.
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Never forget what russia has done to Mariupol. There can be no lasting peace in Europe without justice for this. It's either peace through strength and accountability, or more wars through appeasement and concessions. No third way.
So they’re going through and cutting all the programs that benefit the American people to make room for a 400 million dollar T€sla contract. Fuck these people and fuck this administration and fuck anyone who voted for this.
Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out.
Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.
Say equity, which a just society should pursue.
Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.
This is the only social media I’m active on/have downloaded on my phone. I really miss the connected feeling I had on the other apps, even if it wasn’t always real. It’s a balance between staying sane and staying connected these days. I miss commiserating, but I don’t miss drowning in it.
I’m also terrified of being isolated because that’s exactly what “they” want us to feel. And I feel like I have become a bit of a conspiracy theorist, but it’s hard to challenge myself when half of my conspiracies end up coming true.
Does anyone else feel slightly isolated from cutting out Meta? I still have my accounts, but I only check them if I’m logged into a computer and not often.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.