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Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

Scene from the Boston protest today.

A gentleman is blasting Canadian Anthem in front of the White House

A friend asked me, "What is the likelihood that Trump will want to tear up the Antarctic treaty and drill for oil there?" Good question. Intimidate people into going there to do the labor. Kill off the climate studies for good. Loads of oil money for the oligarchs. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

I’m positive you all saw the video from Coeur d’Alene, where a woman was pulled out of her seat and arrested by men who claimed to be sheriff deputies, but were not in uniform. I need the men to do something: When you see a woman being abused, step in. Step up. Get in the way. Put your body to use.

Seriously worried about that lizard.

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

THIS IS IT. The special general elections for Florida’s 1st & 6th Congressional Districts are on APRIL 1, 2025. If we flip these seats, we can STOP Project 2025. No excuses! Mark your calendars! Show up!

The End of Term Archive team @eotarchive.org crawled millions of federal webpages! If you are worried about a page going down or changing information on it, you can check to see if it is saved in the Internet Archive's @waybackmachine.bsky.social. 1/2

Here's how to report to Google that they made an error in renaming Denali to Mt. McKinley and the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. It would be a shame if someone flooded Google with error reports.

Immigrants are saving the dogs! They're saving the cats! They're saving the homes of the people who live here!

Navajo Nation firefighters taking a well earned break. These tribesmen are apolitical. They simply came to L.A. to help.

President Zelensky: 150 Ukrainian firefighters are ready to travel to California to help combat the wildfires.🇺🇸🇺🇦

Here is the press release announcing the launch of The Contrarian, including list of contributors.

Reminder that the estimated cost of extending the Trump tax cuts is at least $5 trillion — more than twice the amount DOGE originally stated it would cut in “wasteful” government spending.

🚨🚨🚨🚨HOMEWORK🚨🚨🚨🚨 I think the Jack Smith draft report is finished. Write to Merrick Garland and ask him to release the Jack Smith report. You can do it here. Select “Messages to the Attorney General” from the drop down menu www.justice.gov/doj/webform/...

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.

Posting this story about how Ann Telnaes got censored not least bc it'll disseminate the image Jeff Bezos censored. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

Super easy call to action to expand healthcare access. Demand Congress expand Medicare — and do so before Trump gets in office. Takes 5 seconds. Email here: bit.ly/41UCXgR

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The latest grift is a proposal for the U.S. government to buy a "reserve" of bitcoins. Blatant attempt to make a crooked haul for a privileged few.

If you're more upset with Biden being forced to consider the extraordinary step of peremptorily pardoning his own officials then you are about Trump appointing someone who’s promised to use the federal govt to exact personal retribution for Trump, then you need to think a little more critically.

One of the pathologies you see in a lot of punditry/discourse is some implicit assumption that in a deep sense Democrats *should* win every election and when they don’t it shows how bad they are, or how annoying libs are of whatever. But America’s a pretty conservative place!

Absolutely essential reporting on Pete Hegseth from @janemayer.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

The Economist ran this story this week. Yes...they are coming for veterans benefits. No one voted to destroy the VA or the benefits that our 15 million living veterans receive. Just 6% of Americans have served and these fuckers are coming for our hard earned benefits.

Everything Elon is about to do has the same ambition as the Bureau of Land Management hoax Trump pulled in 2019-20. We now know the goal was to force people (especially nonwhites) to quit—and force those who remained to have harder jobs so the Bureau would be less experienced and fail in its duties.

For the next four years, we’ll have to rely on read-outs or statements from other countries to know what really happened in a meeting with that pathological liar.

Wow I came to BlueSky to have a positive experience but I truly can't with all this vitriol directed against "the Democrats." If I wanted to get beaten up for all we've worked for and all we've been through I could have just stayed on Twitter. Quit punching down because punching Nazis is too scary.