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My 10-year-old told me she wants to start getting more "first-hand news." So, we signed her up for @teenvogue.com's newsletters, because I can't imagine a better source for young people trying to navigate the world right now.

#EconomicBlackout

Elizabeth Ramsay is a professor in Miami, FL, where many of her students depend on Pell Grants and apprenticeships to pursue their dreams. Those lifelines for her students are in danger of being cut by the Trump administration. #ProtectOurKids @afthighered.bsky.social

I was assured that Gavin Newsom was toast (pun intended) politically after the LA fires. 52% of Californians (55% of likely voters) approve of how Governor Newsom is handling his job — (+8 from Oct 2024) Notably, approval of Newsom is HIGHEST IN LOS ANGELES (61%). www.ppic.org/publication/...

NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

UNDERSTAND THE ASSIGNMENT: tomorrow, February 28th, is the Economic Blackout. I ain’t buying shit. Plan ahead, but if you must buy essentials, use cash and support local businesses only. No corporate chains!

@rbreich.bsky.social: “For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.”

Congratulations to @flashes.blue for their official launch on the App Store 🎉🎉🎉 It’s an instagram alternative built on the AT protocol 🙌 all the visual scrolling with none of the Meta algorithm

This is informative. Thanks

Crockett: They have a Trump trifecta. So, if the government shuts down, it is going to be on Trump and his minions. It is not going to be on us because we weren't elected to gut social security, medicaid, medicare, and USAID. That's not what we campaigned on. So that's not what we're going to do.

If members of Congress—like Rep. Grothman —are this clueless about what the man who is dismantling our government is saying and promising, they don’t deserve to keep their jobs! This woman is in his face, begging him to wake TF up—and he just walks off. Pathetic.

The force is strong, it is a powerful thing.🔥 It is the blood that runs through our veins . We the people have had enough ! ❤️ #DontCutMyMedicaid

AFT members LaShonda, Stacie, Rodney, Gina, Renee, and Joel share their perspective on teaching Black history. aftvoices.org/how-we-teach... @nysut.bsky.social @utlanow.bsky.social

We are already at the ‘purging the generals and replace them with loyalists’ part of the Trump second term, just five weeks in. Totally normal. Not dangerous at all

It’s a cult.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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IMPORTANT REMINDER: All six of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s children have been vaccinated. Not only is RFK Jr. a longtime anti-vaxxer, he has made a highly profitable career of endangering the lives of millions in his dangerous crusade against vaccinations. The ascendancy of this lying profiteer…

On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

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Maddow: If you don't have Bluesky yet, I recommend it. It is a social media network that doesn't make me want to stab myself in the eye with a rusty fork

In honor of black inventors. #BlackHistoryMonth

ELON IS ALLOWED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. NOT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OR STUDENTS & PARENTS. I WILL BE BACK.

Media says: Where are the Dems? I say: WHERE the hell is the media? 📌Thousands of us stood in the cold here in Wisconsin and across the country protesting Musk's attack on our privacy, and it barely got a mention. 📌Dems are fighting, but the media has once again fallen at Trump's fat, little feet.

Congress must stop Trump and Elon's coup. Call your elected leaders now: (202) 224-3121

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To America’s 2.3 million federal employees: Don’t accept a buyout. Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer. And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it? Sincerely, Robert Reich Former U.S.Secretary of Labor

Trump and Musk’s attacks on the civil service—from air traffic controllers to food and drug inspectors—aim to destroy Congressional power, which is the people's power. The real “Fork in the Road” is between democracy and autocracy. Don’t quit on American democracy.

From today’s demonstration at the Department of Labor. ELON’S TOYS

Dear Republican members of Congress, those of you that support and allow Musk to continue his illegal actions, We The People will come after you for treason! We will hold YOU responsible! You can be removed and we will make it happen! Repost if you agree!!!

Big rally to stop the attacks on workers and Americans’ privacy happening now at the Department of Labor 🇺🇸 @lizshuler.bsky.social @aflcio.org

Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.

NFL fumbles ‘End Racism’ commitment to accommodate the Assistant To The President, Donald Trump. At least President Musk didn't convince them to replace it with Apartheid.

Jersey.

Fair warning—the report on the Musk Insurrection I'm writing will be about the length of a book, and is something PROOF-readers will want to consume over a period of days. It's long-form metajournalism with countless chapters and citations. I hope to get it out soon; details on when as I have them.

Hold the fuck on — the Department of Government Efficiency, the entity which claims its mission is to end “wasteful spending”, was given SEVEN MILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS to cover its “expenses” in the span of a single week?!?! Are you fucking kidding me?!?

Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

Send letters to Congress right now--tell them to pass the bill to prevent anyone from messing with our payment systems and data. This has to end!

The White House has officially confirmed that the first flights containing migrants to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have begun.

"I will say that President Trump campaigned on that promise and I think the American people can expect him to deliver on it."

New Exclusive building on Wired's reporting: Musk operatives have already pushed live to production extensive code changes to the Treasury Department payment system which makes 95% of fed govs payments. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

Yes coz when all the kids have polio, you won't care about the autism...