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BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime.

Keep sharing everywhere.

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Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

🔥 Rep. Al Green is not new to standing up

Pretty much sums up last night. What we are living through is NOT normal. Kudos to @repstansbury.bsky.social

Democratic Rep. Al Green spoke to @nbcnews.com about his outbursts after he was escorted out of President Trump's address to Congress, saying Trump's cuts to Medicaid "triggered something" in him.

Trump whining that Democrats wouldn't applaud him even if he cured a disease and then a second later bragging about withdrawing from the World Health Organization

every affected country should announce huge retaliatory tariffs on Tesla, and every time Trump institutes a new tariff the Tesla ones go up an extra 25%

#BlueCrew
#truestory

Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there.

The show must go on.

No Amazon. No Walmart. No Target. No Disney. No Google. No Apple. No Visa or Mastercard. And especially no Facebook or Twitter. Buy essentials such as medicine, food, and emergency supplies, of course, but make those purchases at small, local businesses and use cash. The purpose of today’s economic blackout is to send a clear message: We have the power.

#EconomicBlackout

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Why does National Institutes of Health funding matter? It’s the fuel to find cures for:

- Cancer
- Alzheimer’s
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Pediatric Cancer
- ALS
- MS
- Parkinson’s

Trump tried to cut it, but thanks to AG Campbell, a judge blocked the cuts. This is why we fight.

As someone with Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease who still believes there will be a cure some day, thank you to both of you. Sincerely. I will not lose hope because of your strength.

Colorado's Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) flew cross-country with her one-month-old to vote against the GOP budget tonight. Dems ended up one vote short. Pettersen was part of an unsuccessful bipartisan push to allow new mothers to vote remotely. #copolitics

Hell yes NOLA! Pull up, show up, get your dance on let’s go. And thank you Brad Pitt and Lady Gaga. All female brass band, that southern soul, and everything we didn’t know we needed right now. For a few hours it’s going to feel good to be an American again.

Current mood

I found this on Twitter. I believe it’s being suppressed there

Kindness should never be up for debate nor political. It should be instinctual and bipartisan. Why I need to even think of this, let alone share it, is frightening.

Education Dept. Ends Book Ban Investigations The department said it would relinquish its role investigating schools that had received civil rights complaints after removing books dealing with sexual and racial identity.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

Broadway will get us through the next 4 years.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin