Video Clip: Graham Platner (to Chuck Schumer) | Iran War is Immoral and Illegal
“Stop having a problem with the illegal wars we’re starting simply because the paperwork wasn’t done properly. You should be against them because they’re fundamentally immoral, unethical, and illegal.”
Planter is the leading Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine to challenge Susan Collins.
h/t The Tennessee Holler on Bluesky
Defense Secretary Hegseth intervened to stop promotions of Black and female officers
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/27/nx-s1-5763863/hegseth-soldiers-promotions?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-npr
250-year-old Heritage oak tree slated for removal by PG&E still standing
https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/03/27/250-year-old-oak-tree-in-west-sonoma-county-slated-for-removal-by-pge-still-standing/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into BAY AREA ENViORNMENTAL NEWS @bay-area-enviornmental-news-MercNews
Pacific, Gas & Electric officials say the tree is close to utility lines and create a threat to public safety. Nearby homeowners say they are willing to cover the cost of pruning the tree or relocating utility lines.
"Donald Trump’s disgusting racism is the cover for his gross incompetence. The racism is what he uses to convince his supporters to ignore his pathetic job performance.
And it works. Trump is objectively bad at running the government, but he’s objectively good at running a Klan rally, and his supporters value the latter so much that they forgive the former."
~ Elie Mystal
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #Somalis #ICE #EthnicCleansing #WhiteSupremacy
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/newsletter-laguardia-tsa-baseball/
"Authoritarianism always sees fact and truth as delivered by journalism, by history and by science as rival sources of power. Those are radically democratic things. You can be a king or a commoner, and the rules of gravity are still the same. So they attempt to undermine those things."
~ Rebecca Solnit
#Trump #NoKings #resistance #solidarity #democracy #EconomicElites #ParticipatoryDemocracy #SocialJustice
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It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term ‘mansplaining’, whether it’s in feminism, or the environment, or civil rights
"I think what's the most disheartening is just the hardest part about this, is seeing like how much of this is funded by billionaires and how much of this [attack on trans human beings] is just coming from a handful of billionaires."
~ Alejandra Caraballo
#trans #EconomicElites #billionaires #ElonMusk #Trump #Republicans #MAGA
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Clean Virginia End Big Tax Breaks for Data Centers Mobilizing Call
Learn how to:
Set up and prepare for an in-district meeting with your legislator
Tell a compelling story about rising energy costs and corporate giveaways
Confidently ask your legislator to support the Senate's budget position to end massive tax breaks for data centers
https://www.cleanvirginia.org/act/end-big-tax-breaks-for-data-centers-mobilizing-call/
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety.
This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them.
http://projects.propublica.org/childhood-vaccines-deaths-modeling/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #RFKJr #Health #PublicHealth #Children #Vaccines #Data #Science #Research #Model
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