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Keep pushing back. Hard.
He blinked on tariffs when Mexico and Canada showed some spine.
His California water stunt failed and has been ridiculed.
He was forced to roll back cutting grants and govt payments.
NSF support is resuming.
CDC webpages are being restored.
Street protests are starting.
Lawsuits are being filed.
Fight back.
The city of Portland issued Zenith Energy a new Land Use Compatibility Statement (LUCS) on Monday morning, enabling the company to continue its local oil storage and transport operations in compliance with the state. The decision was met with immediate backlash from advocates who are critical of Zenith and the city’s oversight of it, which they believe has been too permissive in the face of the environmental risk the company’s operations pose. The decision to...
Big Tech faces a new reality: their most powerful competitor has become their regulator, with access to their government contracts, spending patterns, and federal relationships.
The guy who cheats at videogames is cheating at everything else, and winning.
What are you going to do about it, Mark? Sundar? Tim?
https://www.theindex.media/elon-musk-is-an-existential-threat-to-big-tech/
Indivisible has launched a campaign to get people to physically visit their representatives this week:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cru6DBkH5gadq3S-mVhiSU72mC2ZeDHXG93jeiemFH0/edit?tab=t.0
Recording of the Indivisible/Working Families/Move On call from yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55yf3AstpQI
You're not into electoral anything, ever? Cool, there's mutual aid work in your community that needs help. And food banks and libraries and school boards. Archive projects. Foster kids.
https://protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/How-You-Can-Protect-Democracy.pdf
WE CHOOSE TO FIGHT: U.S. SENATE IN-STATE OFFICE VISIT TOOLKIT Register your event: https://indivisi.org/register-choose-to-fight Find an event happening near you: https://indivisi.org/find-choose-to-fight TOOLKIT CONTENTS: WHAT’S HAPPENING? THE ASK HOW TO PLAN YOUR SENATE STATE OFFICE VISIT...
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