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Purple Tiger βŒπŸ‘‘
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BIue Dot & a tiger for a more purple #Indiana. Recognized by my higher ed peers as an equity action maker in 2024 (then RIF'd 😑). I understood the d#mn assignment from day #1. #Resist #StrongerTogether BTW, Purple Tiger is also a rose. I used to grow it
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PS. In Of Thee I Sing I argue that protest is one of the most essential forms of active patriotism, which would make these artists vital patriots as well (as Amy Sherald recently argued about her self-canceled Smithsonian exhibition as well)!

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Of Thee I Sing
When we talk about patriotism in America, we tend to mean one form: the version captured in shared celebrations like the national anthem and the Pledge of Alleg…
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Demons. They're all demons.
Trump's Department of Agriculture has sent an email to grocery stores prohibiting them from offering discounts to customers impacted by the SNAP funding lapse.
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it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
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Early this morning, our city still plunged into darkness, I set off to walk the Brooklyn Bridge.

As the sun came up, we were joined by canvassers, labor leaders, elected officials, and working people β€” a movement to bring a new day to our city.

Tomorrow, we win it together.
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Get involved. Get Inspired. Tonight, on Zoom, with #StandUpForScience
JOIN US TONIGHT to learn how to stand up a rapid response to the SNAP crisis! Monday 11/3, 8pm et/ 5pm pt

REGISTER HERE: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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ICE is capturing human beings to send to work camps for free labor. Doesn’t this make them a modern day Slave Catchers?

These people are not just traitors to the constitution, they are traitors to their own race, the human race.
And Lincoln was a Republican!
My quote of the day

Abraham Lincoln
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Federal worker: My district went for Trump both in 2016 and 2024, and a lot of my friends supported him. But they didn't vote for the parks to close, health care costs to skyrocket, veterans to lose care, and for tens of thousands of federal employees to be at risk of losing their jobs.
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β€œThe good news is this means that the next Democratic inhabitant of the White House can demolish the Trump Presidential Palace Ballroom and Casino and restore the East Wing and the rest of the White House grounds to their pre-Trump state.”

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We Will Tear Down the Trump Palace Ballroom and Casino
Thinking like a dissident movement.
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Did you hear about this AFT effort @wh00sh.bsky.social ? Sounded right up your alley, ❀️!
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β€œPublic pension funds are significant shareholders in Tesla, and the asset managers who invest those funds have even larger holdings. That’s our money and we should tell the people who invest it for us that we want them to vote to hold Musk and Tesla Board members accountable.” #TakeBackTesla
Take Back Tesla campaign urges shareholders to reject Musk $1 trillion pay plan
Ahead of Tesla's earnings report on Wednesday, a group of unions and corporate watchdogs launched a website in opposition to Elon Musk's new pay plan.
www.cnbc.com
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American Samoan Tupe Smith faces five years in prison for mistakenly registering to vote as a U.S. citizen, advice given to her by local election officials in Alaska. Nevertheless, the GOP is exploiting Smith's unusual case to spread fear about noncitizen voting.
How The GOP Treats Innocent Mistakes as Fraud To Promote a Noncitizen Voting Panic
How The GOP Treats Innocent Mistakes as Fraud To Promote a Noncitizen Voting Panic
www.democracydocket.com
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Worth mentioning that we once had policies to resist foreign influence operations, and that these have been undone by Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
Russia, China and Iran Use Kirk’s Murder to Stoke Conspiracy Theories and Division
www.nytimes.com
🀬 Little Free Libraries deliveries expected soon (I hope)!
As a direct result of Republicans’ controversial HEA 1447 passed in 2023, one Indiana school corporation has just banned 6 books.

Back in 2023, educators and librarians sounded the alarm over HEA 1447. Supporters of this bill downplayed their concerns and insisted the bill wouldn’t ban books.
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