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Senator Elissa Slotkin Speaks on Senate Floor – this is a little older, but I just found and watched this today. A great speech worth watching.
“Pressure bursts pipes.”
Senator Slotkin’s mentions in her speech above that it was only due to public outrage that the funding freeze was reversed after just 48 hours. Despite what it seems, they are listening and they do not want to be unpopular.
Similarly, Beto O’Rourke urged citizens to keep contacting Congress: “I was in Congress for six years,” he told me. “And yes, when calls would flood in on a given issue, when we’d get emails, letters…It would focus your attention and you try to figure out, ‘hey, what’s going on?’”
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Many are asking what should we do now?
“We use our power, organize, mobilize, educate…the American story will not be written by who occupies the White House or by the wealthiest among us…it will be written by you, by ‘we the people.’” -fmr VP Kamala Harris receiving the NAACP Chairman’s Award.
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Bernie Sanders started his National Tour to Fight Oligarchy on Feb 13. He’s going to republican districts and pushing voters to pressure their republican reps.
“Today, the oligarchs and the billionaire class are getting richer and richer and have more and more power,” the senator said. “This country belongs to all of us, not just the few. We must fight back.”
Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders’ First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy
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UK to announce new sanctions on Russia
https://www.dw.com/en/uk-to-announce-new-sanctions-on-russia/a-71717317 -
“We can’t be made to be afraid of weak men” – Tim Miller The Bulwark
@dalibanclips We can’t be made to be afraid of weak men #TimMiller #TheBulwark #ElonMusk #Doge #Politics
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These are the bullet points from the February 21 posting by Robert Reich on Substack. He names 10 reasons for optimism.
1 Boycotts are taking hold.
2 International resistance is rising.
3 Independent and alternative media are growing.
4 M’s popularity is plunging.
5 M’s Doge is losing credibility.
6 The federal courts are hitting back.
7 Demonstrations are on the rise.
8 Stock and bond markets are trembling.
9 T is overreaching–pretending to be “king” and abandoning Ukraine for Putin.
10 The T-V-M “shock and awe” plan is faltering.It’s too long for me to type here and I do not know how to move it from my feed to here.
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Marines sing “Do you hear the people sing” at the Governors Ball at The White House. Beautiful.
“Do You Hear the People Sing?” is a song from the musical Les Misérables that encourages people to rise up against oppression and fight for freedom. It’s a call to action for people to overcome adversity and unite.
@takethisviral Governors Ball at The White House, hosted by President Trump and First Lady Melania. #fyp #fypage #foryou #foryoupage #presidenttrump #firstladymelania #governorsball #whitehouse
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Straight from the floor of Congress
Important read on current efforts to gut government programs.
Report from the Senate Floor:
“Last night in the Senate, something really important happened. Republicans forced us to debate their billionaire bailout budget framework. We started voting at 6 PM because they knew doing it in the dark of night would minimize media coverage. And they do not want the American people to see how blatant their handover of our government to the billionaire class is.
So I want to explain what happened last night and what we did to fight back. The apex of Republicans’ plan to turn over our government to their wealthy cronies is a giant tax cut for billionaires and corporations. And they plan to pay for it with cuts to programs that working people rely on. Popular and necessary programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP, are all being targeted.
In order to pass the tax cut, Republicans have to go through a series of procedural steps. Last night, they took the first step which requires them to pass an outline of their plan, but with it, any senator can offer as many amendments as we want. So my Democratic colleagues and I did just that.
Now, we knew that Republicans would largely unanimously oppose them, but we had two objectives here. One, Republicans were forced to put their opinion on record — many for the first time — on the most corrupt parts of Trump and Musk’s agenda. Two, as I’ve been saying, I am going to make every process and procedure as slow and painful as possible for as long as my colleagues choose to ignore the constitutional crisis happening before our eyes.
So what did we propose? We proposed no tax cuts for anyone who makes a billion dollars a year. We made them vote on whether or not Elon Musk and DOGE should have limitless access to Americans’ personal data. We made them vote on whether to protect IVF and require insurers to cover it. Every single amendment Democrats proposed was shot down. On almost every single amendment, Republicans universally opposed it. Every Republican voted against our proposal to prevent more tax cuts for billionaires. The corruption and theft is happening in the open here.
The whole game for Republicans is taking your money and giving it to the wealthiest corporations and billionaires — even if it means kicking your parents out of a nursing home or turning off Medicaid for the poorest children. They know what they are doing is deeply unpopular. They are offering a tax cut to the most wealthy that is 850 times larger than what they are offering working people. Oh and by the way, any tax cuts for working people are going to be washed out by higher costs for basic necessities, like health care and food. It’s a fundamental injustice.
Thanks to your pressure and support, many of my Democratic colleagues have joined my effort to do everything we can to make sure they cannot destroy democracy and steal your money in the dark of the night. We are being loud about what is happening. I’m going to continue to grind the gears of Congress down as much as possible to make it that much harder and slower to get away with this corruption. That’s why the votes lasted until nearly 5 AM.
This is a five-alarm fire. I don’t think we have two years to plan and fight back. I think we have months. It’s still in our power to stop the destruction of our democracy with mass mobilization and effective opposition from elected officials. So we can’t miss any opportunity to take advantage of opportunities to put Republicans on the record and shine a light on what is happening.
And you have a role to play in this as well. I need you to amplify what’s happening, support the leaders who are fighting for you to make sure they can continue speaking truth to power against Musk and Trump’s billionaire cronies, and show up at rallies and town halls. Use every tool at your disposal to send a message loud and clear about how you expect my colleagues to lead and fight in this moment.
Every best wish,” US Senator Chris Murphy (D – CT)
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“Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. Nervous Musk, Trump, Vance have all been outclassed in public arguments these last few days. Government failure, stock market crash, and dictatorial alliances are not popular. People are starting to realize that there is no truth here beyond the desire for personal wealth and power.” – Timothy Snyder, Levin Professor of History at Yale, author of “On Tyranny”
Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)
— Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social) 2025-02-22T14:06:08.813Z
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