UPDATE: As of 3/18/2025, our park rangers have NOT been offered their jobs back!
(Part 2 here)
Watch the video from the fired employees of the Channel Islands National Park here!
People are starting to gear up again for an “Ides of Trump” action, where we’re all supposed to send postcards to 47 to express our anger and disappointment.
Please! No! Been there, did that, in 2017 during his first administration! All of our cards, millions of them, ended up in a warehouse somewhere, like that crate in the last scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, never read and never seen again.
Seriously, even if Trump had asked to read some of them for the hell of it, the tears of their enemies makes dictators happier, not repentant.
It’s time for all of us to step up and do these actions. No one will hit us with clubs, spray us with fire hoses, set dogs on us, or in the case of the 1963 Jackson, Mississippi lunch counter protest, cover us with condiments.
Along with all the one-week actions, all anyone has to do is NOT SHOP AT TARGET again until after April 17th. 40 days is long enough to make a serious impression on Target, if WE DO IT!
If you are a White person, here’s a chance to answer that question. Just a handful of White people helped with the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Same for the lunch counter sit-ins. Here’s an opportunity to tell MLK’s ghost that White people have FINALLY stood up for their Black and Brown neighbors against corporate racism, from DAY 1! Follow their call to boycott!
(rollingstone) “On Tuesday, four dozen House Democrats joined Republicans in passing a viciously right-wing immigration bill — legislation that, just last year, was seen as a conservative messaging bill. Six Democratic lawmakers flipped their positions, voting for the legislation after rejecting it last year. There’s a strong likelihood that the immigration bill will pass in the Senate, too, after most of the Democratic caucus voted to begin debate on the legislation.”
Continue reading “4 dozen House Democrats helped pass MAGA’s xenophobic Laken Riley Act. WTH, Democrats, what you doing?!?”
The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is an official day of service that honors his legacy and empowers the community to create a “just, humane, equitable and peaceful world.” However, for the first time ever, it coincides with a presidential inauguration.
Continue reading “COUNTERPROGRAM THE INAUGURATION!”German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller wrote his “First they came…” poem as an apology. He himself was part of “the silent complicity of German intellectuals and clergy” who said nothing as the Nazis began purging their chosen targets, group after group.
Some may think that the number of transgender children targeted in the GOP’s Project 2025 version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is too small to worry about. However, Berlin’s trans and queer community, a tiny minority, were some of the first targets of the Nazis. Jews themselves were less than 0.75% of Germany’s population. Small as these groups were, their sacrifice was demanded – literally thrown into the fire – for what was described as the greater good of society.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth actually wrote an amendment to remove the transphobic language from the NDAA (see below), but she and some other signers ended up capitulating, making the mental calculation that the pay raise of the GOP version was worth sacrificing the equal protection of health care for an estimated 10,000 transgender children of service members. (Harm is already occurring. Crisis calls to the Trevor Project spiked 700% after Election Day!)
The Christian nationalists are starting their process of breaking us apart by focusing, as the Nazis did, on small minorities. We must decide if we will fight for what our Pledge of Allegiance says we are – “one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,” – or to remain silent, like Niemöller did, until it is too late.
Telehealth is popular because it’s convenient and often the best option for people living in “transit deserts” – rural and even urban areas without public or private transportation options, or places that have become healthcare deserts. It also helps caregivers and those with full-time jobs where taking off a day of work for an appointment is problematic.
However, for millions of disabled Americans, telehealth is not just a convenience – they rely on these services for doctors appointments, prescriptions, and other medical needs. Some patients do not have specialists for their disease located in their area, and for many patients, leaving home at all can be too risky to contemplate.
Lawmakers from both sides have called on the DEA to issue a two-year extension of the telemedicine benefits first put in place in 2020, and some have proposed legislation making the changes permanent. Although these bills are related to Medicare, they will affect telehealth access through private insurance indirectly, as private plans tend to follow Medicare when setting coverage.
Call your legislators in both chambers to act quickly on these bills and tell your friends and relatives in RED states to do so too! This BIPARTISAN issue may get swept away by the unelected robber-bros in DOGE.
INDIVISIBLE VENTURA 