July 31, 2025
July 30, 2025
US placed on rights watchlist over health of its civil society under Trump
US placed on rights watchlist over health of its civil society under Trump
International non-profit Civicus says
‘sustained attacks on civic freedoms’
put US on par with El Salvador and Kenya
‘sustained attacks on civic freedoms’
put US on par with El Salvador and Kenya
On Wednesday, a new report released by the non-profit Civicus placed the US on its watchlist following “sustained attacks on civic freedoms” across the country, according to the group.
“The United States appears to be sliding deeper into the quicksands of authoritarianism. Peaceful protests are confronted with military force, critics are treated as criminals, journalists are targeted, and support for civil society and international cooperation have been cut back,” Mandeep Tiwana, Civicus’s secretary general, said in a statement.
“What they’re trying to do is actually defund critical news sources and deny American people the ability to receive truthful non-partisan reporting by pulling their funding,” Tiwana told the Guardian.
July 29, 2025
trumpty's Incarcerating People Who are Unhoused
‘Civil commitment’ means locking up people without housing
“Civil commitment”—rounding up people and locking them up—is Donald Trump’s answer to the nation’s homeless problem, as set out in another executive edict. You need not be a sociologist to understand that homelessness, which afflicts hundreds of thousands of people, results from multiple factors, including lack of affordable housing, rampant evictions, and insufficient access to drug addiction and mental health treatment. This regime and past GOP administrations that have slashed funding for housing, addiction treatment, and mental health have inarguably worsened the problem.
Rather than provide additional funding or support programs that do work (e.g., fund Medicaid anti-addiction programs, or support “housing first” programs to get people off the streets quickly and then provide social services), Trump’s decree seeks to bludgeon states and localities to criminalize homelessness, by fining or locking up people living on the streets without shelter. Such a harsh rationale only underscores that Trump prefers barbarism to responsible social policy with adequate funding.
The ACLU responded swiftly to Trump’s executive pronouncement. “Pushing people into locked institutions and forcing treatment won’t solve homelessness or support people with disabilities. The exact opposite is true—institutions are dangerous and deadly, and forced treatment doesn’t work,” a written statement declared. “We need safe, decent, and affordable housing as well as equal access to medical care and voluntary, community-based mental health and evidence-based substance use treatment from trusted providers.” Instead, Trump is sucking $1Trillion out of Medicaid, “the number one payer for addiction and mental health services.”
How Do We Get Out of This Mess?
How Do We Get Out of This Mess?
When we survive the Trump era, we can’t go back to the status quo. We need to build a future where our society and economy are fairer for everyone.
How to live a moral life in an age of bullies
How to live a moral life in an age of bullies
Throughout history, the central struggle of civilization has been against brutality by the powerful. Civilization is the opposite of brutality. A civil society doesn’t allow the strong to brutally treat the weak.
So how do we lead moral lives in this age of bullies?
We do everything we can to stop the brutality, to hold the powerful accountable, and to protect the vulnerable.
Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance.
Trump Steals Nuclear Safety Funds
Trump skims nuclear safety funds to spruce up vanity gift plane from Qatar
trumpty is Robbing Budget
to Add Gold to the Qatar Bribe Plane
that he Plans to Keep for himself
When he Leaves Office
July 28, 2025
July 27, 2025
What To Do If You Can't Protest
There is so much more to do!
Mutual aid is
the radical act of caring for each other
while working to change the world.
As governments fail to respond to—or actively engineer—each crisis, ordinary people are finding bold and innovative ways to share resources and support the vulnerable.
Survival work, when done alongside social movement demands for transformative change, is called mutual aid.
This book is about mutual aid: why it is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. It provides a grassroots theory of mutual aid, describes how mutual aid is a crucial part of powerful movements for social justice, and offers concrete tools for organizing, such as how to work in groups, how to foster a collective decision-making process, how to prevent and address conflict, and how to deal with burnout.
The American Gestapo
Who Wants to Work for ICE
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How ICE Is Turning Human Misery Into a $170 Billion Business
Brought to You by a Demented & Cruel King-Wanna Be and his Big, Bad, Ugly Bill
Protest & Dissent are in America’s DNA
We cannot sit this one out
We WILL Break This Egg & None of His Men Will WANT to Put Him Back Together!!!!
We Do NOT Comply
We Do NOT Comply
How do we disrupt the momentum of Trump’s cruelty?
The more Trump’s tyranny is exposed, the stronger the resistance.
The more Trump’s tyranny is exposed, the stronger the resistance. The worse it gets, the larger the backlash. The crueler and more vicious his regime becomes, the more powerful the alliances being formed at every level of society and the world to stop him.
We will sweep vulnerable Republican lawmakers out of office in 2026 or before.
We will support groups like the ACLU that are taking Trump to court.
We will stop the lies and spread the truth.
Tyrants cannot succeed where people refuse to submit to them. We will not submit. We will emerge from this stronger than we were before, and more committed to democracy and the common good.
Lay the Blame Where It It Due
Democrats use new tactic to highlight Trump’s gutting of Medicaid: billboards in the rural US
The ‘big, beautiful’ bill will cut more than $1tn from the health plan, with rural hospitals feeling the brunt of it
Let's Dissent....Creatively!
20 Creative Civil Dissent Ideas
Protests are the tip of the dissent iceberg.
Discover creative forms of civil resistance.
July 26, 2025
July 25, 2025
DATA about ICE
How Trump has supercharged the immigration crackdown - in data
Revealed: Guardian analysis provides a detailed picture of surging arrests and a detention system that’s stretched beyond capacity
trump Stealing Elections NOW - Take Action!!!
Donald Trump’s Justice Department just issued a sweeping demand to states to turn over voter rolls, voting histories, private voter information, and grant physical access to voting machines.
With his MAGA loyalists embedded in state legislatures, secretaries of state offices, and local election boards, Trump is building a legal and procedural machine to control election certification, suppress voters, and overturn results. It’s a coordinated, authoritarian power grab to gain control over how votes are cast and counted ahead of the 2026 midterms.
They’re defunding election offices, criminalizing voter outreach, and laying the groundwork to discard ballots under fake fraud claims. Trump is counting on apathy, distraction, and delay. But we see him coming.
In 2020, Trump tried to bully his way to power by spreading lies, pressuring election officials, and inciting an insurrection. Now he’s using the DOJ itself to carry out his next act of sabotage.
That’s why we must push every state leader to act now. Refuse Trump’s demands.
An Act of Love & An Act of Hate
Kotek signs bill establishing statewide shelter program in Oregon
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Trump's order aims to facilitate removing homeless off the streets
Guess Which is Which
How are the Ratings Now?
‘The American people do not like what they’re seeing’
The ONLY President Who Did Worse than Him is Himself!
Keep Your Hearts Open - Pain Means You are Not Succumbing to the Numbing
Letters from an American, July 24
On Tuesday, Nicole Acevedo of NBC News reported that detainees at the detention center in the Florida Everglades spoke of
“torturous conditions in cage-like units full of mosquitoes,”
with lights on at all times,
lack of food and medical treatment, and
lack of food and medical treatment, and
unsanitary conditions.
On June 20, she reported, the U.S. was holding more than 56,000 people in detention centers, the highest number in U.S. history. Nearly 72% of those held had no criminal history.
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I Thought We Were Trying to GET RID of Bad Guys?
trumpty regime COULD Have Brought Home ALL Americans Detained in Venezuela.
They Chose Convicted Killer Instead.
They Chose Convicted Killer Instead.
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July 24, 2025
trumpty Intentionally NOT Helping People
Trump admin denies FEMA aid to another Democratic-led state
The denial of federal money to assist Maryland’s flood recovery continues a trend of spurning devastated residents in states with Democratic governors.
56,816 People Disappeared by ICE
56,816 people are now being detained by ICE,
both in the United States and in El Salvador and other countries where there’s little or no control over the conditions in which they’re being detained.
Over 70 percent have not been convicted of any crime.
Many were abducted by ICE agents in plain clothes and wearing masks to prevent identification, from their places of work, court houses, or their homes and apartments.
Families have been broken up and family members “disappeared.”
We have no way of ensuring that they are being held in humanitarian conditions. Venezuela’s Attorney General has announced that Venezuelan migrants held in El Salvador recently returned to Venezuela suffered torture and abuse while imprisoned in CECOT.
Because there’s been no due process — no independent verification of who these people are or even that they have been in the United States illegally — it is entirely possible that some detainees are American citizens.
This story continues to worsen.
Stand Up; Speak Out
This week there are over 775 protests. Outside of national protest weeks like May Day or No Kings, we have never seen this many. Weekday protests are growing, as are weekend actions.
And there are signs that our work is making a difference; however, we cannot relent. We must continue to apply more pressure. More calls. More protests. More sit-ins. More dissent.
NATIONAL ACTIONS
JUNE 26 | Families First
Across the nation in about 100 cities, groups are gathering to stand with families. According to the organizer, “On Saturday, July 26th, American families in every corner of the country will come together in peaceful marches, rallies and events to say: our families come first, and we will protect each other.”
Get information on Families First.
Find a protest on our list.
AUGUST 2 | Rage Against the Regime
50501 is hosting Rage Against the Regime next week. “On this day, we come together to transform anger into action, harnessing the energy of collective resistance. Our movement is rooted in non-violence, but it is far from passive.”
Host a protest or attend one. To date, there are over 100 locations. Join a protest and get more information HERE.
💻 = Offers a virtual option
THIS WEEK
✅ MAKE ONE PHONE CALL (or more)
THIS WEEK 📞 According to 5Calls, the Trump administration is laying the groundwork to interfere in the midterm elections. Get info HERE.
If you live in Texas, call your state representatives to oppose the blatant gerrymandering. Here is a PBS article on the matter. Contact your representative through 5Calls or HERE.
If you live in Colorado, there have been attempts at interference there are well. Read about it HERE. Call your state legislator to express your outrage and urge noncompliance.
5 CALLS | 5 Calls provides phone numbers, scripts, and much more. 💻
✅ READ & LEARN
Our movement’s success hinges upon our ability to grow as leaders. Here are two resources you can read and share.
🚨 ACTION STEP 🚨
READING
Streetwise & Steady: A Workbook for Action Peacekeepers or Event Marshals
By Choose Democracy, Daniel Hunter, Eileen Flanagan
TRAININGS
One Million Rising | Indivisible is working to train one million people in strategic, nonviolent noncompliance. The first training was last week.
WATCH IT and register for the next one.
Families Frist National Day of Action - Saturday, July 26
Call to action: Families First national day of action!
On Saturday, July 26, MoveOn and progressive partners are organizing the Families First national day of action in response to Republicans gutting Medicaid, FEMA, and school lunches, while increasing funding for ICE and giving tax breaks to billionaires. We must make clear that our families come first—not billionaires, not authoritarians, and not corrupt politicians.
July 23, 2025
Understanding What's Happening in the US - 1
Kleptocracy, Inc. — with Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and staff writer at The Atlantic, joins Scott to discuss the rise of kleptocracy in America, the global playbook of autocrats, and solutions to our democratic slide.
Impeach trumpty
Nearly ONE MILLION Petition to IMPEACH Trump
Sign NOW, at
ImpeachTrumpAgain.org
In the time since his second inauguration, Trump has carried out an assault on the rule of law, on the checks and balances of power between our co-equal branches of government, and on the United States Constitution. Congress must take action.
📅 Thursday, July 31
🕗 7PM ET / 4PM PT
More on Big, Bad & Ugly - Healthcare Destroyed
Arkansas Lawyer on Medicaid Work Requirements:
“Widespread Disaster & Chaos”
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Who will be affected by Trump administration's Medicaid, SNAP work requirements
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Trump causes INSTANT COLLAPSE - Healthcare Skyrocketing
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And, While We Are On Topic...
Big Beautiful Bill is “a Shocking Thing in Its Brutality”
Consistently Contact Your Congress People
Here Are Some Opportunities
5 Calls is the easiest and most effective way for U.S. constituents to make a political impact.
Text your elected officials—all at once.
Write to your representatives.
Make a two-minute phone call to your U.S. Representative and your U.S. Senators and urge them to take specific action on a timely issue. We provide scripts to make it easy.
My God, What Have We Done?
Yes, the Oligarchs Produce & SellBut, They Would Go Out of Business
If We DIDN'T Buy.
We, Also, Bear Responsibility
For Our Planet.
If We DIDN'T Buy.
For Our Planet.
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