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Friendly reminder Tuesday, March 3, 2026 is primary Election Day in Texas Have a plan to vote Take time off work or school Use this League of Women Voters guide to plan ahead Chose your candidates beforehand. You can take in paper with your notes but no cell phone. https://www.lwvtexas.org/#gsc.tab=0

Friendly reminder

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 is primary Election Day in Texas

Have a plan to vote

Take time off work or school

Use this League of Women Voters guide to plan ahead

Chose your candidates beforehand.

You can take in paper with your notes but no cell phone.

www.lwvtexas.org#gsc.tab=0

Democracy Docket=Started in 2020 to inform you about democracy and the courts.

The Docket=started yesterday by NYT.

Support independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Trump Threatens to Block Michigan-Canada Bridge He Once Championed The president’s targeting of the bridge shows just how drastically U.S.-Canada relations have fallen between his two terms.

NEW: In a drastic reversal, Trump has gone from embracing “the opportunity to build even more bridges” with Canada in 2017 to threatening to stop the opening of the Gordie Howe bridge until Canada “treats the U.S. with … Fairness and Respect.”

By @annaleighclark.bsky.social

Trump repeals U.S. government’s power to regulate climate The Environmental Protection Agency finishes the repeal of the “endangerment finding,” a landmark legal opinion underpinning policies regulating climate change.

By repealing the EPA regulation that underpins all US regulation of greenhouse gases, the Trump administration is sacrificing our global climate so that fossil fuel companies can make even greater profits.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:

I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care. 

Your health care is still legal and protected. 

I'll always fight for you.

As long as Spotify is taking money from ICE, they don’t need or deserve free advertising for Spotify Wrapped.

Stop using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop (and be on the lookout for Fascism Wrapped in Los Angeles, Austin, and NYC): indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

TOP & REASONS WHY ICE IS SPOTIFY'S #1 FAN 1) Spotify is running ICE ads in between your favorite songs 2) Spotify claims that ICE recruitment ads DID NOT violate it's ad policies 3) While ICE terrorizes communities, Spotify is helping boost their recruitment efforts 4) Spotify would rather be wrapped in complicity to ICE's terror than refuse ICE ad money indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

Spotify is wrapped in complicity for helping ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

I’ve been enjoying Ken Burns’s American Revolution. It inspired me with a goal to read a book on each state—or at least what is available, including territories and DC. Any recommendations? #reading #bookrecommendations

Every so often I run into one of the sanctimonious "pet ownership is unethical" types, and 100% of the time it turns out they don't know how pets end up in shelters. They think it's a supply-and-demand situation where if people stop adopting then the cat factory will simply cease production. 🤦‍♀️

Black-and-white photo of a short haired, tuxedo, tabby cat standing on top of a tall snowbank.

King of the Winter. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.

Black and white photo of a lovely shorthaired grey cat standing on a line of smooth rocks that look like they may have been placed there to border a driveway or something. The cat is looking at the camera with its tail up, obviously friendly. Cursive handwriting in the upper left corner reads “Just a cat”.

“Just a cat”. Rude! Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.

"Museums are not stages for loyalty. They are civic laboratories. They are places where we wrestle with contradictions, encounter the unfamiliar and widen our circle of empathy."

Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. 

Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around.

Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW

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Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq

No kings but drag kings.

Happy Obama Appreciation Day

A bicolored cat resting on a fluffy pillow in front of books

A tabby cat on a circular pad with a toy

#Caturday Sisters, Rivals, Queens

“Our client, who was in the middle of seeking asylum, just disappeared.”

Lindsay Toczylowski represents 31-year-old Andry, a gay makeup artist from Venezuela who was flown to a notorious prison by the Trump administration after seeking asylum in the U.S.

MORE: www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...

NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it. A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.

I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat

Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.

“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.

Emergency National Statement to University and College Presidents NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO BE SILENT. DEFEND OUR CAMPUSES AND OUR DEMOCRACY NOW.

#College #University #faculty program directors, #librarians I signed a @theactionnet petition: 2025 EMERGENCY NATIONAL STATEMENT TO UNIV/COLLEGE PRESIDENTS: Defend Our Campuses by Contesting—Not Capitulating to—Authoritarianism and Repression. Read/Sign statement here: newenglandscholarsspeak.org

Researchers Rush to Save US Government Data on Trans Youth—Before It Disappears In the face of the Trump administration's anti-trans efforts, researchers and volunteers around the world are backing up federally-funded studies, and vowing to keep the resources online.

On #TransDayOfVisibility, we revisit our piece on how researchers and volunteers—in the face of the Trump administration's anti-trans efforts—are backing up federally-funded studies, and vowing to keep the resources online.

A thread ⬇️

"We must remain firm in our values and our vision in this moment – and, just as importantly, we should never give up on our ability to win over more people to more fully see our humanity and support our rights. It’s not always fair work, and it’s certainly not always easy work, but through the power of our proximity we can still open the hearts and change the minds of imperfect or unlikely allies."

When we both build community among ourselves and forge a coalition beyond us, no amount of progress is impossible.

On Trans Day of Visibility, we recognize that this mission is more important now than ever.

Read more in my opinion piece for The Advocate here ⬇️
www.advocate.com/voices/sarah...

124 days of the non-stop mass protests in Georgia. Stronger than ever. Those who yearn for justice, liberty, and democracy never surrender. #GeorgiaProtests #TerrorInGeorgia (📹 @nuka21.bsky.social ‬ )

On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate Minnesota’s transgender community and recommit to standing up for our neighbors in the face of hatred.

As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.

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Thank you to everyone has reached out to offer kind words of support. I will fearlessly and unapologetically continue to stand up for democracy, no matter what the president says or does.

Democracy Docket will do the same. It won't back down. It will never obey. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/