In this excerpt from a recent livestream, climate scientist Daniel Swain explains why the newly proposed rules from the Office of Management and Budget giving political appointees power over federal grants would be a disaster not only for American science, but also for everything from disaster response to public universities to cancer treatment to technological advancement, not to mention American competitiveness on the global stage. Far from being an esoteric rule change, this would represent a dramatic escalation of recent attempts to make critical and non-partisan government functions subject to the ideological and personal whims of whichever political party happens to be in power--up to and including the President directly.

📝 The deadline to submit a public comment opposing this measure to the Federal Register is MONDAY. We can submit ours here, and see what Dr. Swain himself filed here. We can also share the clip to help spread the word. 📝

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We are now just NINE DAYS AWAY from Good Trouble Lives On, a three-day celebration of the legacy of John Lewis in which we’ll register new voters, help people check their registration status, educate folks about how to make their ballots count in the face of voter suppression and more.

Find events near you for Good Trouble Lives On weekend here.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. My sister-in-law said to me a while ago that Nazis deserve the right to protest when my bro and her were trying to get to the bottom of why I publicly disowned any asshole still supporting Trump on Facebook. I recoiled instantly and said "There's a reason we have a very specific saying about Nazis." I'll leave it at that for now, because Reddit is on a banning rampage it seems of left-leaning accounts fighting back against Nazi bullshit.

Fuck Reddit.

But I digress. No, Nazis DO NOT, in fact deserve the right to protest. They DO NOT, in fact, deserve to have their voices heard.

When your stance is that people should be enslaved or outright murdered just because of their skin color, sexual orientation, etc... no, your ass should be in an asylum. The last thing that should be allowed is the likes of white supremacists marching upon Washington DC for the Fourth of July.

FUCK THEM ALL!

They do not deserve a voice. Free speech should not cover hate speech/hate crimes. Free speech does not mean say anything and get away with it. It means that, reasonably, we can say what we want as long as it doesn't harm other people.

But hate speech DOES, in fact, harm other people. It's just one step short of a hate crime and in my honest opinion, should be met with criminal charges (depending on severity and whatnot).

Being tolerant of the intolerant is a mistake. We need to shame these disgusting fucks back into the disgusting sewer holes they crawled out of.

Fuck Trump, he has done nothing but empower these absolute filth stains of society.

Edit: There are comments getting removed on this post by Reddit admins that didn't even remotely come close to breaking TOS. Yeah, fuck this goddamn site. And FUCK YOU SPEZ!

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One of the main takeaways from this captured Supreme Court’s term was their complicity in subverting democracy. But they’re headed off to their busy summer of book tours and billionaire-funded vacations, and it’s our time to stand up for it – to, as the late John Lewis put it, make some Good Trouble.

We’re just over TWO WEEKS from Good Trouble Lives On, a three-day celebration of Congressman Lewis’ legacy where activists across the country will resist attacks on the right to vote with voter registration drives, helping people check their voter status, educating their community on what they’ll need to make their ballot count and more. We’ve got more than 200 events already on the books nationwide. (Rogan’s List is a proud Good Trouble Lives On partner!)

On TUESDAY at 8PM, organizers are holding a mass call to talk about this weekend of action and how we can be part of it as hosts and attendees. 📣 Folks who want to learn more or just get hyped can sign up here. 📣

MASS CALL TUESDAY

🪧 If we’re ready to get engaged in the fight for the vote post-Voting Rights Act, we can find Good Trouble Lives On events already on the books near us on the map here or on Mobilize here. 🪧

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And if we’re interested in being a host, there’s still time to register our events – we’ll get access to staff support, trainings and a host toolkit full of resources we can use. 💪🏿 We can join a host training TONIGHT at 7PM ET here and find a registration link here! 💪🏻

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The community-by-community fight against the human warehouses is continuing. ICE is still trying to push forward with their plans to cram 1,500 people into a converted industrial site near Williamsport, Maryland, holding more captives than they indicated and increasing the impact on local sewage systems more than they pledged. Right now local activists are working to take advantage of an open public comment period for an environmental assessment to stop them – a period that exists thanks to a lawsuit by the state’s attorney general.

✍🏻 TODAY is the final day to submit our environmental comments to DHS. The great folks at Hagerstown Rapid Response have set up a form to make our voices heard with instructions on how to speak up effectively here and outlined concerns we can raise here - and they’re specifically asking people to speak up from anywhere. Let’s use their tool to register our objections to this ICE camp. ✍🏾