On April 19, 2025, please find a protest near you! NO KINGS Protest locater, if you can join one, link below.

This is the link to the 50501 webpage to locate protests on April 19, 2025, NO KINGS!
There are many ways to search for an event near you.
The website is a little klunky but a good way to locate a protest if you are interested in attending one.

https://www.fiftyfifty.one/

Edit add: Rolling stone article about the 50501 organization and national protests.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/50501-anti-trump-protest-group-grassroots-1235320569/

WHAT DID TRUMP JUST DO AT THE WHITE HOUSE?! (Trump promoting Tesla car from Luke Beasley)

Democratic Underground and all the people who make it what it is I am thanking you for day after day having news posts

selected by and for progressive/liberal thinkers. The articles and videos posted from a wide variety of sources.
Thank you for the selections, some informative, all interesting and as a whole letting me know that being a liberal democratic (small d) is not a dead idea no matter how hard the authoritarians have tried to outright kill the idea.

I don't comment much because I am more comfortable in opposition when in a discussion but I do appreciate all of you and often spend as much time reading through the comments as I do with the articles.

I am glad this forum exists and I appreciate your thoughts. Thank you.

A Comprehensive Look At DOGE's Firings and Layoffs So Far

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of federal government employees have been shown the door in the first month of President Donald Trump’s administration as the White House and its Department of Government Efficiency fire both new and career workers, tell agency leaders to plan for “large-scale reductions in force” and freeze trillions of dollars in federal grant funds.

It is affecting more than just the national capital region, home to about 20% of the 2.4 million members of the civilian federal workforce, which does not include military personnel and postal workers. More than 80% of that workforce lives outside the Washington area.

There is no official figure available of the total firings or layoffs. The Associated Press tallied how agencies are being affected based on AP reporting and statements from lawmakers and employee unions.
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Article includes an agency-by-agency list
https://apnews.com/article/doge-firings-layoffs-federal-government-workers-musk-d33cdd7872d64d2bdd8fe70c28652654

Senate confirms Tulsi Gabbard to be Director of National Intelligence

Source: msnbc.com

The Senate voted to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence on Wednesday, elevating a former lawmaker with controversial foreign policy views to the head of the country’s spy agencies.

Gabbard was confirmed on a 52-48 vote. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was the only Republican to oppose Gabbard’s confirmation.

A former Democratic congresswoman turned Republican, Gabbard was initially considered a long shot for DNI given her history of going against U.S. intelligence consensus and her warm views on American adversaries like Russian President Vladimir Putin and now-deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.

Read more: https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/senate-confirms-tulsi-gabbard-director-national-intelligence-rcna190841

How Trump plans to block Democrats from voting in future elections. (Why we can't count on the 2026 Midterms.) 13 mins.

I believe the only reason Trump won in 2024 is with successful voter suppression.

This video is from Anthony Davis of 5 Minute News and provides the details of how it was done and how with new legislation now in Congress it will be made more difficult to vote in 2026.

This is why I hope the Democratic Party will focus on helping voters get registered including setting up a fund to help with the fees needed to obtain copies of marriage certificates needed by married women who took their husband's name because without that a birth certificate is not enough. I just had to order a marriage certificate in California the cost is $17 and is needed for the new, Real ID, and to renew my passport which I unfortunately allowed to expire too long ago for renewal without new documents.

Locally and individually, we can help people in our communities obtain the forms and applications to get copies of their necessary to register to vote documents.

Aviation expert predicts cause of deadly Washington plane crash. A rational explanation of the air crash: 2:51 mins.

There are countless speculations & claims about the very tragic airplane/helicopter crash. This is the most rational, but still speculative explanation I have seen so far today.

Warning-to-Whistleblowers-We-Are-Back-in-the-Days-of-the-Red-Scare: from Mother Jones

This is something I have been worried about recently and I appreciate that Mother Jones has provided an article about it. I do believe that Trump will see that whistleblowers are punished for coming forth with the truth.

Elon Musk takes aim at MacKenzie Scott again for giving billions to liberal causes, calling the gifts 'concerning'

This paragraph is from near the bottom of the article:

More details about JFK assassination keep emerging, even 61 years later-(unseen before bit of video in article )

Sixty-one years ago, on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in a shocking tragedy that still echoes.

The JFK assassination sent the nation into mourning and shook it to its core, as Americans searched for answers. Hundreds of books have been written on it along with multiple films and documentaries, with bits and pieces of information continuing to emerge to this day.

It even figured in the 2024 presidential campaign. President-elect Donald Trump, himself a victim of an assassination attempt, promised to declassify all government records about the Kennedy assassination, according to the Associated Press.