In 1967, my father named the Three Evils of Society—racism, poverty, and war—as threats to our democracy at his address at the National Conference for New Politics. Today, we must confront them with the same courage, conviction, and urgency he showed nearly 60 years ago.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Jokes aside, if Biden was AWOL for four days and had nothing on his sked for a holiday weekend: -CNN would permanently show a running clock on the last time Biden was seen in public -Alex Thompson would publish multiple stories a day on Axios -Chris Cillizza would crank out 56 "But His Age" stories
Love these—-brilliant👍🏻
Thank you @jeremyfaust.bsky.social Demetre, Dan, and I ("D3") using our voices to raise the alarm for public health
Protest tomorrow Sunday , 12 PM . Bring lots of chalk!
Last January, a source shared evidence with me that DOGE was installing devices on govt servers to upload data to the cloud. Some hosts were FOREIGN. On Friday, a whistleblower resigned and came forward to share the same. Listen to what we found in January: www.muellershewrote.com/p/a-fork-in-...
Kari Lake, a Trump ally now serving as acting chief of the agency that oversees VOA, posted on X that layoff notices were issued to 532 staff members.
This is why we have the CDC!!
School just started, and we are already mourning two children killed and dozens more injured as they prayed during mass. It doesn’t have to be this way. Congress must act to keep our kids safe.
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
FEMA employees were just placed on leave after criticizing the Trump regime in open letter. Their letter was meant to "sound the alarm" about inexperienced appointees and drastic cuts to agency programs. Like all tyrants in history, Trump wants to squelch dissent.
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JUST IN: CDC director pushed out, flood of top resignations follow. @arimelber.bsky.social reports on @thebeat.msnbc.com.
Russia donates to the NRA who then donates to gop candidates. The 2nd amendment does not prevent gun control laws. Red states have weaker gun controls and more gun deaths. We know what causes these gun deaths. We could greatly reduce them. The gop is an indirect cause of gun deaths.
The NRA should not have tax-exempt status. The NRA should not have tax-exempt status. The NRA should not have tax-exempt status. The NRA should not have tax-exempt status.
The National Park Service just celebrated its 109th birthday. How is Donald Trump marking the occasion? By taking an axe to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS7IJaB5NDc
We’ve had a federal assault weapons ban before. It’s time for Congress to do it again: Text BAN to 644-33 to demand they take action.
"We should be thinking about these victims not just as somebody else's kids, but think of them as if they were your own. How would you feel? What would you be going through?" Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks with @jenpsaki.msnbc.com following the deadly shooting at Annunciation Catholic School.
I did promise that Republican states that capitulate to Trump's demands to illegally gerrymander their maps will be sued. And history shows I never bluff and usually win. I also said that there are only two types of GOP officials -- proud MAGA and scared MAGA. That is true.
We’re going to go on a rant for a minute, and yes we’re bringing some history with us. Back in 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote words that still echo today: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.
The health & safety of Americans is at risk due to extremist HHS Secretary Kennedy who’s bent on wild, costly conspiracies. He should resign immediately before he does more damage &costs lives. He’s already cost us top scientists &vital medical research. And CDC Director Monarez should stay put!
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
My heart is with the students, families, and community of Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. No child should ever face gunfire in a place meant for learning and growth. We must come together to end the epidemic of gun violence. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
BREAKING: A shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been contained, and the suspected shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, law enforcement officials told NBC News. The exact number of victims is not yet known. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
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"Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be OK, please call our attorney" -- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...
Kamala Harris tried to warn us that Putin will start eyeing Poland if Trump becomes president, and today Russia struck Osiny, Poland, with a ‘Shahed’ drone in Lublin province, just over 100 km (62 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
Millions have hit the streets to protest Trump’s authoritarianism — but marching isn’t enough on its own. Here are five steps you can take to make a difference.
Willingness to humiliate ones self for a higher good.“maybe President Zelinsky sadly had to put on record thankyou, pleasing, appeasing Marjory Tailor Greens boyfriend with his suit” Denys Pilash on Democracy Now 8/18/25.
BREAKING: A federal appeals court affirmed that Louisiana's state legislative districts dilute the power of Black voters and must be redrawn.
Wanna catch up on what happened during the 3-day bench trial in Newsom v. Trump? Our play-by-play live coverage is now up on the site: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/news...
JUST IN: Blistering ruling by Judge Ho on ICE arrests in immigration court. He says the Trump administration has turned attendance at immigration court proceedings into a game of "detention roulette" that violates due process. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It really bothers me that we're not talking about how the GOP cut DC's funding before invading.
BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit against ICE for denying people access to lawyers and subjecting them to inhumane conditions at 26 Federal Plaza in New York. ICE is illegally holding people here for weeks, often without adequate access to medical care, food, or legal counsel.
Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...
The U.K. Plans to Lower the Voting Age to 16. Here’s What to Know. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/w...
REPORTER: Will you commit to include California in any disaster aid package? MIKE JOHNSON: We've not seen the formal disaster relief request from California yet REPORTER: The formal request was sent to your office in February
We are not silent & are working all levels of our society to push back hard. Over 1,582,860 of US did not vote for this maga, heritage foundation 2025 project authors plan (just in its first steps), also the worlds 1% not just USA based oligarchs who support. Seen clearly Putin pulls the strings
The $80 million was supposed to go back to active-duty military, veterans, Department of Defense employees, and their families who bank with the credit union. They were illegally charged fees by the bank. Give them their money back.
Epstein Epstein Epstein and ICE ICE ICE
Scoop: Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired her personal ethics chief, Joseph Tirrell. Without explanation, she removes DOJ's career ethics office director who advised the most senior political appointees (such as Todd Blanche, Kash Patel) on conflicts. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
DOGE staff now dictating tRumps admin orders to an independent agency.. Presidents don’t have this authority until now? Read the 2025 Project Plan, our government officials knew in this citizens opinion that it is all coming.. it has just started ya all.
DOGE staff now dictating tRumps admin orders to an independent agency.. Presidents don’t have this authority until now? Read the 2025 Project Plan, our government officials knew in this citizens opinion that it is all coming.. it has just started ya all. www.eenews.net/articles/dog...
Restoration workers are removing about 100,000 handbound books from their shelves and carefully placing them in crates, the start of a disinfection process that aims to kill the tiny beetles.
Where are the children being held? 🚨 Children, handcuffed and chained, being moved out of the LA Federal Building. July 10 - ICE & CBP raided two Glass House Farms sites in Camarillo and Carpinteria. Up to 319 undocumented workers arrested. At least 10 migrant kids were found. The youngest was 14.
Don’t forget: Trump already tried to sue a woman in 2023 for calling him a rapist, and a judge threw the case out. The woman he tried to sue? E Jean Carroll. 😂
Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Trump is a pedo? Trump is in the files?Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Trump is freaking out. Epstein. Trump seems guilty to me. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. I think he doth protest too much. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein.
Time of Monsters: UN Human Rights Chief on Gaza, Immigration, Climate Crisis, and Lack of Solidarity (Full Interview)
If you want to understand how far DOJ had slide into become an agent of the Republican voter suppression machine, take a look at this chart. www.democracydocket.com/timeline-tra...
Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings: -Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove) -Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
Just called my House Representative to say thank you for all her No votes and promises to stay No on the big BS bill. Thankyous are needed too!
Just called my House Representative to say Thank you for all her No votes and promises to stay No on the big BS bill. Thankyous are needed too!
J.D. Vance is attacking his own family married to a woman whose parents were not American citizens when she was born in the United States. She's an American citizen because of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. She is what the right-wing likes to demean as an "anchor baby."
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Alligator Auschwitz is Deplorable , Horrific! GovSatan = the chief evil spirit; the great adversary of humanity; tRump = to devise deceitfully ( Webster definition) Put them together you get Nazi tactics and evil
Just to underscore--the president is attending the opening of an immigrant tent city that was purposely built (in one week) on an abandoned airfield in the middle of the Florida Everglades because it's surrounded by alligators and pythons to deter people from fleeing, or kill them if they do.
If we treated animals in this way especially cats & dogs) the out cries would shake the roofs off across Fl and country!
Happy Pride from St Pete Fl
Happy Pride from St Pete Fl
Today marks 56 years since the Stonewall Riots, an act of defiance that ignited the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. We remember icons such as Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, and we continue their fight for justice.
“With fear for our democracy, I dissent.” “In sadness, I dissent.” “With deep disillusionment, I dissent.” What’s next?
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“Is there any sign of life?” “Have we heard a heartbeat?” “Does she feel any kicking?” “We don’t have the equipment to do that.” That’s the full 911 audio from a nurse inside an ICE detention center near Denver, calling for help as a four-months-pregnant woman bled and cried out in pain.
Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
Pope Leo condemns US bombing Iran
“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...
If people really find this to be such an easy conclusion, then Congressional authority should be easy to get. So why don’t they insist on a vote? They know this isn’t “progressive” resistance. They want to marginalize it as such because on top of this war being ILLEGAL, it’s also deeply unpopular.
Thank you I'll look it up
Agreed, I watched on YouTube and the intelligent and hope filled conversation lifted me up!
A must watch to help cleanse your mind of the trumpian bullshit that we are awash in. @barackobama.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM9B...
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OPINION: Mark Esper 'has more guts and balls than you,' Sen. Elissa Slotkin tells Secretary Hegseth Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) joins @nicollewallace.bsky.social to discuss her heated questioning of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. WATCH:
So much for MAHA.
"If this administration is willing to handcuff a U.S. senator, imagine what it is willing to do to any American who dares to speak up. If that’s what can happen when the cameras are on, imagine what is already happening in communities when the cameras are off." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...
He supposedly represents FL in Congress, but you wouldn’t know that if you scrolled through his social media.
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What? Fools error
What a beautiful and necessary distraction. Thank you, Mr. President @barackobama.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social #RealTalk #Obama #CanWeGoBack
Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"
Stay classy, San Diego. #NoKings
Los Angeles. Just wow.
NEW: Democracy is alive in Philly! Amazing scenes in Philadelphia as thousands hit the streets for the anti-Trump protest. #NoKings #50501Movement
Over 3,000 more coalition members have volunteered to go out and monitor, thank you for stepping up.
Over 4.8 million and counting and many events haven’t even kicked off yet. We’re aiming for over 10 million today to hit the 3.5% rule. The crowds are massive and still growing. We are so proud of all of you. Huge shoutout to Texas you showed up!
Dallas turned out with at least 10,000 marching for #NoKingsDay
Massive #NoKings march in New York City!
We’re proud to announce, today’s turnout has already surpassed the Hands Off protest! Over 5.5m people and counting across the U.S. Get out there, be seen, and be counted. This is history in the making. Take plenty of photos and videos and post them publicly. Let the world see what’s happening.
Back at the Capitol in Olympia, WA #NoKings
A lot happened this week, and NPR has you covered. Catch up on the big news and culture moments you might have missed.
The New York Times now reports millions of Americans are attending No Kings anti-Trump protests across the country. Events in all 50 states. Officials in Los Angeles are calling the crowds “unprecedented.” This is likely one of the largest mass protests in U.S. history.
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Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman remembered as a trailblazing public servant after fatal shooting www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
"It’s going to help you bypass security...” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards
The entire administration and Mike Johnson. Miller, Theil and Vance all scary!
Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”