#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1935: The Revenue Act of 1935 becomes law. Also known as the “Wealth Tax” or the “Soak the Rich Tax,” it significantly increased federal income, gift and estate taxes on high earners and large corporations. /1
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#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1935: The Revenue Act of 1935 becomes law. Also known as the “Wealth Tax” or the “Soak the Rich Tax,” it significantly increased federal income, gift and estate taxes on high earners and large corporations. /1
Agree, it’s right out in the open
Yikes.
open.substack.com/pub/thepolit... It's got UK politics layered in on it as I was doing research around our own parties and stumbled across this and wrote about it as well lol
💙🐈🐈⬛💙 If Trump is allowed to continue this military occupation of liberal states than the mid terms will be lost and it will be a long time before the US has free and fair elections again. The mobilization of military against the states by a president represents an existential threat to democracy.
Refusal to stop trade with Israel and continuing to ship arms is supporting genocide. Inviting human rights abusers like Trump and bin Salman to the G7 summit was a new low. And now, inviting Kevin Roberts, architect of Project 2025, to address Cabinet is the icing on this unpalatable cake.
Remember when Susan Collins asked Kennedy if he was going to keep children’s vaccine schedules? He said yes & she didn’t seem to be ‘concerned” because she voted yes to confirm him. Maine has a wonderful opportunity to elect someone who wants to represent ALL the people of the state: Graham Platner.
Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."
Soybeans are collapsing because China isn’t buying them. The farm economy is in deep trouble. Because of our needless trade war that we are clearly losing. Maybe farmers will wake up
“I’m the problem, it’s me.”
"It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try and disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear, the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here." JB Pritzker
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I am 76 & I have had most of these vaccinations at one time or another. Also vaccinations against Covid, Tetanus, plus Cholera & Yellow Fever when travelling in foreign countries. These prevented me catching horrible diseases & dying a gruesome death. They did not harm me, they protected me!
📌 Nice to see D.C. show up day after day. ✊🏼 Power to the people!
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
This is good!
Making $$$ by exploiting people's health is the epitome of evil!
CHICAGO…
go.bsky.app/B1u7UwZ 47 has taken away Harris’ secret service. This is how 47 is making retribution against his opponents. We need to stop this. 47 hates opposition. I oppose this liar, rapist and fascist. Follow and find a veteran to protest with.
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Big fan of democracy but we'll have to admit it's an L of historic proportions to get subverted and destroyed not by some strategic genius but by possibly the dumbest man on earth
Yay! Tik tock
both of these photos of Trump's hand were taken today (Getty)
A legacy not in the making, what a failed human he is
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
I like it - and it’s sadly necessary
Good.
Disgraceful.
THANK YOU FOR WATCHING THE LYING LIARS & NEWS STINKERS OF FOX "NEWS" SO WE DON'T HAVE TO! IT IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED BY THOSE OF US WHO VALUE HONESTY, INTEGRITY & DECENCY WHILE ALLOWING US TO CONSUME ACTUAL FACTS WITHOUT THEIR BRAINWASHING TECHNIQUES & ABILITY TO TRIGGER BOUTS OF VIOLENT NAUSEA. 🤮
My Canadian Ukrainian relative is pleased, no doubt
Prime Minister Mark Carney on Ukrainian Independence Day #Canada #Ukraine
Good! Don’t stop!
🚨 San Diego sends ICE packing! Power to the People! ✊🏼 Love seeing white people standing up. 1/2
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
The Trump administration has moved to end temporary protected status for immigrants from Honduras and other countries. Among them are health care workers tending to older and disabled people.
We're building power to make DC’s demand for full democratic representation un-ignorable. Our communities deserve dignity, respect, and self-determination. Join the effort to win it. #FreeDC
😆 🔥 some beautiful, creative resistance
@rokhanna.bsky.social: “Only 3% of the documents given to the [House] Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the public domain. Less than 1% of files have been released. DOJ is stonewalling.” khanna.house.gov/media/press-...
Don't sleep on this one because it kept the queen up at night..
Texas 10 Commandments law struck down in districts where parent object to them being posted. Texas is the 3rd state to have this law overturned. You would think states would learn by now that there is a separation of church and state. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory apple.news/AQfCWd0PJR1q...
Attempting to coerce a guilty plea, and attempting to use deportation as a punishment, are both illegal and unconstitutional. I sincerely hope the district courts stop this. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory
Agree
Good
The National Weather Service has received permission to hire hundreds back—including 126 “front-line mission critical” personnel whose need became especially apparent in the wake of Texas' floods. trib.al/SFuFL0a
Using the machinery of criminal justice to pursue manufactured charges against political predecessors is the stuff of strongmen and collapsing democracies. trib.al/xZQGuFu
Garcia: We’re just asking for three things: respect, safety, and the security of knowing that everyone who comes to work will go home that same day. Every day I go to work, I have to face equipment that just isn’t up to standard—any standard.…
But we all know that they don't care. Such a sad group of people in charge. #USDemocracy
ICE Is About To Go on a Social Media and TV Ad Recruiting Blitz
Not good news….
#ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory
Whoa, Alabama. 💥 Birmingham-area activists put up a Trump–Epstein billboard on a busy highway: “What’s the big secret, fellas?”
President pedo.
Trump Administration Releases Harmful Executive Order on Homelessness
OK’s MAGA schools’ chief Ryan Walters says the porn playing on his screen during a state board meeting was not his porn.
🚨 This woman tries to call the family of the man being disappeared and ICE will not allow her to get a phone number. One of the “undercover” mobsters nearly backed into her.
Amy Klobuchar - Tourism from Canada is down. The President’s actions and rhetoric are alienating one of our strongest allies, and our tourism-dependent businesses are suffering as a result. #cdnpoli
Hulk Hogan ratted out other wrestlers attempting to unionize to save his own position and paycheck above anyone else's & gladly accepted funding from Peter Thiel for his Gawker court case that paved frequently abused legal precedents for the rich to shut down any media outlets that embarrass them.
I’m not interested in the lies that Trump’s corrupt DOJ bribes Ghislaine Maxwell into telling. I’m interested in the truths that the victims and witnesses told investigators years ago, which are in the files that Trump’s DOJ refuses to release. Release the files.
Well, this didn’t age well!
Forget about what year it is. What century is it? nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/20/d...
I can’t help but be reminded of Derek Chauvin - may the murderer be convicted and incarcerated also
Relatives of an unarmed man who died as he was being detained by police last year say they recently viewed body-camera footage of the incident that showed Alabama officers kneeling on the man’s neck while he repeated “I can’t breathe.”
📌 T H I S . . . Absolutely needs to happen 💯 🐥 #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #Epstein 🇺🇸 📂
You know who’s not in the Epstein files? These guys.
Bradley Edwards, attorney for Epstein survivors, says on MSNBC that the executors of Epstein's estate are in possession of the birthday book containing Trump's letter and would be willing to turn it over to authorities
Six months into Donald Trump's presidency and parents are having to choose between taking out a loan or letting their families go hungry just so they can buy school supplies
Agree
Religious Children Are Meaner (Like Bullies) Than Secular Kids (Not the only study on this) www.theguardian.com/world/2015/n...
(Politico) - The president can sue you, but you can’t sue him. It seems like an absurd thing to say but that’s effectively the reality of our legal system today ..” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Agree
Chump = Terrorism. PERIOD.......
<<< REPOST >>> #Epstein #Trump
Absolute legend
Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.
I can’t imagine how ICE people and their order givers look away and laugh about the girl we see here… Heartless f*cks forever - may they rot slowly and painfully
Her mom was a farmworker. She never came home. ICE took her, tortured her, and forced her to sign her own deportation. Her daughter is still waiting. This is the war on immigrants. The war on Indigenous people. The war on mothers. ICE isn’t broken—it’s evil by design. #OnYourSide
EXCLUSIVE: Not only does an Excel spreadsheet of Trump mentions in the Epstein files exist, but so do training videos explaining how to flag the files for Trump mentions. Plus, the number of people who had access is larger than previously known. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...
So congress going home for vacation early! Because of Epstein. Demand a town hall now, they have free time!
I think the idea that “The President is simultaneously an institution beyond the reach of criminal law and also a private person who can file $10 billion defamation suits when he dislikes a news article” is not very sensible.
Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!
We were just suspended without warning from threads and Instagram. We have no idea why. If any of y’all are on those apps and want to let them know to fix that we would be appreciative.
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
Can’t make this up.
Forever
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Tone deaf a lil bit?
The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”
This is a smart move by Fed Chair Jerome Powell. By proactively requesting an independent review of the D.C. headquarters renovation, Powell is doing exactly what leaders should do when under politically motivated fire: call for transparency and let the facts speak louder than spin.
www.kctv5.com/2025/07/12/t...