What exactly is gerrymandering, anyway? Here's the explainer you didn't know you needed about the escalating feud between Democrats and Republicans in Texas and California. This is "The Redistricting Song," pulled deep from the ProPublica archive.
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What exactly is gerrymandering, anyway? Here's the explainer you didn't know you needed about the escalating feud between Democrats and Republicans in Texas and California. This is "The Redistricting Song," pulled deep from the ProPublica archive.
In light of Tulsi’s recent ridiculous claims, a friend just posted this old explainer from 6 years ago about the scope of the Russia investigation that I’d completely forgotten about! 😂 youtu.be/o-CCxLmkn-w?...
This is long and still worth reading 5 years later. Thanks for sharing. I hope that more people come forward to share their experiences with Trump and Epstein
This Fourth of July, I am taking a moment to reflect. Things are hard right now. They are probably going to get worse before they get better. But I love our country — and when you love something, you fight for it. Together, we will continue to fight for the ideals of our nation.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
@governor.ca.gov @tinakotek.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social @governorferguson.bsky.social @charlieangus104.bsky.social @elizabethemay.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social #Canadaplusbluestates A peek at how the US gov. is working right now. Mixing water and electricity .......
NEW: Read Mr Abrego's account of unthinkable torture inside CECOT prison in El Salvador. My latest: content warning: www.muellershewrote.com/p/mr-abregos...
Where is he? If we stop asking, stop demanding his return, we are complicit in his disappearance.
Marco Rubio needs to be asked whether he believes his grandfather who remained in the U.S. after receiving a deportation order from our govt should have been treated the way the father of 3 Marines was treated by ICE this weekend in California. ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.
Great Lakes 4th gen ( South shore Superior) - this is terrifying!
Make this go viral.
Happy Barack Obama Appreciation Day!
June 13, 2025
Happy Barack Obama Appreciation Day!!! #ObamaAppreciationDay
Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
If you know about the very hands-on forced expulsion of U.S. Senator Alex Padilla from DHS press conference you need to watch it. Sure, a knucklehead standing on a burning car is a scary image. This is MUCH scarier. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R42v...
This is disgusting. If this is how they treat Alex Padilla, a United States Senator, how do you think they’ll treat you?
I saw that vid. She was simply walking home alone on the sidewalk. She was in so much pain after being shoot she could barely stand when forced to run from further officer violence
Shot point blank a young woman just trying to get to her apartment! "non lethal" still injures and can kill . Yes the "news" should be showing this!
UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!
Her eyes show utter contempt for other's suffering and need for healing. She can only believe this if the God she serves is cruel and malicious. That is not Jesus. I say that as a Presbyterian minister
The entire Upper Peninsula of Michigan is dark at night! Stupid and deadly for fisher folks, timber workers, travelers, and everyone who depends on accurate weather in a rapidly changing environment to go about their day
Extensive video proves her statement a lie. The ICE take down of the Mayor was on public property outside the gate after he already left the disputed ICE center area
Every now and then I just pause and think that … we could have just elected Kamala Harris, and we’d still have an economy that was the strongest in the world; we’d still have an American-led trans-Atlantic order; we’d be assured that our universities would remain the envy of the world; … (1/x)
Administrative or judicial warrant? If they had a warrant, it was admin/ "fishing". Judge was on the right side of the rule of law
Husband works in Las Vegas tourism. The drop is a big deal. The Canadians he talks to are in Vegas only because the trip was already paid for. They are not planning to come back. The drop will get worse soon
"This is a lesson into the lengths that President Bukele will go to deceive people about what's going on. And it also shows the lengths Trump will go to" -- Van Hollen details how the photos appearing to show him and Abrego Garcia with margaritas were staged by the government of El Salvador
Paying taxes with tears in my eyes knowing what they're paying for - disappearing innocent people to a concentration camp in El Salvador. What have we become?
Father in law remained a hardcore union organizer with UAW. He would be so angry at the current union leaders
Father in law was a miner, as was his father before him. When his only son (my husband) was born, he moved the family to Detroit. He was adamant that his son would never work in a mine
I saw lots of friends in pics from Hays KS
My 89 year old Mom protested with 3500 in Marquette MI. There were 5 cars of counter protestors
This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
If you're one of those "where are the protests" because the news has been ignoring them the past two months, there are 25,000 people gathered in DC today, and 20+ blocks full of people in Manhattan, and that's just two cities. The protests have been happening; you're just being lied to again.
April 3, 2025
This is a United States Senator MACK: I was laid off from HHS and now people aren’t getting social services, especially people with disabilities BANKS: You probably deserved it MACK: Why did I deserve it? BANKS: Because you look like a clown
This is what happens when people speak up.
Facebook is deleting Historian Heather Cox Richardson’s daily newsletters…
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Cory Booker is doing something incredible on the Senate floor. If you're not watching, you need to watch: www.youtube.com/live/Ej6locU...
A fired HHS worker asks a senator about layoffs that are hurting services for “people with disabilities” and asks what he’ll do to help them. Once the senator is safely behind his staff in the elevator, he ignores the suffering & replies that the worker is a “clown” who “deserved” to be fired.
Happy to find you here
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
It's very reasonable for normal, upstanding Americans to make clear that they won't stand for unAmerican trash like JD Vance. Everyone has their limits.
It bears repeating.
What an embarrassment and disgrace.
100000000% THIS Remember Mitch McConnell's strategy was to use unchallenged seats on school boards, city councils, etc to build a foundation of extreme right-wing power. Progressives need to do the same. This is why I donate to @runforsomething.net monthly. If you're willing, they'll help you run.
Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)
Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
Newsletter, day 19:
Another pastor here- this preaches! Thanks
Steve Bannon was applauded at CPAC after he gave a Nazi salute followed by an “amen.” Elon gave one too. Believe your own eyes & ears. Conservatives have aligned themselves with the ideology that used gas chambers to murder millions.
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She's right.
DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
A Missouri Representative has filed a bill to track pregnancies in the state. HB 807 will: "Maintain a central registry of each expectant mother who is at risk for seeking an abortion of her unborn child and make the same available to a prospective adoptive parent who has completed screenings."
The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?
New guidance has been shared with coalition members. If you’re outside the coalition, please download anything you might need. Terminations will escalate this coming week.
Our team reviewed the entire DOGE website. Nothing they have identified constitutes evidence of fraud or corruption—both of which are crimes. Feel free to audit us. The funds were allotted by Congress, and OIGs regularly reviewed expenditures for fraud.
REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!
How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Note: In 2024 alone, Musk’s enterprises were awarded approximately $3 billion across nearly 100 federal contracts, averaging about $8 million per day.
Conflict of interest? The State Department’s procurement forecast lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to purchase $400 million worth of “Armored Tesla” vehicles.
People of faith suing the Trump administration for violating their religious freedom. Including UCC, PCUSA, TEC, UMC conferences...the list is long... Read the complaint. Lawyers are heroes. www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-cont...
The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...
Elon Musk’s staffers are still attempting to manipulate the Treasury payment system to halt the flow of funds following their recent losses. Reminder: U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has restricted DOGE’s read-only access. No one is above the law.
Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.
Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.
How about this: "TRUMP VIOLATES CONSTITUTIONAL OATH AS HE SEIZES DICTATORIAL POWERS" Fixed it for you.
I get why we're all screaming at the Democrats, but I'd love to see some microphones in the faces of Republicans, too. Make them own these terrible decisions. Don't let them hide. Get them on the record. Ask their constituents whether they support Musk stealing their SSNs or going after Pell grants
A total of zero votes were cast for the guy currently running America.
FACT CHECK: Canada has already announced this plan BEFORE Trump announced his tariffs.
I just looked at CA Capital permits because we are seeing nothing for publicity in Sacramento. There is an approved permit for noon to 4pm on the west side of the capital. Expected attendance is 150. Stated purpose is opposition to Project 2025
Elon Musk thinks he can gut the U.S. government like he gutted Twitter without facing any real consequences. He is dangerously wrong. His ransacking of the federal workforce is going to get people killed. slate.com/news-and-pol...
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
In May of 2024 Joe Biden signed a bill that provided funds to hire more air traffic controllers to remedy the shortage of such workers. In January of 2025 Trump fired the head of the FAA (because Musk had beef with him) and encouraged federal workers to resign. www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/p...
Keep your messaging simple: “Trump fired everyone in charge of airplane safety, and a week later planes started crashing into each other.” That’s it. That’s the messaging. Don’t get bogged down disputing Trump’s false claims. Just blame him, in short and repeatable sentences.
I wish people would stop saying "Bonhoeffer moment." This IS, however, a Martin Niemöller moment. We must stand up right now for every targeted group and speak out and protect them.
Read, share, act.
"Post it on your social media." Thank you, Mr. Acosta.
Senator Dick Durbin, the second-highest-ranking Democrat in the Senate and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent this letter to the Secretaries of State and Defense, the Acting Director of the FBI, and the Acting Secretary of the Treasury regarding Kash Patel.
Done. Thanks for letting us have her back
Thanks for the links to action. Done!
Vicky Thompson 