"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin
“Do the best you can until you know better. When you know better, do better.” Dr. Maya Angelou Everyone should have free healthcare, affordable housing, clean air, safe drinking water, and plenty to eat. ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇸☮️⚖️ I say “fuck” a lot.
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
If you played me this clip of a Georgia congressman named "Buddy Carter" talking with this accent, I would've called you a hack filmmaker.
REP. BUDDY CARTER: We want to make sure that children are protected from trans and that we keep men out of girls' locker rooms REP. WESLEY BELL: So we're going back to attacking trans folks ... let's talk about what's actually happening here
GORKA: Instead of blaming an inanimate object, which is the weapon, how about addressing the human being instead? KEILAR: DHS cut funding in July to the Minnesota Dept of Safety and the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office in July that is the kind of funding used to assess mass violence threats
KEILAR: Of 172 mass attacks between 2016 & 2020, 96% were non-trans men. Are you missing bigger picture? GORKA: No. When you look at shootings at Christian schools the data is different K: Of 32 school shootings since 2020, only 3 were trans shooters G: Forgive me if I don't go with CNN's stats
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Someone please kill me right now.
Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art
I should’ve scrolled just a smidge further before I commented - of course it had already been said! 😅
I expect that before we see calls to resign, we’ll see a few headlines like “Trump’s behavior suggests he is hiding something, possibly health related. Here’s why that’s bad news for Democrats.”
... There is also a UN Human Rights treaty for migrants. Of course the US never signed or ratified it. Why would the US not want a UPR? My take: if the UPR was horrible in 2020, it will be brutal if not a call for ICC criminal charges against the Trump regime given the past 8 months of terror.
... There are many UN human rights treaties. But the US only signed two. There are many more the US HAS NOT ratified, like rights of the child or women's rights. Yes, we never ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Explains a lot, right? ...
... If we in the US signed onto the UN human rights treaties, we would be able to go to the UN for help. Like now. Especially regarding immigrant treatment. But because we didn't sign on to these treaties and ratify them, we are here. ...
... And at that time, Ben Crump and Lee Merritt went to the UN Human Rights Council to address the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor. They could do that because the US signed the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). ...
... Trump was president. Please read the review for that year. An embarassment. China attended just to tell Trump that his verbal abuse of Asian Americans caused them to be brutalized in the streets. China attended even though they were addressing their own violations regarding the Uyghurs. ...
The Trump regime has pulled the US out of the UN Human Rights Universal Process Review. This is chilling. This review happens every 4-5 years for each country in the UN. No country has ever pulled out of the review. Until now. I remember the last time the US had its UPR... 🧵
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
The regime is no longer hiding the coup…
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
Trump says museums focus too much on the “negative aspects” of American history, like “how bad slavery was.” And plans to purge cultural institutions. But be clear: he’s not talking about alternately uplifting Black inventors, builders, and leaders we were never taught about…
I love this so much!! Brilliant. Your grandfather is incredibly talented. A rare gem! With elders who demonstrate such wisdom, humor, creativity, skill, and vision, it’s no wonder you turned into the awesome person you did. 🙂
A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.
I want a politics that widens the circle to include everyone, not one that shrinks the circle by throwing *undesirables* under the bus. I think this is basic. I am interested in a politics that is rooted at the sources of people's suffering. I am interested in a politics that attends to basic needs.
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
Corporations socialize their losses and privatize their gains.
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
The chief data officer at the SSA, Charles Borges, has been forced to resign after his damning report about the lack of security surrounding Americans personal information. @marisakabas.bsky.social has his resignation letter.
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
Kellogg was sidelined specifically because he’s a better negotiator. They aren’t actually trying to end this war.
Gino Bulso argued against a bill that outlawed first cousin marriages. In committee, Bulso bragged that his grandparents were first cousins, who moved from Ohio to Tennessee specifically to marry. Bulso is running for Congress in TN-7. TN must do better than an incest-loving white nationalist.
I wonder why Bill Pulte didn’t send this case over to DOJ with a criminal referral along with his selective targeting of Adam Schiff and Lisa Cook? apnews.com/article/paxt...
Reason 4857 why health care should never be for profit: AI DEATH PANELS. This is the same kind of program used to deny claims at United Health, and they want to use this for VA claims, too.
WHOOPSIE DOODLE
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid: “No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
I’m sorry that she died as the inevitable result of her own crazed, deluded actions. Sorry that those responsible for whipping her into a froth aren’t being punished. And sorry that other idiots may see her family’s payoff and think it worth sacrificing their children too. (2/2)
I am truly sorry for what happened to Ashli Babbitt. Sorry she got sucked into a cult shaped by ragertainment masquerading as news. Sorry she joined a mob supporting a madman. Sorry she deluded herself into thinking treason was patriotism. (1/2)
Alright, honey. Time to sign off social media and take a walk.
What would you like the senator from Oregon do exactly?
What does that even mean? It kinda sounds like you’re saying there’s no fucking plan. “I’m completely helpless! Nothing I can do. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But you HAVE to re-elect me because I have a plan to stop it! What is it? Uh… I can’t tell you what until after I’ve secured another term.“
We don’t need firefighters, we can just throw some ICE on the fire. Someone gather up the ICE, I’ll get a helicopter, then we’ll fly over the fire and drop the ICE out. Even if it doesn’t solve the fire problem, it’ll fix another issue! Who’s in??
I wanted to throw my phone when I read that. 🤬
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
Q: “Are you worried all this pushback could provoke Trump to follow-through with sending the National Guard?” MAYOR @brandon4chicago.bsky.social Johnson: “As a descendant of slaves, can you imagine if my ancestors had that same rationale?“
I just wish they’d fight Trump as hard as they’re fighting Mamdani. It’s a fucking joke.
Since the election I’ve knocked on doors for Mikie Sherrill, I volunteer 20 hours/month with at risk youth, and volunteer another 30 hours/month at a nursing home, helping residents advocate for their rights. But sure, it’s my fault Trump won because I say Jeffries isn’t doing anything. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I hear that a lot, too! But I knocked on 200+ doors and made 300+ phone calls for Kamala’s campaign. I didn’t want the career cop, but ::gestures vaguely at the fascists::. This was clearly SO MUCH WORSE and I had to do everything in my power to prevent it or I couldn’t live with myself.
basic human rights are not something u put up to debate like some influencer game show shit
I was curious! Per Johns Hopkins, “In 2023, the rate of gun-related deaths in the U.S. was approximately 13.7 per 100,000 people.” I’m sure it’s continued to increase the last two years and is probably at least 14/100k by now. You were absolutely correct.
I want that, too. Do you think they’ll get around to standing up to maga at any point? The representatives caving on Palestine are the same reps that tell us they’re powerless to do anything about 47. You should agree these worthless reps need to be primaried & replaced by people up to the moment.
My coffee (with sugar & cream) costs less than $0.11 per cup at home. Per their website, a small Americano is $4.11 after tax. I don’t have enough money to just throw it away. 🤷🏻 Mine might not be *better* but it’ll be pretty darn good and has the added bonus that it won’t bleed my bank account dry.
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
Philly’s the type of city that riots when their sports team *wins*. You don’t fuck with that kind of crazy.
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
oh shit, a state prosecutor may actually do the thing
one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
These guys should be home with their families.
🚨The National Guard is now picking up trash in D.C. These images will not make recruiting brochures.
To think Politico used to be a trusted source. My how you’ve fallen.
Do Not Look Away.
He could have so much fun with them. 🤷♀️
1) He’s just that petty. 2) He doesn’t give a single fuck about anyone else or care about the economic costs, only his own bank account. If oil & coal companies are giving him $$ (they are), all the more reason. 3) He’s not planning on future elections that would hold him accountable.
ITS ALL THEIR FAULT!! HOW CAN YOU DEFEND THEM???
Don Quixote tilting at windmills again.
I gasped so many times my partner came out to check on me. I knew it was bad, but JFC…
The number of times I gasped reading this had my partner come out to make sure I was okay. I knew it was bad, but JFC.
RFK Jr claims that windmills are "wiping out the whale population" in the Atlantic
just so we're clear--israel admits they killed TWENTY PEOPLE including FIVE JOURNALISTS to destroy a CAMERA. not a person holding a camera. just a camera.
it is unconscionable that this is how @apnews.com reports a deadly IDF strike that KILLED ONE OF THEIR OWN FREELANCERS
Oh. Well, in that case, they *totally* weren’t targeting civilians and everyone should stop assuming they were!
a....camera?
Fascism is not a 'distraction' from Epstein, it is the most urgent problem. If you don't fix this, there will be nothing left to fix.
note how Trump on a daily basis is trying to normalize the idea that he's a dictator
Utterly depraved.
1) ABC/NBC should lose license or pay hefty fees because their reporting is mean to him. 2) MD should maybe lose bridge repair funds because Wes Moore was mean to him. 3) The feds should investigate Chris Christie for Bridgegate because he was mean to him.
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
The last time troops policed America was in the 1770s. We fought a revolution against that king, and wrote into the Constitution the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to prevent it from ever happening again. Pass it along…
They still exist?
🚨BREAKING: A leading election conspiracy theorist has been named to a new “election integrity” post at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The transformation of the Washington Post editorial page appears to be complete.
We can use one of those Elon Musk rockets! They seem to be pretty reliable, in that they reliably experience a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.”
JUST IN: On X, DHS says that Kilmar Abrego Garcia “will be processed for removal to Uganda.”
Dems don’t win by getting cross-over Reaganites. They win by mobilizing the Democratic base in a Democratic Party that is still the majority party in the US…by quite a margin. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
Whoopsy
The number of times I’ve incorrectly stated someone’s title or something… 🤷🏻 with all the information we’re bombarded with, it’s no surprise our brains mix up details on occasion! ☺️
I guess we can try shrugging at everything 47 is doing and seeing if things change for the better. It’s a bold strategy, but I suppose anything is possible!
nothing but hoping Democratic leadership will get new talking points soon is supporting the Trump agenda, just trying to feel less icky about it. I urge you to support folks who are actually doing something instead of the guy trying to shut them down. 2/2
If you support doing absolutely nothing & just shrugging while 47 destroys the country, if you fight the people actually doing something harder than you fight 47, then yes. Jeffries is beholden to his corporate overlords and will never rise to the moment. Saying you support doing absolutely 1/2
what's interesting about this is that it serves the same purpose as trump's rallies — energizing potential supporters and interested people, creating a positive vibe that builds an affective relationship — but is so much more democratic in that it is participatory
we see very clearly in public polling that people in california and D.C. hate the deployments and that americans broadly disapprove of them, but here we have an assertion that the smart strategy is to avoid any discussion of the situation in favor of a pivot to, you guessed it, kitchen table issues.
I don’t know why I spent as much time arguing as I did. I’m going to blame it on coming from a family of lawyers. I’m not an attorney myself, but man did I get a lot of experience arguing a point when I was growing up! 😆
you are supporting Trump. I’m done arguing with a Trump supporter, so I bid you adieu. If you actually hate what’s going on & want it to stop, I encourage you to educate yourself about what’s happening, who is trying to stop it, and who is refusing to do so. 2/2
Of course it’ll get worse before people realize how bad it is when Democratic leadership does nothing but shrug. He could be screaming that the country is on fire but has decided not to. His lack of action (or even speech!) is helping 47. By *supporting* what Jeffries is doing, 1/2
Welker to Lavrov: "Here are the facts. Close to 50,000 civilians have either been killed or injured in this war. Russia has hit maternity wards, churches, schools, hospitals, a kindergarten just this week. So either the Russian military has terrible aim or you are targeting civilians. Which is it?"
This must end now! Everyone needs to hit the streets and fight back ✊ It’s only going to get worse 🤬