People are so excited that we might be on the verge of civil war. I’m not. I’m a basic bitch who likes basic things like pumpkin spice lattes and not getting shot at in the grocery store.
People are so excited that we might be on the verge of civil war. I’m not. I’m a basic bitch who likes basic things like pumpkin spice lattes and not getting shot at in the grocery store.
Isn't... isn't the FBI part of the DoJ?
So do I.
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
I started a banned book collection. I just read The Truth About Alice. A book that is ripe for deep discussion. I have Animal Farm to reread next
Thanks to Senate Republicans, 17 million people will lose their health care. Thanks to Senate Republicans, three million Americans, including veterans and seniors, will lose food assistance. Thanks to Senate Republicans, families will see their energy bills go up by $400 a year.
My kids know an American flag when they see one – but they don't yet know all that it represents. When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:
The people at @msnbc.com helped me make this video
Absolutely disgraceful
Seeing as Emil Bove personally fired me from DOJ in retaliation for prosecuting January 6 rioters, I don’t think he should be confirmed to a lifetime seat as a federal judge. But that’s just me.
Phang: We don’t need the Ten Commandments hanging in Texas schools. What we need is common-sense gun legislation—so the kids can live. If my kid goes to a public school in Texas and they can’t come home alive, I don’t give a shit about the Ten Commandments being posted on the wall.
It is always and forever only about him
"Don't get in my way… I will run right over you"
It’s always about him
A major medical group now recommends pain-blocking treatments for IUD insertion and other procedures amid a growing recognition that women's pain should be treated.
Walz: When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child has? Government just big enough to fit in your bedroom, your womb, and apparently now in your toy chest.
Greyhound, I promise I will never talk smack about you ever again. Bravo
This is a widely inaccurate & dangerous mischaracterization. The vaccine was developed in fetal cells obtained from two elective abortions in the early 1960s. There is not abortion debris floating around in the vaccine. And the Vatican has okayed its use. RFK Jr. is again spreading disinformation.
Just incredible
I think @amandalitman.bsky.social is correct here
Why isn’t Trump in prison then?
Friendly reminder to support your local independent bookstore this weekend! A slightly less friendly reminder to just not buy books from Am*zon at all.
Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
Not to state the obvious, but none of them were sent to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. They all had lawyers, indictment by grand jury, a trial or a guilty plea where a judge ensured it was knowing & voluntary & access to an appeals process. In other words, all the hallmarks of due process.
RFK Jr. paints autism in a apocalyptic colors. As an #ActuallyAutistic journalist who has spent the last decade writing about autism, I had to confront him about it. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
At least one US president cares to denounce this attack.
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
Exactly!!
He needs to say this under oath in front of the judge and in a congressional hearing
There we go. Support this man.
Fox News is basically telling everyone to "live, laugh, love" through the stock market free fall
McGovern: "How is any company supposed to forecast for their future, build a plant, hire workers, if they have no idea what the hell this president is gonna do in his next tweet? ... I need a neck brace to be able to get through all this."
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
Cory Booker. Still going after 20+ hours. Giving a poem about “The Unknown Soldier” currently. Beautiful. He’s tearing up. What an amazing man. Thanks for showing tenacity, strength and determination to uphold our democracy. 💯👏👏✨
You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
Wait a minute!!! That outfit is allowed in the Oval Office, but Zelensky in dress down military attire is considered disrespectful? Did anyone ask Kid Rock if he owned a suit?
From Fox’s Chief National Security reporter. Who can’t seem to get any airtime lately. For some reason.
I do not think in the year 2025 that we should continue to accept a reality which sees women paid just $0.75 for every $1 men are paid for doing the same job. If we want to achieve economic justice in this country — that means equal pay for equal work.
Circling back on this…
These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.
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Thank you, Speaker Nancy Pelosi
One of these things is not like the others
If Linda McMahon and the Department of Education believe in "efficiency and accountability" (after laying off half of the department), then I'm sure they'll gladly publish a list of every position that has been eliminated and why that position is no longer needed.
Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses. Let’s not make it harder to learn.
I’m scared. Scared about all of it and our future. I’m trying to stay strong and brave, but (by design) it is getting harder each day. Is the goal to make us sick, poor, uneducated, and miserable?
“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.” ― Bette Davis Happy International Women's Day
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
Trump & the GOP want to gut federal education funding—right out of Project 2025. And for what? More tax cuts for billionaires. 📌 Less funding means fewer teachers, bigger class sizes and more struggling students—all while other countries invest more in their kids. Don’t Defund Public Schools
This is extremely upsetting for many reasons, but one in particular as a parent of a child with disabilities is what will special education will look like?
People with disabilities (1st person language- putting the person before their disability) is how students/people are referred to in IDEA and is the preferred terminology
The accuracy of the political cartoons recently is incredibly painful.
If you only watch one video today, let it be this one. And since Little Marco doesn’t want us to remember this, please repost it so others can see what a raging hypocrite he is. @calltoactivism.bsky.social
Trump just helped bring Andrew Tate — who is literally charged with rape and human trafficking — into our country.
Starmer to Zelenskyy: You are very very welcome here in Downing Street. As you heard from the cheers outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom.
UK Prime Minister Starmer hugs Zelensky as he welcomes him to 10 Downing Street. This is how you welcome the leader of the free world.
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.
That Oval Office debacle today solidified two things: 1. The US is not a trusted ally 2. Zelensky is a hero
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there. The show must go on.
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
When real world headlines read like The Onion…
This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/
Senate Dems have sent a letter to the acting Education Secretary — launching a probe into Elon Musk's DOGE 'infiltrating' the Education Dept. "[F]amilies who rely on ED … deserve answers about reports that an unelected billionaire and his team now have access" to their info. tinyurl.com/78xw3w93
Well, Lindsey Graham is at the game with Trump working hard for the people of SC 🙄
Fabulous 🇺🇸💥
Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
There’s that.
In honor of black inventors. #BlackHistoryMonth
Ooo this is a good one ☺️
Here’s what we did today
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Great piece by @elienyc.bsky.social. Our institutions won’t save us. Only we can do that. Twas always thus, and always thus will be. Make sure to read the entite thing here: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Please Participate If You Can. Kindly Repost! 💙😎
It is astonishing that mainstream media is covering this like it is a shruggie vibe 🤷♂️
I’m in a blue dot in a red state. Would blue states allow people like me to migrate? I’m not opposed to Canada either!
Happy: Black history Black present Black future Black love Black joy Black health Black healing Black people Black community Black family Black kids Black culture Black creativity Black ingenuity Black legacy Black innovation Black liberation Black resistance Black existence ...month🖤
Did you know? In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine. The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.
God speed to Val!
This is the same thing I did. I feel these two groups are going to be working around the clock
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!
Well said, Pete Buttigieg
THIS is how you communicate, folks
If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it. Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice. But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word. They aren’t firing for a reason.
From American Airlines: "American Eagle Flight 5342 en route from Wichita, Kansas (ICT) to Washington, D.C. (DCA) was involved in an accident at DCA... If you believe you may have loved ones on board Flight 5342, call American Airlines toll-free at 800-679-8215."
Excellent post
People are seeking books to teach their kids about diversity & belonging. What I hear: They're looking for books from a plethora of perspectives! Here are a few books, you & your kids may already be reading them ☺️ (🧵 1/4)
You guys need to see this and take it in… Wise words from someone who is a target. And he’s been listening.
Velázquez: Donald Trump did not care a bit about safer communities when he released those who were convicted of beating the shit out of police officers. So, don’t come to us and talk about security and safer communities when you do that
White House reporters are excited that after four years of boring interviews with subject-matter experts they now get the adrenaline rush that comes from the personal attention of a president who threatens to have them executed. www.cjr.org/political_pr...
We keep hearing about masculinity from the Zuckerbergs of the world-- this woman has shown more courage in this 60-second clip than any of the tech billionaires have shown in recent memory as they grovel at Trump's feet.
The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire