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Pro-Democracy. Anti-Fascist. Peaceful, righteous, angry protesting is good for your American soul. See You in the Streets.
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Nobel Prize worthy 🔥👏🏽🙌🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DOC7KBw...
Prop 50 is about defending democracy. Republicans already stole seats in Texas without voters having any say. California is doing it differently: we get a one-time shot to fight back, then it reverts to our independent redistricting commission.
I annotated the first mailer and posted it for my neighbors. All are welcome to share this with California voters.
Last week, @julieroginsky.bsky.social & I showed how Russia used Nazis & white supremacists to influence the 2016 election. This week, we dig into how the Kremlin penetrated Fox News and other right-wing outlets Check out our series, subscribe, and please share so people can be armed with facts
This form of resistance is in the @50501movement.bsky.social Resistance Toolkit docs.google.com/document/u/0...
Growing up, our elders would challenge us to get an education, get experience, and then come home and help our communities. That's exactly what I did. I served as Navajo Nation President, and now I'm running for Congress to keep delivering for rural Arizona.
Was thinking about Jill Stein today; wondering why none of my Black neighbors know about her Russian ties. They also don't believe Russia ran psyops targeting them in 2016 & 2020. I wish that was discussed even now.
A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.
I’m so grateful that I have tenure and the academic freedom to call it like I see it. “Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, described Kennedy’s comments as “absolute gibberish” and slammed the HHS secretary as a “dangerous buffoon” who is “threatening us all.”
This!! Workers and their unions fighting for what Workers Deserve . www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Is the Commonwealth Club renting to Thiel who funds the most evil anti-democratic forces on the planet? @brainking.bsky.social @jim-stewartson.bsky.social @garethgore.bsky.social @gilduran.com
The President is doing things TO PEOPLE. California is doing it WITH PEOPLE.
We’re organizing the pro-democracy majority to take back its power. Find your nearest Indivisible group: indivisible.org/groups Or let us help you get started with your local organizing: indivisibleproject.f...
Remember when MISO came up with that amazing plan to expand high-voltage transmission? It's now being sued by a bunch of shithead states, many of which *aren't involved & wouldn't host any power lines anyway*. They're just being shitty because that's what Republicans do.
SHOUT OUT IOWA SPECIAL ELECTION TODAY BREAK the Republican Super Majority in your State Senate Polls open till 8pm VOTE CATELIN DREY Vote BLUE
Denver protested outside of Palantir's headquarters in the Tabor Center on Friday. The "March Against Machines" protestors called out "bug-eyed salamander" Peter-Thiel and the encroachment of Palantir into our private lives.
Back to school is different in DC. We should be focused on possibilities but families are fearful because of Trump’s military occupation. Those of us who don't live in DC can help by calling Congress and telling them to pass resolution 115 to end the occupation.
It is useful to low information people to be explicit and say who is "they".
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
Let’s be clear about what is happening: This man is being punished — and disappeared — because he embarrassed our pretender king. They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.
This’s a long one. TLDR: What needs to be done requires us to get more comfortable w/contradictions & complexity, but doing the right thing, loving your neighbor through your actions, taking collective action to build & sustain our power, & reveal & make evil uncomfortable, is pretty damn simple.
Kamala Harris nailed it. We warned everyone the stakes were too high to hand the guy built for Project 2025 another shot — but noooo. Ever have one of those mornings you just want to throw the window open and yell, FUCK YOU ALL? Yeah, that.
(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Book Two of the 600-page Trump-Epstein epic Proof of Devilry—itself Book 7 of the NYT-bestselling Proof Series—has just been released at the link below. Hundreds and hundreds of sources establishing the most shocking political scandal in U.S. history. Please share this widely.
How would Whiskey Pete know?
Fox REFUSES to show you this stat, but we will: Louisiana’s murder rate is nearly 400% higher than California’s
@adamkinzinger.substack.com @votevets.org @jasonkander.bsky.social You could help these people educate soldiers.
NYT sat on Adam’s campaign fundraisers slipping cash to reporters (4x!) for over a month till CITY exposed it, but it published the Mamdani college app hit piece only 9 days after the Columbia cyberattack? The oligarchy is not your friend. Which side are *you* on, NYT? Workers or Billionaires?
This is where I went through the Border Patrol academy. That is not the obstacle course BP uses. This is pathetic. BTW, Cain needs to play the Game of Smiles.
The mailer that CALIFORNIA VOTERS received today on redistricting needed a couple of edits. 😎
@katiephang.bsky.social The mailer that CALIFORNIA VOTERS received today on redistricting needed a couple of edits. 😎
CALIFORNIA IS NOT ENOUGH TO FLIP THE BALANCE!
The mailer that CALIFORNIA VOTERS received today on redistricting needed a couple of edits. 😎
@agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov @asmmiabonta.bsky.social @jessearreguin.bsky.social @mayor.lacity.gov Reporting a crime.
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
@democraticags.bsky.social @demgovs.org Here is your playbook to defend democracy. Not even exaggerating. This. This. This.
When the history of this era is written, it will be seen that the politicized US Supreme Court under CJ John Roberts is just another political body appended to the executive branch. The six conservatives on that court are in fact radicals.
BREAKING NEWS: Federal judge in Miami orders Alligator Alcatraz, the concentration camp in the middle of the Everglades, to be dismantled within 60 days and blocks any new detainees from being brought into the facility. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Be specific please. It's a distraction for the inept, ignorant, lazy reporters who cover him.
. 8/14/25 Rise and Resist was back at I.C.E. HQ with a silent vigil for the immigrants who are being ambushed by ICE as they show up in good faith for their hearings. Even though it was a silent vigil, our message was LOUD! #AbolishICE
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
Commentary: What Pandora’s Box has Ohio Gov. DeWine opened by sending National Guard troops to DC? His participation in Trump's military occupation of the nation's capital to target American civilians makes DeWine directly complicit in whatever comes next. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/20/o...
Reminder: Donald Trump has voted by mail in multiple elections. The vote-by-mail fraud rate is 0.00006%. This isn’t about election integrity, it is a way to disenfranchise millions of voters.
Boston will not back down from who we are and what we stand for.
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com @velshi.com @alivitali.bsky.social Shame legacy media into oblivion. ⬇️
Republicans rig maps, Democrats fight back. California’s new maps cut straight into GOP districts—and voters get the final say this November. That’s the difference. Republicans cheat. Democrats put it to the people. The only way we survive is to fight fire with 🔥
Yes! Who is this? @tizzyent.bsky.social
Quit wasting our time, troll; go ask uncle google.
WATCH: Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social says it’s not about moderate vs. progressive, it’s about… Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DNbwTZb...
Thanks to the 60 or so warriors who turned out for the HANDS OFF SOCIAL SECURITY rally outside the Social Security office in Bridgewater today!
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @whipkclark.bsky.social You should be in the street holding a press conference calling out these actions as fascist.
Trump wants to appear all-powerful, but he is an unpopular lame-duck president.
"Black people will not be terrorized, and we will not be pushed back into the margins. America does not want the kind of violence that this administration is unleashing." Read our full statement: blackvotersmatterfund.org/black-voters...
It's adorable that you think counterintelligence hasn't been neutered.
"The New Civil War is being fought so that you will forget that the Old Cold War ended as a corporate merger." -- THEY KNEW (2022)
Avelo Airlines is profiting off Trump’s terror tactics. By contracting with DHS to run their (often illegal) deportation flights, Avelo is complicit in destroying the very same communities it relies on for its business to succeed. Let’s make Avelo’s deportation flights too costly to continue.
Sarah Palin No Longer Dumbest Person to Set Foot in Alaska
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com
Snarky social media posts don't do much, but this does a lot: getting out the vote:
. @mayor.lacity.gov shows up to Little Tokyo and reacts to the 100 agent ICE/BP raid during @cagov.bsky.social ‘s press conference about redistricting.
No. He is scared of non-white people.
It's important to be even more explicit about his power grab. Yes, he is deploying the Natl Guard as a power grab and also he _didn't_ deploy them on 1/6 as a power grab. The GOP manipulates everyone and everything by any means, including hypocrisy and gaslighting, to this same anti-democratic end.
@ashdashlee.bsky.social thanks for hosting these three #onemillionrising sessions. They have been great! Missed out? Find all three sessions here: youtube.com/@indivisible... #nokings @indivisible.org
Trump Takes Over Washington D.C.
@50501dc.bsky.social
Listening to this press conference it seems clear that Trump is mentally gone and that his team is consolidating power for President J.D. Vance.
Reporter: I have lived in the DC area for almost 50 years now. The most violent moment in my life was January 6th, 2021, when Trump's supporters charged into the Capitol and beat cops. Trump's response to that was to pardon everyone who was involved
I am Jewish I am a Zionist I am a UCLA alum This is an unmitigated fucking disaster that will do NOTHING but CLOSE THE SCHOOL and BACKFIRE ON JEWS. ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS VOTE FOR HARRIS, YOU TROGLODYTE ASSHOLES! www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
You need lots of big signs demanding #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles and #DCStatehood which will chap his diapered ass. @50501dc.bsky.social
Ask them if they are going to follow an ILLEGAL order. Ask them if they know about the Nuremberg trials.
@thetnholler.bsky.social @wusa9.com.web.brid.gy SAY IT IS AN ILLEGAL ORDER. You know it's illegal. Say it.
If you're part of the National Guard deploying to an American city for anything but disaster relief tomorrow, you are in open violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, your oath to the Constitution, and are following an illegal order of an illegitimate criminal impersonating the President.
@asharangappa.bsky.social This right here is the message you should be sending. ⬇️ Cc: @democraticags.bsky.social
The definition of authoritarianism means there are more of us than there are of them. While MAGA tries to concentrate power in the hands of one man, we’re reminding every American of their own power to enact change. Join the One Million Rising training on Wednesday: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Pritzker’s torching Trump as the cheater he is—cheats on his wives, cheats at golf, and now plotting to cheat America out of the 2026 midterms. Abbott & Trump want rigged maps because they can’t win fair. Illinois won’t help. We won’t let them steal what they can’t earn.
Please pay attention.
She was a beautiful woman, and Trump—a serial sexual predator, adjudicated rapist, convicted felon, ephebophilic pedophile and lifelong misogynist—convinced her to disfigure herself for his pleasure. South Park depicting the tragic consequences of fascism is a public service. Noem also kills dogs.
When you read about Trump backing Andrew Cuomo, remember this: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/heat-exhau...
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
I’m a dad, a trail runner, and the former Navajo Nation President. I’m running for Congress to put rural Arizonans first. Let’s get to work and do this together.
Just Sent! My latest about how Trump takes notes from Putin and Kim Jong Un and what it means for free and fair elections. Here is how it begins. Become a Democracy Docket premium member to receive all my writing and premium content. newsletters.democracydocket.com/member-meblu...
Is there anything you know of that can get bases and VA facilities to unsubscribe from Fox "news"? A general I know thinks Tucker and Elon are awesome bc he's watched Fox for decades.
Trump fired the top official at the Bureau of Labor Statistics because the jobs numbers made him look bad. If we can’t trust our own economic data, global markets won’t either. This is how dictatorships collapse economies. We will fight back. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
well well well
Dems should fight on every front. If Texas steals 5 seats, Dem states should redistrict 30 GOP members out of their districts. We should insist DOJ release the entire Epstein File. Not only shouldn't we bring knives to a gun fight, if they bring pistols, we should bring machine guns.
@svdate.bsky.social What does Melania know about Epstein? #StephanieWinstonWolkoff
In my first TNR piece, I explained why so many key institutions, including my former employer, The Washington Post, aren't as anti-Trump now as they were from 2017-2020. It's a story of self-interest, institutional change and frustration with movements on the left. newrepublic.com/article/1987...
Texas Democrats are responding to historic anti-democratic norm-breaking with historic opposition. This isn’t just about Texas. It’s about the survival (or lack thereof) of our democracy: www.bluestatedefiance.org/redistrictin...
On the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act, I had a great conversation w @joyannreid.bsky.social tonight about what’s going on in Texas.
@ericholder.bsky.social: “In this moment of democracy survival, people need to be prepared to do anything in order to ensure that our constitutional system of government continues to exist. The authoritarian move dictated to Texas by the White House needs to be opposed by any means necessary.”
Murphy: Kamala Harris ran a campaign asking people to defend democracy, when a lot of people looked at this version of democracy and said, if this is the version of democracy that you're defending, I don't want it. Democrats need to be for a version of democracy that’s clean and not corrupt
To avoid accountability for their unpopular policies, Republicans want to rig the midterms and gerrymander their way to a permanent majority. It’s time for Democrats to fight fire with fire: www.bluestatedefiance.org/redistrictin...
Leonardo José Colmenares Solórzano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan, wants the world to know that he was tortured over four months in a Salvadoran prison. He said guards stomped on his hands, poured filthy water into his ears and threatened to beat him.
Have you heard about @indivisible.org or @50501movement.bsky.social?
This guy deserves his own group of protestors blaring lawyer jokes and a laugh track as he enters and exits his office. @50501movement.bsky.social @indivisible.org @workingfamilies.org
