I’m not a Charlie Kirk fan, but I feel that his death is a tragedy. Gun violence is wrong, regardless of who the victim may be.
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I’m not a Charlie Kirk fan, but I feel that his death is a tragedy. Gun violence is wrong, regardless of who the victim may be.
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“We’re going to Russia. It’s going to be a big deal.” As Trump has grown older in age, he’s shown an increasing propensity for forgetting names, forgetting where he is, or even forgetting actions he took during his first term, like appointing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. trib.al/TnJkr9r
"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."
An Israeli strike in Gaza City Sunday night killed at least four journalists from the news network Al Jazeera. “The order to kill Anas Al-Sharif, one of Gaza’s bravest journalists, along with his colleagues, is a desperate attempt to silence voices ahead of the occupation of Gaza,” Al Jazeera said.
Countries only murder journalists because they want to hide what they're doing. Gaza has become the graveyard of journalists, human rights, international law, red lines, diplomacy, and the UN.
He’s right about the idea that there’s no red/blue divide, but a divide between those who *are* on the list and those who *aren’t* on the list.
fucking barbarity children starving to death US funding the unconscionable genocide
I’m just not used to a convicted FELON being able to fly to other countries! Isn’t he considered a global threat?! Scotland, AND every other country accepting a visit from him should be very cautious. Look what he’s done to America?
They gave him immunity Never forget that
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Another ICE "assault" case unravels. Border Patrol and ICE are arresting US citizens and then after they find out that they are US citizens, they are charging them with "assault" to justify their actions. This is clearly DHS policy at this point. We've seen it repeatedly now.
Yeah, telling us to stop talking about Epstein is exactly the right way to get us to stop talking about Epstein 😑
Wow, it’s crazy that Sweet Honesty is still around. I remember that stuff from back in the 70’s 😳
“Granny is having a blast.” Your smile for the day #Reddit
Maybe you weren’t aware that a person has to be in the US in order to start the process to legally live here. Not to mention that the process is incredibly confusing.
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I’m using Bluesky on my iPad, so there is one.
What’s the date of this filing, please?
I do sometimes think I should use the Substack app more. It can be confusing and non-user-friendly on occasion, but there is some good content there.
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Seems like it may be time to stop looking for leaders and consider whether *you* could be a leader.
3 priorities now: 1. Make sure the backlash for this betrayal of The People is immense for the fascist GOP 2. Organize like a mofo: general strike + midterm races 3. Community care, mutual aid. The govt has abandoned Americans, we must redouble our efforts to care for each other now.
Take your 15 min and be sad, mad, scared, outraged. Heck, take today if you need to. But do not give up. Do not abandon our children, our future, our nation. Maybe now folks will have the appetite for a general strike. We must plan and organize and recruit in earnest. We all have work to do now.
So we know it’s going to pass let’s bookmark this and remember in November
🚨Trump’s Approval Tanks New polls show Trump underwater in most states, with 45% approval and 51% disapproval. As fireworks fly, so do his numbers, straight down. ⬇️ Map Shows Trump's Approval Rating in Every State on 4th of July
I agree completely.
Now is the time for all of us who were at the No Kings protest across this country and for the people who weren't able to attend but support the cause to join together. I have never supported a general strike bc I'm poor af like way to many others here. But it's time. #SheShed #GeneralStrike
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youtu.be/U9wHdhhqkFs?.... I heard an Android version hasn't been released yet however..Still keep an eye out
Trump said he would lower your costs. He lied. Trump said he’d lower the deficit. He lied. Trump said he wouldn’t cut your health care. He lied. The proof is in his budget.
It's hard to believe that 3 jails in Miami-Dade County *don't* have air conditioning. Thankfully, this year the Florida legislature had authorized the funding necessary to install small air conditioners in the dorm areas of the jails. DeSantis vetoed it this week.
House Minority Leader @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social has been on the floor speaking out against Trump's Big Bullshit Bill for more than THREE HOURS. And he's still going. Let him know how grateful we are for him continuing to fight!
ZOHRAN: "Yesterday, Donald Trump said I should be arrested, deported, denaturalized... He said those things less because of who I am and more because he wants to distract from what I fight for.”
Feed the rich to the alligators?
I’m at the Capitol, it’s past midnight, and as of right now, Republicans do not have the votes to pass their Big Bad Betrayal Bill and kick 17 million Americans off their health care. Democrats are united in our opposition. Let’s keep up the pressure and kill this bill.
@rccg.bsky.social Johnson’s district is poorer than most in the country, with a median household income of $48,618, compared to $55,416 statewide and $74,755 nationally. His constituents rely more heavily on federal programs and could be impacted by drastic cuts in aid or federal shutdown.
Imagine that their argument is that close to half of the people enrolled in Medicaid are actually ineligible - how the f did that happen? - and they are fixing that error rather than throwing tens of millions of people on the program right now off? It’s insane this is where they are.
THEY STILL DON’T HAVE THE VOTES!!!! IT’S WORKING!!!! Pls Call Congress ASAP and FLOOD THE LINES — (202) 224-3121 — tell your Senators to #VoteNo on Trump’s Big Ugly Bill or FIND OUT what happens in 2026 when you FUCK AROUND WITH OUR MEDICAID!
UTAH! URGENT CALL TO ACTION! We are hearing that John Curtis is wavering, so LIGHT UP THOSE PHONES #VoteNO
Yes, yes, yes 👍
If it is, how about exempting each of the states, one by one? 🤔
Trump will stop at nothing to protect billionaires and price gouging corporations, even racist bullshit like this. Zohran won because he ran a campaign laser focused on putting power back in the hands of working people. And that's a threat to the Mar a Lago crowd.
7/ Found another one: there’s $100 million in the bill for OMB to find “budget and accounting efficiencies in the executive branch”. What? What does that mean? There's no explanation. It's just a slush fund for MAGA chieftain Russ Vought. $100 MILLION. That's not small money!!!
6/ Here's another one. Trump snuck $40 million in this bill for a "statue garden". Likely will be filled with MAGA "heroes", reportedly maybe somewhere in South Dakota. Plenty of money for Trump statue gardens, but not enough money to keep feeding hungry kids.
Ok, so Republicans just introduced a 900 page bill none of them have read. But my team is going through it line by line and on this 🧵you can see the hidden provisions we found. Will update all day. 1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.
Here’s the latest and it’s hard to believe. In order to secure the last GOP votes, Republicans are going to exempt from the nutrition cuts states with the HIGHEST levels of errors in their food stamp program. So the states that waste the MOST money get no cuts. Up is down.
Uh huh. Talk is cheap.
Use the tools is the system. Malicious compliance. Gum up the works. Slow. Them. Down.
Also, if I must state the obvious: Solidarity is the only way home. We truly, really cannot create a more free, more whole future for any of us until we understand that we are all in this together. Collective. Liberation. Or. Bust.
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Given the Mamdani discourse, I wrote a bit about billionaires. If you were given $100 a day and aimed to have as much wealth as the world’s billionaires, you’d have had to have started about when animals first developed the ability to breathe oxygen. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...
Kindness is often cheaper (thus "fiscally responsible") than the punitive approaches we generally try:
Not just excess, it’s a system built to keep people hungry so the rich can keep feasting. But the masses are waking up. Powerful video…
I will celebrate July 4th if this disastrous bill fails. Otherwise, our freedom is gone. There’s no way to put a positive spin on it.
Tim and Gwen Waltz at the Twin Cities Pride Parade 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ both wearing a Melissa Hortman t-shirt.
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I wish he would 🤪
I think I might do the same thing if I were in your place. But it still doesn’t hurt to apply some pressure to Mr Cornyn.
I definitely see your point, so our job is to GIVE them a spine and help them remember that they need our votes to continue to have their jobs 🇺🇸
Contact your reps and endorse this idea!
This is a great idea but D have no balls
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Two of the greats—singer and song 🎶
Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.
Parents better start waking up to what is happening here. No COVID boosters, measles surging, possible return of pandemics to schools and colleges. Trump is fucking over our kids and we need to fight much harder for them.
Senator Gillibrand is, I’m ashamed to say, one of my representatives. The woman needs to be gone!
I've seen a lot of apocalyptic thinking on social media today. Setbacks happen. Bad news will roll out bc bad people are trying to enact their bad plans. That doesn't mean it's "over" and "we're cooked." It makes zero difference in whether we continue to fight for democracy. We continue.
The US Civil War was 4 yrs. WW2 was 6. Prodemocracy movements around the world organize and fight for YEARS to defeat fascism. Women's suffrage was nearly 80 years. We aren't even 6 months in: we aren't quitting, we are building and organizing. We have a shit ton of work to do. So get to work.
They won’t 😑
I’m choked up seeing this—it’s shameful. Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood. We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?
I kinda see your point, but the fine-tuning he’ll get in the mayor of NYC could be very valuable.
Let’s let him be the mayor of NYC first 😉
SO accurate and such a great point!