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The state of America: Cyndi Lauper changes the lyrics to Girls Just Want to Have Fun to Girls Just Want Fundamental Rights.....
The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to decide if citizens can still enforce the Voting Rights Act, after a federal appeals court ruled that only the government โ not private citizens โ can sue to enforce protections against racial discrimination in voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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๐จGovernor Pritzker is calling Stephen Miller OUT! ๐๐ปThe๐๐ปCruelty๐๐ปis๐๐ปthe๐
Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson were awesome. Chicago is the City of Big Shoulders. I'm hopeful.
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
If Trump was innocent, he wouldnโt be fighting to block the release of the Epstein files.
๐งต Survivors of Epsteinโs abuse are done being silenced. Tomorrow they speak, not just of Epstein, but of the powerful men who thought they were untouchable. Ro Khanna confirmed even Marjorie Taylor Greene will be there. That tells you everything: this fight is bigger than parties or politics.
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BREAKING: โ 'd AGAIN! Judge says Trump administrationโs use of US military in Los Angeles violated federal law
The House just released the first tranche of documents in its Epstein investigation. But the materials likely won't satisfy those clamoring for more info about the case. Most of what was released in the first batch of files is already publicly available.
Another protest in Washington, D.C.!!! Women dressed in red lined the street for almost a block!! What a strong statement by women who took time off to protest on a Tuesday!! Thank you so much!! ๐
Pritzker: "We've gathered information from unauthorized, patriotic officials inside the government and from-sourced reporters about Donald Trump's plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago."
A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.
Conspiracy theorist RFKJr who is neither a doctor nor public health expert is destroying the CDC , one of the Crown Jewels of our government. Disgraceful.
COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.
NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW. ESPECIALLY SEX TRAFFICKERS.
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie has filed a discharge petition to force the disclosure of Justice Department investigative files related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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Nine former leaders of the CDC agree - RFK Jr.'s moves at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endanger public health and will leave Americans sicker and worse off. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
In Trumpโs pay-to-play justice system, you can get away with defrauding nursing homes, skirting your taxes, and committing securities fraud. So much for โlaw and order.โ https://youtu.be/NflcWXdV-B0?feature=shared
www.politico.com/news/2025/08... Think Iโll keep my Netflix subscription since itโs supporting Democracy! #CaliforniaRedistricting
MAGA will never understand.
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And itโs all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax โ it's cruel.
Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.
Kevin Costner remembers Graham Greene.. fly Graham, fly.
Wes Moore is NOT playing: I am the Commander in Chief of the National Guard. I will not authorize the Maryland National Guard to be activated. THIS is how you fight back.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "I was elected as the Labor Secretary for all Americans" (She was not elected)
Over the long weekend, the Trump administration quietly tried to deport 76 unaccompanied children to Guatemala โ ignoring laws protecting such minors from speedy deportations. Thankfully, a federal judge blocked the effort. The cruelty of this regime knows no bounds.
BREAKING: The Pentagon has authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges. This is a blatant expansion of military power into a civilian judicial process, a dangerous erosion of the separation between the two. Every day, we inch closer to fascism.
The decision could limit Trumpโs ability to send the National Guard to other cities, as he threatens to send troops to Chicago.
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. ๐ญ
It has been a bedrock principle since our nation's founding that America's military must not be used to police our own communities. This opinion affirms that Donald Trump's use of the Marines and California National Guard in L.A. was unlawful and unjustified.
๐จ An Exposรฉ on Trump Breaking the Law Trump has been blocked, paused, or ruled illegal 24 times since taking office โ from troop deployments to immigration, tariffs, and voting rights. Courts keep slapping him back but he keeps trying to push through anyway. Full breakdown ๐
Happy Labor Day! #ONEV1 #Pinks ๐ธ #Voices4Victory
Kamala Harris would not be secretly trying to deport innocent children to Guatemala if she was our president instead right now.
Nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are speaking out, saying Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is endangering the health of Americans. abcnews.go.com/Health/forme...
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
Itโs time to teach Susan Collins a lesson.
Graham Greene has sadly passed away at the age of 73. He played Skully in โEchoโ
This is what maga raises, illiterate imbeciles that get off on bullying those of color
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
RIP sir... a huge talent. "Graham Greene, a Canadian actor best known for his Oscar-nominated turn in the 1990 film โDances with Wolves,โ died on Monday in Toronto after a battle with long illness. He was 73."
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Hey Congress โ make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
Pure bullshit!
Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control theyโve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But weโre denying Venezuelanโs asylum claims who fled for their lives. ๐ค
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This is never going away, is it?
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No matter what state you are in, if you care about democracy, get involved with this redistricting effort ASAP! Volunteer today! act.gavinnewsom.com/signup/volun...
And Wisconsin!!! Lets do it again!
I truly donโt understand the people who think teachers telling children how to run, hide, and fight during school shootings is normal but think a teacher acknowledging that someone has two moms or two dads is indoctrination.
Corporations socialize their losses and privatize their gains.
Trump's approval ratings are tanking. He hasn't done squat to help working people. The Epstein scandal haunts him. He's a tyrant with his back against the wall, so he and his cronies are rigging elections in Texas. Understand what's going on here.
Reuters: MOST TRUMP TARIFFS ARE NOT LEGAL, U.S. APPEALS COURT RULES
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The heart is pure. The innocence is honest. Hold on to your inner kid. Itโs a happier place to live. ๐ฅฐ๐ถ #Letitbe
Garcia: This is a great ruling by the court. Of course, Donald Trump is already overreacting, saying this is going to somehow be the destruction of the United States. I'm not sure if he's aware he's trying to do that all on his own.
Wow: French President Emmanuel Macron just called out Trump at a major press conference with the German Chancellor ๐ณ
This is from South Park Season 22 aired in 2018. "Should we start to worry?" I feel like in the US, that's all we do. We wonder why our anxiety is up, some (but not all) of us take action, and those at the top just watch and wati for an election. Nothing ever changes. Friggin' groundhogs day.
The reported meeting is part of the House Oversight Committeeโs broader investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein case.
๐จ ๐จ ๐จ Elgin, Illinois. Has Governor Pritzker seen this?! 1/2
โGive your kids an extra hug and kiss today.โ Jesse Merkel spoke at a news conference outside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where his 8-year-old son, Fletcher, was one of two children fatally shot at a back-to-school Mass on Wednesday. Read more: nyti.ms/45HBSKN
The Afghan women's football/soccer team, who relocated to the UK to escape the Taliban's removal of female rights, including exclusion from all public life #WomensArt #AfghanWomen
#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1983: Col. Guion Stewart Bluford becomes the first African American in space. A fighter pilot for the U.S. Air Force, he served as Mission Specialist on STS-8, the third flight of space shuttle Challenger. He later served on three other space shuttle missions. /1
If you are a wealthy criminal defendant, it makes sense under this administration to hire the AGโs brother to represent you.
The media needs to stop calling this an โimmigration crackdown.โ Thatโs not what Trumpโs doing. Heโs using the military and ICE to invade cities and occupy them. Trump is itching for a fight, and he wants it with blue-city mayors and blue-state governors. The good news: theyโre not backing down.
Since men have done such a shit job of running this country for the first 250 years, I suggest letting women run it for the next 250 years. At the end of their tenure we can decide whoโs better at this.
๐จThe worst of the worst criminals are going after kids with backpacks and leaving their scooters in the road. ๐ WAKE THE HELL UP AMERICA. We are running out of time. ๐จ
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I'm in. Where do we sign up to help?
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will sign an executive order Saturday laying out initial plans for how the city will try to resist Trumpโs planned immigration crackdown in the coming days. share.newsbreak.com/eruvdjup?s=i16
Blessing your timeline: Obama getting a huge ovation at Clippers game. This how you welcome a president:
The deployment of out-of-state troops to occupy cities is a brutal power grab. It runs afoul of the Constitution and the proper role for states. bit.ly/4m6TG77
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Protecting predators isnโt justice. Hearing and believing the victims is. ๐ฅ RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES ๐ฅ
We are so fucked.
"January 6 survivor and former MPD Officer Michael Fanone launches a campaign demanding that federal officers remove their masks, advocating for transparency." Check out our new D.C. campaign demanding federal agents take off their mask! @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social www.wusa9.com/article/news...
They donโt care if you have papers or not. What they care about is whether you look like an immigrant from south of the border.
Keep the Epstein story alive!
An Arizona court rejected a right-wing lawsuit seeking to make mail-in ballot signature verification harder. The ruling will help prevent wrongful ballot rejections for the nearly 90% of Arizonans who vote by mail.
Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding. A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
California Highway Patrol will continue to protect Kamala Harris after Trump pulls Secret Service protection. ๐ California will always be a thorn in Trumpโs swollen ankles and clogged arteries. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-h...