Our government is scrubbing hundreds of essential words. ProWo is reclaiming the banned, defending democracy. We’re not whispering. We’re making noise. #WordsThatMatter #SignSquad #FreedomOfSpeech #HartfordActivism
Our government is scrubbing hundreds of essential words. ProWo is reclaiming the banned, defending democracy. We’re not whispering. We’re making noise. #WordsThatMatter #SignSquad #FreedomOfSpeech #HartfordActivism
A short 🧵 so everyone can learn that political violence is nothing new in America. Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7
Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
better things are possible!!!!
AVELO AIRLINES FUELS FASCISM! UCONN, Yale and the Hartford Yardgoats must end their partnership/ sponsorship with this company! @hcrichardson.bsky.social @uconn.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social @yardgoats.bsky.social @ctmirror.org @nbcconnecticut.com @wfsb.com
The United States Tennis Association told broadcasters not to show any booing of Trump today. Call them to let them know how you feel about them enabling a wannabe dictator and his fascist regime.
Hartford Visibility Brigade this am!! DO NOT STAY SILENT! @hcrichardson.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @jenpsaki.msnbc.com @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @nicollewallace.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @msnbc.com @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @ctmirror.org
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
A message for JD Vance and anyone else in this Administration that is pretending they care about the safety of our kids. They don’t. All they care about is the political approval and profits of the gun industry. And they show it every day.
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.
If we want to change how Washington works, we need to change who works for us in Washington! #news #campaign #congress #peoplepower #vote voteforjillian.com
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.
All just a stunt to distract from the economy being a mess, health premiums about to go up by 75%, Epstein coverup. But the media keeps covering like it's straight news about crime in DC.
1. You may have noticed something. I used to talk about the president’s dementia pretty regularly, but haven’t in months. That’s because I’ve lost faith. I used to believe the Washington press corps would see the plainly obvious. I no longer believe that. The hypocrisy is too baked in.
Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal
When you strip away humanity
Zia, an Afghan interpreter who risked his life to help U.S. troops, is being detained by ICE in Massachusetts. He's been living in the U.S. LEGALLY for fear of retribution if he returns to Afghanistan. Targeting Zia and other Afghan allies is dangerous and wrong.
Young LGBTQ people can always reach out to Trevor Project 24/7 for help: www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/, call 1-866-488-7386, or text START to 678-678 to connect to a crisis counselor 24/7, 365 days a year, from anywhere in the U.S.
Censure motion. Not b/c it will pass but to show solidarity with @repilhan.bsky.social. Let’s go @housedemocrats.bsky.social.
#visibilitybrigade RUSH HOUR RESISTANCE this am!! HARTFORD! LOTS OF HONKING TODAY! PSA This afternoon, 4pm, may get stormed out, watch the weather, and Bluesky for updates!
1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so. 🧵
Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?
Make this go viral.
CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.
"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."
Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below
Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman was a friend who worked with Gabby to stop gun violence. We’re thinking of her children, who've now lost both their parents, and we’re praying for Sen. Hoffman and his wife, who are still fighting for their lives. Stay strong.
Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.
We all know what we saw. Our friend, Senator Alex Padilla exercising his duty to this country while the Trump administration forced him to the ground, and put him in handcuffs. There’s no sugarcoating it—these are dangerous times and we WILL hold the admin accountable. @schatz.bsky.social
SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”
Sat, 6/14, Join me and a few of my friends in front of the CT State Library at 10:30am (before the start of the NO KINGS rally at the CT State Capitol) for a celebration of banned words. “WORDS THAT MATTER” is a joyful, defiant call-and-response #WordsThatMatter #NoKings #ProWo #HartfordActivism
From failing to recommend the measles vaccine to citing non-existent studies, RFK Jr. is unfit to be our HHS Secretary. I’m calling for him to resign.
FLAG: the SEIU is holding rapid response rallies to call for the release of David Huerta and an end to the ICE raids TOMORROW at multiple locations nationwide
They wanted to pass this evil budget to take away healthcare from millions earlier today. It’s still stuck in the rules committee cause House Dems introduced over 500 amendments and we are lined up to debate on them. Delaying is important. Keep up the pressure on these Congressional Republicans.
You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
🔥 DENIRO AT CANNES: “In my country we’re fighting like hell for the democracy we once took for granted… Art looks for truth, embraces diversity — that’s why we are a threat to autocrats and fascists.” 🇺🇸
Strains bounds of propriety? Strains…bounds…of…proprietary? Am I having a stroke? What is happening?
Over the weekend, the Library of Congress posted this video message Dr. Carla Hayden, whom Donald Trump unjustifiably dismissed as Librarian of Congress, that makes clear how much the nation has lost. Props to whoever put it up. I hope everyone watches it.
No matter what this Administration tells the American people, the law is very clear: Members of Congress have a legal right to enter any DHS detention facility to conduct oversight without prior notice - something I’ve done twice this year without issue.
Virginia, early voting in the primary is officially underway! While you won’t see my name on your ballot until November 4th, now is the time to make your voices heard for candidates up and down the ballot.
Scenes from today's May Day Strong rally in Hartford, CT... a great event with lots of positive energy and a growing community of support!! #MayDayStrong #MayDay2025 #SURJ #protectandresist_all
TODAY! It's May Day and in 600+ cities across the country, join unions + workers to demand an end to the system that puts profits over people + short-term gains over long-term survival. Plug in with an action near you! maydaystrong.org/. #MayDayStrong #MayDay2025
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April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
My statement on the Antisemitism Awareness Act ahead of tomorrow's Senate markup:
People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. (Published Dec. 2024)
One of the things I sort of touched on in my @msnbc.com column but didn't fully get to tease out: Framing high-support needs autistic people as a tragedy doesn't do much to provide them the support they need. Rather it adds shame. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.
Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."
THIS IS HOW YOU STAND UP. Take a few minutes to read this Op-Ed in the Tufts Daily co-written by the student leaders of the Democratic AND Republican campus groups, standing together for free speech. Professional pols could learn from these young people. www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...
Remove the cap!
@vanhollen.senate.gov should be the biggest story of the day. He just released a press release saying “That’s why I’ve requested to meet with President Bukele during his trip to the United States, and – 1/2
important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
On Passover, we tie the oppression of our people to the struggles of all people. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a US legal resident, has a family here, a judge ordered he not be sent to El Salvador, was deported in error, and SCOTUS has ordered him returned. None of us is free until all are free. 🕯️
THIS is your top priority as a senator??
Yesterday, we sent a historically big message to Trump, Musk, and the GOP — and we also sent a signal to all those who agree with us but have spent the last few months feeling shaken, hopeless, and afraid. #handsoff
Still looking for a place to march? #HandsOff handsoff2025.com
Hands Off! That's the skeet. handsoff2025.com
Lots of packing tape! 😂
No Kings on one side and Hands Off on the other side with a list of lots of stuff to keep their hands off of! And it’s been waterproofed because weather does not look cooperative 😬
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
Such an amazing book! Was unsettling reading it a year ago, and here we are…
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?
THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/
It was great to meet Rep Kate Farrar @kateforct.bsky.social this afternoon and learn about the need for flexibility in fiscal guardrails in CT! And she signed SURJ’s Pledge to Protect and Resist! @surj.bsky.social
NEW: @aclu.org obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide," confirming all it takes to be sent to rot in prison in El Salvador is being Venezuelan and 1) having a tattoo an ICE officer says is a "gang tattoo" and 2) displaying "logos," "symbols" or clothes an ICE officer says are gang signs.
An elderly holocaust survivor confronts ICE and Tom Homan. His bravery after what he has experienced and endured shows his incredible indomitable spirit even the Nazis couldn’t crush. #MomSky
Secretary Clinton asks the question of the day: “How much dumber will this get?” Im afraid of the answer.
They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics. Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.
Casar: "To you knowledge, has Ms Piggy ever been caught trying to funnel billions of dollars in government contracts to herself and to her companies? ... Elon Musk has."
WOW. Watch a constitutional law expert completely DEBUNK Republicans’ censorship crusade, while articulating exactly how Donald Trump is threatening freedom of speech. 🔥
Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.
The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES. Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):
On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/qN7g9Wcg
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.
This needs to be amplified.
I just got out of a meeting with 17 federal workers -- a number of them Veterans -- who Trump fired without cause. These are some of their stories. Hard-working Americans deserve better than this.
In occupied France, people would drop their used matches folded into a V, as a secret sign of resistance. People who opposed the Nazis would see them, knew they weren't alone, & felt emboldened to take action. Some modern day equivalents here--small but powerful actions you can absolutely do:
OUR MISSING HEARTS is not a dystopia, Exhibit #571
First clip from my interview with former NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social Chris Kluwe about why he chose to be arrested for civil disobedience at his right wing city council meeting this week in protest of MAGA. More clips to come before we release the whole interview. Chris is fiire.
The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.
again, this is the easiest political slam dunk in the world find a veteran with a lifetime of public service who has been fired for no reason and bring him on television with you do it again tomorrow with a different veteran, and again, and again show the human cost
Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.
REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!
In the three weeks Elon Musk has been in charge of unilaterally slashing government spending, the U.S. government has paid one of his companies, SpaceX, more than $43 million.
I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.
Chris Murphy: "I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly since Watergate. The president is attempting to seize control of power, and for corrupt purposes ... he's trying to crush his opposition ... this is a red alert moment ... our democracy is at risk"
NEW — I spoke to a staffer at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) about DOJ's threat to pull funding if the org didn't comply with Trump's DEI executive order, and how org leadership rolled over. "Rather than fight back, we chose to sacrifice trans children," they said.
Thank you for this list! It was great to be at the citizen meeting today - thank you for inspiring people to get active and fight! And thank you for fighting for us!
I'm holding a citizen meeting in West Hartford to talk about what I'm doing and what people can do to fight back against Trump's seizure of government for the billionaire class. 1/ Unfortunately, we've maxed out the space, so here's a 🧵 on what you can do.
Many are asking: “What can I do now?” Here’s a revised and expanded list of actions you can take, in rough order of importance. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-what-you-can-do
Julia Carrie Wong 
